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by zero_shift 2mo ago
That is an absurd position to take. Nobody benefits by having less time to adapt to changes in their employability I am not calling you out personally here, but this comment bears many hallmarks of the "accelerationist disease": t
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by zero_shift 2mo ago
Observability and operability are just not the same thing as being able to reason about the software. You need both You can't capture the full range of behaviours and edge cases unless you are willing to ingest billions of events witho
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by zero_shift 2mo ago
Tracing and o11y are a poor sibling to static analysis. > This is complete lack of experience on the authors part Actually I'm going to turn the accusation back on yourself: if you think reasoning about a system's entire grap
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by zero_shift 2mo ago
- Too verbose, too much noise e.g. error handling. - Type system is too concrete, can't express sets or unions. - Not much support for functional programming except passing closures - Can't express immutability. Well, there's
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by zero_shift 2mo ago
You are clearly very angry about this. Codeberg wants to protect their hosting from the large volume of AI projects. What do you think the right solution is here?
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by zero_shift 2mo ago
If I said "AI enthusiasts" would that feel like less of an attack? > I think you're being dishonest in your framing Asking without malice: why are you telling me this? This is an open internet forum. You can suspect my sin
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by zero_shift 2mo ago
I want to ask this in good faith Why do the very vocal "AI people" online have this thing where they are simultaneously: - proclaiming their thing to be inevitable and massive and a bulldozer of productivity; - responding to any n
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by zero_shift 2mo ago
I agree, I suspect that when we say "oh, I don't need to know this", what we really mean is we have that unpleasant feeling behind our eyes that says this is not going to gratify my goal The issue being, gratification is ra
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by zero_shift 2mo ago
Goedecke seems to me like a Professor Pangloss type character, explaining to executives in prestige tech orgs (like his employer GitHub) why we should trust and respect the decisions of executives in prestige tech orgs
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by zero_shift 3mo ago
> I don’t see any evidence of this happening, but if somebody wants to make this argument, they should be clear about why this time is different It does seem to be happening - at least in mobile app stores. There's some recent analy
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by zero_shift 3mo ago
You are arguing I should be fine losing $500 so Elon can cash out? Because - and I hope this doesn't seem uncharitable - some sci-fi fantasy about space colonies?
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by zero_shift 3mo ago
You do get a lockfile by default
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by zero_shift 3mo ago
Without doxxing yourself or your clients, can you share more about how this plays out? When clients come to you, is that because they always intended to get help taking their system to production? Or is it a last resort after all the AI app
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by zero_shift 3mo ago
I'm glad to hear someone else calling out Bregman. His work is very flimsy, and I have been a hater for close to 10 years [1]. I think Bregman skirts close to the "Effective Altruism" movement and his work has similar problem
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by zero_shift 3mo ago
The PSX BIOS code sounds like a disaster. Everything I read about the software part of the stack, makes me amazed the console even boots The faulty malloc. A bunch of random qsort implementations. Reiji Asakura wrote an account of how the B
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by zero_shift 4mo ago
This is also how the memory card bootloader works. There is a faulty array iterator in the BIOS code that can copy arbitrary data to locations higher up in the memory map than the base pointer. Normally that wouldn't let you overwrite
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by zero_shift 4mo ago
> Every company I've ever worked for has wanted to achieve way more than they are able to get done with current resources. I mean sure . Every company wants an infinite addressable market. But that doesn't mean it exists. It
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by zero_shift 4mo ago
I don't think AGI was ever a serious endeavour, just something the labs talked up to grab attention. I am willing to bet a Twix we'll look back on that stuff in 2 years with a lot of embarrassment
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by zero_shift 4mo ago
"We need an SCM with five nines of availability. What about GitHub?" "Well. It's got a nine in it" "What percentage??" "Nine"
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by zero_shift 4mo ago
Why would they want to improve their tools? In many cases (Vispero), they're the ones selling accessibility consultancy
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by zero_shift 4mo ago
> I think the accessibility consultants like this state of affairs: they can threaten more lawsuits and extract more in consulting fees. I think there is truth in this. A lot of the assistive technology (AT) vendors, also sell consultanc
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by zero_shift 4mo ago
Your tone seems hostile. I'm not obliged to answer you.
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by zero_shift 4mo ago
Somebody at Google decided this is how they wanted it to work. They don't have to explain why and they don't have to fix this deficiency until it becomes a problem for Google
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by zero_shift 4mo ago
It also means that everything is (over) optimised for Google's usecases, but not general purpose applications I came across this problem pretty directly a couple of weeks ago - I wanted to see if I could port a small C program to Go, w
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by zero_shift 4mo ago
Yes, I think so. Although it's a poor argument in my view: just because nobody has vibe coded Product X, doesn't mean his Product Y was praiseworthy
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by zero_shift 4mo ago
For others who are confused. The author is someone in the demoscene who has been accused of "vibe coding" large pieces of work. His counter is that if such things are possible, where is the vibe coded Photoshop? He then goes on a
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by zero_shift 4mo ago
Axel thinks that scrapers have aggregated his content, and now, potential readers doing searches or queries on AI assisted systems, see the scraped content rather than his website.
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by zero_shift 4mo ago
The person I am replying to 1. Argues that Tailwind requires div-itis 2. And that divs affect the accessibility tree
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by zero_shift 4mo ago
The structure of your CSS, and the structure of your divs, do not affect AT experience. This is misinformation. As mentioned below: A <div> itself is treated as a generic, transparent box. It doesn't get keyboard focus, and it is
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by zero_shift 4mo ago
Screen readers do not announce divs. They only read from the AOM. A <div> itself is treated as a generic, transparent box. It doesn't get keyboard focus, and it isn't added to the screen reader's elements list (like hea

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