> “Shared hosting providers” These haven’t been a thing since VMs
That is unfortunately not true. i left my last one only a few years ago and they're still going strong without me.
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That is unfortunately not true. i left my last one only a few years ago and they're still going strong without me.
Lots of shared hosters don't use VMs or containers. It's some arbitrary number of people logging in to a shared system, each one with a home directory under /home/THE_USER_NAME. i've had several such hosters over the years (thankfully not right now, though).
i don't presume to know whether Cthulhu is the hero we need or the hero we deserve.
What could _possibly_ go wrong?
> Google built a double-check safety system that independently reviews the AI’s actions before executing them, with strict boundaries limiting the agent’s access to specific relevant websites and explicit user confirmation required for sensitive actions such as purchases or social media posts.
Like how they double check Workspace accounts, auto-logging them out periodically and returning the user to the login screen saying "prove it's you!", with both the login name and password fields pre-populated? _That_ kind of double-check?
Hasn't Windows' "do you really want to run this .exe file?" dialog long-since taught the world that confirmation fatigue is more a vulnerability than security mechanism?
Preach it, brother! :-D
> In this situation would you do it?
FWIW, if it would keep me productive and keep a roof over my head, i'd not at all be averse to working on VMS or a similarly obscure system, provided they didn't require me to know anything about it going in (which would rule me out).
At some point in our lives we have to accept practicality over bling. Let the young'uns fight out the LLM Wars, then walk in (if necessary) once that dust has settled.
It's somewhat disingenuous of them to not link to a citation for that.
Edit: <https://benlirio.com/petty-small-claims/?c=CD58qURM&k=7BW7zg...>
i'm gonna start using this for stress relief.
It's a nice novelty but it's not terribly practical. Despite having a d100, 2d10s are invariably more comfortable to use and easier to read. My d100 was purchased back in 1998-ish for its novelty and nostalgia value, not its functional value.
There is no 0% in d100/d-percentile rolls. Every "how to interpret these dice" paragraph in games which use them will tell you to interpret 0-0 on 2d10 as 100, not 0. Or, hypothetically (but i don't recall having ever seen this), they'll have a stated range of 0 to 99 (inclusive). Either way, the numeric range spans precisely 100 digits.
Absolutely, but i couldn't fit all of that into the subject line ;) and he's best known for the d100. Many of us remember the articles and ads from the 1980s describing the effort he put into that particular die.
That's an abrasive question but i dare say that we all do. It's our only constant point of reference.
> Have you written a parser or interpreter?
i have written many parsers, several parser generators, and a handful of programming languages. This article, however, covers a whole other level, way over my head (or well beyond any of my ambitions, in any case).
Pics or it didn't happen: fossil.wanderinghorse.net/r/cwal
Since such "clean room" implementations ostensibly do not see the source, it's arguably irrelevant whether such sources are open are not. Such implementations will happen regardless of whether the sources they're reimplementing are opened or closed.
(Enter name of large software vendor here) has long-since proven that security through obscurity is not a real thing.
Re. platform portability: i primarily write C code and have had very close to 0 issues regarding software portability (once one finally internalizes that unqualified "char" may be either signed or unsigned, depending on the platform, and codes accordingly, it's smooth sailing). On my home ARM servers i've had zero issues re. availability of tools which i'd expect to have on x86 systems. They "just work".
That is, i guess, to say: don't hesitate to try it out if you have the opportunity to do so.
[^1]: my current system is on loan to me from a generous colleague, so moving to an ARM hoster would be a new cost, which currently rules it out as an option. If i were paying full price for the current x86 box i'd have most definitely already looked for an ARM substitute.
Noting that you willfully cut the qualifying "virtually" from that quote, thereby transforming it to over-stated:
> Let me rephrase this, 17% of the most popular Rust packages contain code that virtually nobody knows what it does
No, you're not. Company time + company resources = company property. Company project = company property. No code within any given company belongs to one person, but belongs to (spoiler alert!) the company.
If you want to develop voodoo to make you irreplaceable, do it in the context of your own projects, with your own resources, on your own time.
PS: there may well be legal reason that they require the prompts. e.g. to ensure that you're not injecting materials owned by someone else. They are perfectly justified in demanding access to every byte which goes into their software, documents, infrastructure, etc.
Edit: i now see there's a separate LICENSE file in the github repo, but (A) that's not what this post directly links to, nor (B) is there any mention of that license in the source file.
Whoever it was who bet me 20 Euros that we already are already living in a dystopia, my opinion to the contrary notwithstanding, i owe you some money.
TIL. Woot! Sure enough, it's right there in the sidebar - no deep searching of settings needed.
Coincidentally, i saw several headlines yesterday (now long gone from my news feed) claiming that blue light filters are not nearly as effective as once believed. It may be worth researching the current status on that info before committing to a red-only screen. (There's no way i'd buy one, in any case.)
The ceiling is effectively "wherever it first breaks beyond the maintainer's capability of fixing it." Once development can't get past a given problem, it's hit, at least temporarily, the ceiling.
i dare say, with nothing but the intuition gained through decades of practical experience (as opposed to studies and numbers) to back it up, that the ceiling for someone with zero coding experience is not very far from the floor.
Edit:
> Trying to separate hype from reality.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701971> just showed up in the feed and seems particularly applicable here.
One relevant snippet:
> Real products need experts and it is of extreme difficulty to become such an expert if you don’t possess the expertise from either your own effort or watching more skilled colleagues.
According to a speculative blog post by Eric S. Raymond in September 2020, Microsoft is literally moving towards replacing Windows' internals with Linux. Unfortunately, that post is now unreachable, but searching for "eric raymond article about windows being replaced with a linux kernel" finds many third-party references to it and summaries of it.
Spoken like a marketer, as opposed to a developer ;).
> I mean do you have any other better recommendations for reach?
Unfortunately no. All of my code gets posted on my own site (not github) and is left there to die, with no real concern for whether other folks make use of it. That's not a popular approach, nor does it lead to any popularity for me or my projects, so is not necessarily a model for others to follow.
> I just want to effectively convey what my product does to the right audience.
_That_ is entirely up to your docs, not the hosting platform. What you're asking about is more a function of (A) the hosting platform and (B) the various channels which drive people to that platform. i'm roughly 0% qualified to suggest any approaches to that than just "throw it over the wall" :/.