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> Deterministic AI. Aka, a computer program.

Beware, there are versions of go where sendfile is broken and only sends the first 4k of a file on macos.

> people over-rate how much software/IP is useful in running a successful business Indeed, by a couple trillions...

I don't think people doubt what AI _could_ do, they just have been through enough enshitification cycles to know this is not any different. Right now AI is better than Google but o…

No batteries!? Go has a huge stable standard library no other language even comes close to. Built in tooling for unit testing, performance testing, debugging, code formatting, pack…

Then of course there is the whole fractal nature of software. As you add more detail, the arrows can flip flop around. Polling in a lower level of a stack can very much be used as …

There is in fact a 3rd: build time dependencies. Control: Object/module/function A calls object/module/function B. Data: The call can either push or pull data. Build dependency: Th…

... or the WM loads the compositor, or the WM links to a compositor library (i.e. wlroots). The point is there are options... Honestly, every time this topic comes up, I feel like …

> chosen to use fear and intimidation to help sell the agenda of the big tech CEOs who, in turn, have somehow managed to use coal-fired GPUs to capture society’s output and sell it…

There is a 3rd party Android app that uses the accessibility APIs to (supposedly) track and limit my short video use. However, it's broken, so I can't watch short videos at all :)

We get it. You are a manager.

I've seen this image generated by meta AI. The prompt was something like: think of a room, make it look like anything you like, but do not in any circumstance put a clown in it. Gu…

Sorry for the snark, but we couldn't even do this for humans, but let's do it for poor poor LLMs? It's kind of ironic that NOW is the time we worry about usability. What happened t…

Genuine question: How does this work? How does an LLM do object detection? Or more generally, how does an LLM do anything that is not text? I always thought tasks like this are usu…

Nah. You misunderstood. "They" don't make money on human time wasted. They make money on ads served. They don't particularly care if the ads were served to humans or agents, they g…

First off, I always thought the type of things described (tracking mouse movements, keypress jitter, etc) are already done by ReCacpha to decide when to present the user with a cap…

Math has a PR problem. The weight being non-uniform makes this a little unsurprising to a non-mathematician, it's a bit like a wire "sphere" with a weight attached on one side, but…

And just like optimizing compilers LLMs also emit code that is difficult to verify and no-one really understands, so when the shit hits the fan you have no idea what's going on.

Very cool, but by css-rotating (skewY(-6deg)) the canvas at the last moment, you introduced aliasing on the border between the canvas and the rest of the page which kills the vibe.…

Isn't that just true for vulnerabilities in general? Trust Zone is not a security mechanism, it's an isolation mechanism.

I don't disagree, but funny that I recently made a point to someone that modern consumer embedded systems (with multiple MCUs connected with buses and sometimes shared memory) are …

> The goal of programming is not to write code (however much I enjoy that part), it is to solve problems. Right, which is exactly why autocomplete is not a huge help.

FWIW ink is not expensive, but traditionally the nozzles and electronics and the printhead are all bundled with the cartridge, making it expensive. The big companies now offer inkj…

Or you could say let's not normalize broken AI in health care related systems, but potato potato I guess.

> I'm sure somebody has written a book already about how ostensibly wealthy societies can fail at basic infrastructure that they previously mastered, driven by greed and complacenc…