baranul

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by baranul 6d ago
Definitely something to watch. AI companies and biology labs are yet another way things can go south, if they aren't properly regulated. Hopefully, this stays out of being weaponized, and stays focused on curing diseases.
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by baranul 6d ago
Vlang + Unix = Vinix (name choice). I suppose they could of went with Vunix, but "Vin-ix" flows better with both "Lin-ux" and "U-nix". Think the majority or the V community, would vote for Vinix as the best nam
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by baranul 6d ago
Your comment illustrates that AI companies are playing a kind of shell game. On the one hand there is theft of IP and violations of copyright, in the middle there is the obscuring of where things come from, and on the other hand there is th
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by baranul 6d ago
Disagree with the first point. A lot of the so-called "bad press" came very directly from competitors. To the extent that it looked like they were trying to snuff out a rising new language or were arguably engaging in slander, bec
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by baranul 6d ago
> But this is what we should be celebrating. Something that came out of people's efforts and hard work Agree. Any attempt at negativity is unnecessary. Many of us just like programming and open-source projects. Vinix is a fun OS to
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by baranul 6d ago
There are many different calculators to choose from, including being able to make your own or an example one from VUI or VUI2. Any of these other calculators can be used instead, and would be using 10 or 15 times less RAM. Therefore, seems
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AI Bubble: 'They're coming to the end of this' – Eli the Computer Guy [video](youtube.com)
6 points by baranul 6d ago|0 comments
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by baranul 6d ago
Massive lack of foresight and hubris leads to not realizing that other countries can play the game of nationalism, xenophobia, trade war, and technology sovereignty too. Thus we are seeing a kind of boomerang effect. It's smarter not t
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by baranul 6d ago
It's more than torture, it's a deceptive disregard for human rights and agency. "Deceptive" in the sense of offering plausible deniability for death tolls caused by indirect actions such as blockades (an act of war), foo
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How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking(washingtonpost.com)
40 points by baranul 2mo ago|4 comments
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by baranul 2mo ago
If only the CDC was not so greatly diminished, that people could feel more comfortable about an agency and high level professionals being on the job to help protect the public from strange diseases.
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I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them(makeuseof.com)
258 points by baranul 2mo ago|265 comments
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by baranul 2mo ago
But it's mind-boggling that any subordinate couldn't understand that such levels of depravity and insanity could land them in legal trouble, and that's besides the ethical issue.
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A Black woman enhanced the audio in Nolan Wells' case. People listening closely(thegrio.com)
2 points by baranul 2mo ago|0 comments
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by baranul 2mo ago
A person's smartphone is not the same as luggage, because one is an electronic device and the other is not, which should be common sense. Treating both as the same doesn't make any sense. It is way past time for the Supreme Court
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by baranul 2mo ago
> why "the speaker" has quit HN Quitting HN[1] might have more to do with feeling he and Zig had already harvested the maximum benefit and marketing propaganda usage for elevating itself, including using it to thoroughly smear
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by baranul 2mo ago
> which reward talkers and liars, rather than good engineers Part of that is also about who management and HR are socially comfortable with and candidates that may have connections with people in the company. It's often not a level
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by baranul 2mo ago
> I haven’t seen C topping programming language popularity charts C is still highly ranked on many charts. C (as of July 2026) is ranked #2 on the TIOBE index. PYPL has C and C++ weirdly merged, the annoying C/C++, and that comes in
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Amazon cracks down on use of AI images by sellers after New York law(cnbc.com)
10 points by baranul 2mo ago|0 comments
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by baranul 2mo ago
Of the group of languages presented, your argument has more merit for Go. With C# and others, there is an additional OOP argument in there, that splits into different factions. But what is being overlooked, is the massive numerical dominanc
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by baranul 2mo ago
I think it's not so much that Fil-C renders Rust completely useless, but rather it reduces the supposed validity and wild arguments to frivolously rewrite anything and everything in Rust.
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AI Bubble: 'The risk is everywhere' – Ed Zitron [video](youtube.com)
6 points by baranul 2mo ago|0 comments
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by baranul 2mo ago
Agree. Providers who don't want to deal with LLM generated code should be respected as part of the free market. Let the market decide which direction is for the better or at least allow for niches that cater to certain audiences.
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by baranul 2mo ago
That's questionable, in terms of both outcome and cost. LLMs can misunderstand intent, hallucinate, or produce unwanted results too. As you noticed. But, among the advantages in favor of real programmers is outside of the context under
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Police Keep Losing Their Jobs for Using Flock Cameras to Stalk People(motherjones.com)
9 points by baranul 2mo ago|1 comments
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by baranul 2mo ago
This and the various Lisa emulator projects are a great way to keep a piece of history alive for younger generations and the nostalgic. Besides the true experience of it, there might still be some new ideas to come from understanding how th
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Stop the NDAA: Congress Is Giving Away America's Sovereignty [video](youtube.com)
2 points by baranul 2mo ago|0 comments
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by baranul 2mo ago
A way to help prevent some of that catastrophic damage, is to make companies accountable for what their AIs do. A major problem with AI companies is that they like to point to the AI, as if they're minimally involved innocent bystander
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by baranul 2mo ago
Regular people can only hope that cooler heads and more sense can avert this obvious disaster. It's like watching cars about to crash into a brick wall, yet drivers have their foot firmly on the accelerator, instead of the breaks.
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by baranul 2mo ago
> guise of democracy That's a very appropriate term. There has always been various forces who either believe the majority of citizens don't deserve democracy or that they are above it.

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