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The ai art is atrocious - the styles are all over the place (flat cell shaded vs ghiblified vs hyperdetailed with too much text), repetition ad nauseam, varying color schemes and s…

So bdd essentially?

This is an article from 2024, when open weights models like llama were only beginning to emerge. With those you basically cannot reliably do any detection (as the authors admit by …

3d shape classification is different from matching a set of well-known, mostly fixed patterns (like eurion constellation) necessary to detect currency. With 3d shapes of non-govern…

An essay on my experience as a dev for the past 8 years, covering the various career changes I undertook while trying to understand what I want to do and the lessons I've learned i…

It's a pattern among tech folks to try to solve things with technology. It is hard to stop yourself from treating every minor inconvenience as nail for which you have a handy hamme…

Cool idea! At some point I was musing about making or buying a dashboard tool like in the post, but over the years I found that I dont actually need the complexity that comes with …

I'm sorry, but the "it's not X it's Y" is making me flinch. But otherwise I agree - its a denial of service toolkit, hard to imagine a more effective way to sabotage an engineering…

Have yet to read the whole thing, but skimming the outline and dipping my toes here and there made me believe this is indeed a valuable piece of knowledge - not some absurd "how to…

Why bother reading a book nobody wrote? I get that an llm can be a useful search tool over internet, but stories? Why? If someone is going to spend 5+ hours on the contents it bett…

The author describes an approach he used to manufacture a copper alloy ring that acts as an effective inductive dampener for the compass needle - similarly to the way it is done in…

And so it seems that the cause is close to RSC vulnerability from yesterday: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/lfrm31y6sw9q So much for the react being just a frontend lib…

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/lfrm31y6sw9q

The stakes are higher than when it comes to any previous controversial technology/bikeshed. This is not "react bad", but rather "push for trusting a black box with engineering bad"…