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TedDallas | 21 days ago | on: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

Microslop? Its more like they are taking a Macro-crap.

TedDallas | 26 days ago | on: First Website (1992)

Ugh, memories. I'm so old my first web browser was Mosaic and I think I saw this. I used a provider called Texas MetroNet that served up dial-up PPP connections for $45 a month on a speedy 28.8K baud modem. Days of wonder, I tell ya.

New days of wonder seem to be ahead, though. That said, there's about 100X more angst involved these days.

TedDallas | 1 month ago | on: Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

On a related note, when the sales and popularity of the automobile really started to take off, some farmers and rural residents would deliberately block roads with wagons and refused to yield right-of-way.

TedDallas | 1 month ago | on: Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking

Per Anthropic’s RCA linked in Ops post for September 2025 issues:

“… To state it plainly: We never reduce model quality due to demand, time of day, or server load. …”

So according to Anthropic they are not tweaking quality setting due to demand.

TedDallas | 4 months ago | on: Is Software the UFOlogy of Engineering Disciplines?

Ask this question in the 1940s and they would tell you it’s math. We are making machines that do math to kill Nazis. Now take this vacuum tube and plug it in over there and then go get me a cigarette.

TedDallas | 4 months ago | on: The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful

Three words to solve this problem: direct mail marketing.

Just kidding, that just goes into my RL trash can.

TedDallas | 5 months ago | on: The security paradox of local LLMs

It is like SQL injection. Probably worse. If you are using unsupervised data for context that ultimately generates executable code you will have this security problem. Duh.

TedDallas | 6 months ago | on: Delphi in the Age of AI

HeidiSQL is written with Lazarus/FPC.

TedDallas | 8 months ago | on: A New Kind of Computer (April 2025)

It was kind or that way in early days of high end personal computing. I remember seeing an ad in the early 90s for a 486 laptop that was $6,000. Historically prices have always gone down. You just have to wait. SoTA is always going to go for a premium.

TedDallas | 9 months ago | on: Human coders are still better than LLMs

Yeah, the problem is if you don't understand the problem space then you are going to lean heavy on the LLM. And that can lead you astray. Which is why you still need people who are experts to validate solutions and provide feedback like Op.

My most productive experiences with LLMs is to have my design well thought out first, ask it to help me implement, and then help me debug my shitty design. :-)

TedDallas | 1 year ago | on: SQL Injection Isn't Dead: Smuggling Queries at the Protocol Level

I’m seriously thinking about getting a custom made bumper sticker with the following text: ‘; select 1/0;

TedDallas | 1 year ago | on: Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely

DRY is more about support and maintenance than anything else.

I see a lot of attacks on DRY these days, and it boggles my mind. Maybe it is being conflated with over-engineering/paramterization/architecting. I don't know.

But I do know that having to fix the same bug twice in the same code base is not a good look.

TedDallas | 2 years ago | on: The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit

Note to self: invest in a used book store ASAP.

TedDallas | 2 years ago | on: C Compiler Assembler and Runtime for C64

I experimented with cc65 and wrote a simple game that ran on my actual C64 hardware. It was a lot of direct memory access, unrolling loops, and avoiding stack usage. A fun time overall, and it ultimately ran smoothly, but I see do why people who attempt anything serious on a C64 tend to focus on using ASM.

TedDallas | 2 years ago | on: Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards

OK MS. The first thing I'll do is rebind it to run llamafile.exe

TedDallas | 2 years ago | on: Nineteenth century scientists set out to solve the "problem of American storms"

That is correct. I have lived in Tornado Alley for a half century. Serious tornadoes have landed all over my local area over the years, but I have also never even seen so much as a funnel cloud. They can be devastating though, but are also very localized and do not last long. That said, I do take tornado alerts seriously.

TedDallas | 2 years ago | on: Humans are biased. Generative AI is even worse

The thing about learning in general is that it inherently introduces biases. I imagine you could train up a genocidal maniac LLM with the right data sets.

TedDallas | 2 years ago | on: Publishing my first game using PICO-8

Tic-80 is what you are looking for.

TedDallas | 2 years ago | on: Low-Code Programming Models

Low code has been a thing in ETL data integration space for a long time. Anecdotally the most consternation I have experienced lately has been supporting buggy low code implementations which seem to becoming worse and not better over the last 20 years or so.

TedDallas | 2 years ago | on: ERNIE, China's ChatGPT, cracks under pressure

Ernie stating Nixon as its favorite president is not really surprising. This is a common opinion among those in mainland PRC. Nixon and Kissinger are perceived as good guys that helped open up China to the West. When I have asked people in the PRC about Watergate, the common response is that the Watergate break-in was an internal issue for the US to deal with.