vord's recent activity
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Comment on Ladybird chooses Rust as its successor language to C++, with help from AI in ~comp
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Comment on Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft/Xbox in ~games
vord Link ParentThat is in essence how I'll use it for all FPS. Broad movements done with thumb, fine with slight controller move. Optionally only takes effect if looking down the sights.That is in essence how I'll use it for all FPS.
Broad movements done with thumb, fine with slight controller move.
Optionally only takes effect if looking down the sights.
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Comment on Ladybird chooses Rust as its successor language to C++, with help from AI in ~comp
vord Link Parentthe problem that has periodically appeared in the news is that nothing you say to the agent really prevents the agent from completly ignoring the rules. Git commit hooks with the configs...the problem that has periodically appeared in the news is that nothing you say to the agent really prevents the agent from completly ignoring the rules. Git commit hooks with the configs untouchable might do the trick though.
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Comment on Why doesn’t Anthropic use Claude to make a good Claude desktop app? in ~tech
vord Link ParentGuess I'm spending an afternoon having it reverse engineer the hot mess that is my laptop config.Giving it my bash history log, SSH access with sudo, and having it reverse engineer the setup of a server into an ansible playbook.
Guess I'm spending an afternoon having it reverse engineer the hot mess that is my laptop config.
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Comment on Why doesn’t Anthropic use Claude to make a good Claude desktop app? in ~tech
vord Link ParentSpecifically referring to the 'app in a website' model. The kind which, in the before times, would just be a desktop application.Specifically referring to the 'app in a website' model. The kind which, in the before times, would just be a desktop application.
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Comment on Why doesn’t Anthropic use Claude to make a good Claude desktop app? in ~tech
vord Link ParentFor that exact reason I mostly just won't use any GTK applications until I've tried literally every other QT option I could find. Though the look and feel integrations between the two have gotten...For that exact reason I mostly just won't use any GTK applications until I've tried literally every other QT option I could find.
Though the look and feel integrations between the two have gotten exponentially better within the last 5 years.
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Comment on Why doesn’t Anthropic use Claude to make a good Claude desktop app? in ~tech
vord Link ParentYou've hit the nail on the head with my two biggest gripes with Electron. The duplication of resources, paired with the security risks of perpetually outdated Electron libraries. Having a...You've hit the nail on the head with my two biggest gripes with Electron.
The duplication of resources, paired with the security risks of perpetually outdated Electron libraries. Having a system-level Electron that could be hooked into would help.
But web UIs suck. It feels even worse than running a mish-mash of Gnome and KDE apps side by side. While a couple of fair standard patterns emerge, it's up to each individual app to do simple things like work with the existing OS theme.
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Comment on My personal AI assistant project in ~tech
vord LinkI very much like the theory of being able to have random people cobble together personal interoperability tools which would allow them to abstract from the underlying service providers. Especially...I very much like the theory of being able to have random people cobble together personal interoperability tools which would allow them to abstract from the underlying service providers.
Especially if it can be done in a way that means said providers will have to think twice before having to deal with PR backlash against making this hard for people.
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Comment on Ladybird chooses Rust as its successor language to C++, with help from AI in ~comp
vord Link ParentI don't know Rust that well, but based on everything I've heard, it's entirely possible it's well-suited to AI code generation if you could insure the AI was never allowed to use the unsafe...I don't know Rust that well, but based on everything I've heard, it's entirely possible it's well-suited to AI code generation if you could insure the AI was never allowed to use the unsafe keyword.
My gut says that the best-possible code generator is specifically trained on a single highly opinionated language which favors 1 way to do things.
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Comment on Why doesn’t Anthropic use Claude to make a good Claude desktop app? in ~tech
vord (edited )Link ParentClaude Code is Coding by Stackoverflow at scale, with all the pros and cons that are implied by that. It's at its best when it's searching through code already written for potential issues to...Claude Code is Coding by Stackoverflow at scale, with all the pros and cons that are implied by that.
It's at its best when it's searching through code already written for potential issues to resolve. It does pretty decent at spitting up random tools for small things.
Example:
Have a web-based vendor application, want to script out test cases. Claude with the Chrome extension grabbed 95% of the relevant data to script out API calls by following a user entering a test case. Having it crawl the vendor's docs fixed the vast majority of missing pieces. Building a tool to do this all from scratch would have been a massive PITA.
It can genuinely flip an awful lot of things into the 'useful' section of the chart.
The problem boils down to the small wins giving false confidence for big things. And it's hard to tell in advance if prompting and refining was a good idea, or if using your grey matter from the beginning would have saved a lot of headaches.
It did spit out a custom SQL formatter for dbeaver with like 30 seconds of work. That alone was worth the price of admission because most standard formatting methods are illegible hot messes when queries get complex.
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It also is quite adept at searching and combining instructions from said documentation into user-followable steps.
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Comment on Lithium plume in our atmosphere traced back to returning SpaceX rocket in ~space
vord (edited )Link ParentAnd the cheapest solution will be a conglomerate of half-assed shortcuts, poor labor conditions, a reckless disregard for the environment, duplication of efforts, and further consolidation of...- Exemplary
And the cheapest solution will be a conglomerate of half-assed shortcuts, poor labor conditions, a reckless disregard for the environment, duplication of efforts, and further consolidation of power by the handful of billionaires on the planet.
This precise problem is uncontrolled reentry, which is a non-0 part of why SpaceX and Blue Origin can cut costs. It's the rocket equivalent of dumping toxic waste in a river because it's cheaper than processing it properly.
Speaking of, it's also a problem primarily because they're populating an area with thousands upon thousands of satellites where this is an ongoing and perpetual problem courtesy of needing to replace these satellites as they also burn up after a few years.
There are just under 16,000 satellites in orbit. About 11,000 are Starlink. Space X is developing a solution for a problem they caused, like the tobacco industry inventing "healthier" cigarettes.
There's no real reason this couldn't be done with public funds and 0 proprietary trade secrets. The only reason NASA can't is because they've been intentionally bled dry to leave room for the private space race.
Cooperation over competition.
Edit: And to stem the inevitable 'but regulation fixes that,' regulation usually only comes after huge damage has already been done. And the companies needing the regulation will bribe their way to not needing to follow it.
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Comment on Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft/Xbox in ~games
vord Link ParentTo emphasize: I'm surprised they made it good. They tries as hard as they could to ruin it though, between the horrible naming conventions and the whole 'Kinect' debacle.To emphasize: I'm surprised they made it good.
They tries as hard as they could to ruin it though, between the horrible naming conventions and the whole 'Kinect' debacle.
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Comment on Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft/Xbox in ~games
vord Link ParentGyro is what sold me on controllers being remotely fun for FPS fames.Gyro is what sold me on controllers being remotely fun for FPS fames.
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Comment on Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft/Xbox in ~games
vord Link ParentHonestly, I'm shocked it lasted as long as it has. Xbox easily ran for what feels like 10x longer than any of their other prior services.Honestly, I'm shocked it lasted as long as it has. Xbox easily ran for what feels like 10x longer than any of their other prior services.
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Comment on Flu shot: US Food and Drug Administration will review Moderna’s mRNA vaccine, company says in ~health
vord Link ParentThey're so conditioned to voting against their own interests that their reaction to actual benefit is like an autoimmune response. Also like alcohol withdrawl literally killing an alcoholic. So...They're so conditioned to voting against their own interests that their reaction to actual benefit is like an autoimmune response.
Also like alcohol withdrawl literally killing an alcoholic.
So drunk on propaganda that the withdrawl would kill them.
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Comment on Flu shot: US Food and Drug Administration will review Moderna’s mRNA vaccine, company says in ~health
vord Link ParentWhen given an olive branch that could have turned the tide away from a competitive world to a cooperative one, America snapped the branch and screamed "Fuck you, pay me!"When given an olive branch that could have turned the tide away from a competitive world to a cooperative one, America snapped the branch and screamed "Fuck you, pay me!"
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Comment on The mega-rich are turning their mansions into impenetrable fortresses in ~finance
vord Link ParentTo elaborate: I consider roughly 500sqft per person + 400 a reasonably sized house. Family of 4 gets roughly a 2400sqft budget. Unless Buffet has like 8 or 9 kids, I put him in the same bucket,...To elaborate:
I consider roughly 500sqft per person + 400 a reasonably sized house. Family of 4 gets roughly a 2400sqft budget.
Unless Buffet has like 8 or 9 kids, I put him in the same bucket, the same way that 0% and 59% are still an F. Or having 10 cars or 100.
Heck, hoarding billions while living humbly is almost worse. Like a king sitting on a pile of grain as his people starve.
He could write a check to pay all student loan debt in the country and still have $100,000,000,000.
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Comment on The mega-rich are turning their mansions into impenetrable fortresses in ~finance
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Comment on AI fails at 96% of jobs (new study) in ~tech
vord Link ParentMicrosoft has had a huge uptick in broken updates the same year they declared 30% of their coding is done by AI.Microsoft has had a huge uptick in broken updates the same year they declared 30% of their coding is done by AI.
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Comment on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to spend $38 billion on warehouse conversions in ~society
vord (edited )Link ParentBased upon how things are going, it's probably going to be an unconditioned concentration camp. They'll just let their victims wallow in filth in the heat and cold. We have a moral imperitive to...- Exemplary
Based upon how things are going, it's probably going to be an unconditioned concentration camp. They'll just let their victims wallow in filth in the heat and cold.
We have a moral imperitive to stop this.
Some choice quotes:
I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country.
‘They’re not humans, they’re not humans. They’re animals.’
It was and it is Jews who bring the Negroes into the Rhineland, always with the same secret thought and clear aim of ruining the hated white race by the necessarily resulting bastardization, throwing it down from its cultural and political height, and himself rising to be its master.
Hitler was only deporting the Jews after all.
Edit: sources
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-immigrants-are-poisoning-blood-country-biden-campaign-liken-rcna130141
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-expected-highlight-murder-michigan-woman-immigration-speech-2024-04-02/
https://archive.org/stream/AdolfHitlerMeinKampfENGLISH/Adolf%20Hitler%20-%20Mein%20Kampf%20ENGLISH_djvu.txt
I'm actually vibecoding a hot mess where the correctness doesn't matter much.
In essence, capturing web requests and user entered data, and then cross-refrencing the api spec and spitting out a vendor-proprietary testing framework format.
The whole intent is that a user could reproduce their bug while this is running, and it spits out a 'close enough' representation that the person actually writing regression testing can clean it up, make it legible, and add it to the test suite.
I'm reminded of significant figures. I don't need down to the decimals, only to the 1,000s. The advantage of being able to hack together quickly outweighed the disadvantages, while still saving considerable time relative to parsing incomplete user reproduction steps with missing data.