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vultour··on Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft
> The developer was well aware of the cybersecurity risks associated with crypto transactions, so he was vigilant and carefully reviewed his every step while working online.

Uses Cursor. Downloads random extensions.

vultour··on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
I was trying to show someone a scene from a 45-minute YouTube video the other day. I didn't know where it was so I was randomly choosing points to watch. _Every single time_ I clicked on the scrubber I was hit with a 30-second advertisement. Mind you, I always watched maybe 3 seconds of the actual content before moving on. After the 8th time I gave up and vowed to never open YouTube on a device without adblock again. This was so beyond the pale I'm never going to give Google another cent.
vultour··on Rolling the ladder up behind us
This is a funny comment because startups have been churning out sub-3 year "seniors" for years. If you're not a principal engineer after 5 years what are you even doing?
vultour··on Agentic Coding Recommendations
The problem with this approach is that you might lose important context which is present in the documentation but doesn’t surface through the LLM. As an example, I just asked GPT-4o how to access Nth character in a string in Go. Predictably, it answered str[n]. This is a wildly dangerous suggestion because it works correctly for ASCII but not for other UTF8 characters. Sure, if you know about this and prompt it further it tells you about this limitation, but that’s not what 99% of people will do.
vultour··on Agentic Coding Recommendations
I spent a good part of yesterday attempting to use ChatGPT to help me choose an appropriate API gateway. Over and over it suggested things that literally do not exist, and the only reason I could tell was that I spent a good amount of time in the actual documentation. This has been my experience roughly 80% of the time when trying to use an LLM. I would like to know what is the magical prompt engineering technique that makes it stop confidently hallucinating about literally everything.
vultour··on Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
It is incredible seeing people like you defend the administration when there's new executive orders signed every day that push your country further into the stone age. We're witnessing North Korea-level brainwashing at a never before seen scale and it's all out in the open for the entire world to see.
vultour··on Someone at YouTube needs glasses
The button to hide shorts now says something like "Show less" instead of the 30 days it had previously, and clicking it does absolutely nothing. It disappears from the current page but comes straight back after a reload.
vultour··on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
Don't worry, Principal Engineer Copilot will fix all their issues.
vultour··on Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor
A large investment bank I worked for blocked every URL that ended in `.go`. Considering I mostly wrote Golang code it was somewhat frustrating.
vultour··on How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2
Are you actually arguing that using a JSON parser for JSON-formatted data is a premature optimization? The solution here was to use a different format, not a somewhat-JSON-compatible hacked together parser.
vultour··on Python’s new t-strings
Except to maintain backwards compatibility we're probably going to get new methods that only accept templates, completely circumventing any effort to stop people passing in strings.

Prepared statements were the recommended way to run SQL queries when I was starting with PHP 15 years ago, anyone writing code vulnerable to SQL injection at this point should not be writing code.

vultour··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]
I'm sorry but any charitability was lost after his first term, if you're still voting for him then yes, you are indeed stupid. His actions literally do not benefit anyone other than a few close "friends" that make billions on the massive swings he creates in the market. If you're a money hungry billionaire I understand why you vote for him, if you're the average Joe then you're dumb.

I find it really funny that even now, several months into his seconds term, you're still attempting to paint his supporters as regular level-headed people with "real concerns". Yea, that's why in every interview where they cry about lost jobs or crashed market it's "I thought he was going to hurt the others!". Real fine people he's got there.

vultour··on Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
I don't remember the PIN to my work SIM card. Can't wait to lose my work phone halfway through a conference / business trip because I haven't touched it in a while.
vultour··on Release: OLED Mode extension for Chrome
From the name alone I assumed this was going to move the browser UI around to prevent burn-in. Has anyone attempted this yet? Perhaps as a native feature?
vultour··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]
This argument went out the window long ago. You're not absolved of responsibility just because you voted for someone who wants to hurt people instead of hurting them yourself.
vultour··on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
Reading this thread is mind-boggling. People complaining that cheap garbage from Temu is falling apart. People proudly proclaiming that they order Chinese crap almost daily. An argument about whether one crap peddler is better than another one.

Am I taking crazy pills? Am I the only one who buys things a few times per year? This rampant consumerism is depressing.

vultour··on How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?
Well that's pretty much a fact, so why exactly do you want someone to change your view?
vultour··on Reasoning models don't always say what they think
This entire house of cards is built on people believing that the computer is thinking so it's not going away anytime soon.
vultour··on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
I've had iPhones since the 3GS and not once have I seen a convincing argument for why I should switch. I need my phone to make calls, send text messages, and to be a 2FA device. The secure "hobbled walled garden" you're talking about is a selling point.
vultour··on AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance
I think the dystopian Apple Intelligence commercials summed it up perfectly. It sure was a 10x improvement when AI generated the email for that lazy bum, but anyone who’s already bringing value will never see anywhere near those numbers.
vultour··on MacBook Air M4
The first thing I noticed in all of these announcements is that every main comparison is against M1. Why are they comparing with hardware 2-3 generations ago? I don't care whether my Intel i9 has 50x the performance of a Pentium processor from the 90s, it seems like a disingenuous attempt to make the numbers as high as possible.
vultour··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
Except there is no reason for a compromise. Russia invaded Ukraine, they're free to withdraw any time they like. I wonder how anti-war you'd be if another country decided half of yours suddenly belonged to them.
vultour··on Hyperspace
De-duplication does not mean the duplicates completely disappear. If I download a deduplication utility I expect it to create some sort of soft/hard link. I definitely don’t want it to completely remove random files on the filesystem, that’s just going to wreak havoc.
vultour··on Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website
Do you have a video of him looking like a gummy bear?
vultour··on Small plane crashes in Northeast Philadelphia
No it's not, small planes crash frequently.
vultour··on How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers
That really depends on the company, mine has ~5k employees and the only spam I get is a daily "AI slop training" invitation from Microsoft.
vultour··on The Rise of the French Fry Cartel
I really doubt there are regulations around this where you live. Recirculating vents are only going to grow more popular as they're now often built into your electric/induction hob.
vultour··on AI companies cause most of traffic on forums
That article describes the exact behaviour you want from the AI crawlers. If you let them know they’re rate limited they’ll just change IP or user agent.
vultour··on Alignment faking in large language models
Most jobs are a copy pasted CRUD app (or more recently, ChatGPT wrapper), so there is little surprise that a word salad generator trained on every publicly accessible code repository can spit out something that works for you. I'm sorry but I'm not even going to entertain the possibility that a fancy Markov chain is self-aware or an AGI, that's a wet dream of every SV tech bro that's currently building yet another ChatGPT wrapper.
vultour··on How we centralized and structured error handling in Golang
From my experience this is not the case. If you error out 7 functions deep and only return the original error there's no chance you're figuring out where it happened. Adding context on several levels is basically a simplified stack trace which lets you quickly find the source of the error.
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