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jdiff

2,760 karma · joined June 20, 2021

Educator, creative coder, slowly burning out.

@different55 at github.com

hn at jaromino.com

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jdiff··on Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC
Just outrage/security fatigue I believe.
jdiff··on Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard
Firefox on my machines looks fine.
jdiff··on Amazon's "digital pacifier" for toddlers
From the article,

> While observing 422 children ages 3 to 5, a 2022 study led by Radesky found that mobile device use for calming — in other words, a digital pacifier — was associated with “decreased executive functioning and increased emotional reactivity.” (Executive function refers to memory and problem-solving skills needed for everyday life. Emotional reactivity refers to poor impulse control in response to stress, pain, and other negative feelings.)

ADHD is a type of executive function disorder.

jdiff··on eMudhra ignored Mozilla Root investigation deadline; blames social media
They are already attempting to flee the kitchen as quickly as they can, unfortunately the rest of the planet that's still in the kitchen isn't keen on letting them escape the grease fire they started.
jdiff··on Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now
Core dev says so. So does a release manager.

https://phpc.social/@Girgias/117476510850918355

https://old.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1xb2utu/comment/phyu5m...

jdiff··on Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction
Yeah that definition doesn't support your claim, and again, descriptive. Mute if you want, history will prove me right regardless.
jdiff··on Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction
Notably you speak falsehoods.

You wanna go another lap around the circle or?

jdiff··on Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not
XML can handle implicitly closed tags, they call them "empty" in the spec here:

https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-starttags

jdiff··on Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
Don't know what's so sure about it, either is perfectly valid.
jdiff··on Tesla Roadster
That's so patently unacceptable that I'm surprised you're taking that tack. You're in a lithium car fire, climbing into the front seat may not even be possible, and figuring out that your back door doesn't have an obvious release is time lost that all will have a cost in blood. There being two paths out of the maze doesn't make it not a maze.
jdiff··on Tesla Roadster
It seems fair to judge this by the weakest link.
jdiff··on Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction
Language evolves, and dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive, and notably do not back you up in either case.
jdiff··on Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction
That's a fine interpretation but it's not in complete alignment with common usage and understanding of these terms. You can define terms however you like to draw whatever conclusion you like. But they won't last long outside of a vacuum.
jdiff··on Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction
We have been able to predict properties of elements that had not been isolated yet. Your definition is too narrow.
jdiff··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
Completely agree that error tolerance depends on what it is that we're doing. Some things demand no errors at all, some things have a cost to attempt, some things you can't pre-evaluate for correctness if you don't already have the prerequisite knowledge and you only get one chance. Not everything is software where we can conjure 50 more end-to-end tests to ward off demons. When it's not a harmless throwaway weekend project, 7% is already a huge error rate before you ever think of feeding it back into itself.
jdiff··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
If failure is essentially guaranteed somewhere in that chain, success becomes impossible. You don't need to lose lives to have simply have a fruitless endeavor. And when we're talking about law, we're talking about more than a fruitless endeavor. Law also isn't software that can have tests crafted and fed back into the loop.
jdiff··on Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
The difference is the source of the sample. This is a flagship product by a frontier lab. It should be reflective of the best that is possible. It should be biased in the most favorable possible way. It was designed by people without the normal limitations and quotas of outsiders in building it, as well as in learning experiences in driving it. This is not a random cherry-pick of bad code.
jdiff··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
How are you running that math and what are you consider to be "expected failure"? If even 30% of your runs go into the garbage, that sounds horrifically unreliable, and both 7 and 10% failure rates hit those margins in less than 5 iterations.

Not to mention that the deeper your iterations, the more money burned on garbage before you realize that data in turned to garbage out turned to garbage in somewhere in the chain.

jdiff··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
I think the point being made is that when you're feeding outputs into inputs, both 93% and 90% rapidly collapse to 0% without some way to recover.
jdiff··on Fable Took My Job
My last job I was notified via text message on a Saturday that I didn't need to come back into the office Monday. The USA has basically zero protections for employees.
jdiff··on GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video]
Not power longevity, longevity of the display itself. You drive things harder, they tend to die faster.
jdiff··on GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video]
There may prove to be reasons (longevity?) that they don't.
jdiff··on Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry
The hardware owner can modify it all they want, disable SIP. For a large swath of average and non-average users that will not be modifying the closed-source OS they're running, it is obviously good.

Traditional UNIX is does not mean having an open source core you're intended to tinker with. Traditional UNIX was entirely proprietary, connected with well-defined text-based interfaces. This is entirely orthogonal to user control and manipulation of the OS.

jdiff··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
The fine citizens of the Internet the forger posts on may be.
jdiff··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
This is true, it'd be a trademark issue if anything, not a copyright one. From this page:

> it may be reproduced, as long as the reproduction cannot be mistaken for an authentic signature.

jdiff··on Gemini 4 Argon
I suppose it could be saturated if we assume we've hit the limit on LLM capabilities.
jdiff··on Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
It would be severely affected if Jevon's paradox weren't terrorizing the globe right now.
jdiff··on Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
Everything goes into the training data. What is prioritized and what behavior is targeted out of that data is something that comes from OpenAI.
jdiff··on Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
It's perfectly reasonable to think less of an individual who is so sheltered that they are incapable of caring for themselves. Whether it's your mother or your maid doing your laundry and cooking your meals for you.
jdiff··on Show HN: Telly, talk to your Mac and it does the clicking
A free tier with no ability to supply your own keys, how is this lunch getting paid for?
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