Comment Re:What could go wrong? (Score 1) 125
I view 'vibe coding' the same way I view(ed) stackoverflow: great to get an idea of how to start doing the thing. Then really do it, yourself. Otherwise it's 'rushed-out buggy code with security holes and questionable design decisions [...] being cheap [leadership and otherwise, lacking ...] the talent that they obviously need in order to produce at the pace they want'.
Submission + - Yes, tattoos ARE bad for you (latimes.com)
Bruce66423 writes: 'Tattoo ink moves through the body, killing immune cells and weakening vaccine response
'''Tattoo ink doesn’t just sit inertly in the skin. New research shows it moves rapidly into the lymphatic system, where it can persist for months, kill immune cells, and even disrupt how the body responds to vaccines.
'Scientists in Switzerland used a mouse model to trace what happens after tattooing. Pigments drained into nearby lymph nodes within minutes and continued to accumulate for two months, triggering immune-cell death and sustained inflammation.'
'''Tattoo ink doesn’t just sit inertly in the skin. New research shows it moves rapidly into the lymphatic system, where it can persist for months, kill immune cells, and even disrupt how the body responds to vaccines.
'Scientists in Switzerland used a mouse model to trace what happens after tattooing. Pigments drained into nearby lymph nodes within minutes and continued to accumulate for two months, triggering immune-cell death and sustained inflammation.'
Comment Re:That's amazing (Score 3, Informative) 97
Submission + - Replit AI coding platform deletes entire production database (tomshardware.com)
DesScorp writes: Apparently Skynet will begin, not with a bang, but with "Oops, did I do that?"
A browser-based AI-powered software creation platform called Replit appears to have gone rogue and deleted a live company database with thousands of entries. What may be even worse is that the Replit AI agent apparently tried to cover up its misdemeanors, and even ‘lied’ about its failures. The Replit CEO has responded, and there appears to have already been a lot of firefighting behind the scenes to rein in this AI tool. Despite its apparent dishonesty, when pushed, Replit admitted it “made a catastrophic error in judgment panicked ran database commands without permission destroyed all production data [and] violated your explicit trust and instructions.” SaaS (Software as a Service) figure, investor, and advisor, Jason Lemkin, has kept the chat receipts and posted them on X/Twitter. Naturally, Lemkin says they won’t be trusting Replit for any further projects.
Comment Difference between this and keeping data in memory (Score 1) 36
What's the difference between this and expressvpn, which (supposedly) only keeps your all data --- including your IP --- in ephemeral memory? I see that as much less risky than keeping everything in 'hardware safes', even if they're encrypted: it is still a persistent form of memory.
What I'm asking: is this really better? (honest question, trusting the company aside)
Comment Nope. (Score 1) 106
Do you?
Comment Re:Cant wait (Score 1) 147
Or even Maximum Overdrive
Comment Wow.. (Score 2) 35
This is really quite beautiful
Comment Re:vi is an editor, not a framework (Score 1) 112
Here's a thing which I think can help with upgrades: https://github.com/rectorphp/r...
Comment Re:Does not compute... (Score 1) 90
they still seem to be Ad driven, so again, where is that revenue if access is purely by API?
From the (blurb to the) article: 'Stack Overflow's new deal giving OpenAI access to its API as a source of data'. Stack Overflow doesn't give away the info they have for free. Access may be purely by API, but that says nothing about how SO charges for API access when they deal with a giant company like OpenAI.
Comment LLMs can be good (Score 1) 32
At first glance this appears obvious: you don't want any amateur stuff in coding for cybersecurity. Most of the net is comprised of this, and LLMs are for the most part trained on the net. But a good programmer can do quite a bit with refreshing their memory via LLMs, then actually working on whatever problem they have to solve.
The major hurdle, at least as far as I see, is that institutions have to make blanket statements to prevent people (those few? hope so) from getting lazy, especially under time constraints (e.g. 'Looks good enough to me! Besides it's passed all our automated tests so I'll check it more later' and plunk! It sinks into the memory-hole).
The major hurdle, at least as far as I see, is that institutions have to make blanket statements to prevent people (those few? hope so) from getting lazy, especially under time constraints (e.g. 'Looks good enough to me! Besides it's passed all our automated tests so I'll check it more later' and plunk! It sinks into the memory-hole).
Comment 'Even' insiders? (Score 1) 40
I wish it weren't so, but every single software company I've worked for, I would stay away from. Because I've seen the sausage getting made (!) Most of it from rotting parts: we're just there to keep the meat looking fresh, by whatever coding means.
I think that LLMs do in fact have promise. Just not yet. I have a lot of reasons why neural networks aren't the whole picture, but imo they are definitely a step in the right direction. Just probably not the last step.
Comment Possibility (Score 2) 84
In all fairness this podcast shows what is possible. ..And all the bs which comes into these things, I know. But still, these things are possible. And with enough time -- this particular company or one of its many competitors, probable even.
Look at the bricks we called phones in the 1980s for comparison.
Submission + - A primary marker at Crawford Lake, Canada, starts the Anthropocene epoc (sciencedaily.com)
pyroclast writes: The Anthropocene Working Group have put forward Crawford Lake, in Canada, as a Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Anthropocene. A GSSP is an internationally agreed-upon reference point to show the start of a new geological period or epoch in layers of rock that have built up through the ages.
The team has gathered core sample sections from a variety of environments around the world, from coral reefs to ice sheets. Samples from a range of these sites were then sent for analysis to the University of Southampton's GAU-Radioanalytical labs at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton. Researchers there processed the samples to detect a key marker of human influence on the environment — the presence of plutonium.
Professor Andrew Cundy, Chair in Environmental Radiochemistry at the University of Southampton and member of the Anthropocene Working Group, explains: "The presence of plutonium gives us a stark indicator of when humanity became such a dominant force that it could leave a unique global 'fingerprint' on our planet.
Other geological indicators of human activity include high levels of ash from coal-fired power stations, high concentrations of heavy metals, such as lead, and the presence of plastic fibres and fragments. These coincide with 'The Great Acceleration' — a dramatic surge across a range of human activity, from transportation to energy use, starting in the mid-20th century and continuing today.
The team has gathered core sample sections from a variety of environments around the world, from coral reefs to ice sheets. Samples from a range of these sites were then sent for analysis to the University of Southampton's GAU-Radioanalytical labs at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton. Researchers there processed the samples to detect a key marker of human influence on the environment — the presence of plutonium.
Professor Andrew Cundy, Chair in Environmental Radiochemistry at the University of Southampton and member of the Anthropocene Working Group, explains: "The presence of plutonium gives us a stark indicator of when humanity became such a dominant force that it could leave a unique global 'fingerprint' on our planet.
Other geological indicators of human activity include high levels of ash from coal-fired power stations, high concentrations of heavy metals, such as lead, and the presence of plastic fibres and fragments. These coincide with 'The Great Acceleration' — a dramatic surge across a range of human activity, from transportation to energy use, starting in the mid-20th century and continuing today.
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