Yoric

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by Yoric 5mo ago
When I was a manager in a start-up, ages ago, I argued the CEO against handing a (small) one-off bonus to one of my team members, and rather went shopping for a nice gift with the same sum. One of them was purely a transaction, the other on
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by Yoric 5mo ago
> WinRT is the Windows team final response to Longhorn, but lets do it with COM and C++, which started in Vista. Not sure what you mean, I was using COM and C++ for Windows development in the late 90s. > So there is no elision, it is
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by Yoric 5mo ago
Unless I'm missing something, this sounds awful.
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by Yoric 5mo ago
> It's quite possible this is because they weren't making enough noise about their AI strategy. That's how I interpret the move, too.
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by Yoric 5mo ago
When I worked at Mozilla, _everything_ was called a bug, whether it was a software issue, a problem in the office or some paperwork missing. Much as GitHub calls everything an "issue" and GitLab a "work item".
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by Yoric 5mo ago
At the very least, Cloudflare hosts web workers, which let a customer execute more-or-less arbitrary wasm code on their servers. If there's an exploit that lets you escape the wasm sandbox, copy.fail can be chained into (afaiu) an expl
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by Yoric 5mo ago
I remember the words "peeking" and "poking", but this may have been specific to basic.
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by Yoric 5mo ago
Do they finally meet a human being with an explanation on the position on the 18th round?
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by Yoric 5mo ago
Well, that and the rush to upgrade for copy.fail. Has Ubuntu published patches yet?
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by Yoric 5mo ago
> > In software, for instance, it's exactly the opposite. > > ?? During the last 30+ years, the trend has always been to increase hardware use to save on development/thinking time. AI is the latest and most extreme ver
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by Yoric 5mo ago
Yup. I think we have all heard of (or are living through) mandates to prove that AI makes us more productive, or else... We'll see how many of these actually works out.
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by Yoric 5mo ago
> Outsourcing happens when it is cheaper to build something somewhere else. Tariffs can compensate for that. Is that free market? > Where are the starving people in capitalist countries? The first example from the top of my head is Ar
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by Yoric 5mo ago
I would argue that profit maximization has had very many effects. On the one side, it has succeeded at reducing costs, which has indeed given rich societies unprecedented access to consumer goods. On the other, it has outsourced from us bot
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by Yoric 5mo ago
I remember books (there was a famous soviet science publisher, which I believe we learned later had gulag deportees working on their printing presses) and I seem to recall toys and some foods. My memory from the period is far from perfect,
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by Yoric 5mo ago
I did, so it probably depends of where you live.
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by Yoric 6mo ago
FWIW, this was the title around 6am. By 8am, they had changed it to something a little bit more respectable.
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by Yoric 6mo ago
> I suspect one clear outcome is that Iran now completely understands the importance of cheap, effective, munitions (drones and missiles) and so will likely build those up quickly. That might affect munitions targeted at Israel. I think
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by Yoric 6mo ago
I personally would have a better image of the ongoing war if it had any objectives that felt achievable. Out of curiosity, what do you think is the best realistic outcome for this war, from the US perspective?
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by Yoric 6mo ago
Because it feels like a quick win?
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by Yoric 6mo ago
> Israel also ends up weaker here. The nuclear threat is unchanged. But the deaths in Iran will fuel enlistment in anti-Israel terrorist organizations for another generation. I agree with everything else you wrote, but I'm not sure
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by Yoric 6mo ago
My assumption is that, by now, Trump just wants to save face and move on to an easier target, one that can't strike back. He's been preparing the US opinion for Cuba. So I wouldn't be surprised if negotiations just... stopped
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by Yoric 6mo ago
Still looking at the details, but this morning, one of the biggest French newspapers was basically headlining (a slightly more polite version of) TACO. Not a good image for the US around the world, including its (former?) allies, I guess.
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by Yoric 6mo ago
Yeah, I joined a project a couple of months ago, felt completely lost. Last week, a colleague finally added for Claude all the documentation I'd have needed on day one. Meanwhile, I'm addressing issues from the other direction, wr
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by Yoric 6mo ago
> I predict that in the future people will ditch LLMs in favor of AlphaGo style RL done on Lean syntax trees. These should be able to think on much larger timescales. This is certainly my hope. In my spare time, I'm slowly, very slo
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by Yoric 8mo ago
> How many of you software engineers want to sign up for high taxes? FWIW, I do. I don't live in the US, though.
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by Yoric 8mo ago
Note that it's hard for researchers in Europe, too. But as far as I can tell, not nearly as hard as in the US. I don't think that any PhD student in Europe has been deported by masked agents, for instance.
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by Yoric 8mo ago
Erm... security?
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by Yoric 8mo ago
Seen from Europe, the current US administration doesn't want a Europe, end of story. Trump 1.0 already tried to convince EU countries to exit the EU. Trump 2.0 keeps insulting the EU, threatening the EU economically and threatening it
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by Yoric 9mo ago
Yes, I do, but it's not going to prevent me from doing so. I believe that the current generation of GenAI (as a market, not necessarily as a tech) is going to crash and burn by 2027. I also believe that open-source will stay and will k
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by Yoric 9mo ago
Or Doom.

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