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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • I just tried “Language Drops” and it was… interesting. It didn’t place me at the right level, so I got a very beginner lesson when I’m closer to intermediate (but definitely not fluent). I’m not sure I liked matching the pictures- the picture for “thank you” could mean different things depending on how you interpret the person’s face and body language- and then I hit the end of the free content for the day. It didn’t get to different tenses or even whole sentences- just basic vocabulary and no verbs. Maybe it ramps up quickly?


  • This doesn’t seem like a good idea.

    One, releasing should be easy. At my last job, you clicked “new release” or whatever on GitHub. It then listed all the commits for you. If you “need” an Ai to summarize the commits, you fucked up earlier. Write better commit messages. Review the changes. Use your brain (something the AI can’t do) to make sure you actually want all of this to go out. Click the button. GitHub runs checks and you’re done.

    Most of the time it took a couple minutes at most to do this process.





  • This reminds me of the new vector for malware that targets “vibe coders”. LLMs tend to hallucinate libraries that don’t exist. Like, it’ll tell you to add, install, and use jjj_image_proc or whatever. The vibe coder will then get an error like “that library doesn’t exist” and "can’t call jjj_image_proc.process()`.

    But you, a malicious user, could go and create a library named jjj_image_proc and give it a function named process. Vibe coders will then pull down and run your arbitrary code, and that’s kind of game over for them.

    You’d just need to find some commonly hallucinated library names






  • Democrats need to get more radical. The current system isn’t working for most people, and it’s certainly not working for the environment. Nationalized health care. Public housing. Basic income.

    Conservatives will lose their mind, but some of them are assholes that want fascism, so fuck them. And a funny thing about some conservatives is they’ll defend whatever the current state is. They just don’t like change. Once you get something like nationalized health care in, some of the people who are screaming about how it’s the worst idea will scream at anyone trying to change it.

    Many people have said they voted for trump because he’s “a change” or "something different’. Yes, it’s a little stupid to be like “i’m tired of eating gruel, i’m going to change it up by eating rusty nails”, but that’s people. Offer a change and get them.

    But I think there’s too much rich people influence in our politics and media for that to easily get off the ground.