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AutistiCoder

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Empowering neurodiverse learners to code! Tutorials on JavaScript, React, & web development projects. Beginner-friendly, project-based, & inclusive. YouTube: @AutistiCoder (youtube.com/@AutistiCoder)
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AutistiCoder··on JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort.
so, I had ChatGPT give me a quick run through, after feeding it the JesseSort python file, here's how it understood the algorithm in simple terms:

1. It starts with two elements and places them in order. 2. Each new element is inserted into the correct position within the growing "rainbow" of sorted bands. 3. By the time all elements are inserted, the list consists of multiple sorted bands that are then merged.

Was it wrong?

AutistiCoder··on Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search
Trying to understand Privacy Pass here.

My understanding is, it's analogous to writing a note to your manager.

That note is a random number written in ink your manager can't actually read; all they can do with that note is sign it. They ask God (used here to represent math itself) how to sign this note, and God gives them a unique signature that also theoretically cannot be used to calculate the number that's written. This signature also proves what you're authorized to do. And then your manager hands the note back to you.

The note's sole function past that point is so you can point to the signature thereon and say "this signature proves I can do this, that, etc."

AutistiCoder··on Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k
what if the target has their e-mail set to private?
AutistiCoder··on LLMs can teach themselves to better predict the future
Imagine feeding an LLM a bunch of news articles about any given political leader and asking it what the next article will be like.

I think people are predictable and therefore predicting the next article on a political leader should be theoretically possible.

AutistiCoder··on I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease
It'd be cool if people could upload their (anonymized) medical histories to a central database so that they could gain additional insights to help guide their care.

If you included some genetic information like race or national origin, this could help people learn about the genetics behind the disorders.

I have a connective tissue disorder that presents as Marfan syndrome, but I went to a geneticist at UCSF back in the 10's. He looked at Marfan's, Loeys-Dietz, Lujan-Fryns, Ehlers-Danlos, and a bunch of other disorders that would explain any part of my physical symptoms, my cardiovascular problems, and my skeletal issues - he found nothing.

AutistiCoder··on The 'AI granny' driving scammers up the wall
probably can't really forward scam calls without also forwarding legit ones, at least not without being detectable.
AutistiCoder··on Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored
I don't think Oracle's got a case here.

They didn't really enforce the trademark.

AutistiCoder··on Show HN: Apitally – A simple, privacy-focused API monitoring and analytics tool
ah, makes sense.

fewer features can actually be better because it's simpler.

AutistiCoder··on I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022)
How do you get freelance work?
AutistiCoder··on I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022)
You could just not do a Web app.

There are plenty of apps you can build that don't require any upfront costs.

I'm working on an app that runs entirely on a consumer PC.

AutistiCoder··on Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
ChatGPT itself is great for coding.

GitHub Copilot is...not. It doesn't seem to understand how to help me as well as ChatGPT does.

AutistiCoder··on America desperately needs more air traffic controllers
I've dreamed of having an AI model run ATC.

Just train an AI on ATC recordings and other data, maybe throw in some reinforcement learning,and then test it in low-stakes commercial airspace (like a regional airport)

AutistiCoder··on Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex
Any machine learning model is pretty much just a regression function - its a best guess at what the outputs should be given the inputs.
AutistiCoder··on OpenAI O3-Mini
actually, I might appreciate that.

I like precision of language, so maybe just have a system prompt that says "use precise language (ex: no symbolism of any kind)"

AutistiCoder··on OpenAI O3-Mini
the o3-mini model would be useful to me if coding's the only thing I need to do in a chat log.

When I use ChatGPT these days, it's to help me write coding videos and then the social media posts around those videos. So that's two specialties in one chat log.

AutistiCoder··on Waymo to test its autonomous driving technology in over 10 new cities
When will this be rolled out to everywhere else?
AutistiCoder··on Cleveland police used AI to justify a search warrant. It derailed a murder case
so, basically - the court wants to treat Clearview's AI as an unreliable witness?
AutistiCoder··on FCC chair helps ISPs and landlords make deals that renters can't escape
these providers want to be the only game in town

I have Charter and it's the only Internet wire that runs to my neighborhood, and I'd very much prefer it over the only reasonable alternative but c'mon man.

AutistiCoder··on Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN
Around these parts, we call it an "M1 hold"

M1 is - I think - the form they have to fill out to put you on a temporary hold.

AutistiCoder··on Sam Altman said startups with $10M were 'hopeless' competing with OpenAI
makes sense if you think about it - if OpenAI spent, what, $10B on its AI, then it makes sense to say anything less than $1B wont cut it.
AutistiCoder··on Bitwarden introduces mandatory 2FA for new devices
SMS-based two-way login would be a better way to do 2FA.

Think of it from the user perspective - now they have to download and use yet another app on their cellphone just to log in.

Yes, I am aware of SMS's vulnerabilities - but the weakest link is always the user.

AutistiCoder··on A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work
I didn't give up.

I pivoted to content creation.

AutistiCoder··on Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years
new startup idea?
AutistiCoder··on Open Heart Protocol
i don't see how that's going to make the internet any less siloed?

unless you're trying to say it'll make us less reliant on services like Disque.

AutistiCoder··on Open Heart Protocol
yeah, I'm not getting the significance here either.

admittedly, it's a good project for an entry-level dev's portfolio, but that's about it.

AutistiCoder··on Render raises $80M in Series C financing
I've found Azure's serverless hosting decently easy to work with, too.
AutistiCoder··on Render raises $80M in Series C financing
Same.

In 3-5 sentences, what specifically differentiates Render from, say, AWS Lambda?

For example, how much money would I save from making the switch?

AutistiCoder··on The FizzBuzz that did not get me the job
As an AuDHDer, I can see myself having an especially difficult time.

This would be basically impossible.

AutistiCoder··on A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work
Hell, searching for my first job changed how I perceive work.

The job market as it is is tough.

Add autism & ADHD to the mix and it gets tougher.

I decided to give as much of a shit about the corporate world as it does to me - which is to say, I stopped searching altogether. I decided I'd rather be unemployed.

AutistiCoder··on No one is disrupting banks – at least not the big ones
Bitcoin was supposed to disrupt banking.

Look how that turned out.

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