AlienRobot

I had forgotten about that. I also had some of my questions rewritten by other users. That felt so ridiculous. If there is something to add, add in a comment? Why is anyone even able to rewrite what others wrote? Who thought this was a good idea?

But who is reading those tests? Tests to code LOC was 0.15:1 because humans only tested that 0.15. Now you are assuming that the test the machine wrote actually covers the features that should be tested.

Depending on machine-generated tests that nobody reads isn't better than having poorer coverage. The only thing that is guaranteed is that that mass of code returns "true" with the current implementation and "false" if the implementation changes in some ways. Unless people actually read the LLM-generated code, it's impossible to know if it tests anything that actually matters or just tests the same code path that would never be actually used in production in 5 different ways.

That's just your opinion.

I wonder why would anyone write a book if an LLM company can just buy 1 copy and reproduce it forever?

>Just because these businesses don't charge you a fee doesn't mean they shouldn't be customer support

Isn't there customer support for their actual customers, who buy ads?

I think that is a misleading way to put it.

Someone who makes youtube videos about Foo belongs to the Foo community, but they can't post on /r/Foo. Why? Because /r/Foo isn't the community of "Foo."

The "community" in this case refers specifically to a group of people on Reddit.

That is, the guy will never belong to the "community" because he is busy making videos on Youtube instead of posting comments on Reddit. And you can replace that with anything else. Someone who writes their own blog, or own books, or has an Instagram, TikTok, or even a Facebook page.

He would be considered a "high effort" OC creator in /r/foo if his videos were hosted on Reddit instead of on Youtube. That's how silly this whole thing is. This is not about "the community." This is about someone's personal Reddit group that they're moderator of.

It's ironic that Reddit started as a place to share links, and then every community banned sharing links.

You can't share your own videos on /r/youtube, your own projects on /r/opensource, etc.

And the weird thing is that normally you would think this would be an overarching strategy by Reddit admins to keep users on site, like Facebook penalizes outbound links, but it's unpaid moderators unconsciously furthering Reddit's agenda.

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't every PHP RCE... 2 shell?

"I'm building a model with no off switch"

"Tremendous ambition"

"We're building a system to stop models like that"

"Equally tremendous ambition"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlTNN0gvkLM

I wonder if we'll see more of this thanks to AI. Extremely complex features that nobody uses and that were easy to add, which incidentally tremendously expand the attack surface. One would hope that maintainer would be wise to avoid that, but for how long?

To be fair, Inform7 can't succeed, generally, because there is no market for the kind of games that you create with Inform7. Even if I was going to create a game like the kind you can make in Inform7 today from scratch while trying to keep more or less the same UI, I'd still want to add things that the emulators don't support natively, like some way to quickly tell which commands you can type.

That's not even considering the fact that in practice if you were to make a proper game like that today, you wouldn't choose text input because of mobile. You would have some sort of touch input instead.

I do want to say that I like the fact that a game made in Inform7 is a file that runs on a separate emulator, and some browser-based implementation even exist. It's kind of like Java, or kind of like a webpage.

I wish there was something like that for small games in general. An application that you can download to your computer that runs a game file sandboxed, so you can safely play random games that aren't browser games because the environment doesn't provide an API for arbitrary file access. That's pretty much what I wish Flash was, as well.

I've tried Inform 7 before for fun and one thing that struck with me is how incompetent I was with it. I was never sure if something was written right or not because of how free the syntax was. The practical effect of the English syntax was that instead of memorizing just the function an argument order, you had to memorize an arbitrary number of prepositions. And you couldn't even tell what a piece of "code" was doing just from looking at it since you need to parse the grammar with your brain first instead of just looking at the function name.

Yet.

But it's more readable, and that's what matters.

Reddit used to be a place you posted links.

Then images.

Then videos.

Now there is games in it.

And you can follow users instead of communities now.

And instagram has videos.

And pinterest has videos.

And imgur has videos.

And youtube has games.

And tiktok has longer videos.

And twitter also added images, videos, and then longer posts.

And tumblr has added videos, then communities that you can follow instead of users.

It feels like if a social media survives long enough it just turns into facebook.

This is one of the things I like about Rust. You can have both.

    let foo = {
        if bar {
            1
        } else if baz {
            2
        } else {
            3
        }
    };

Unfortunately not all languages are Rust.

I wrote in my AGENTS.md "do not use chained ternary operators." I'm still waiting for it to work.

The account isn't the software. Software are files.

An AI worm might actually be possible in our current Internet-scape if it manages to find hosting that takes crypto and a way to make money with crypto transactions. I wonder what are we going to do if it actually happens and it goes rogue.

"It's not like you needed an LLM to" is going to be a recurring phrase from now on.

It's a "severe invasion of privacy" to send anything to the Internet without the user's permission, period. Privacy is about having control over what information you disclose, how much, and to whom. Developers shouldn't be allowed to make that decision on behalf of the users.

I don't think AI will continue growing infinitely either, but maybe "incomprehensibly large" is large enough to solve all the math problems.

That has nothing to do with discoverability. Discoverability isn't about "guessing" it's about being able to see it.

Discoverability in CLI is --help. But you can't discover you have to use --help. So CLI is always fundamentally worse than GUI.

Tauri doesn't solve the problems Electron solves. It just externalizes the solution so things can subtly stop working randomly.

Why do you trust something that is LLM-generated is authoritative?

Even if, on the most good-faith scenario, someone did all the research them told an LLM to add more pizzazz for some reason, there is still a chance that the LLM hallucinate a lie here and there that the author might have skipped when proof-reading if they proof-read it at all.

I can't trust a machine specialized in generating convincing bullshit.

I guess, but that doesn't sound like something in the control of a single individual company.

I don't think there is much you can do about being targeted by a military, simply because of how unique the attack vector is.

Hacking is smart but happens through software, so if you have hardware (i.e. physical) barriers, that stops the hacking.

Natural disasters happen physically but they are dumb, so if you have software redundancy (i.e. by copying the data to multiple locations), that stops them from destroying everything.

A military is both physical AND smart. They can target multiple locations at once and destroy whole buildings.

I wonder how this will affect the Yandex search engine. I think I've read they split the Russian one and .com, but I'm not sure.

I wish IRC supported images. It's weird that to share a screenshot I need a chat platform that also support VOIP when I just want to paste an image in the chat.