wyldfire

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by wyldfire 1mo ago
And here https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-... ... which must be just a coincidence, right? Nothing to do with this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e2bbb-6Clhs
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by wyldfire 2mo ago
I tend to agree but you can't deny that the widespread use of LLMs means that codeberg will expend more resources overall for projects taking advantage of them. And its members have spoken. We might disagree about the conclusion they
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by wyldfire 2mo ago
That "beige box" term is not the beige box I was thinking of at first. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beige_box_(phreaking)
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by wyldfire 2mo ago
> how this bug got through. Simplest answer is that there's no representative test case in the test suite yet. Unfortunately the problem of compiler testing is a very challenging one IMO. You can't test it exhaustively, or perh
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by wyldfire 3mo ago
You know that feeling when you work on a feature for weeks or months and then something comes along and the feature is no longer needed or the project is cancelled? It's a pretty frustrating experience -- was it all for naught? Maybe
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by wyldfire 3mo ago
Physics, or ... capital. Look at the cryptocurrency and Bitcoin economies for an example. Instead of being a democratic mining economy where spare cycles are used, only companies which invest capital to find semiconductors from the latest p
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by wyldfire 3mo ago
Some of us in Texas are all too familiar with the problem of balancing load with generation, the risk of a cascade failure causing a slow restart. During winter storm Uri, they did a duty cycle where we only had power available for ~6-12 ho
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by wyldfire 3mo ago
This is a false equivalence. "What constitutes appropriate humor" versus "Government silences dissent." Just because the Diabetes conference cited their code of conduct doesn't mean that's actually what this
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by wyldfire 3mo ago
It's not like the article is indirectly related to the subject of the conference. It is critical of the government, but not in the "human rights abuses of this administration threaten us all" way (though even that seems rea
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by wyldfire 3mo ago
One of science's most critical roles is to inform policymakers. And if they can't do that job effectively then it's right and just to point out the problems preventing it. Scientific conferences that fear critiques of the g
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by wyldfire 4mo ago
The crazy thing is that the oil companies confessed to a misinformation campaign and at least publicly talked about change/reform (of course, they're still oil exploration/refinement companies so not abandoning that). But the
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by wyldfire 4mo ago
Of course he should be punished but the best lesson here is for bettors. Those who wager on "prediction markets": you are betting against people who have access to more information or can influence the outcome of the wager. Don&#
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by wyldfire 4mo ago
Maybe we should criminalize writing articles about Undefined Behavior that have a "So what do we do now?" subheader but omit any mention of UBSan.
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by wyldfire 4mo ago
This is a legitimate, understandable way to discuss a mixture of abstract and specific things. This is a novel we are referring to, here. The intended audience is very, very broad.
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by wyldfire 4mo ago
Please, please tread on me.
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Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic's Mythos(wired.com)
2 points by wyldfire 5mo ago|0 comments
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by wyldfire 5mo ago
It would be interesting if there were a state sponsored effort to discredit a project that helps some people keep their communications private.
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by wyldfire 5mo ago
In your country merchants are not obligated to honor fraudulently altered price displays.
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by wyldfire 5mo ago
Poe's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by wyldfire 5mo ago
The cult of personality is impenetrable. He won't be held to account, ever. Nor his sycophants in the administration.
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by wyldfire 5mo ago
> FUZIX is a fusion of various elements from the assorted UZI forks and branches beaten together into some kind of semi-coherent platform and then extended from V7 to somewhere in the SYS3 to SYS5.x world with bits of POSIX thrown in for
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by wyldfire 5mo ago
The fact that it's written in python is often brought up in order to explain its name. But really, it's much less interesting than the fact that it has a tracing JIT. If it were called PyJIT I'd bet it would be clearer and m
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by wyldfire 5mo ago
It makes a lot of sense to me that PV and wind power could have subtle undesirable effects that we don't know about until it scales up. Taking gigawatts of energy out of the planet ecology and redirecting it to something else seems lik
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by wyldfire 5mo ago
Dang, can you substantiate that this is actually Mr. Farrow like he claims? Or Mr Farrow can you post some evidence somewhere we can see?
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by wyldfire 6mo ago
Some of that could be related to the ISA but I'm hoping that it's just the fact that the current implementations aren't mature enough. The vast majority of the ecosystem seems to be focused on uCs until very recently. So it&#
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by wyldfire 6mo ago
I guess if you can solve phase alignment then another big problem is grid capability? If everyone plugged one in, could the transmission network reliably deliver the power generated where it's needed? I thought that was a serious long
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by wyldfire 6mo ago
> blaming them for not accepting email is kind of silly. I definitely agree - but if the organization creates pain as an externality, then there's no incentive for them to change. Making them realize the cost of their decisions seem
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by wyldfire 6mo ago
MAGA isn't a political platform, it's a cult of personality. Witness the abrupt reversal in public opinion on foreign wars in the last month.
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by wyldfire 6mo ago
Modern semiconductor fabrication is a very narrow field. As far as monopolies go I don't think it's our biggest concern, like you say. If we want to continue to wage wars and seek conquest, it's not great to have it located i
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by wyldfire 6mo ago
The same self-centeredness that drove man to think that Earth was the center of its Universe. See also: bean soup / "what about me?*

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