sriram_malhar

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by sriram_malhar 3d ago
C'mon, you know better than to invoke a slippery slope. My best move is to influence the people I care about to reduce dependence on these things and seek happiness in non-tech things (where tech is defined as those controlled by corpo
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by sriram_malhar 3d ago
Constraints are a good thing. I'll get creative with what I have, instead of having to rely on a supply chain that makes everything available to everybody all the time. I don't have to have apples grown on the other side of the pl
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by sriram_malhar 3d ago
It isn't just AI. I would like a world without the poison of social media, without guns & bombs, without dangerous chemicals. Yes, in many many ways we'd be better off. We are accelerating the destruction of our planet. I don&
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by sriram_malhar 3d ago
You can look up laws all night long. Check out all the laws broken by Potus, ICE (just to name a few) on a daily basis. The peasantry is not on the side that enforces the law. AI is. AI is a force multiplier. The more force you have, the mo
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by sriram_malhar 4d ago
You do realize that the same powers that have bred fascism and mandatory id requirement are hand in glove with the AI oligarchs, no? They gain with rampant use of AI disproportionately more than the peasant. The peasantry stands no chance.
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by sriram_malhar 4d ago
> Have you been schooled in farming? Raising livestock? Milking cattle? Does your ability to cook good food ... Pushing that analogy, AI is the equivalent of automating everything from tilling, growing, all the way to cooking. It is as i
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by sriram_malhar 4d ago
Everyone who writes enthusiastically about AI already has the benefit of having worked without AI. They have been schooled in the basics. Enough of us know about data structures, concurrency, networks, language design etc. from the ground u
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by sriram_malhar 9d ago
Can it scale without pixelating?
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by sriram_malhar 13d ago
Ah, I had virtual threads in Java 8 back in the day. I believe it still works. Check Kilim: https://github.com/kilim/kilim
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by sriram_malhar 1mo ago
If you check "jealousy" (instead of "jealous") on MW, you get this editorial note: Depending on who you ask, jealousy and envy are either exact synonyms, totally different words, or near-synonyms with some degree of sema
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by sriram_malhar 1mo ago
An aged uncle of mine (who loved his wife very much) once said, "I hope she goes before me. I'd never want her to face the pain of my leaving". Such love.
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by sriram_malhar 1mo ago
They may be equivalent in common parlance, but that’s a bit like saying it is ok to use ‘your’ instead of “you’re” just because it is so common. We say “jealously guarded’ not ‘enviously guarded’ for a reason. Jealousy is about being protec
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by sriram_malhar 2mo ago
<snark/>Is it easier to say 'non-profit' compared to 'not making profits'? But seriously, can someone explain why openai went this route?
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by sriram_malhar 2mo ago
Vint had an interview?!! Who had the gall to suggest he needs to come in and be evaluated?
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by sriram_malhar 2mo ago
"for now"
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by sriram_malhar 3mo ago
Nicely done.
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by sriram_malhar 3mo ago
You still used AI, even if the results weren't correct.
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by sriram_malhar 3mo ago
Not the first result. The AI summary generated by gemini.
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by sriram_malhar 3mo ago
This feels so quaint today. How I'd like to be back in that timeframe.
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by sriram_malhar 3mo ago
Anyone who does a Google search gets a satisfactory looking answer as the very first entry. I daresay most people don't go beyond that, not even the entries on the first page, let alone go to the next. I argue that this is at the leve
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by sriram_malhar 3mo ago
What a beautiful explanation. Wow! This is hands down the clearest exposition I have encountered. Kudos.
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by sriram_malhar 4mo ago
The level of corruption is staggering.
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by sriram_malhar 4mo ago
I wasn't aware of this. The first edition came out in 1991. The 4th ed came out in 2012, by which time Perl was no longer the duct tape of the internet. Perl 6 had muddied the waters, and Ruby and Rails had peaked. Still, 1000 is painf
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by sriram_malhar 4mo ago
That’s not true. I wrote the Panther book, Advanced Perl Programming, and easily made way more than 100k. Of the 25-30 or so dollars the books cost, I got 10% per copy, or $2 after taxes. The first print run of 35000 sold within the first t
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by sriram_malhar 4mo ago
Doesn't anyone here have _one_ kind word to say about its features? Every one seems to be starting with "on the other hand".
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by sriram_malhar 5mo ago
Uh, dayumm. I don't know how I got that wrong.
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by sriram_malhar 5mo ago
Many of you might know of Noisebridge, a beloved hackerspace in San Francisco. They had (have?) a juggling workshop every saturday called "Juggling with Judy", taught by Judy Pinelli, founder of the famed Pickle Family Circus (and
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by sriram_malhar 5mo ago
We have to evolve ways -- or bring back ways -- of making our agriculture less petroleum dependent. But short of a shock of this nature, we are not going to do any research in that direction because of trillions of dollars of investments
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by sriram_malhar 5mo ago
Oracle and OpenAI centers getting hit, oil shortages forcing the world the move away from fossil fuels ... my cynical ass feels hope.
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by sriram_malhar 6mo ago
You are right to some extent. But there are huge differences between all the wars the US has fought and is currently involved in, and a China-Taiwan war. Taiwan is only a couple of miles from mainland China at its closest point. It is poss

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