bargainbin (u/bargainbin)

bargainbin commented on Now, Together natashajaffe.substack.com... · Posted by u/mooreds

bargainbin · 3 days ago

Counterpoint, sometimes your engineer is taking ages to do small tasks because they’re incompetent, and if you do the task together you find it’s actually just you doing the work for them.

Had to deal with this recently after trying everything to stick to my world view of “anyone can learn this”.

bargainbin commented on It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges social.anoxinon.de/@Codeb... · Posted by u/moelf

jjangkke · 10 days ago

I really don't get this type of hostility

If you put something in public domain people are going to access it unless you put it behind a paywall but you don't want to do it because that would limit access or people wouldn't pay for it to begin with (ex. your blog nobody wants to pay for)

There's no law against scraping, and we've already past the CFAA argument

bargainbin · 10 days ago

It’s not quite as simple as “putting something in public domain”. The problem is the server costs to keep that thing in the public domain.

bargainbin commented on Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses github.com/PrivacyIsAllYo... · Posted by u/tash_2s

bargainbin · 12 days ago

This is like creating a t-shirt that says “don’t shoot me”.

The problem isn’t consent, the problem is that the gun is being needlessly pointed at you in the first place.

bargainbin commented on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything github.com/anthropics/cla... · Posted by u/pr337h4m

ryao · 12 days ago

LLMs love to do malicious compliance. If I tell them to not do X, they will then go into a “Look, I followed instructions” moment by talking about how they avoided X. If I add additional instructions saying “do not talk about how you did not do X since merely discussing it is contrary to the goal of avoiding it entirely”, they become somewhat better, but the process of writing such long prompts merely to say not to do something is annoying.

bargainbin · 12 days ago

Just got stung with this on GPT5 - It’s new prompt personalisation had “Robotic” and “no sugar coating” presets.

Worked great until about 4 chats in I asked it for some data and it felt the need to say “Straight Answer. No Sugar coating needed.”

Why can’t these things just shut up recently? If I need to talk to unreliable idiots my Teams chat is just a click away.

bargainbin commented on GitHub was having issues githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/rock_artist

hkt · 13 days ago

Amen, BitBucket outages are regular and showstopping. Self hosting is genuinely more reliable.

bargainbin · 13 days ago

Ah, you clearly haven’t worked with the self hosting teams that I have.

I hope I never again have to explain to someone that you can’t just “restore the code from the weekly database backup” because the code is in the file system they just osmosed.

bargainbin commented on Intermittent fasting strategies and their effects on body weight bmj.com/content/389/bmj-2... · Posted by u/lxm

bargainbin · 16 days ago

The takeaway here is that if you do “alternate day fasting”, that is you eat normally on one day then do not eat all the next, you will lose weight.

I can’t believe that losing 3.5 days of caloric intake would result in weight loss. In other news, water is wet.

bargainbin commented on Open music foundation models for full-song generation map-yue.github.io/... · Posted by u/selvan

alexjplant · 18 days ago

That decision was ridiculous. It's pretty obvious that the Robin Thicke song is a $1.50 Great Value version of "Got To Give It Up" because of the aesthetic similarities but they have nothing to do with each other melodically or harmonically... "Blurred Lines" sounds like I V with a walk at the end whereas "Got To Give It Up" is more like a I IV V. The vocal melodies aren't the same nor is the bass. They have different arrangements. The percussion isn't the same.

The only things they have in common are vibes (in the contemporary sense, not vibraphones). Two dudes singing about sex in falsetto at 120bpm over prototypical R&B/funk elements isn't special. If that's the bar for copyright infringement then 99% of the popular music canon is illegally-derivative. Marvin Gaye was a singular talent but that doesn't mean that his heirs should be able to collect money every time somebody plays an electric piano bassline and sings about making whoopie in alto II.

bargainbin · 18 days ago

It was ridiculous but I think it’s important to note it was a jury trial:

1) They had a musician come in and deconstruct the songs, and she showed that many of Blurred Lines elements copied the “rhythm” and “feel” of the sheet music, not the master recording.

2) Robin Thicke said in an interview he told Pharrell they should make something with the groove of Got To Give It Up.

As a non-musical person in a jury, those points are convincing enough that there was intent to copy the song even if the final song is clearly different. Though, it should never have been down to a jury and judge to decide.

Even more hilarious, a couple of years ago the Gayes tried to sue Pharrell because of an interview where he mentioned again Got To Give It Up was inspiration for Blurred Lines. Luckily that failed, but they definitely have it in for Pharrell it seems.

bargainbin commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd

hattmall · 18 days ago

I don't understand the doomer mindset. Like what is it that you think AI is going to do or be capable of doing that's so bad?

bargainbin · 18 days ago

It’s not AI itself that’s the bad part, it’s how the world reacts to white collar work being obliterated.

The wealth hasn’t even trickled down whilst we’ve been working, what’s going to happen when you can run a business with 24/7 autonomous computers?

bargainbin commented on HTMX is hard, so let's get it right github.com/BookOfCooks/bl... · Posted by u/thunderbong

bargainbin · 22 days ago

I’ve attempted to use HTMX a few times (as a React-hater, its hype lures me in) and every time I’ve come away feeling like I’ve wasted my time implementing a subpar solution.

From reading this, I’ve decided I will never attempt to use it again. All I could think was, just use Go’s HTML templating. What is HTMX adding, really?

bargainbin commented on Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations wikimediafoundation.org/n... · Posted by u/Nurw

bargainbin · a month ago

No one asked for this. Don’t blame parents. This is the government using the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse to restrict your personal freedoms.