Ycros

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/ycros; my proof: https://keybase.io/ycros/sigs/cuLqxgL7QjI1z1Y57c5g4StpVLi0Wk46GPi0YBs-fuU ]
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Comment · 20 days ago
Right, I guess I didn't notice the text "No SoundFont installed - load a plugin to hear the song".

Readme looks much better now.

Comment · 20 days ago
Mmm, the readme is an impenetrable unorganised wall of text that jumps between broad high level things, and tiny intricate internal technical details.

All in all this feels a bit early to really show off. A recorded demo video would be good. Also, imo, the demo song should be setup in a way that it just plays out of the box.

Comment · 2 months ago
what has the world come to when people beg for stars on github
Comment · 2 months ago
Ah, see, if I was on the phone to someone administering a list, and I asked, "is it possible to move me to the top of the list?" - I would expect them to action that if this was a reasonable and possible request that I had made. Now that I'm thinking about it, I don't know if that's a regional/cultural thing (I am Australian).

edit: and that's why I read Andrew's ask as also implying action.

Comment · 2 months ago
Sure, it's pen testing behaviour. It's also debugging behaviour which is a core part of coding. In my experience, I have found myself at times dealing with and interacting with external systems that are not my own, where I don't have the source, or are under-documented, or are behaving contrary to the documentation. I'm unsurprised this is a core thing they're training these models for, because it's something I find way more valuable than their below average coding ability.
Comment · 2 months ago
I've read some of the comments here, and it seems people have different reads on whether Andrew was at fault here or not, and what his intent may have been.

My read is that his first request is completely reasonable and there was no intent of wrongdoing. But then, his AI agent made an impossible booking and he "asked if it was possible to move him to the top of the list". I don't think someone would make a request like that, if they were unaware that their AI agent had found an exploit to make an earlier impossible booking. It feels very much like a, "well, this API let me do this, what else will it let me do?" kind of request. And then he only "did the right thing" when it had turned out he had booted someone else, which might eventually lead to discovery.

Comment · 2 months ago
"I wonder if the training ... is going to bleed over into the non-coding use cases"

I mean, isn't that literally what's going on here? I don't think a non-coding agent would have ever been optimised to go dig around APIs, it'd be computer/browser-use forward.

Comment · 2 months ago
It feels like Cloudflare keeps inserting itself in between everything, everywhere it can. So convenient you'll middleman yourself. I do not like this.
Comment · 3 months ago
midwit meme, but both ends are just "a pile of .md files in a synced directory somewhere"
Comment · 4 months ago
I mean, assuming you're on tmux 3.6 or newer, try setting `set -g mouse on` in your tmux conf, then scrolling should just work. Should it be a default? Maybe. (edit: also lets you click on panes, adjust splits, etc.)
Comment · 7 months ago
if you look at the last few weeks of commits, you can see they've been systematically ripping out everything bun-specific and moving to node
Comment · 7 months ago
How can you possibly make any informed statement about the solutions AI generates for you if you don't understand them?
Comment · 9 months ago
I use tmux, I have this exact same bug in tmux. It's part of why I use OpenCode and not Claude Code.
Comment · 10 months ago
Yes, we should archive everything. And we should perhaps reform IP more broadly and re-think how we treat our culture. And we shouldn't expect retaliation.

But retaliation will happen, and I worry that it's going to pull down one of the most incredible archives along with it.

Comment · 10 months ago
yeah no shit, this is what happens when you agitate the major music record labels - it's going to get worse

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