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Honestly -- and I know this project is just a toy/fun experiment -- with modern AI, I think this is the correct approach to Rust-ifying projects. Just fork it and do an AI-assisted…

The author assumes the way to keep segments going with larger memory would have been to change the amount of overlap, but it would have also been possible to make an 80286 where th…

I agree, it would be way more interesting to see a table of original GIF sizes versus the improved size. I'm left wondering how bad the plain greedy version is on a typical image.

I agree this is great, but I also feel like it's an intermediate step to just asking Claude for whatever file edits you want... and then you don't even need the text editor.

Well at least for what I do, success depends on having lots of unit tests to lean on, regardless of whether it is new or existing code. AI plus a hallucination-free feedback loop h…

Even if I were retired and financially set now, that would mean nothing in 10 years if an unemployed society collapses around me. Apathy is not on the menu today.

The craft is still there just like painting is still an alternative to a photograph. It's just not going to be valued by society anymore, and far fewer will learn how to do it. Nat…

It's a fun article and this really doesn't matter much but `5{|+\x}\1,2` does not give the typical fibonacci sequence. Either `5{|+\x}\1,1` or `5{|+\x}\2,1` do, if the results from…

Lately I just ask an LLM to teach me things interactively. It will be interesting to see if that stops working so well, when authors stop writing books for LLMs to absorb. Maybe as…

If I'm considering becoming a drug runner, and I hear "sometimes they arrest you" I'd say "so what?" If I hear "sometimes you get shot at", I'd take my chances and shoot back. But …

I think the problem with XSLT is that it's only a clear win to represent the transform in XML to the extent that it is declarative. But, as transformations get more complex, you ar…

If you think a situation where everyone had access to ipchains for 3 years to figure out how to migrate is similar to a situation where some architectures will be killed in six mon…

First off, the mail references far more rust adoption than just Sequoia, but since you bring it up: here is how RPM adopted Sequoia in Fedora-land. There was a proposal, a discussi…

On their github you can see all three changes identical to x.org's happened on October 28th (same day as the advisory). So, they were not already fixed, but the fixes were applied …

ipchains is a perfect representation of what I want to see. They introduced it as an option alongside ipfirewall in 2.1, made it the default but allowed fallback to ipfirewall in 2…

Nah, I called out redox and another commenter pointed out ripgrep as an even better example of what I’d prefer to see, and those are also by what I would call rust enthusiasts. I d…

Exactly! People love ripgrep because of its clear advantages, and had the developers been interested in making posix mode for it, I'm certain at least some distros would have made …

There are like 1000 Debian maintainers, right? This person doesn't speak for the project as a whole, and as far as I can tell he is telling Debian folks they will be accepting rust…

I'm not sure if it's an insecurity thing or an immaturity thing, but when all these stories pop up, I always wonder why rust enthusiasts don't just prove their point by making thei…

As a 1980's adventure game fan, I can only hope that whatever comes after AGI is called SCI. Maybe it could be "Soul-Crushing Intelligence". Once we don't need people to make stuff…

In my workflows I already tend to tell LLMs to write scripts in Go instead of python. The LLM doesn't care about the increased tediousness and verbosity that would drive me to Pyth…

I find grok to be the best overall experience for the types of tasks I try to give AI (mostly: analyze pdf, perform and proofread OCR, translate Medieval Latin and Hebrew, remind m…

I feel like a few decades ago, standards intended to standardize best practices and popular features from compilers in the field. Dreaming up standards that nobody has implemented,…

Yes I periodically try to get scanned images of Medieval Latin and Hebrew books ocr’d and translated by Gemini and ChatGPT… sometimes the results are amazing, but you have to proof…

It’s amusing that the sequence of events in that story makes a great example of prior art getting regurgitated and altered by humans. If he were an AI bot, we would say Steve Jobs …