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> Reddit started ignoring subreddit subscriptions

Where are you seeing this? When? I go to "Home" and I only see my subscriptions.

I have a cosmetic filter to avoid clicking on the "Popular" link but I never see anything from the front page that's not part of my subreddits. I don't use the app.

There is a short term vs long term gain aspect to this.

For me programming was never only about creating the thing but also about becoming better at design and problem solving. So I'm still doing things mostly by hand to get these benefits. I'll use the LLM as a brainstorm partner.

It's like when I'm trying to learn a foreign language. Asking the AI for a translation of a paragraph is the easy shortcut but you know it's not going to help in the long run. It's better to manually look in the dictionary or look for real-world usage, or even ask the AI to explain the grammar, the effort itself is what helps crystallize the knowledge.

This approach won't be intuitive for the next generation. But LLMs can definitely be used to teach you how to do things instead of doing the things for you. We need to educate people about how to use them a way that make them better rather than simply delegate thinking.

Same experience and I do work (remotely) for a US company. We aren't allowed to have non-local LLMs touch the whole codebase of the product so we still code many things by hand.

The "I haven't written or read code in a year" experience is not universal.

And I also have roughly the same approach for my own projects. I use LLMs to brainstorm design, algorithms, data structures, maybe have it spit out small building blocks in isolation, but I'm still very much in control and owning every line.

Many people derive joy and purpose in being useful to others.

This is not a critique of LLMs, it's just the new state of affairs that since people can more easily solve their own problems it has somehow become more difficult to be helpful to others.

For many hobby open source developers the reward and motivation was simply random people saying thank you.

You can do that right now in ChatGPT? Every answer has a "Branch in new chat" button. You can go back to any point and branch again.

A Canadian politician did this during a speech in front of the house/parliament or whatever. In the middle of the speech the LLM wrote "Here's a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech" and he read it verbatim and then continued on, not even realizing what he just read.

The markers aren't words that you can sprinkle in your prose, they are a statistical bias in the selection of the words.

I think they mean it like this: imagine you ask me a random number sequence. I give you a random number sequence. Little did you know, I used a very specific PRNG to generate it, so later I can prove with certainty that your number was generated by me, and you can't say you came up with it yourself.

There is no room for false positive here in the same way you can't randomly find a collision in a hash function if it's strong enough. Like the rate is so infinitesimal that it is effectively zero.

Now replace random number sequence with prompted string of words. And instead of using the PRNG on every word I use it every n words. If the generated text is sufficiently long I can tell by matching the expected deterministic pattern.

You can defeat it by changing the words yourself and triggering a false negative but there isn't really any room for a false positive if the text is long enough and the pattern matches perfectly. If the pattern doesn't match then I can compute a probability.

LLMs can be very good at 2. Finding the best architecture, data structures, algorithms, looking on arXiv to see other ways to solve the problem, etc.

You have to work in design mode and stop it from pissing code. Describe the requirements as detailed as possible and refine them based on the responses. It's quite rewarding and helps structure the way you think about the problem.

What do you mean you don't remember, your repo is from 8 months ago, this release is from 18 hours ago. And how does "Gemini couldn't get it to work" translate to "it's broken"? It sounds like your vibe-coding session didn't work first try and you haven't tried to understand what the problem was.

You could also look at other repos in github to see what they do to do the same task.

It's used by most users, that's what they are saying, it doesn't matter that the file format is obscure.

If you make a video player based on ffmpeg you take input videos. The attacker can share a specially crafted video with the victim. Same kind of attack as sharing word documents.

Just a point about precision, Google Maps fire overlay is based on NASA Firms + some processing, and it's not perfectly accurate.

It is currently marking my little town as under fire / burned down, but it's not and hasn't been so far. (north west front of the fire, next to the lake). It looks like their contouring algorithm is very greedy and any hot spot marked in the past few days has become part of their fire perimeter.

The massive fire clouds probably contribute to the difficulty of measuring ground temperature from satellite.

How interesting I was just reading yesterday his paper "An enduring error" about how we have been miscounting the Archimedean solids for two thousand years.

But also, for this conjecture to be wrong is quite surprising to me. Intuitively I would think any convex polygon to be topologically equivalent to a circle, and any convex n-gon should be deformable into its regular version, then back to the other one…

As you may have guessed, it's Latin.

> doesn't do anything but make your life harder.

No it also encourages the local market and healthy competition. This way in the future we don't fall into the same enshittification trap.