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by lambdaone 11mo ago
This really reads like AI-generated, or at least AI-polished, text.
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
A competent programmer should be able to at least conceptualise every level from the transistor up - not necessarily completely understand, but at least know roughly what it does, and what it rests on, and what rests on it. Transistors, gat
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by lambdaone 1y ago
As an example of this, I had to build a management interface for the backend of the project I was alluding to above; itself a web app in its own right. Written entirely in Python, with HTML templates, CSS and JS and a bit of SQL with no &qu
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Once you give up any hope of understanding the inner workings of the frameworks you are using, you're no longer a programmer, you're a cargo cultist. Now compound this a dozen levels deep, with systems piled on systems built by pe
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by lambdaone 1y ago
When you write "The complexity is inherent to modern web development" you are describing the problem, not a requirement. When you are pulling in a thousand npm packages just to make a simple transactional website that is a wrapper
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by lambdaone 1y ago
I agree with the article; web programming is an absolute disaster of snowballing complexity. I think much of this is driven by a combination desire among web programmers to see themselves as "software engineers" and the need to co
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Or indeed methane generated via the Sabatier reaction using hydrogen generated from renewables - higher energy density, easier to handle, store and distribute. And it can be fed to existing gas peaker plants, a known technology.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
That makes a really interesting case for large-scale thermal storage at high temperatures (inefficient, cheap, enormous capacity, slow response) as a complement to solar generation (cheap, intermittent), and batteries (efficient, instant re
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Lifting heavy weights with a crane (or up a hill with a train) is unfortunately a very expensive way to store energy compared with pumped-storage hydroelectricity, which does effectively the same thing but with far lower cost and greater
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by lambdaone 1y ago
I'm quite aware of the existence of compilers, having worked on bootstrapping a production LISP compiler in the past. My point being that this would be an interesting experiment to do this "naïvely", given how close C is to (
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Amazing, and you could see how this could be translated into perhaps a couple of thousand lines of assembly code to boostrap Scheme almost from the bare metal, similar to the early IBM 709 LISP. A thought: I wonder if an LLM would be up to
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by lambdaone 1y ago
There are all sorts of crazy ways of getting data out of even air-gapped machines, providing you are willing to accept extremely low data rates to overcome attenuation. Even with million-to-one signal-to-noise ratio, you can get significant
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by lambdaone 1y ago
DWDM per-wavelength costs are way, way lower than that, and, with the optional addition of encryption, perfectly secure and fast enough for disk replication for most storage farms. I've been there and done it.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Right now email is true One True SSO. I suspect that the root of trust for the digital identity of most people here is something like a Gmail account, unless you have gone to vast efforts to secure personal digital sovereignty in terms of h
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by lambdaone 1y ago
That might sound facile, but it's actually a great idea. Being able to ignore commits based on regexes would be even more powerful.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
"ready for production", "fully working" and other Claude-isms come to mind
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by lambdaone 1y ago
None of this is remotely new or interesting. I was doing IP-over-laser-light at Ethernet speeds over kilometer distances using free-space optics thirty years ago, and even then it wasn't a new technology.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Wouldn't a Scheme to WASM compiler in Scheme make more sense, providing the capability to do something like Gerbil Scheme?
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Yes, that's exactly what the poster above was saying, just not in those words. The idea that we are one and all on a high-minded journey of self-actualisation is hopelessly naive; most people are indeed flailing around at the bottom of
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Yog-Sothoth has heard your plea, and will be along to help you shortly.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
At this point, the benefits of an official governmental digital ID system exceed the drawbacks; the argument against digital identity documents died a long time ago with the total loss of privacy due to the amalgamation of all existing syst
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by lambdaone 1y ago
What's needed is something that is simple for humans to read and write, has a stable definition, and a clear and unambiguous syntax and mapping to data objects. None of the systems I've seen achieve all those goals at once. YAML,
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Combining generative ML (and other heuristic methods) with formal methods is the most promising way forward for systems design. Without formal methods (and other constraints such as limiting systems complexity) we are going to vibe-code our
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Think of it as representing something like the letters actively 'creeping' and giving off tendrils of darkness. Does this help?
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by lambdaone 1y ago
"Slowing innovation across the frontend ecosystem" sounds like a really good idea to me. Frontend innovation is largely vanity churn at this point, and means that any web frontend project left fallow for more than six months is ef
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Malware in Ngx-Bootstrap(github.com)
3 points by lambdaone 1y ago|1 comments
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Recent versions of the widely-installed ngx-bootstrap Angular module appear to contain a serious malware payload. Discussion here suggests this may be limited to only a few recent versions, but this is still a nasty exploit: https:/
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by lambdaone 1y ago
If this was real, it would be a big, big deal, but I can't so far see anyone else in the security space picking this up as a story. Note also the GitHub history of the source.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Is this a hoax? I note that the article text has several of the hallmarks of LLM-generated text; em-dashes, not-just-this-but-that, short bullet point lists, random text bolding...
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by lambdaone 1y ago
> If an election were called tomorrow your next government would be Reform with a massive majority of 339 seats. It is the most popular party in the country by far. It would collect 33% of the vote vs Labour's 18% and the Conservat

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