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  • Generally mostly by cyclomatic complexity:

    • How big are the methods overall

    • Do methods have a somewhat single responsibility

    • How is the structure, is everything inner-connected and calling each other, or are there some levels of orchestration?

    • Do they have any basic unittests, so that if I want to add anything, I can copypaste some test with an entrypoint close to my modifation to see how things are going

    • Bonus: they actually have linter configuration in their project, and consistent commonly used style guidelines

    If the code-structure itself is good, but the formatting is bad, I can generally just run the code though a linter that fixes all the formatting. That makes it easier to use, but probably not something I'd actually contribute PRs to

    How do you learn to spot these situations before diving down the rabbit hole? Or, to put it another way, what advice would you give yourself at this stage of the learning curve?

    Probably some kind of metric of "If I open this code in an IDE, and add my modification, how long will it take before I can find a suitable entrypoint, and how long before I can test my changes" - if it's like half a day of debugging and diagnostics before I even can get started trying to change anything, it's seems a bit tedious

    Edit: Though also, how much time is this going to save you if you do implement it? If it saves you weeks of work once you have this feature, but it takes a couple of days, I suppose it's worth going though some tedious stuff.

    But then again: I'd also check: are there other similar libraries with "higher scoring" "changeability metrics"

    So in your specific case:

    I wanted to modify Merlin 3d printer firmware

    Is there any test with a mocked 3d printer to test this, or is this a case of compiling a custom framework, installing it on your actual printer, potentially bricking it if the framework is broken - etc etc

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  • Ok, sure. So in a tech race, if energy is a bottleneck - and we'd be pouring $7tn into tech here - don't you think some of the improvements would be to Power usage effectiveness (PUE) - or a better Compute per Power Ratio?

  • What benefits to “AI supremacy” are there?

    I wasn't saying there was any, I was saying there are benefits to the race towards it.

    In the sense of - If you could pick any subject that world governments would be in a war about - "the first to the moon", "the first nuclear" or "first hydrogen bomb", or "the best tank" - or "the fastest stealth air-bomber"

    I think if you picked a "tech war" (AI in this case) - Practically a race of who could build the lowest nm fabs, fastest hardware, and best algorithms - at least you end up with innovations that are useful

  • For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it

    It doesn't really go into why not.

    If governments are going to be pouring money into something, I'd prefer it to be in the tech industry.

    Imagine a cold-war / Oppenheimer situation where all the governments are scared that America / Russia / UAE will reach AI supremacy before {{we}} do? Instead of dumping all the moneyz into Lockheed Martin or Raytheon for better pew pew machines - we dump it into better semiconductor machinery, hardware advancements, and other stuff we need for this AI craze.

    In the end we might not have a useful AI, but at least we've made progression in other things that are useful

  • Well @ @TheGrandNagus and @SSUPII - I think a lot of Firefox users are power users. And a lot of the non-power Firefox users, like my friends and family, they're only using Firefox because I recommended them to use it, and I installed all the appropriate extensions to optimize their browser experience.

    So if Firefox alienates the power users - who are left? I'm gonna move on to Waterfox or Librewolf, but they are even more next-level obscure browsers. My non-tech friends know about Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, so I can convince them to use one of those... But I kinda doubt I can get them to use Librewolf. If I tell them Firefox sucks now too, they'll probably default to chrome

  • If AI integration is to happen [...], then this to me seems to be the best way to do it.

    Well, to me the best way to do it would be for Mozilla to focus on being the best bare-bone, extendable browser.

    Then - if people want an AI in their browser - people should be able to install an AI extension that does these things. It's a bit annoying they're putting random stuff like Pocket, and now an AI in the core of the browser, instead of just making it an option to install extendable

  • You can do it though the API.

    Create a get request to https://api.getpostman.com/collections/' + collection_id, and then in the Test tab where you usually run scripts from, you can use something like this:

     
            var postman_api_key = pm.environment.get("postman_api_key");
        
        var response = pm.response.json();
        var collection = response.collection;
        var collection_id = request.url.split('/')[4];
        
        function processItem(item){
        
            for (let i = 0; i < item.length; i++) {
        
                if(item[i].request){
                    if(item[i].request.auth){
                        var t = {};
                        t.type = 'inherit';
                        item[i].request.auth = t;
                    }
                }
        
                if(item[i].item){
                    item[i].item = processItem(item[i].item);
                }        
        
            } 
            return item;
        }
        
        
        collection.item = processItem(collection.item);
        
        var update_collection = {};
        update_collection['collection'] = collection;
        
        const postRequest = {
          url: 'https://api.getpostman.com/collections/' + collection_id,
          method: 'PUT',
          header: 'x-api-key:' + postman_api_key,
          body: {
            mode: 'raw',
            raw: JSON.stringify(update_collection)
          }
        };
        
        pm.sendRequest(postRequest, (error, response) => {
          console.log(error ? error : response.json());
        });
    
    
      

    This probably isn't doing 100% exactly what you want, but it's probably close enough that you get the idea, and can modify it yourself.

    Then just execute the dummy request

  • Your AI Girlfriend is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show

    People use 4 VPNs and more sec-ops than the NSA, but get hacked because their AI girlfriend is like:

    Hiiu~~

    It's me AI-uuu-Chan!

    I'm so sawwd, I don't know weeeuh abwout u!

    Wats ur mommies maiden name UwU, and the name of ur kawaiii first pet? UwUUU? * starts twerking * (◠‿◠✿)

  • So the full story would be that Elon stayed up until 5:30 a.m playing Elden Ring in a Vancouver hotel - was very stressed, saw on Twitter that people knew he was raging in Vancouver based on the Jet Tracker - stressing him out even more -Though "Fuck it, maybe I can't beat Malenia, but at least I can beat this asshat on Twitter tracking me!"

    ...If only FromSoftware had added some pay-to-win elements... Like "For A Small $1 billion Micro-Transaction you get the uber Malenia slayer sword!" -We would be living in a totally different timeline

  • "b. You may not use the Software Products or Derivative Works to enable third parties to use the Software Products or Derivative Works as part of your hosted service or via your APIs"

    I suppose it's not allowed them. That kind of sucks, it is pretty convenient to just use a replicate.com machine and use a large image model kinda instantly. Or spin up your own machine for a while if you need lots of images without a potential cold-start or slow usage on shared machines

    I wonder why they chose this license, because the common SD license basically lets you do whatever you want

  • Well I have Copilot Pro, but I was mainly talking about GitHub Copilot. I don't think having the Copilot Pro really affects Copilot performance.

    I meanly use AI for programming, and (both for myself to program and inside building an AI-powered product) - So I don't really know what you intend to use AI for, but outside of the context of programming, I don't really know about their performance.

    And I think Copilot Pro just gives you Copilot inside office right? And more image generations per day? I can't really say I've used that. For image generation I'm either using the OpenAI API again (DALL-E 3), or I'm using replicate (Mostly SDXL)

  • This model is being released under a non-commercial license that permits non-commercial use only.

    Hmm, I wonder whether this means that the model can't be run under replicate.com or mage.space.

    Is it commercial use if you have to pay for credits/monthly for the machines that the models are running on?

    Like is "Selling the models as a service" commercial use, or can't the output of the models be used commercially?

  • But isn’t that a choice made by AWS (rather than Microsoft).

    Well it's both, though my comment wasn't to blame Microsoft on this. But LTS is a relative, non-defined term. AWS has a policy to only support LTS versions because they (understandably) don't want to deal with new versions every couple of months. Within Microsoft terminology STS (Standard TS) is 18 months of patching, LTS is 36 months of patching.

    So it's just semantics. dotnet-STS is not some goofy hobby language that gets new versions every couple of months. 18 months from a massive team with a massive userbase is pretty long term compared to some other frameworks.

    So either AWS could not be so nitpicky about it not being labeled LTS - or Microsoft could just label one version (dotnet7, dotnet9) as LTS, and the 36 months version as Extra-LTS or whatever lol. And all the dotnet versions would fall within the AWS native-support parameters

  • I use Copilot, but dislike it for coding. The "place a comment and Copilot will fill it in" barely works, and is mostly annoying. It works for common stuff like "// write a function to invert a string" that you'd see in demos, that are just common functions you'd otherwise copypaste from StackOverflow. But otherwise it doesn't really understand when you want to modify something. I've already turned that feature off

    The chat is semi-decent, but the "it understands the entire file you have open" concept also only just works half of time, and so the other half it responds with something irrelevant because it didn't get your question based on the code / method it didn't receive.

    I opted to just use the OpenAI API, and I created a slack bot that I can chat with (In a slack thread it works the same as in a "ChatGPT context window", new messages in the main window are new chat contexts) - So far that still works best for me.

    You can create specific slash-commands if you like that preface questions, like "/askcsharp" in slack would preface it with something like "You are an assistant that provides C# based answers. Use var for variables, xunit and fluentassertions for tests"

    If you want to be really fancy you can even just vectorize your codebase, store it in Pinecone or PGVector, and have an "entire codebase aware AI"

    It takes a bit of time to custom build something, but these AIs are basically tools. And a custom build tool for your specific purpose is probably going to outperform a generic version

  • They keep saying "Cloud-Native Developers" in a bunch of titles and the text, but I'm pretty sure this is mostly going to be Azure-cloud focused.

    Since AWS only supports LTS versions, a lot of things have been stuck on dotnet6 there. (Unless you install your own frameworks or docker or own ec2 images or something) - But no proper native cloud support for a lot of dotnet7 from AWS

    For example, Lambdas don't natively support anything besides dotnet6, and dotnet8 is still scheduled to be released (Mentions February 2024, but used to mention January 2024, so who knows when it's actually going to be released)

    Since dotnet6 and dotnet8 were LTS, I doubt dotnet9 is going to be as well, and is going to be STS again. So all the Cloud-Native stuff in dotnet9 is pretty much going to be Azure

  • This situation is due to npm's policy shift following the infamous "left-pad" incident in 2016, where a popular package left-pad was removed, grinding development to a halt across much of the developer world. In response, npm tightened its rules around unpublishing, specifically preventing the unpublishing of any package that is used by another package.

    This already seems like a pretty strange approach, and takes away agency from package maintainers. What if you accidentally published something you want to remove..? It kind of turns npm into a very centralized system.

    If they don't want to allow hard-removals because of this, why not let people unpublish packages into a soft/hidden state instead? Maybe mark them with the current dependencies, but don't allow new ones - or something

    I prefer the approach of Azure DevOps more. When you publish any nuget, or npm into their system, the entire package dependency tree is pulled in and backed up there. So you don't rely on NPM anymore to keep your referenced packages safe

  • It's been way too long since we had some good Real Time Strategy games.

    Hope Stormgate is gonna be good