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New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

SadWebDeveloper — Sun, 17 May 2026 05:42:24 +0000

Kinda FUD article... the reality is that common problems are going to be easy because the solution is probably inside the training dataset, the challenge should be adapted to make LLM's useless for example once at Defcon CTF the problems were for an unknown CPU architecture based on octal that required to write even your own disassembler... this are the kind of things that will probably be hard for frontier LLM's

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "“Car Wash” test with 53 models"

SadWebDeveloper — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 05:53:57 +0000

There are no contextual bias, the goal of the prompt is very explicit and not about probabilistic patterns, but about the models transformer layers dynamically assigning greater weight to words like "meters" (distance) than to other tokens in the prompt.

This should be fixed in the reasoning layer (the inner thoughts or chain-of-thought) were the model should focus on the goal "I Want to Wash My Car" not the distance and assign the correct weight to the tokens.

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "C –> Java != Java –> LLM"

SadWebDeveloper — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 05:31:00 +0000

This is another pointless article about LLM's... vibe coding is the present not the future, the only sad part of all of it is that LLM's is killing something important: code documentation.

Every single documentation out there for new libs is AI generated and that is feed again into LLMs with MCP/Skills servers, the age of the RTFM gang is over sigh

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "CSS Hell"

SadWebDeveloper — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 05:15:43 +0000

I didn't understand what is the point of the first challenge? anyone care to explain me what is the objective/task because there are just two circles and basically no instructions, kinda feels like a real job (lol)

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "We are moving to General Availability"

SadWebDeveloper — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:16:01 +0000

I'm a full stack developer and still don't know what supabase does other than being a firebase replacement...

Like seriously are they seriously trying to sell us how difficult is to setup a simple nginx server? Not sarcastic just an old developer that hasn't get this new fad of going "serverless".

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "TwitchAdSolutions – Blocking Twitch Ads"

SadWebDeveloper — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:01:24 +0000

Yes but their primary target audience is... Teens and young adults and maybe some p.dos looking for "ASMR sutff" if you now what i mean.

What that target audience have in common... tons on times and low to zero income, so since they have time to spend trying to not pay because they don't have money to begin with, then it will happen.

Twitch is betting on having a "YouTube moment", when those teens and young adults become adults with real money, they would love to avoid the hassle of going ad-free for 10 bucks a month because they love the content that is there, so for them would be at max 1 hour of their total income, meanwhile it has to stuck taking the loses till that moment happen.

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "I don't think the cheapest APC Back-UPS units can be monitored except in Windows"

SadWebDeveloper — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 15:57:22 +0000

I have a BR700G it works flawlessly with apcupsd, minimal to no configuration... the cheap units of APC is for really really desperate consumers, the battery didn't last more than a year from my experience like the BR* ones that usually last 3 years, these lines is the better of the both worlds cheap and sophisticated enough to work "smart" but as expensive as the SMT/SMC units.

Also like everyone say... remember to look for pure sine wave output if you are going to "protect" servers, for network equipment you could use the pwm based ones.

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "Neovide – A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim"

SadWebDeveloper — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 15:57:48 +0000

Only if you have carpal tunnel problems or painful arthritis, it will make you happy and as productive as a normal developer with vs/vscode/jetbrains/etc

The amount of time you need setup *vim in order to make it a useful editor is not justified, i have seen people waste weeks on it and the only reason is if you have a condition that vim helps to masquerade.

Personally m waiting to get enough money to justify a kinesis keyboard, that will the only reason to improve my neovim knowledge... as for the moment the vim keybindings for vscode are as good as neovim.

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "How to learn chess as an adult (2021)"

SadWebDeveloper — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:00:11 +0000

You are not getting the point... it is not about the ratings or win ratio, is about how fast you can climb the ladder to 1200 elo (like OP suggested) from 100 at chesscom/liches, 9 months is unrealistic without paying the "pay-to-win" fee, 2 years is more realistic timeframe to get that elo.

If you are think m wrong go start a free account and prove me wrong, you have less than 9 months to go up to 1500 elo.

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "How to learn chess as an adult (2021)"

SadWebDeveloper — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 21:09:47 +0000

Thats what my chess teacher used to put me in their local chess club tournaments, in order to get a FIDE Elo, i would have need to go (on that time 1995~1999) to official tournaments and that was expensive for a rural area...

M not saying m on the level of masters but definitely not a newbie... either way i don't need proof just go to chesscom, open a new free account and start grinding... you are gonna see fast the pattern on how the platform gets you engaged but you need to look careful, it entices you with free wins before going hard on you, having three to five games a day was the eureka moment to get good ratings... either go slow or pay premium to get an edge on the game and preferred match making.

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "How to learn chess as an adult (2021)"

SadWebDeveloper — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 20:14:50 +0000

Learned chess while young... elo around 1200~1500, pickup the game at 2023 because everyone has been talking about chess, maybe related to the netflix series but since i don't have netflix account and couldn't care to watch about a young-love drama series with chess around it, it wasn't the main motive.

Anyway opened a chesscom account, i got completly destroyed by online people, elo 100 according to chesscom, move to bots could beat 1200 up to 1500 elo eaisly... decided to give a try to online matches again destroyed but then started to find the pattern...

chesscom free account give me "three fair matches" that i could win to engage me in the platform, then it pairs me with either bots, 3-second chess engine cheaters or chess streamers playing with smurfs accounts, these pattern repeat almost every time sometimes is three, other times is four even five, if i play three games on 1 day the next day i would have another "three fair matches" and so on... so whats my point?

Unless you are paying good money for the subcription you are pretty much "meat canon" for others, the same applies to lichess... if you play 3 games a day for at least 2 years months you could get the 1200 elo, if you pay-to-win or pay the premium you would likely reach that 1000 elo more eaisly because is convenient for them to no match you against known cheaters on the platform...

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "Django 5.0"

SadWebDeveloper — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 16:57:50 +0000

IMHO... Django hold a high standard in terms for projects running beyond the infamous 5+ years of support... still have some projects that with minimal changes (mostly configs and dependencies that got redundant/integrated into django -like choices-) are working with the latest version, surely 5.0 will not be that drastic if you are already doing software "the django way".

Things that are Django achilles heel are not developing software "the django way", mostly anything that needs some client-side to work is a PITA, requires lots of rewriting and custom templates that at some point you gotta start looking django as a backend more like the full stack framework that was meant to be. Also anything related onto getting things to production is another PITA that hasn't been solved or touched in years, dx deployment is one of those things almost any JS Framework out there is doing things better than what django supports.

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "GitHub Copilot loses an average of $20 per user per month"

SadWebDeveloper — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 21:44:56 +0000

are we talking about copilot or chatgpt? chatgpt4 provides more value than copilot since i can use it for other things, copilot is just for "code" and doesn't provide any value other than autocomplete prediction to me...

Maybe if you are website designer... ohh m sorry i should say the modern way website designers call themselves today "frontend engineer", maybe if you are a designer it could help you with all the boilerplate your react/astro/svelte requires just to add a

with two columns.

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "GitHub Copilot loses an average of $20 per user per month"

SadWebDeveloper — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:56:14 +0000

Maybe if you live around the bay area where you get paid absurd money by the hour for a job that can be done overseas for 10 bucks, outside or the rest of the world that 100 usd is per week tops, thats way too much i would pay for service that only barely helps my in my day to day...

If you need to constantly use chatgpt/copilot to do your job properly, maybe its time to learn something else because your job will be automated sooner or later, what will be more cheaper a 100/hr or the 20/month service.

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "GitHub Copilot loses an average of $20 per user per month"

SadWebDeveloper — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 15:39:25 +0000

I would gladly pay for copilot 5 USD a month (its an specific use case IA), but the current price point 20 month is incredible expensive it only add costs if the developer you are hiring requires it to properly function... thats the only value it adds.

IMHO If you are a code monkey copilot makes you a 5x developer, 10x if you have 5+ years of experience on the business

Maybe selling tokens/search could be benefitial for copilot, like only pay for what i use will be an interesting approach.

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "JavaScript Gom Jabbar"

SadWebDeveloper — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 18:49:52 +0000

And thats why it isn't worth, you are adding complexity to a problem that doesn't need to be complex, jsDoc is the best of both worlds, type safety, zero complexity and it works with typescript (if you still really want to use it).

Personally i think typescript isn't going to be around much time on the frontend side, maybe on the backend by some people that still believe in adding another compiler layer to their build time.

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "JavaScript Gom Jabbar"

SadWebDeveloper — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 17:01:09 +0000

When you want to integrate a javascript module that isn't annotated with types... types in a dynamic language like javascript are complex once you start doing really abstract things like generics the fun of typescript ends, also there is a recent push to abandon typescript mostly fueled by svelte fan base but nevertheless typescript is really complex, easy to shotgun yourself.

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "JavaScript Gom Jabbar"

SadWebDeveloper — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:54:45 +0000

Depends a lot on what you are doing but mostly stylelint is the one that make me look on configuring eslint/stylelint for prettier...

https://prettier.io/docs/en/integrating-with-linters.html

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "JavaScript Gom Jabbar"

SadWebDeveloper — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:27:54 +0000

> 1. Use npm.

Better use pnpm, faster for those that don't have 1 Gbps uplink and live outside the usa.

> 3. Use Typescript

Better use jsDoc, d.ts files are scary and are really complex, you need a typescript wizard la matt pollock just to tell you are mistakenly trying to concatenate a string and int.

> 5. Use prettier

yes use prettier but don't forget to configure eslint to work with prettier otherwise you are going to have a bad time.

> 6. Use react

Use whatever fits your problem but if you are going to really use rect then do it with Next.js, no point in still using CRA/CRACO

> 7. state management

Avoid using state, try to solve every problem with pure functions, if you must use state then consider redux/react-query

> 8 & 9.

You should still recommend stylelint, specially if you are going to write css by hand otherwise don't just use tailwind, tailwind is bootstrap with extra batteries (change my mind).

New comment by SadWebDeveloper in "VanJS (Vanilla JavaScript): smallest reactive UI framework"

SadWebDeveloper — Thu, 25 May 2023 15:33:34 +0000

You have pretty much described the "php way" of developing things, is funny js-driking cool-aid guys talk about "SSR" being the thing to have, when we already had that, we already found that it can't scale without lots of money and started pushing computation to the client and now we are bring them back because it's not fast on the initial load...

damned we have come to full circle whats next, an assembly language so we can run binary code inside the browser kinda the way activex and applets just used do it... wait isn't that the whole point webassembly? sight you f** javascript developers have done it again sight