DeepSeek at home: None

There’s a saying in Mandarin that translates to something like: Being in different professions is like being on opposite sides of a mountain. It basically means you can never fully understand a given profession unless you’re actually doing it.

A door with the best lock possible is still not as secure as no door at all

LLMs can’t even stay on topic when specifically being asked to solve one problem.

This happens to me all the damn time:

I paste a class that references some other classes which I have already tested to be working, my problem is in a specific method that doesn’t directly call on any of the other classes. I tell the LLM specifically which method is not working, I also tell it that I have tested all the other methods and they work as intended (complete with comments documenting what they’re supposed to do). I then ask the LLM to only focus on the method I have specified, and it still goes on about “have you implemented all the other classes this class references? Here’s my shitty implementation of those classes instead.”

So then I paste all the classes that the one I’m asking about depends on, reiterate that all of them have been tested and are working, tell the LLM which method has the problem again, and it still decides that my problem must be in the other classes and starts “fixing” them which 9 out of 10 times is just rearranging the code that I already wrote and fucking up the organisation that I had designed.

It’s somewhat useful for searching for well-known example code using natural language, i.e. “How do I open a network socket using Rust,” or if your problem is really simple. Maybe it’s just the specific LLM I use, but in my experience it can’t actually problem solve better than humans.

Windows is malware. If you give the slightest shit about your privacy, switch ASAP

Assembly, LLVM IR, etc

  File "<python-input-0>", line 2, in a
    a()
    ~^^
  [Previous line repeated 988 more times]
RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

Microsoft really creating the problem and then forcing you to use their solution.

For real

Boo

The name is an insult to the people who write software for vibrators.

Where app data is stored.

~/.local

~/.config

~/.var

~/.appname

Sometimes more than one place for the same program

Pick one and stop cluttering my home directory

I already have a pixel. Is it just as easy as installing Lineage OS on the phone?

Archives in case they delete it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250115165213/https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503

https://archive.is/lBQd8