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by aldanor 8d ago
Not going to lie, I was a bit confused at first (before visiting the link), why would BBC publish an anti-AI post for software developers.
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by aldanor 9d ago
Indulging in musicianship works very well, too. As in, learning a musical instrument, say classical piano, with some external guidance. You'll have to activate parts of brain you might never had to previously, it's quite some ment
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by aldanor 12d ago
We'd have to wait on LeCun to make progress on that
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by aldanor 13d ago
Artificial general incompetence?
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by aldanor 14d ago
Someone did care enough to create a throwaway account to vent here, it seems.
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by aldanor 17d ago
And how can we tell for sure if it's good or bad? Does killing these birds and mammals help maintain the ecosystem balance (due to these birds and mammals not killing billions other animals down the food chain, or not spreading infecti
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by aldanor 17d ago
It's also things like being able to change runtime configs in human language without having to turn to computer, eg "please also track when this artist is in my area". Nothing revolutionary, but kinda the whole point? Tell it
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by aldanor 17d ago
You don't stare at your AirPods, they don't create the room vibe, whereas, arguably, the furniture does, along with the lighting.
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by aldanor 27d ago
Otherwise, the weekend should have been called weekedge
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by aldanor 29d ago
So GitHub itself is a trustworthy agent and nothing to do with AI?
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by aldanor 2mo ago
Things are not always that simple, eg https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/4/better-models-worse-tools/
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by aldanor 2mo ago
A pretty good related question is - compute a running median (or window median).
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by aldanor 2mo ago
Even, possibly, the other way around in some cases. A seemingly identical program may (and it does occur) compile to a faster machine code in rust than in C++ due to extra markers (eg alignment) that rust compiler is able to provide to llvm
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by aldanor 3mo ago
Or cubizenzic?
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by aldanor 4mo ago
What type of software will you not be able to run? Your browser will work just the same, and your dev env and devtools will be just the same, and it's a posix environment. If that's what I need most and it runs just about the same
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by aldanor 4mo ago
And that lad is of course an information security engineer
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by aldanor 4mo ago
Both have `class` keyword
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by aldanor 4mo ago
Foundation series vibes anyone?
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by aldanor 4mo ago
If there's no UBs then what will we programmers do, there won't be enough to debug and fix?
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by aldanor 4mo ago
Correlation doesn't imply causation
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by aldanor 5mo ago
openkink
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by aldanor 5mo ago
Exactly, if choosing blue would allow you to wear a blue badge which would raise your happiness level or otherwise affect your utility function, then it might make sense. Otherwise it just doesn't.
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by aldanor 5mo ago
Not the factory floor. The receiving end. It wasn’t one bottleneck. It was all of them. Not the nuclear material. The pattern. Money was never the constraint. Knowledge was. ...
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by aldanor 5mo ago
Efficiently communicating with other human beings
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by aldanor 5mo ago
Yep. As a recent example in AI space itself. China had scarce GPU resources, quite obvious why => DeepSeek training team had to invent some wheels and jump through some hoops => some of those methods have since become 'industry s
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by aldanor 5mo ago
Rust's ratatui is pretty good on the lower-level side of things
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by aldanor 6mo ago
Incorrect.
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by aldanor 6mo ago
Most of the active development in the ecosystem is done for neovim these days. If you're using barebones vim then yea you probably won't see much difference, otherwise you have no choice
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by aldanor 6mo ago
Big thanks to him indeed (and for other projects in Rust space as well). // really hoping openai wouldn't now force him to work on some crappy codex stuff if he stays there / in astral.
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by aldanor 6mo ago
One of the popular products on the planet acquires the most popular python packaging org

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