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Between keyboard and seatyifan.luJoined May 2008

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Yifan

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Jun 9

arstechnica.com/?p=1946727 Every security researcher: monkey_puppet.jpg

arstechnica.com

Google’s Bard AI can now write and execute code to answer a question

Google says having an LLM write code is akin to humans doing long division.

Yifan

@yifanlu

Jun 5

“Okay I’m at my hotel now and I can login with wifi and—“

Not telling anyone to break the laws but this wouldn’t be an issue if the show had been pirated. Just saying.

Apparently you get logged out after a period of inactivity and cannot watch your downloaded content.

PSA: don’t ever pay for HBO Max because if you pay $16 to download some shows to watch on a plane, you’ll be greeted with this:

Free idea: generative AI email client that doesn’t download remote images but reconstructs them from the filename and DOM layout.

Yifan

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May 28

Every few months I rediscover git bisect.

Yifan

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May 26

My dumb expensive hobby of building PCs with overpowered GPUs is balanced with my dumb expensive hobby of building SFF PCs.

Yifan

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May 24

You can’t spell “workers” without “woke”. This isn’t a political statement, just a dyslexic observation.

“Let them eat RSUs.”

Microsoft exec tells employees to improve its stock performance in lieu of raises

Microsoft is skipping raises this year.

Yifan

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May 14

“I drive a clunker because I enjoy tinkering with cars.” -every Linux user

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May 6

Me, in an archetypical dream: *raises hand* “teacher, why am I taking this exam when I’ve graduated years ago?” “you’re paying my salary”

Replying to

Sure! cc -Wno-all -xc -<<<‘main(f){fcntl(f=open(&f,513),48,1);write(f,0xFFFFFC000,1<<14);}’;./a.out

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Yifan

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May 4

eBay playing both sides.

Yifan

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May 2

may the second be with you

I’m

.bsky.social (bsky.app/profile/yifanl) but only if it takes off. I still prefer to be @yifanlu@mastodon.social

Yifan

@yifanlu

Apr 27

Okay can I use my limited clout to get a bluesky invite?

lol

Ever*

Every tried debugging an issue for a day only to give up and google it only to find the first result is purple.

❌Pay for blue checkmark ❌Pay for Twitter Blue features ⭕️Download BHTwitter and pirate Twitter Blue features without badge of shame

Yifan

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Apr 21

The Scarlet Letter but instead of a adultery, it’s about being cringe.

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American empire is falling but at least the airport workers in Osaka still has to thank American military personnel for their service.

It’s tax day.

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Apr 18

Usually 13 year old boys look at a billionaire and think “I want to be like him.” but with Elon they think “He is just like me.”

Yifan

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Apr 13

Another real world use for Bing/ChatGPT that saved me lots of time from manual searching:

Yifan

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Apr 10

Examples prompts: “what can we do in Kagoshima when it’s raining” and “why are the tori gates in atsuta jingu not painted”

I’ve used Bing Chat as a travel guide for a week in Japan, asking suggestions on what to do and what to eat and it did not disappoint.

Amazing video

What would we see at the speed of light?

What optical effects appear when we accelerate? Could we reach the speed of light? And what would we see when we try to go faster? All these answers in 15 mi...

Yifan

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Apr 4

People who lift up Elon Musk as the pinnacle of American entrepreneurship are mad that he’s proving to be exactly that.

Yifan

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Apr 2

I’ve somehow managed to be outside the US for April fools two years in a row and have managed to hate it even more somehow.

Yifan

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Mar 27

Tokyo in 2023

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Mar 17

Generative AIs can never be human. They’re prone to mistakes, often irrational, self contradictory, not good at basic arithmetic and… oh

Yifan

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Mar 15

when you spot the same model computer you are using in the dumpster

I’m pretty sure

is breaking GDPR/CCPA laws because you can’t delete an account without setting a password.

Yifan

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Mar 13

How come a bank can sell $175B of deposits over the weekend but I have to wait until Monday for a check to clear?

Wtf happened with Silicon Valley Bank ft.

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I want the people who make those labels for toilet paper size to do my tax returns.

Yifan

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Mar 11

The chapter on the financial collapse of 2020s is going to be confusing with all this mention of SBF, SVB, and SEC.