The latter. I mean, I feel like a disproportionate number of folks who hang around here have that kind of disposition.
That just turns out to be the kind of person who likes to be around me, and I around them. It’s something I wish I had been more deliberate about cultivating earlier in my life, but not the sort of thing I regret.
In my case that’s a lot of artists/writers/hackers, a fair number of clergy, and people working in service to others. People quietly doing cool stuff in boring or difficult places… people whose all-out sprints result in ambiguity or failure at least as often as they do success. Very few rich people, very few who seek recognition.
The flip side is that neither I nor my social circles are all that good at consistency—but we all kind of expect and tolerate that about each other. And there’s lots of “normal” stuff I’m not part of, which I probably could have been if I had tried. I don’t know what that means to the business-minded people around here, but I imagine it includes things like corporate and nonprofit boards, attending sports events in stadia, whatever golf people do, retail politics, Society Clubs For Respectable People, “Summering,” owning rich people stuff like a house or a car—which is fine with me!
Well, no one prevents to develop and distribute plugins for IntelliJ, there's even Plugin DevKit. I bet Jetbrains would welcome it. Not sure Google could do anything there.
I'm curious about this. I'm familiar with reversing http api calls using a mitm proxy. But this ain't that.
Are they able to load a .so/dylib file during runtime and just call a method on it as long as they know the name of the method? How does iOS even allow that? How does an iOS even get to load those files? Seems like that would be locked down.
> Are they able to load a .so/dylib file during runtime and just call a method on it as long as they know the name of the method?
Yes, usually that's the entire point of an .so/.dylib/.dll - to load it and call it's functions by name?
> How does iOS even allow that? How does an iOS even get to load those files? Seems like that would be locked down.
Because it's something that higher level apple interfaces might rely on. It's not a security issue in the first place - if you submit an app obviously using them the message you get is:
> The use of non-public APIs is not permitted on the App Store because it can lead to a poor user experience should these APIs change.
Man, this is gonna reveal some ignorance. But here goes. Please correct me where I'm wrong
.so/.dylib/.dll's typically get linked at load time, right? Like we aren't all manually loading dylibs in our source code. I guess I'm surprised on a platform as locked down as ios that they even allow you to link anything at run time.
chatgpt gives me this snippet but I have no way of knowing if this is roughly how it would look.
Class SBApplication = objc_getClass("SBApplication");
SEL launchSel = sel_registerName("launch");
id app = [SBApplication getAppWithBundleID:@"com.example.app"];
You can put in an autoload section and the runtime linker will load it for you, but you absolutely can load a DLL and its symbol names at runtime. Usually this is done for boring reasons like compatibility with multiple versions of an external library.
Depends what you're trying to do, light weight bio weapons are pretty easy to make, not an expert but there is ammonia and chlorine that can be used easily. I presume cytotoxins are among the easier of the "bad ones", but the precursors are monitored. that said, I think the risk here isn't about teaching people how to make the stuff we know about, it's about inventing new stuff we've not thought about?
Then you have to boot it up. Bio equivalent of putting the lightning in the rock (semiconductors). The DNA is like the lightning (like the code) the rock is the biological system you drop it into to run it. Booting viruses is not super easy.
> LLMs and the rest of AI today are still not good enough to do any useful work, so it's all going down the same path as VR/AR
As a former AR/VR dev, this is a wild take to me. Have you used cursor? Have you ever had to write copyright for a website? Have you ever tried to learn something new or ideate with chatgpt?
When I was working on immersive apps, I would only ever pick up my device to do dev work. Very rarely would I pick it up outside of that (admittedly, I'm not really a gamer). But I use these new generation of AI tools many times a day.
I have. I tried LLMs for creative writing, it was shit. I tried using them for translation, it went off the rails within the first page, then refused to continue. I tried using them to write code, I got an ethics lecture or a perfectly testable code that does not what I asked for. I got tired of trying different LLMs as it makes no sense to waste time and money on this shit. AI companies are the most incompetent IP thieves, they steal content and can't produce anything of value with it.
I think my previous comment came off a little combative. I am genuinely curious about your experience.
I fall somewhere in the indie-hacker/entrepreneur/not quite solo-preneur category and these tools have have provided a lot of value to me. I am maybe 3x more productive with them. They are definitely not without their flaws.
If you haven't tried cursor out, I recommend giving it a try
To me AI is like an Ouija board. It works if you believe it works, and if you doubt it it falls completely flat. However it's not magic, I think it's something self-fulfilling in the phrasing. If you approach it with suspicion and prompt it to 'see if it can', the model will auto-complete itself into failure. If you take a sunny, optimistic approach, the auto-complete grants your wish.
It's also just straight up non-deterministic like a roulette wheel, and some people get 100 jackpots in a row (this sucked me in at first, believing the world was about to change) and some people run out of luck so quickly they never got to feel the magic. On average its just OK and kind of annoying and not worth $20/month.
Yeah agreed, it s not garbage garbage it's just silly and useless, and all I can think is "meh". I really find it incredible they call those token generators "AI"
