hendrik @ hendrik @palaver.p3x.de

A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I'm usually a chill

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So should I try the Zed editor? I've tried AI assisted coding but never with a fully "immersive" experience. And I have a ton of small little woes, the code is riddled with small little annoyances and bugs and I end up rephrasing and doing several tries until I arrive at something which I still need to refactor for an hour or so... So does this apply to people who need to uphold some level of quality, and people who can't just change the programming language of an entire existing project so it works better with AI?

That is correct. We'd gain a few things though. For example I could easily tell how much time passed between 8:47am and 3:22pm without doing all the gymnastics. Or maybe how many days it is until a certain date. As of now that's just a lot of irregular 30s and 31s and then the last of February and you almost need a look-up table for that with all the extra rules and exceptions.

Main thing I wanted to say, once you decouple time from the timezones, you're somewhat on the way of making earth's spin meaningless. You'd end up going to work at 14:50 and returning home at 23:20 anyway (for example). Maybe you'll advance into a new day randomly while at it. I don't see how that's fundamentally different to just working from 250 until 600. And I think I can as easily remember to pick up the kids at 2am or at 100 ticks. Also some calculations wirh the 60 are really annoying. Netflix will show a movie is 155 minutes, it's now x o clock and do I get to bed at 10:30pm? That'd also be easier with metric. And once I look at kids these days, they don't know how to read those circular clocks in the first place. So drawing time on a circle might be an arcane, old concept to them, and we don't need to bother with the circle for much longer...

(There is some sarcasm hidden in these words.)

(Edit: And dividing the circle is another thing. Why not use radians, or better tau? I mean I get that 360 has a lot of divisors. But why do I need to remember that 3/4 of a circle is 270 degrees, why can't I just say three quarters of the circle? Or store a concept of how much 200 degrees is in my brain if the calculator returns this? I think it'd be far easier if it gave that to me in fractions of the whole circle. I have a rough concept of what 55% and a bit is...)

Long discussion here. I feel I'd like to add two things. First: we already do. If you coordinate international video calls or conference live streams, you'll say it starts 14:00 UTC. That is something we can do and regularly do. Some companies will use the timezone of their headquarters, though.

Furthermore: Once you're already in the process of changing how time works, don't do a half-assed job. Go all the way and make it metric. Do away with all the 12/24 and 60s. And make things divisible by 1000.

I'm pretty sure hilariouschaos used to hand-pick instances they federate with. I'm not sure if they still do it but that's why their content isn't available at some places. In addition to that some instances chose not to federate with them so it goes both ways.

This discussion is about some peculiarities in German law concerning hate speech. And about how it might be considered hate speech if someone were to call for the termination of the country. And how we deal with that here on Lemmy. It's complicated though and you need to read the law and not take my summary. This has nothing to do with whether one or two states or other ideas might be better or worse, or with what's right and what is wrong.

I believe that's what some people who don't like the instance claim. I'm pretty sure I read that, too. But I really can't find it in the rules written by themselves. You can not however say the state of Israel needs to be dissolved in the process, I think that's banned. I'm not a mod there but I'd say as you prased it, it should be fine.

I think if you use a SIP provider, they'll have an app or a description on their website how to connect with third-party software. Just install it on a device you take with you, and configure it as per their description. Examples for Android SIP softphones are Linphone and Baresip.

Other options: you have a AVM Fritzbox at home and install their app. Or you set up an entire PBX like Asterisk or FreePBX or one of the other ones. That's rather complex and involved.

I've had a good amount of fun doing role play with LLMs. I think that's one of the nicer things you can do with them. From my experience I'd say they aren't even close to being able to do the maths on something like the D20 system. But they have a good grasp what the framework is about. They know how to do high fantasy, or science fiction. They're creative, can make up scenarios, characters, can write dialogue and to some degree narration. LLMs know all the common plot tropes and it occasionally makes me laugh how they sometimes love to push for sudden plot twists, or enhance the storyline with silly things.

And they do other things than just D&D. You can also instruct them to write dialogue. Or be a 90s computer text adventure.

SillyTavern is a good choice. Personally, I've homed in on KoboldCPP. Because SillyTavern tends to confuse me with it's bazillion of options. And I like the very basic "story mode" of KoboldCPP, at least for creative storywriting. Where it's pretty much down to a large text area / sheet of paper, and I can edit and switch around things easily and I also see exactly where the instruct-mode special tokens get placed etc. But that's more personal preference... You do you.

What I also experienced is a wide variety with the models and how good they are at story writing. You definitely need to find and pick the right one. Some are good at it, write good narration. Some can't maintain the pacing but always push for a quick wrap up within a few paragraphs, or they don't like to describe the surroundings. Some don't properly abide by the character descriptions and have their own ideas, or they just get confused and lost in meaningless side stories. The prompt also affects this a lot. But it's also down to the specific model in use.

I'm not sure about the significance of this preprint. Writing energy-efficient sorting algorithms and lab course example code is a very specific problem. It doesn't say a lot about AI in general. Also: Did they forget to tell the AI it's supposed to write energy-efficient code? I didn't read the entire paper. But the prompt example doesn't look like it's in there.

Maybe send the follow-up mail to the moderation team anyway, including full username. And maybe a explanation that you were just questioning the unavailabily of the report, not intending to endorse the wannabe nazi party. So they get what this is about.

How many days did you wait for an answer? Sometimes people are just very impatient and this week thursday to sunday might have been days off for some German people.

I think unless you want to send some money to a shady self-proclaimed hacker, you'd just go with a regular computer security company. They can do it and they'll have people who know what to look for. You can't do red-teaming without any of the background knowledge, it's a proper job and takes lots of experience to get meaningful results. And before you yourself launch a large DDoS attack on "your" rented virtual server, contact your hoster and give them a heads-up, since that's really their servers, their datacenter and netwoking infrastructure which might get affected.

If it's a smaller website and not super critical, you might be fine hiring some single freelancer who know what they're doing as well...

(And other than that... I'd just rent 10 AWS instances from Amazon, or the equivalent from Microsoft or any of the cloud providers. For all intents and purposes, that's your proper botnet with a lot of bandwidth. But please don't do this for nefarious purposes.)

Hehe, that's true. Though it also takes 5 million clicks to draw a circle in Adobe Photoshop, or have things changed since I last used it?

Wow. But I mean who needs Photoshop and Office anyway? I heard kids these days do everything on their phones?!

Nah, I don't think there's a lot on IPv6 in that book. I think OP's concern is valid. Accessing devices at home isn't unheard of. The amount of smart home stuff, appliances and consumer products increases every day. And we all gladly pay our ISPs to connect us and our devices to the internet. They could as well do a good job while at it. I mean should it cost extra to manage a static prefix, so be it. But oftentimes they really make it hard to even give them money and obtain that "additional" service.

I wonder how often the assigned prefix changes with most of the regular ISPs. I'd have to look someone else's router since I'm still stuck on an old contract. But I believe what I saw with some of the regular consumer contracts: the prefixes stay the same for a long time. You could just slap a free DynDNS service on top and be done with it.

But yes, I think this used to be the promise... We'd all get IPv6 and a lot of gadgets like NAS systems, video cameras and a wifi kettle and they'd be accessible from outside. Instead of that we use big capitalist cloud services and all the data from the internet of things devices has some stopover in the China cloud.

It is misrepresenting the facts quite a bit. I think microwave links might be able to do a bit more bandwidth. And laser can do way more than ChatGPT attributes to it. It can do 1 or 2.5 Gbps as well. The main thing about optics is that it comes without electromagnetic interference. And you don't need to have a fresnel zone without obstacles, and you don't need a license. The other things about laser being more susceptible to weather, etc should be about right. (And I don't know a lot about cost and alignment, so I don't really know if that's accurate and substancially more effort for lasers. They sure both cost some money and you have to point both at the receiver.)

I wonder what they did, though. Because the article is omitting most of the interesting details and frames it as if this as if optical communication in itself was something new or disruptive... I mean if I read the Wikipedia article on Long-range optical wireless communication, it seems a bunch of companies have already invested 3 digit million sums into solving this exact issue...

This uses Cargo and Rust. Not npm and NodeJS... I mean go ahead and try, this is an entirely different programming language. Nothing in your comment will do anything. It is like if you were talking Portuguese to someone who only understands English. So I think you can skip the long non-working code examples. Focus on the idea insted, flesh it out and contribute that.

You'd need to change the idea a lot and make it more specific. This way it's not a good idea. I guess a local instance chat could be useful for some specific things? But then this is a platform to discuss underneath posts in communities. So we can already talk to each other...