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laggyluke

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About laggyluke

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    Comment #46853224

    Because it didn't land on someone's head?

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    Comment #46373245

    How about incorporating postprocessing into the update procedure instead of preprocessing?

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    Comment #46252838

    > It's probably reasonable that radio hardware can't trivially be reprogrammed to exceed regulated power limits. https://github.com/meshtastic/firmware/blob/develop/src/mesh... The…

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    Comment #46252804

    You have a point. Being able to reprogram a pacemaker isn't enough! We should require that any devices that our lives depends on, especially devices that go inside our bodies, to b…

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    Comment #45193369

    > The studio didn't spend this money for the heck of it, they spent this money with the hope of recouping their investment. I wonder if the world would be a better place if we had …

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    Comment #44853103

    This is hair-splitting, because it's technically not a part of _system prompt_, but Claude Code can and does run `git log` even without being explicitly instructed to do so, today.…

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    Comment #44834116

    Unless you're running the LLM yourself (locally), private benchmarks are also trust-based, aren't they?

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    Comment #43702065

    If you're asking an LLM about a particular text, even if it's a well-known text, you might get significantly better results if you provide said text as part of your prompt (context…

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    Comment #43396492

    I think older and low power devices would actually be easier to port: they capture the audio request, send it to the server, receive an audio response from the server and play it. …

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    Comment #43057181

    You might be interested in this: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way It probably won't answer the "why" (although any LLM can answer that nowadays), but it w…

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    Comment #39827222

    > Useful stacktraces is one of the reasons why I use Go I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or not.

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    Comment #36081421

    Recently I just started asking ChatGPT. It does a very good job guiding me in areas where I'm less familiar. That's assuming we're talking about technical problems. For non-technic…

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    Comment #32191326

    Why not both? Sure, it'll lead to arms race like you describe on one side, but let's say 99% of the apps won't even engage in that arms race if the fake data is generic enough to c…

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    Comment #32168335

    Ideally OS should give you a way to feed such evil apps some fake / spoofed data. I believe a rooted Android used to allow something like that, not sure if that still works nowaday…

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    Comment #28251189

    Yubikey is actually pretty "phishable", at least in the OTP mode. It will happily put the token into a phishing website (or literally anywhere else) as soon as you touch it. It's a…

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    Comment #27153491

    > And whatever happened to Apple who refused to work with FBI on the San Bernardino shooter but here is only happy to comply in a much less interesting case? Nothing. It's just a m…

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    Comment #26247532

    > "web of trust." "Web of trust" is a pretty specific term that doesn't apply to TLS/SSL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust Did you mean to say "public key infrastructure"…

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    Comment #26198487

    > most people don't bother to re-evaluate that default assumption that "the windows browser is bad" That's one way to look at it. Another way is to say that Microsoft has lost cust…

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    Comment #25809709

    > This change had a significant impact on the module ecosystem, making some popular modules unusable until maintainers adjusted the code to work with isolatedModules. Does this mea…

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    Comment #23641965

    A year ago I had very similar concerns, but now I'm a happy user of a 16" Macbook Pro. Yes, the silly touchbar is still there, but with a hardware Escape key I can tolerate it. Is …

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    Comment #23117101

    > Duct tape on top of abstractions on top of duct tape in order to make a document platform behave like an application platform. Isn't it time to just replace web browsers with som…

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    Comment #22840383

    > Once covid19 goes away (if ever), and a new virus appears, NO ONE will have that app turned on, and by then, the new virus will have spread just like covid19. Devil's advocate: s…

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    Comment #21559559

    Is your cron, by any chance, configured to run on every first day of month at midnight?