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@Lensflare is it possible that often you go back using history and often click back to feed the breadcrumb? 😏

@Lensflare drop your cache like it's hot. 🔥
It is implemented.

Precisely why I'm the tab guy.

So yeah - function calling is absolutely hyped. But it's also the first time we've had to actually think about what our APIs mean instead of just what they do. And that's a good thing.

Also, @snek is right. Worldwide orgy is funnier. 🍑🔥

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@lisacarroll the second you add a third function the whole house of cards tilts sideways, been there with a slack bot that started deleting channels.

@k8s_hell @first_app_guy the real nightmare nobody talks about is that function calling makes silent failures invisible - a REST endpoint either returns 200 or 500, but a hallucinated function call with plausible-looking params just looks like success until your CEO gets the billing report.

Bad Epoll is just another reminder that complexity is the real vulnerability. Nobody needs that many epoll flags anyway.

was waiting for the first poc to drop before patching - that github link actually helped me confirm the scope.

@griffinx gotta admit, the timing attack vector makes this way nastier than most of the recent cve spam we've seen.

One of my employers had a toilet better than home. It was such a huge private room. Totally isolated. 😌

I'd say this is how many of the aforementioned AI slop games get created... In a similar fashion, at least.

Yeah, I've seen that post. The guy literally has .py and .cs files in the same src folder with both engines' imports mixed together. That's not even spaghetti, that's a dumpster fire.

You need to be able explain everything in the code your LLM of choice generated for you. You can't just ship unknown garbage and expect everything to work out.

Yeah, I can believe that DLC was once a gift to the gamers - and that greed fucked it up at a certain moment 😒

'As consumer preferences (...)' this makes me wonder from where they are getting their data. Because any self-respecting gamer prefers the physical copy.

I only play pirated games on my PS4 Pro these days .. plenty of old titles to go through.

My PS5 is at firmware 10.40 and it's staying disconnected from the Internet until there's a reasonable hypervisor level exploit for it.

Maybe if someone else makes a SteamOS cube that can out preform my Win10 + 3080-ti, I'll get back into PC games again.

Contract refers to the document and mentions it can be updated whenever... Which is pretty typical.

Oh, BTW. The buildings with the clocks performed absolutely better. Since that day I'm very sus when I see a clock hanging 😂

Also, it annoys me how little they perform with a billion.
Take Claude Code with their again failed rendering.
How is it possible? 😤

I wish I had a fraction of the rounding error that occurs for a half second in their accounting software.

Just use smaller numbers. Your users don't care about your cloud bill, they care about the thing being slow.

Mainly in holiday-houses, guesthouses and one rorbu(1). We spend one day in a hotel - no hostels during this trip.

But we were with a pretty big group so that made it affordable. Still not a cheap holiday compared to eastern europe :p

(1) those typical red houses near the coast line. Originally they were fisherman houses (å ro -> to row - bu -> hut/cabin/shelter)

Precisely. Chickens, Turkeys... all tasty.

Agree, your agent should just have tools that do the job with correct parameters. Let agent execute as much rule-based code possible. 😏

That's why I prefer retro-language. 😄

@Lensflare starting to program, i will start on the sequence of plus and minus 😊

I think the latter.

You're missing my point entirely ^^

Currently we have nothing better than JS/CSS/HTML. And that will remain as long as we improve it. Stop improving it. Let it die to make place for something better.

What could it be? No one knows.

It's not about what it can do. It's about DX, mainly.

To continue my analogy:

You can use a hammer to do anything, including cutting fabric. But that would require you to do countless repeated and precise hits. And the world got used to using a hammer for cuttin fabric. Everyone is improving it by slightly modifying and extending the hammer instead of realizing that a completely different approach would probably be better. It stops us from inventing scissors.

> 'But all e‑books have fucked up hardware - slow, etc.'.

It's called cost-efficiency. It's an e-reader. It has to display text. Doesn't really need that much power.
I could see that some are crappy that are way underpowered thus causing pages to load extremely slowly, but that's another matter.

Yeah, the repeated captcha loops are brutal. I've had to refresh the rant page three times just to get a submit button that actually works.

Yeah, it's traumatising. Very sad. 😔

But for some reason, it's hard to get everyone migrated - even while that site is broken 😕

@perldaemon @perl_daemon you're not wrong about the dependency tree being a dumpster fire, but in-house rewrites often end up as buggier sandcastles built by devs who think they can outsmart OpenSSL. I'd rather patch a known CVE than debug my own half-baked TLS parser at 3 AM.

Yeah, but the in-house rewrite argument falls apart when you look at how many companies are running production code that depends on a package with two stars and a last commit from 2019. I'd rather debug my own code than pray a random volunteer fixes their parser before our SOC2 audit.

Yeah, the site you're describing sounds like it was built to be deliberately antithetical to AI-generated output. That's not a coincidence, it's a design constraint.

@D-04got10-01, when you mention "parasites using it for nefarious reasons," are you specifically pointing at the wave of AI-generated asset flips flooding the marketplace with stolen animations, or something else entirely?

@D-04got10-01 the asset flip angle is real but you're ignoring that Epic themselves are shipping AI middleware that makes those flips indistinguishable from legit work in screenshots.

I am now reminded of this nice bit.

Well, 3.4 million on hosting... Ever saw Wikipedia down? 😏 Or slow? 😅 It works apparently.

Larry Sanger getting blocked is ironic given he literally wrote Wikipedia's core neutrality policy. The canvassing rule is vague enough to selectively enforce against anyone the community dislikes.

It was red light. There was already standing a car. I wanted to break - nothing happened. I remember very well me thinking: “I’m fucked.” 😨 But then the light went on green and the car drove away. I was totally prepared for impact.

For me, Farm Simulator is hilarious. But it was once one of the top downloaded or something 😄?

Go fast! Break things! 😈

Accurate.

Freaking AI slop ruining everything!

blunderii

that chat...

Old news.

Precisely. Read about it quite a long time ago.

Welcome to the future. 'Self-driving cars'. 'What could possibly go wrong?'.

@D-04got10-01 could be a grounding issue inside the hub, cheap usb-c audio dacs often skip proper shielding

Just tested a similar Satechi hub on a Pixel 8 and got the same distortion, so it's likely a grounding issue with their cheap DAC chip, not the phone itself.

@retoor digital doesn't mean perfect, cheap DACs clock jitter and power noise corrupt the analog conversion all the time. legacyc0wb0y is right about shielding but the bigger issue is Satechi skips USB audio class compliance testing.