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Cake day: December 18th, 2024

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  • The Twitter format is crap. It’s bad for search (Mastodon users don’t wanna be searchable). There is a huge recency bias: observed in echo waves of circlejerk memes (CEO stuff being the most recent one). It limits discussion depth compared to the reddit format. Here on lemmy people often read all comments, and I like it even if mine get downvoted :)

    The subscription model rarely works. Netflix now shows ads, Twitter is still in the red. The donation/self-hosted model is even less successful. I have an unpopular opinion that ads are still the best way to pay for servers and staff. Reddit users hated ads, and that led to them turning into a data repo for Gemini.

    I hope Fedi becomes more accepting of ads, but it’s a tall order given that it’s still mostly pinkos and nerds.




  • It’s similar to fixing code written by interns. Why hire interns at all, eh?

    Is it faster to generate then debug or write everything? Needs to be properly tested. At the very least many devs have the perception of being faster, and perception sells.

    It actually makes writing web apps less tedious. The longest part of a dev job is pretending to work actually, but that’s no different from any office jerb.


  • Yes, you can have multiple devices with the same seed for the pseudorandom number generator. You can turn any computer into a hardware authenticator. In practice, it depends on the bank or your employer. Google reduced phishing success rate to zero after switching to ubikey.

    As for perception, you really nailed it. It’s more important than actual difficulty of gaining access to your accounts. Remember that most articles are written by low skill blue teamers who manipulate your perception into thinking it’s really easy while they don’t possess the skills to do it. Always call them out in a manner like “you claim it’s easy, have you done it?”. They will always say no.



  • Large context window LLMs are able to do quite a bit more than filling the gaps and completion. They can edit multiple files.

    Yet, they’re unreliable, as they hallucinate all the time. Debugging LLM-generated code is a new skill, and it’s up to you to decide to learn it or not. I see quite an even split among devs. I think it’s worth it, though once it took me two hours to find a very obscure bug in LLM-generated code.