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When you introduce a bug, is it a dumb random bug, or an intelligent AI bug?

In other words, would the bug work for me or the user?

When I say work for me, what I mean is, considering decompiler tools like https://ghidra-sre.org/ can shine light where once there wasn't, would the bug generates lots of unnecessary work for me, or could I use the bug as a stealth form of copy protection, where those with illegal copies get bitten by the bug and eventually forced into purchasing said code?

I've seen that technique used with a software company supplying addons to other programming companies. Cant say its a technique taught at places like University.
Where exactly does that first spent joule go, thermodynamically speaking? Is it also converted to heat within the electromechanicals of the heat pump?
Strawman. I never said anything about karma. A user's entire post and comment history is one click away during a discussion. That can be skimmed to build a decent picture quickly. That too can be faked, but the bar is much higher.
Couldn’t that be done in software?
Because the destruction of the pipeline serves american interests, but being directly involved in the destruction of russian state infrastructure that serves a bunch of NATO allies is something the US would not want to be involved in.

In other words, The US very much likes that the pipeline is gone, but it would been politically insane to be involved.
I used unit tests to validate what I got was what I was looking for, so it worked for my particular use case.
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There's also https://www.khloch.de/en/locad-fuer-mac/
We used the MSDOS version in highschool. What a fun semester!
There are far better ways of doing that. For example, government agriculture, because feeding people prevents them from dying, is still a bad idea, because every time the government took over agriculture, people died of starvation. Free markets produce a food surplus.
The article links out to BoE's own paper.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
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If I had a dime every time someone talks about privacy but doesn't switch the built-in firewall to the whitelist mode...
The article is describing classic ARM. (Modern) Apple devices are all ARM64, which doesn't have the PC as a GPR.

The article is also entirely about how the PC is a general-purpose register on 32-bit ARM machines. No idea if the 1st gen iPhones or whatever used an idiosyncratic calling convention...but it's moot in the context of this post, because argument passing isn't covered here!

This post really is just about the observation that the PC is a GPR implies that there's a bunch of different ways to get data into it. It's pretty airy. The author was admittedly a first or second year university student at the time, so it's hard to be too mad though.
Honestly I haven't tried Octoparse, but doing a quick check, I can see it is way more expensive.
Digs is a Figma-like collaboration tool for home builders and suppliers
I think we're talking about different things, but that said, call it whatever you like - lossy, partial, sub-sampling ...
Molnupiravir is special in that it works by making viral replication more error-prone, with so many mutations that the virus cannot reproduce at all. If a virus manages to replicate anyway, it may do so with more mutations than normal, and this could theoretically increase the chance of a new variant arising.

Paxlovid's mechanism doesn't involve inducing mutations, so it doesn't have this concern. It's a protease inhibitor, blocking the virus's ability to break down proteins. Viruses can still develop resistance to this class of drugs, but only using their natural mutation rate.
There’s a difference between acceptable simplification and misleading, and while the line is not stark landing on the wrong side of it won’t build as much trust over time.

How block you’ll be “blocked less” or some variation of that form?

Still simple, less risk of disappointment/trust issues.
For B2b, sales conversations and stalking users in their work is the process of achieving domain expertise, then product market fit.

You have to start with some hypothesis however.
Better link: https://gusto.com/company-news/josh-reeves-message-to-all-gu...
Storing data in Parquet files and querying via DuckDB is fast and kind of magical.
I'm not against this idea--I'm just frustrated by the fact that this is now something we have to spell out explicitly and back with the threat of legal action, instead of common sense.
> N=1 anekdote doesn’t count. Personal experience doesn’t count large population stats count and it’s not looking good for large swats of people.

Congratulations, Comrade. By your own logic, your original post must then be dismissed. Glory to the Soviet Science!
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I've seen at least one hacker do this. It's not so much the voltage but you need to provide a valid temperature sensor as well (the 3rd pin on most phone batteries).
Yes!

Both are not trashed up by cars. That's the relationship.

I think that's the main reason why the escape-to-the-woods fantasy is so strong in the US. It's an escape from car dependent drab. You don't have to flee to the woods for serenity; urban environments can feel spacious and verdant. But those will always be walkable, have calm traffic, or no cars at all.
I had a two old smartphone sitting in a drawer for a few years, an old iPhone5 and an old Android phone. A few months ago I looked into using them for security cams and did a search and found https://alfred.camera/

Alfred is pretty cool. They have a free version that does what I wanted and a premium version that's got quite a few nice additional features.

I'm still using an old iPhone 10. Apple has obsoleted it too. I can't install any apps from the "App Store" but it still does what I want most. The phone and the "Maps" and text apps still work fine.

One of my daughters works at Verizon and asked me if I wanted a new iPhone for Christmas last year but I really don't need one. I work from home, do not work for anyone else, and don't need any additional "Apps". My apps are "web apps" so they run fine on those old phones.
that is a slight misunderstanding of how open source licensing works.

the GPL bleed only happens if you distribute your application, meaning to sell or give away binary packages for customers to install. if your product is a hosted api that you do not distribute, you do not invoke that clause.

also, a lot of open source projects handle this by having things like the core engine licensed on a copy-left friendly license (GPL,AGPL). however, the language connectors and bindings are licensed under the slightly less restrictive apache license. unless you are offering a saas service of the product itself, it is more likely you are actually interacting with the connectors anyways. mongodb is a classic example of this model.
Some of the comments here are like you are not even trying to understand cryptocurrencies and blockchains. Its like you just got scammed by trying to get rich fast and now all of a sudden every single crypto is a scam to you.

To the people saying theres absolutely no use of cryptocurrencies, say that to people who were able to save some of their money when fleeing war torn regions. Tell that to people who whos pay-checks are getting stolen by banks. Tell that to people who are finally getting access to loans in impoverished regions. Tell that to activists banned by governments who get to fight another day. Tell that to people who’s governments devalued their currency who has basically got cut out of a way to trade.

Yes criminals use crypto! But these crimes didn’t magically appear because of crypto. Dont forget fiat has had a monopoly on these crimes before 2009.
One easy way to avoid this problem is to give each feature its own independent space of “dice rolls” by hashing the user ids with feature-specific constants before interpreting them as dice rolls:

feature1_enabled = hash(user_id + "-feature1") / HASH_MAX < 0.3; # 30% of users.
feature2_enabled = hash(user_id + "-feature2") / HASH_MAX < 0.1; # 10% of users.
I didn’t even say cryptocurrencies. I said smart contracts. There are myriad applications but in essence what Web3 smart contracts do is secure some sort of community activity on the blockchain to make sure everyone knows the deal and no one can cheat.

It only becomes important once the community grows enough to start securing something valuable. Like for example a marketplace that connects online students and teachers may be holding $20M in credits and you are trusting every employee to not misappropriate these credits. With Web3, the marketplace is just a Web2 interface that sets up the transactions, but at the end each user signs them with their own private keys, so the marketplace site has no liability nor presents a risk to the participants. Its commissions, like all other business logic, is immutable on the blockchain.

Elections - you can make sure that no one can just go in the database and change all the votes, as they can with Stackoverflow moderator elections for example.

Contests

Escrow payments

Auctions

Recurring subscriptions

You can combine them, for example you can make videoconferencing slots on your calendar which people around the world can book, to do office hours with you or take your course. People would bid on the slots and you’d take the top 10 people.

Crypto takes care of all this and around the world. It is like if you asked “what does the Web do, since we have newspapers, magazines, radio, TV”? The answer is that it standardized communication on an open protocol called HTTP. So it allowed anyone to publish information for anyone else in the world to access.

Smart contracts also represent a rebellion against having to trust institutions and governments. Now we have an alternative. The Web 1.0 democratized access to information, Web 2.0 allowed people to communicate and collaborate (but sadly didn’t democratize it) and Web 3.0 is radically open source and allows people to exchange value and participate in programs that don’t require trusting middlemen. The more complex the application, the more you as a network win by trusting the blockchain and smart contracts alone.

Start by clicking the link above if you want to get more examples of applications. Cryptocurrency by itself is just a first generation toy like space invaders or personal home pages. The space will evolve, and you can bury your head in the sand or you can spend 3 mins to click a link.

Here are some more applications that increase donor and investor confidence and break down global barriers:

https://community.intercoin.app/t/fund-for-refugees/

https://community.intercoin.app/t/how-intercoin-helps-to-rai...
Apocryphal but as valid as anything when it comes to MMO terminology:

https://forums.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/264543-Wi-Flag-...

> Anyone who played Asheron's Call probably heard of the AI bug associated with monster Aggro where a person name "Wi" was forever cursed with getting the aggro no matter what.
Here's my concern with this. Is that the AI is good at generating "mostly correct" code, that will have subtle errors, so less skilled coders just take the output of whatever the LLM spits and assume it's correct, later it turns out there is a bug. The person who submitted the code doesn't understand the code, because they didn't bother learning it just that it was mostly correct. Instead of discovering and fixing the source of the error they just go in and discover where the error is output and slap some more AI generated code over it to squash the bug.

Now you may be saying "what's the big deal with that? That happens all the time all over the place."

The issue is that the biggest thing AI brings is it allows you to generate lots of code, very fast. So we have more and more code, that is less and less understood by any human being.

Eventually no one has any idea what the code is doing in the first place, and what ends up happening is the Cult Mechanicus of Warhammer 40k we become tech priests running around performing arbitrary and inane rituals to appease "the machine spirit" because no one anywhere has any idea how the dang program actually works.

Like we've all heard horror stories of the Oracle DB code base, imagine if that started to become common. I mean people talk about how AI helps them generate code faster, but to be honest I find most issues are the result of too much code, rather than too little.

My point is I grow concerned about the ability of AI to generate code and the effect that is going to have on increasing the amount of code while reducing understanding.
> It is hyperbole for sure, but there are plenty of real world cases where I would find the cost benefit not worth it.

I married a doctor. That doesn't happen.

What does happen is that the loved ones, or social workers, push for the doctors to do everything possible, even when the doctors know that it's a futile situation. When people encounter loss they do not behave rationally.

> Personally I would find the cost benefit not worth it for any situation that has me lying feebly on opioids until I die.

"lying feebly on opioids until I die" is what happens when someone's body is shutting down from a painful condition like cancer. Hopefully you're lucky and die in your sleep of old age.

Unfortunately, assisted suicide is illegal in most places.

Generally what's legal is to let nature take its course, and your caregivers, (who can be trusted family members) decide how often to give you opioids. It's well known that painkillers at the end of life accelerate death, so as long as your wishes are known to the people giving you painkillers, the "lying feebly on opioids until I die" can be very short. (Read between the lines.)
The problem with ending patents is the alternative is medieval guilds that jealously guard their knowledge, sometimes using lethal force. The great thing about patents is that they force people to publish the knowledge so it won't be lost to the sands of time when they close up shop.

That said, our current patent system is problematic for sure. The bar for getting a patent has become far too low as systems have become too complex for independent patent examiners to really understand them, which has allowed many companies to amass a huge portfolio of techniques that are obvious to people in the field even if they appear novel to an external observer.

At least patents expire in a reasonable amount of time. Copyright is in a far worse place.
The reality is super bleak. Listen to the Indiehackers podcast and you will see that most of the 'crazy success' stories involve someone getting lucky and ending up with $10k/mo, that is a low junior dev salary at a FAANG.

The most recent episode featured a guy who was an expert at building and selling Shopify apps. He built 10 different apps, but 97% of his revenue was coming from 1 of them. Even in his own special niche he had a 10% success rate. It was something like the 4th product he had launched also, so it wasn't the product of lessons learned.

I don't want to make it sound bleak because everyone should experience building something from scratch (I have tried and still dabble) but it is really a tough game.
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And while we're at it, let's apply the same standard to public and private (and religious) school teachers.

Great idea! This standard already applies to most public schools. You can't get hired to teach without some sort of certification in most areas.
I would not sleep in that room.
The most conspicuous examples of so-called entrepreneurs and founders are really just class bullshitters [1]. This class of solopreneur as portrayed by "the media" typically comes from a well-off family, so basic living expenses are already covered behind the scenes.

Another frivolous example is the boutique kombucha company founder living a posh Manhattan lifestyle, with frequent updates to their instagram about their life and "success". The hip status of being a founder/entrepreneur is their ultimate goal, not financial success, as finances are not a concern for this class of individual.

[1] Class Bullshitters - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30556312
So how does Zig handle platform-specific stuff that cannot be compiled on other platforms? Is it an `if` resolved at compile time causing the uncompileable code to be unused and disappear after the Zir stage?

You don't need a full preprocessor with macros and other evil stuff. Just #define and #ifdef would solve this without allowing wrong code that randomly disappears. And learning and understanding these two directives requires zero mental effort.
I think a "flush without updating the state" operation would be enough to handle many use-cases and will probably easier to implement efficiently than full undo or checkpointing support.
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This blog post offers a nice summary: https://motherduck.com/blog/six-reasons-duckdb-slaps/
Sure, if that works for you and if you believe those sales numbers and reviews, and think you’ll get genuine product.

For me, hell no!!

We don’t have you convince each other.
> I know of no significant scientific evidence showing that waiting for transition in adulthood in a supportive household causes any harm.

There is one obvious harm: puberty.

If your kid is transitioning male-to-female, then if she doesn't get treatment, she will grow facial and body hair and have her voice deepen. If they are female-to-male, they will grow breasts. (This is not an exhaustive list.) Some trans people are fine with being obviously non-gender-conforming, but a lot of them aren't. I don't have a price chart in front of me, but I'm pretty sure that electrolysis and breast reductions are more expensive than a few years of hormones, and while voice training can help with their voice, there's only so much it can do.
I think the two options people generally go with are:

1. Forget about it and do nothing.
2. Remember it and do nothing.

While both of these are pretty poor, the second, I'd argue, is marginally better. Forgetting history isn't usually the best plan.
If you're already concerned with, and developing, platform-specific code then the extra knowledge isn't really that hard to grasp.

Moreover, I can grep for preprocessor defines, attributes, and such by name.

There's no way to grep a project for code commented out to prevent execution on some platforms.
How do Git commits work?
Queen Anne has a 7-way stop! The first time I encountered it I was thoroughly stumped. Actually, I'm still stumped years later every time I go through it. At some point, I just commit and hope for the best.
From what I recall it was a character named Wi who was persistently vocal about it.
Plus the cash sign on bonus worth as much as 50% of your stock. You actually come out ahead if you work at Amazon for only two years, that's why a lot of people duck out after two years.
What is the real life uses of this project?
They don't need to, because it's already tied to Google's stock performance!
Over 90% of top executives' pay is in equity, so as the stock takes massive hits their pay takes a massive hit as well.
Last December the board changed Sundar Pichai's compensation scheme so that most of his compensation is in PSUs (performance stock units) and not regular RSUs (restricted stock units). RSUs vest over time, no matter what. PSUs are only granted based on hitting some performance targets calculated as the stock's performance vs. the market. In other words, the stock not performing well means that the majority of Sundar's pay goes away.

BTW, this is true not just for top executives. The higher your level in big tech companies, the higher the proportion of your total compensation that is stock based. Even mid-senior levels get a majority of their compensation in RSUs.
Write tests? The skill moves from remembering incantations to being able to define a clear spec in the form of prompts and tests. Basically, programming becomes more declarative.
Correct. 95% of the work on a crypto project is just HTML, CSS, Javascript, and maybe NodeJS
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If they're capable of ignoring benadryl, they're capable of creating fraudulent studies about ivermectin too.

The first fraudulent studies right off the bat were the HCQ study and the ACE inhibitor study from Surgisphere, with completely fabricated data. People can't make the jump to looking at the other HCQ (or other drug studies) because, well, Trump, but they also did this with ACE inhibitors, despite the other studies showing a positive effect.

You need to be asking yourself: why weren't antihistamines part of the standard of care for COVID, when they were part of the standard of care for all forms of viral pneumonia back in 2016? (Sorry, that's the most recent time period when I had what my doctor at the time thought was viral pneumonia.) Why the Year Zero stuff?
I do not suggest these drives for your steam deck unless you're planning on using it docked all the time, or dont card about battery life. They use more power than the stock ssd and these WD ones consume up to 15w which will kill your battery life pretty quickly. Also they seem to run much warmer than the ones shipped with the deck.

Also why buy from framework? Their price is no better than anywhere else. Sounds like they're just trying to cash in on a new market.
The "have a company" route isn't necessarily a magic bullet if you're not working with multiple clients.

One of our clients (a Fortune 1000 company) had a program to weed out mis-classified contractors (individuals who really should have been employees). They demanded proof our LLC wasn't just contracting with them. It wasn't a problem for us, fortunately, but the one-man shop w/ a single client might not have fared as well. (It's also unclear to me why somebody would do that, but that's another topic...)
Before the web, we connected through our modem to the university a parent worked for and accessed a FTP server with the Fetch client. University affiliated people had put all kinds of little random things on the server, including some mod makers for Sim City 2000. I must have downloaded a half dozen little mod programs and absolutely went to town editing scenario files for the game. I was about 7 years old and playing with basically a glorified hex editor.

Netscape navigator was pretty soon after that and I downloaded a lot of freeware chess and checkers programs. I would also look up game faqs and reviews.

It was basically a magic portal to new software and information, mostly so I could game more.
The IGA in downtown Seattle is a great example of how it should be. It's just a standard store front on the block that goes down a level to a normal sized grocery store. No huge parking, and in fact, I walked past it for years before realizing it was a grocery store.
Hey, Lee from Vercel here. This happened on January 30th, and our support team and various folks reached out to the author to help get things resolved. We unblocked the free hobby account after helping them get moved to a paid plan on the same day. Remy had some great feedback, both in the post and privately (thanks Remy!), on how we can make this upgrade process from free -> paid more smooth.
About 1% of the time I pay for something, I use crypto. That's better than the value ads have added to my life (which is negative).

Neither of our anecdotes cancel the other out. People can value different things, and that's ok! I'm amazed people spend their time telling others what they should and shouldn't value. I don't watch football and it has no value to me, but I don't go around telling people they should stop watching it too. If humanity were less self-centered and more empathetic, we'd approach everything this way, including football, ads, and crypto.
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I mean some are legitimate services. I've never intentionally invested in crypto but I use it to pay for services or donate money all the time
One of the impacted players had an in-game character named Wi.