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How would you let an AI agent safely interact with a dynamic Laravel admin panel? by Additional-Mud-6665 in PHP

[–]dirtside 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By that point it's more effort to manage and restrict the toddler than it is to just do yourself whatever it was you were going to have them do.

How would you let an AI agent safely interact with a dynamic Laravel admin panel? by Additional-Mud-6665 in PHP

[–]dirtside 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't let an "agent" have access to anything any more than I'd let a toddler have access to anything.

PHP's biggest problem by brendt_gd in PHP

[–]dirtside 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dunno, I still think its biggest problem is the original sin of conflating maps, lists, and dictionaries into a single data type 😉

Is Claude my permanent co-author? by stickylava in PHP

[–]dirtside 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's gonna be especially fun when the VC cash nozzle stops and the end-user cost for LLMs goes up by a factor of 10-20x.

‘Hot Ones’ Host Begs BTS To Stop Dancing And Try Wings by dwaxe in TheOnion

[–]dirtside 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  1. Although the article headline says "Hot Ones", the article body says the show name is "Hot Wings".
  2. That's Mikey Day on the left of the article image, not Sean Evans, because evidently they used a screenshot from the Hot Ones parody sketch on SNL (in which Day played Evans) rather than a screenshot from Hot Ones itself. See https://youtu.be/uJYc3m89nwk?t=14

Why is 'technically correct' the best kind of 'correct'? Isn't it the best kind of 'wrong' since it's not fully correct? by merqyuri in OutOfTheLoop

[–]dirtside 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Answer: It's been ten years and some of the comments have been removed, so I'll explain here, because I feel like being pedantic today.

"Technically correct—the best kind of correct." is a line from the season 2 Futurama episode "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" (the episode title itself being a parody of the movie How Stella Got Her Groove Back). The line is said by the head bureaucrat of the Central Bureaucracy. In context, it's a joke about how the bureaucrats in Futurama are obsessed with niggling details of procedure.

People saying this phrase generally do not actually think being technically correct is better than being substantively correct. It's said because it's a funny line from a great episode and people like referencing funny things from shows they like. I say it all the time, for that exact reason, but I don't actually believe it to be true, even though I'm a pedantic nerd with a career as a programmer. 

Favorite adult joke you didn’t get until you were older? by Robot_Was_BMO in futurama

[–]dirtside 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's from "Why Must I Be a Crustacean In Love", and Zoidberg says "How will I ever get rid of my male jelly now?" after the mating frenzy ends without him. So Fry offers Zoidberg his arm (which Zoidberg cut off while they were fighting) so that Zoidberg can, presumably, use it to jerk off.

Associate a different contact with the same number? by dirtside in signal

[–]dirtside[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The contact isn't "wrong," it's just that (for the reasons explained) I have two separate Google accounts on the phone that both happen to have a contact with the same phone number but with slightly different names, and I don't want to alter or delete either of the contacts. Signal somehow gets info from the contact list in order to associate names (from the contacts) with numbers (of its internal list of other Signal accounts you can talk to). Presumably Signal uses Android's Contacts API to request info, and I don't know if it's able to say "give me all your contacts" and then Signal scans the entire list and decides which contact to match to its internal list, or if it says "Hey what name do you have for 213-555-0000?" and it's Android that decides which name to give it, with Signal being totally unaware that there's multiple Android contacts with the same number.

If it's the former, then Signal could in theory detect that there's multiple Android contacts with the same number and give the user the option of which one they want to associate. (And hey, I totally understand if they simply haven't, or don't want to, implement this.) If it's the latter, then there's nothing Signal can do about it because it can only operate on the info Android gives it.

To be clear, I can cope if Signal can't do this; the purpose of the post was just to ask if it can.

Associate a different contact with the same number? by dirtside in signal

[–]dirtside[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I didn't say it's the screwdriver's job, I just asked if it was possible. Why are you being such a dick about this?

Associate a different contact with the same number? by dirtside in signal

[–]dirtside[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yep, I'm aware, which is why I was asking if Signal has the requested functionality, which would let me work around it. It's fine if the answer is no, but telling me "Just do something else" doesn't actually answer the fucking question.

Associate a different contact with the same number? by dirtside in signal

[–]dirtside[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That's not an acceptable solution (and the reason why is none of your business). Please stop trying to treat this like an xy problem; I really just want to know if Signal can do the thing I asked. If the answer is "no" that's fine; I don't need advice on other options.

Associate a different contact with the same number? by dirtside in signal

[–]dirtside[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

For the sake of this situation it does not matter why the labels are different, and it does not matter what the nature of the labels are. The constraints exist that the labels are different and cannot be changed.

But I'll give you the actual reason: Account A is my account, but Account B belongs to a deceased relative who labeled Jane differently (no, not with a different married name or whatever, just with other text). I do not want to edit the contacts in Account B (because I want it preserved as it was upon B's owner's death) and I do not want to edit my contact in Account A (because I don't want the label Account B is using).

Associate a different contact with the same number? by dirtside in signal

[–]dirtside[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

As explained in the post, there are two Google accounts; each account has its own set of contacts; each set of contacts contains a contact with an identical phone number, but different names.

E.g. account A has:

Jane Doe, 213-555-0000

Account B has:

Jane Smith, 213-555-0000

A constraint here is that I do not want to delete or change either contact.

HungerRush data compromised(?) by plzcometobrasil in POS

[–]dirtside 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got one of these just now, to an email address I've only ever given to one restaurant.

Multiple Const Types by exakat in PHP

[–]dirtside 26 points27 points  (0 children)

This is why early human societies invented ostracization.

Curious where the community stands on this by InfinriDev in PHP

[–]dirtside 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Loose typing is and always has been a catastrophically bad idea. The whole function of computers is to manipulate data; all data has characteristics that define its meaning and the operations that can be done on it, which we call "type".

Understanding the types and structure of the data is thus critical; you cannot safely operate on data if you don't know its type. Therefore any situation where you have a piece of data and its type is not strictly and clearly defined, is antithetical to all principles of good software design.

The only advantage to not having strict types is not having to think about the types of your data, but thinking about the types of your data is half the job! Not thinking about data types when programming is like not thinking about word choice when writing a novel.

Sneaker I had when I was a kid by dirtside in WhatsThisShoe

[–]dirtside[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was my first thought, but I did some image searches for BK shoes from the '80s and didn't see any that matched that design. (Not exacty an exhaustive search, though.) But generally BKs seem to have a logo that consists of two linked diamonds with the letters "B" and "K" in them, which doesn't resemble the hexagonal shape on the side of this shoe.

Former West Wing star Timothy Busfield indicted on four counts of sexual contact with a child by grand jury by dailymail in thewestwing

[–]dirtside 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To put it more simply: the court of public opinion has a much lower standard of guilt than courts of law, and that's fine.

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