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  • Handling of unlikely syscall errors

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  • If that's the only error mechanism, sure. Exceptions in most languages tend to be relatively expensive, though, and most have a cheaper idiomatic way of returning error codes; you'd want to use those if they're available, right?

    Does Rust use exceptions a lot? I don't know. V has panic and catch, but you almost never see them. Idiomatic is Option (?) and Return (!) values, which I thought V borrowed from Rust. Go does the (val, error) tuple-ish return thing, and while it too has catchable panics, they're discouraged in favor of (error) return values.

    Depends on the language. "Higher level" is a pretty broad field!

  • We Asked 100+ AI Models to Write Code. The Results: AI-generated Code That Works, But Isn’t Safe

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  • At first it wasn't an issue: I used Voyager for this account, and Interstellar for the alt. Then I decided I liked Interstellar's interface more and started using it for both. Both list the account in most places, but Interstellar doesn't show it when replying.

    I started making enough mistakes that I played with the settings and discovered Interstellar links the color theme to the account, and now I can easily tell which I'm using.

    I'm certain I'll continue to make mistakes. Thorn is surprisingly seductive, but the real issue is that auto complete and autocorrect on my phone keyboard has decided that the correct spelling for "the" is "þe". I could correct it, but I feel bad for it; it's just trying to he helpful.

  • We Asked 100+ AI Models to Write Code. The Results: AI-generated Code That Works, But Isn’t Safe

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  • Gosh darn it, am I using thorns in this account again?? I didn't mean to.

    I recently learned that only Icelandic does that. Eth was dropped early in old English, and thorn was used in both places. Additionally (as I understand it, now), while thorn was a direct "th" (voiced or unvoiced) sound, even when eth was in use it want orthographically a simple replacement for voiced "th".

    I guess Icelandic kept it, but eth was not in use through most of the old English, medieval period. And then the Normans came, and fucked written English completely up.

  • If All Knowing God Was With You

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  • I want my own all knowing god.

    I don't want to be all knowing; Watchmen demonstrated how much that would suck. But having an omniscient floating ball that I can ask questions and get straightforward answers; I could abuse that capability endlessly.

    I think my wife and I are both wise enough to avoid using it for spousal discovery: if she wants to tell me her body count, she will. So It'd quickly escalate from the trivial to the existential, and then we'd make a lot of money and maybe solve some world problems on the side.

    i definitely want a personal, floating, omniscient, question-answering god.

  • [Internal sigh]

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  • And the correct colloquial term for them. He calls them "bees," not "anthophila."

  • We Asked 100+ AI Models to Write Code. The Results: AI-generated Code That Works, But Isn’t Safe

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  • You'll be absolutely thrilled to hear that I discovered that I can assign different color themes to different accounts in my mobile app, so these sorts of crossover mistakes should be greatly reduced.

    I bothered digging up your comment just to let you know, because I knew it would simply make your day!

    Toodles!

  • Automating Restic backups

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  • My recommendation is to put all of the variables in an environment file, and use systemd's EnvironmentFile (in [Service] to point to it.

    One of my backup service files (I back up to disks and cloud) looks like this:

     
        
[Unit]
Description=Backup to MyUsbDrive
Requires=media-MyUsbDrive.mount
After=media-MyUsbDrive.mount

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/backup/environment
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/restic backup --tag=prefailure-2 --files-from ${FILES} --exclude-file ${EXCLUDES} --one-file-system

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.timer

    FILES is a file containing files and directories to be backed up, and is defined in the environment file; so is EXCLUDES, but you could simply point restic at the directory you want to back up instead.

    My environment file looks essentially like

     
        
RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/mnt/MyUsbDrive/backup
RESTIC_PASSWORD=blahblahblah
KEEP_DAILY=7
KEEP_MONTHLY=3
KEEP_YEARLY=2
EXCLUDES=/etc/backup/excludes
FILES=/etc/backup/files

    If you're having trouble, start by looking at how you're passing in the password, and whether it's quoted properly. It's been a couple of years since I had this issue, but at one point I know I had spaces in a passphrase and had quoted the variable, and the quotes were getting passed in verbatim.

    My VPS backups are more complex and get their passwords from a keystore, but for my desktop I keep it simple.

  • We Asked 100+ AI Models to Write Code. The Results: AI-generated Code That Works, But Isn’t Safe

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  • I started using the same client for both by "normal" account (this one) and my toy account (my pþþþt one) but have discovered that now it's impossible hard to tell which one I'm in once I start replying. And I flip between them often, so now I'm accidentally posting eths and thorns here, and forgetting them more in the other account.

    It's a conundrum. I'm losing sleep over it, really.

  • Calibre-Web-Automated v3.1.1 - The Community Update 👬 Hardcover Integration 💜, Calibre Plugins 🔌, Split Library Support 💞, KoReader Sync 🗘 and much more! 📚

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  • I hope this isn't a step towards replacing the native app with an SPA.

  • We Asked 100+ AI Models to Write Code. The Results: AI-generated Code That Works, But Isn’t Safe

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  • That's the broken behavior I see. It's the evidence of a missing understanding that's going to need another evolutionary bump to get over.

  • We Asked 100+ AI Models to Write Code. The Results: AI-generated Code That Works, But Isn’t Safe

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  • Yeah, for me it's more that just "produces correct output." I don't expect to see 5 pages of sequential if-statements (which, ironically, is pretty close to LLM's internal designs), but also no unnessesary nested loops. "Correct" means producing the right results, but also not having O(n²) (or worse) when it's avoidable.

    The thing that puts me off most, though, is how it usually expands code for clarified requirements in the worst possible way. Like, you start with simple specs and make consecutive clarifications, and the code gets worse. And if you ask it to refactor it to be cleaner, it'll often refactor the Code to look better, but it'll no longer produce the correct output.

    Several times I've asked it for code in a language where I don't know the libraries well, and it'll give me code using functions that don't exist. And when I point out they don't exist, I get an apology and sometimes a different function call that also doesn't exist.

    It's really wack how people are using this in their jobs.

  • We Asked 100+ AI Models to Write Code. The Results: AI-generated Code That Works, But Isn’t Safe

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  • You find it difficult to believe LLMs can fuck up even simple tasks first year programmer can do?

    Did you verify the results in what it gave you? If you're sure it's correct, you got better results than I did.

    Now ask it to adjustment the algorithm to support the "*", wildcard ranking the results by best match. See if what it gives you is the output you'd expect to see.

    Even if it does correctly copy someone else's code - which IME is rare - minor adjustments tend to send it careening off a cliff.

  • We Asked 100+ AI Models to Write Code. The Results: AI-generated Code That Works, But Isn’t Safe

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  • Thanks! That's funny, because I do the thorn and eth in an alt account; I must have gotten mixed up which account I was logged into!

    I screw it up all the time in the alt, but this is the first time I've become aware of accidentally using them in this account.

    We're not too far from AGI. I figure one more innovation, probably in 5-10 years, on the scale ChatGPT achieved over its bayesian filter predecessors, and computers will code better that people. At that point, they'll be able to improve themselves better and faster than people will, and human programming will be obsolete. I figure we have a few more years, though.

  • We Asked 100+ AI Models to Write Code. The Results: AI-generated Code That Works, But Isn’t Safe

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  • That Works

    OK this part is surprising, probably headline-worthy

    Very, and completely non-consistent wiþ my experiences. ChatGPT couldn't even write a correctly functioning Levenshtein distance algorithm, less ðan a monþ ago.

  • When You Build a Robot Smarter than People

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  • Maybe that's the risk. That we design it to be benevolent, but it destroys us through sheer stupidity.

    It's one way to get monkey paw wishes. "AI, solve climate change!" "Ok! Eliminating all humans now!"

  • One of these things is not like the other

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  • Maybe there was no one on the bridge then. Maybe Uhura is always the last off the bridge, except for one shift every 3 years.

    But, that's not true, because she's on the occasional away team in TOS. I just don't recall many scenes where she's not at her post. Now I'll have to go back and find an episode where she's with the away team, and see if they show anyone else at her console. I know she's with the away team in "City on the Edge of Forever." I don't recall that they ever show the bridge after they beam down, though.

  • Home- Daniel Haelend

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  • It would have be clearer written "volo in dumum redire".

  • One of these things is not like the other

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  • I never considered it before, but Uhura is the only bridge crew who never seems to have an off-shift. She's always there, when Kirk comes back from working out, when Sulu gets relieved for a shift change.

    Interesting.

  • The future is NOT Self-Hosted, but Self-Sovereign

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  • This seriously got an out-loud chuckle from me. It's funny, because it's true! Thanks!

  • Devils Panties 07/28/2025

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  • I always imagine it's more likely she's making other people cry. Conservatives have turned out to be the most snowflake of snowflakes.