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rplnt··on Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption
It's not entirely uncommon to only have parts of the solution open. So a license on one repo might not be the whole story and looking further would take more time than giving a good suggestion to the author.
rplnt··on SQL Anti-Patterns
Interesting, I don't think I've seen that while NULLs are very common.

I guess you would handle it in the application and not in the query, right?

rplnt··on Lead Limited Brain and Language Development in Neanderthals and Other Hominids?
The completely pointless and oftentime confusing capitalization doesn't help, as usual.
rplnt··on The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
Which is an option browsers give you.
rplnt··on PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports
Remember mercurial? Me neither. But what I remeber is this article I've read about all the hacks they had to do to achieve reasonable startup time for CLI in python. And the no #1 cause was loading the whole world you don't ever need. As I recall they somehow monkeypatched the interpreter to ignore imports and just remember their existence until they were actually needed, at which point the import happened. So all the dead paths were just skipped.
rplnt··on Learn to play Go
Not really an answer, as I only tried it once, but there's a Chess course on Duolingo now. You can skip the very basic lessons and then it seemed to focus on positioning in openings.
rplnt··on Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life
There is no free option, so hiding it under IAPs is kinda shady too.
rplnt··on Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres
If you are optimizng for simplicity it may not be, as the use as a cache is much (much) more straightforward. Also, for a new project, I'd go with in-memory service-level cache as it outperforms both (in any metric) and can be easily replaced once the need arises.
rplnt··on Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
> All the people saying this knife does anything remarkable clearly have no experience in maintaining a decent knife blade.

Yes? I mean, that's one of the main points of the gadget, as said in the advertisement.

rplnt··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Slack used to allow you to connect your own clients using open standards. And then they suddenly didn't.
rplnt··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
It's very easy to describe for me. Teams is horrible in writing text, editing text, reading text, notifications. I'd rather use IRC than teams for text communication.
rplnt··on I still love PHP and JavaScript (2022)
> Here, here!

It's Hear, hear! as in, listen to what was said, I guess.

rplnt··on A new experimental Go API for JSON
Well those are different things, aren't they? Empty slice/map is different from nil. So it makes a lot of sense that nil = null and []string{} = [], and you have an option to use both. That being said, it starts to make less sense if you work with go where the API mostly treats it as equivalent (append, len, []). So that would be my guess how it ended up the way it did.

Also, now that nil map is an empty object, shouldn't that extend to every nil struct that doesn't have a custom marshaller? It would be an object if it wasn't nil after all...

rplnt··on iPhone Air
It's actually not that thinner (1.9mm compared to 12 mini) so I doubt it will. And it definitely can't make for the huge size difference (134mm of extra width).
rplnt··on iPhone Air
Now if you look at the smart watches, they are by far the worst on the market.
rplnt··on iPhone Air
You wouldn't sell any smart watches if you could actually use the phone with your hand.
rplnt··on Cape Station, future home of an enhanced geothermal power plant, in Utah
The idea is you assume it with the base while they only used the statue itself, making whatever they are measuring look more impressive.
rplnt··on Cape Station, future home of an enhanced geothermal power plant, in Utah
Complicated permitting as compared to what? I would assume it's much more complicated than solar, and less complicated than... is there anything else available at small scale?
rplnt··on Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights
How can people willingly use a browser from an ad company is beyond me. Of course that's a minority of the whole Chrome userbase, but a lot of people reading this comment use it fully knowing what Google is, and what its endgame with Chrome was from the day one.
rplnt··on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
Oh no, even more mis-scaled product images.
rplnt··on Researcher Exposes 0-Day Clickjacking Vulnerabilities in Major Password Managers
> I want to mention that iCloud Passwords was tested only as a browser extension (Google Chrome, Firefox, etc.) and not as a system application with Safari integration.
rplnt··on Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account
Public url: https://old.reddit.com/r/testing_comet1/comments/1mvk5h8/wha...
rplnt··on Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account
Updating and building/running code is too powerful. So I guess in a VM?
rplnt··on Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case
The most recent one I have was not in English. It was a translation question of a slang word between two non-English languages. It failed miserably (just made up some complete nonsense). Google had no trouble finding relevant pages or images for that word (without any extra prompt), so it was rather unique and not that obscure. Disclaimer: I'm not using any extra prompts like "don't make shit up and just tell me you don't know".

Most recent technical I can remember (and now would be a good time to have the actual prompt) was that I asked whether MySQL has a way to run UPDATE without waiting for lock. Basically ignore rows that are locked. It (Sonnet 4 IIRC) answered of course and gave me an invalid query in the form of `UDPATE ... SKIP LOCKED`;

I can't imagine what damage this does if people are using it for questions they don't/can't verify. Programming is relatively safe in this regard.

But as I noted in my other reply, there will be a bias on my side, as I probably disregard questions that I know how to easily find answers to. That's not something I'd applaud AI for.

rplnt··on Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case
Oftentimes I ask simple factual questions that I don't know the answer to. This is something it should excel at, yet it usually fails, at least on the first try. I guess I subconsciously ignore questions that are extremely easy to google (if you ignore the worst AI in existence) or can be found by opening the [insert keyword] wikipedia article. You don't need AI for those.
rplnt··on Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case
> Almost all models got almost all my evaluations correct

I find this the most surprising. I have yet to cross 50% threshold of bullshit to possibly truth. In any kind of topic I use LLMs for.

rplnt··on GPT-5: It just does stuff
Do you count personal stakes? Financial or reputational.
rplnt··on AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser
Have they never used it? Majority of the responses that I can verify are wrong. Sometimes outright nonse, sometimes believable. Be it general knowledge or something where deeper expertise is required.
rplnt··on Sumo – Simulation of Urban Mobility
If they didn't simulate sustained irrational behavior, there wouldn't be people driving cars in cities.
rplnt··on Do not download the app, use the website
Your experience matches that of roughly 0% of users, unfortunately. Usable browser was one of the many things I missed when switching from Android to iOS.
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