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WolfLink

@ WolfLink @sh.itjust.works

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  • Vibe coding takes the "science" out of computer science

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  • It’s a neat tool, but be careful what you do with it. I wouldn’t make anything web-connected or otherwise requiring security considerations, for example.

  • Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection After Running a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive”

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  • It didn’t “run a red light”. In the video, the lights were green when it entered the intersection.

    But yeah, it should not have tried to make that turn from that lane.

  • minecraft modding

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  • It’s not too complicated to build, but it does cost a lot of iron.

    I’ve built a system where you dump all your junk in one chest and it gets sorted into your warehouse

  • Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

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  • diagnostic

    I think it is useful to send crash reports, but the user should have power over it (see: when macOS generates a crash report, it asks the user if they would like to send it)

    engagement measuring

    That is your data they are taking to make money off of without your consent, and I consider that malicious. There are ways to do that with consent. See: Steam’s annual hardware survey

  • Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

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  • Honestly it largely is.

    Personally I like sharing crash reports, but even then, the user should be able to turn that off if you like.

    Telemetry should be 100% opt-in.

  • like 80% of internet slang

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  • If enough people used “green” to refer to “red” objects, the meaning of the word would change.

    See: inversion of the meaning of the word “literally”

  • Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop!

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  • I have these battery packs that magnetically stick to the back of my phone and charge it. Just slap it on and forget about it.

    It makes my phone hot and wastes a lot of power (I can also charge from the same battery packs using a cable, and I get noticeably more charge).

    But it’s real convenient when you don’t want to worry about it. I use them at conventions or when I’m out hiking or skiing.

  • Switch 2 Pro Controller: Built to Break? Full Teardown | iFixit

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  • I’ve had 8 joy cons drift. 6 of them I sent in to have Nintendo fix, the last pair I fixed myself with Hall effect sticks. I’ve also replaced some friends joycons with Hall effect sticks.

  • Switch 2 Pro Controller: Built to Break? Full Teardown | iFixit

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  • All potentiometer based controllers can drift eventually, the problem is the joycons are very thin and drift fairly quickly. Normally it takes years of heavy usage (think a competitive smash player jamming the thing back and forth) to become a problem. Joy cons fail under relatively average usage in a year or two, which is not normal.

    Everyone assumes the Switch 2 joysticks are going to have the problem because they look almost exactly the same as the Switch 1 joysticks.

  • Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet?

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  • Also propaganda and lobbying by fossil fuel industries.

  • Why is AI so wrong all the time???

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  • LLMs are curve fitting the function of “input text” to “expected output text”.

    So when you give it an input text, it generates an output text interpolated from the expected outputs for similar inputs.

    That means it’s often right for very common prompts and often wrong for prompts that are subtly different from common prompts.

  • Mimi #67: Flat

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  • She’s super creepy looking IMO

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  • If the ISP doesn't provide V6 though it's time to switch ISPs.

    cries in USA

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  • I got a huge reduction in random login attempts when I changed my ssh port away from the default.

    (Of course I also have actual security measures like log in by key only)

  • Breakthrough battery lets physicists reverse entanglement—and rewrite quantum law

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  • I went ahead and read the article. I know a bit about quantum computing. Here’s my summary of it:

    Entanglement is a useful resource for quantum networking, enabling things like quantum-secure communication and distributed quantum computing.

    TLDR The paper describes algorithms to more efficiently create a form of entanglement that’s useful from the error-prone “dirty” entanglement you get from entanglement-generating hardware.

    When you make entanglement, it often doesn’t come out perfect, and you need a technique to “distill” “good” entangled states out of a collection of “dirty” entangled states.

    The typical “rules” for this involve two parties that create dirty shared entanglement (shared entanglement means a pair of entangled qubits, but each party has one of the qubits). They can then do whatever they like with their qubits individually and can communicate (over classical channels e.g. the internet) but they can’t do anything “quantum” between the two of them.

    This paper analyzes the case where there is a 3rd party that follows these same rules but has been previously set up as an “entanglement battery”, which means preparing it in a special state from which entanglement can be “borrowed” or “returned” to the battery using only local operations and classical communication.

    In particular it’s looking for “reversible” (meaning no loss in total entanglement over the process) “entanglement manipulation” (changing the entanglement from one form into another, presumably more useful form). It goes into a lot of analysis as to what the limits on this process are, and makes analogies to how engines work in thermodynamics.

  • Sometimes you just get it wong

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  • This sounds like someone learning. It’s incredibly hard to admit you were wrong and do better. Don’t shame her for it.

  • Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it?

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  • I think I have had an instructor put a mirror in the pool before lol

  • Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it?

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  • I doubt someone who has only ever read about swimming could do it in deep, cold water. But they are talking about taking it to a swimming pool to practice. I think they’ll be fine.

  • Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it?

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  • Probably. Take it to the shallow part of a pool (where you can stand up if you need to) and practice until you are comfortable trying more.

    Also, watch some videos. I think it’s easier to learn something like swimming by watching others than by reading about it.