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Same, and it led me discover there was already a wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-complete

What I didn’t like about this series of books was choosing “garbage collection” as umbrella term for both tracing GC and reference counting, without verifying if programming commun…

Because the most important parts of the expertise are coming from their internal "world model" and are inseparable from it. An average unaware person believes that anything can be …

macOS and Windows both used to allow running arbitrary binaries from a web page. Linux GUI users get away purely because it’s unpopular target for as scammers, once naive grandmas …

A simple answer is that they see neither. What they think they see is actually a short snapshot of North Korean life with a red circle, a red arrow and a red caption text that says…

This is indeed interesting because rotating 2D screen is not necessarily the same type of brain processing as experiencing things fly around you. Even VR is not necessarily the sam…

Normally I cringe at doomsday preppers but given how many dictators out there love the idea to cut their country off Internet whenever anything starts going not in their favor, I i…

I can speak for myself: when I ask if the shiny side reflects the heat better, I don't mean to also ask if the difference is significant. It's really just curiosity, whether my sch…

I personally reported that around time when Mac OS X 10.9 (first non-cat) came out and immediately saw it marked as duplicate. So at least 13 years and counting.

Imagine being a person like me who has always been expressing himself like that. Using em dash, too. LLMs didn’t randomly invent their own unique style, they learned it from books.…

Agree, to me this "research" is like proving grocery stores are vulnerable to theft by sending students to shoplift. If review process guaranteed that vulnerabilities can't pass, w…

Having created 100 of nano-sized projects does not add up to having developed and maintained one large code base. Coding agents are eating up programming from the lowest end, start…

I feel like many people in the comments aren't aware that Karpathy is an ML scientist for whom programming is a complementary skill, not a profession. The only reason he came up wi…

A great opportunity to bring up that a robot that operates 100% locally and is located within Bluetooth range has never needed a cloud account, has never had to become unavailable …

I am really surprised how well AI excuse works, most journalists just take CEO words as is, and make no effort to assess: is that even credible? Obviously layoffs correlate with AI…

Endless volume escalation is known as Lombard Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_effect At parties it is mainly due to room's echo. The best and cheapest is open-air, wh…

Sometimes I think the way CRDT research formulates the problem, itself obstructs evolution of local-first. That obsession with Google Docs-like collaborative real-time text editing…

Locals have always been allowed to quit the new job on day 1, and it has never been a crisis for employers. A company that is confident it is offering worthy salary and career shou…

This list of specific examples exists in your head solely because of backing by the media.

First of all, misleading title? It says that tech debt must be treated as regular business tasks when needed, not denies its existence. > Throughout my career, I’ve been an enginee…

More like, wear a full body raccoon suit.

Apps are sandboxed and don’t have full disk access unless you want them to. Article’s claim that websites have same capabilities largely defeats its own argument that websites have…

The other side of the coin is that website forces you to trust your data to the website and almost always locks you in with them (the regulation to provide "export" of data worth n…

There could be generational gap here: for many people the first JS was ES5 or later, which is after the language was taken seriously and fixed. The difference between Python2 and E…

I think coding assistants aren't great at UI/UX yet because they can't see, their understanding of left/right/lighter/darker is guessed from textual descriptions that accompanied C…