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by nirui 3mo ago
> ...instead of injecting $2 trillion and counting into a few AI companies... Similar to the "why we spend money exploring space when there are hungry people on Earth?" question, I don't think this is a This Or That argume
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by nirui 3mo ago
> "hey, boss, can we install action X?" > "Hey, boss, I am going to install action X." They are literally the same thing to me. The tone change don't really effect my decision path, both triggers
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by nirui 3mo ago
Facebook is not just a "evolution of this concept". I would argue they, along with Twitter (currently know as X) and other similar service is completely different from blogs. The main different is the designs Facebook has employed
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by nirui 3mo ago
Well... they certainly did not show that in the video. Oh and yeah, there are more difficult problem. For example, if the platform moves to lower/lift people in or out the water, some people will probably fail to remain still or even s
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by nirui 3mo ago
I watched the video first without reading the text and thought, wow, Midjourney has gotten really good, they generated debris in the water exactly like what would happen in real life if the water is reused enough. Then I started reading the
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by nirui 3mo ago
Qwen is still controlled by Alibaba, one company. We can't let the future be in the hands of a few companies, can we? Fun fact: Qwen was not initially a Apache Licensed project, it was based on a custom license from Alibaba that restri
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by nirui 3mo ago
> we have no reason to believe their statements about risks are insincere Why? Because they said it a few times? Then if they know the risk, why do they still making it? Comes out the "some one will do it eventually, better be us &#
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by nirui 3mo ago
> If you have undefined behavior in your code your bug might become a heisenbug OR, the OS might kick in and throw a segmentation fault etc, often with some information associated to it. Again, if a LLM can output 100% correct code, no b
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by nirui 3mo ago
> Speaks volumes to the strengths of the language Memory safety is just a tiny part of over all security. If a LLM can transcode correctly, then it should also output 100% correct C code. On the other hand, If a LLM cannot correctly tran
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by nirui 4mo ago
Pity. I recently started a fun activity to rebrush my math my where I tries to solve problems while asking Gemini Live mode for confirmation and suggestions, sometimes step by step. It kinda was fun, like a very patient professor stand righ
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by nirui 4mo ago
The most disappointing part is not the price alone, it's that despite the price increase, the quality of the modules are still the same or even worsened.
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by nirui 4mo ago
> and then abscond to China I'm a Chinese, from what I learned, you probably don't see the situation clearly. The problem is influence. America wants to solve the Cuba (and Iran) problem since very long ago, and right now, whil
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by nirui 4mo ago
> Weaponizing Bureaucracy Don't over interpret this. You can also weaponize efficiency too, just like what USSR did to itself, hyper optimizing their industrial sector and leaving everything else to a free dry. Truth is, keep someth
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by nirui 4mo ago
Sometimes hiding internals is reasonable, but it could cause inconvenient. Exposing everything could make it harder to do interface management etc. It's really a system design problem rather than access control: if you separate functio
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by nirui 4mo ago
> It confuses easiness with simplicity A lot of libs/packages in Go's stdlib also has this problem. They like to package everything in a very tight interface (very obvious example includes crypto/* and http), without expos
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by nirui 4mo ago
If I remember it correctly, the "Java-lite" part comes rather late. PHP was more close to Perl and/or other old-days scripting language, it allows you to quickly launch a web page. Just <p><?php echo(htmlspecia
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by nirui 4mo ago
> We can stop reading LLM-generated code just like we don’t read assembly, or bytecode, or transpiled JavaScript; our high-level language source would now be another form of machine code. My opinion is very close to this. Currently the r
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by nirui 4mo ago
The "benefits all of humanity" narrative was interesting. If Elon Musk remained the silly/goofy outsider character he was, then the narrative that he naively invested in OpenAI for the good of all mankind is somewhat believab
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by nirui 4mo ago
It is hard to replace the old thing with another old thing. Search engine is already a fine tuned business, new comers will have hard time in it, no matter their tech stack. It's like trying to raise better horses, while the other side
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by nirui 4mo ago
Extended read: A Super El Niño Is Increasingly Likely, And It Could Be Record Strong ( https://weather.com/news/climate/news/2026-05-07-super-el-ni... ) If true, this summer and maybe winter maybe brutal.
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by nirui 4mo ago
You know, yeah, you can crack down "addictive design", but then what? If you don't provide better alternative, the "kids" (and please, stop using "kids" as excuse because everybody can see through it now)
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by nirui 4mo ago
In case people no longer remember, when China started to require websites to register for a license before be allowed to operate, it was for "protecting the children" too. This simple policy then goes on to silence most individual
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by nirui 4mo ago
> irresponsible the maintainers are Today it's 0.1%, tomorrow it might become 100%. User demand is hard to anticipate, so it's reasonable to include small features that don't cost a lot to run by default. It's not ide
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by nirui 4mo ago
How about this: a "vulnerability" is a "vulnerability", but after it was identified and verified to cause problem, that's when it should be called a "bug", because it could make the software do unwanted th
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by nirui 5mo ago
I like the idea of creating a OSS project, and then build extra on top of it for selling. The OSS part ensured that even if I went full Sam Altman, the user will still have an absolute baseline they can fallback on. And given how lazy I am,
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by nirui 5mo ago
> but I didn't like being a professional software developer for a huge tech company This feeling is probably shared by many lefties people. They love to work, they just don't like to be restricted/manipulated into working
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by nirui 5mo ago
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic -- Clarke's three laws HOWEVER, sometimes, if a technology is sounded like a magic too much, then maybe it just is, without any technology in it.
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by nirui 5mo ago
It's simple, there's this "Star" feature on Thunderbird, so if I'm not ready to handle the mail now, I'll just click the star to mark it as important, and undo the star after I've done handling it. Or, jus
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by nirui 5mo ago
> This person has a family. This person has hobbies. This person is, at this moment, crying. Reminded me one benefit of email-based workflow. If I started receiving email, that's usually because I'm in the right mood to doing s
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by nirui 5mo ago
Great. Coming just in time when people think the "main stream" browsers are too boring. I'm actually glad to see Mozilla has grown a little bit "predatorial" if it can bring good to the users. The implementation is

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