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by jdub 15d ago
It was very much both.
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by jdub 16d ago
Yeah, but I'm not going to write a short story about the Butlerian Jihad's inquisitors chasing down everyone who owns a GPU for this competition.
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by jdub 16d ago
LLM use is permitted, but discouraged; [...] We request disclosure of AI use. Heh. In the future I imagine, this would be embarrassingly redundant. "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
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by jdub 16d ago
Scary, but cool! To clarify "cognition outside of language" and "unable to convey"... did it purely affect external communication? Were you able to think "in language"? Do you tend to rely on thinking &quot
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by jdub 16d ago
1998! Almost 30 years later, we're living in a Third Culture world. Look at Tesla door handles, addictive consumption apps, Flock cameras, LLMs... the consequences of elevating the incurious, impatient, and output-obsessed.
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by jdub 21d ago
"But your honour, my horseless carriage was not designed to hit children!"
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by jdub 21d ago
Yes. We can decide not to do bad things. Globally. Occasionally, it takes some time to figure out if something is bad. Especially when there's money to be made. But when we do, we can and have stopped doing them .
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by jdub 21d ago
Those would be squashed into one commit. Then, when your senior developer is working on a new feature that requires some changes to adapt to a dependency upgrade, some refactoring, some forwards-and-backwards compatible database migrations,
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by jdub 22d ago
Instead of post-processing the binary to add the application (non-SELF) schema, you could run database migrations before servicing requests. Thus, every time you start the process, the app creates and/or upgrades its own schema. The SE
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by jdub 22d ago
A system with two seL4 tasks, (1) a flight control system, and (2) a VMM running Linux, uses seL4's formally proven safety properties to meet the timing and separation requirements of the critical flight control system... and run a b
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by jdub 22d ago
It's frequently done in research and industry when there's a component that has strict timing and separation requirements, and a bunch of supporting software that doesn't. Like an autonomous helicopter. Flight control? Very i
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by jdub 23d ago
"native seL4/Linux"? seL4 can already host Linux VMs, and there are various methods of running Linux code / binaries without hardware virtualisation.
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by jdub 23d ago
It's a lot of machinery to put into a kernel. (Even with ELF, a kernel can have a relatively simple parser and loader and leave more challenging work to user space... like relocations, dynamic libraries, etc.)
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by jdub 24d ago
It's not just a matter of people taking the phrase literally: - by a plain reading it's clearly singular ; seeing beyond that requires at least some effort (e.g. curiosity, education... but also authority, responsibility, time) -
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by jdub 27d ago
Virtualization.framework isn't particularly limited, for what it is... given they're using Firecracker on Linux, it makes sense to use a similarly high level API on macOS. (One could add a Hypervisor.framework backend to Firecra
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by jdub 27d ago
When a new technique or capability arrives on the tech scene, there's a point in the invention-to-diffusion story when the new thing becomes accessible (e.g. cheap and/or easy) enough for a broader audience of developers to experi
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by jdub 1mo ago
Add `udm=14` to the Google search query string... e.g. I changed my browser's default search engine shortcut.
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by jdub 1mo ago
Buildkite has built a GitHub Actions adapter... a good first step out of the GitHub Actions supply chain attack trap.
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by jdub 1mo ago
We "agree" to many things that are deeply unfair.
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by jdub 1mo ago
only if you don't understand the difference between metaphor and analogy
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by jdub 1mo ago
you're describing a pre-20th century guild, not a union
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by jdub 1mo ago
always? like amd64 vs itanium? (and AMD is still serious challenging Intel in x86 and GPUs today)
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by jdub 1mo ago
Sounds like you've interpreted the "stochastic parrot" metaphor dismissively, and/or that it somehow precludes potential LLM risks.
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by jdub 1mo ago
That's part of the philosophical change that led to GNOME 2.0 https://ometer.com/preferences.html
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by jdub 1mo ago
It's a question about systemic exposure, not my account (I'm Australian).
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by jdub 1mo ago
You understand that those are different kinds of "truth", right?
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by jdub 1mo ago
With his shitty cars, orbital garbage, or CSAM generator? Or his moneyed attacks on democracy and communications? Or his vandalism of government programs without insight, experience, or qualification? In a free and fair market, his capital
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by jdub 1mo ago
... which would make (our current model of) capitalism especially evil. Compared to a supermarket.
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by jdub 1mo ago
Are you sure? What is the 401(k) exposure to "AI" related stocks and broader market shocks?
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by jdub 2mo ago
"Look! I have one job on this lousy ship, it's stupid , but I'm gonna do it! Okay?" - Gwen DeMarco, Galaxy Quest

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