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by bgwalter 1y ago
First they make the story disappear from the front page, then they still find it hours later and downvote heretics.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I think many & cheap drones or whatever can be shot down with an increasing array of anti-drone technology (which is often a repackaging of the Oerlikon gun that was already used in the Gepard tank ages ago). In Israel things that got t
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Microsoft's multi-year Hololens project has failed. Now they are doubling down in a joint effort with Anduril: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/1/24259369/microsoft-holole... I don't see Anduri
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by bgwalter 1y ago
SV does not have the institutional knowledge, reporters on the ground or the kind of determination for thankless work that makes a newspaper great. The NYT should do more investigative journalism, but it is better than nothing. SV pundits j
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I suppose the CEO wants me to cancel my subscription. First they steal our code, then they tell us to get out. I don't embrace "AI".
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The mechanical loom produced a tangible good. That kind of automation was supposed to free people from menial work. Now they are trying to replace interesting work with human supervised slop, which is a stolen derivative work in the first p
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by bgwalter 1y ago
That bar is industry standard in the hype machine. Altman and others have set it: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/sam-altman-ai-w... https://brianchristner.io/how-cursor-ai-can-make-develop
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I doubt that. Also from the article: "And no human is so worthless as to be replaceable with a machine."
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The worst of all is that we used to spend time thinking about real issues. Now 70% of thinking, blogging, and (in some companies) programming time is spent on how to make inferior and nondeterministic tools accomplish something. It's l
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by bgwalter 1y ago
And the performance hit is still up to 50%, just like in the first attempts. Except this time it comes from Facebook.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It is striking that this article equates community with bureaucratic efforts like setting up the PSF and getting funding for the PSF. It is essentially a hagiography for the bureaucrats. The omission of Tim Peters, who was later slandered b
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Python is one of the most toxic communities out there. A couple of people sold out python-dev to their corporations and used the CoC and non-programming related activities to gain power. They drove people out who dared to contradict them. S
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by bgwalter 1y ago
That is all good and well. Unfortunately, it degenerated into a tyranny where a small group of mediocre people grabbed power, censored the infrastructure and threatened people with defamation if they didn't obey. Most developers have l
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It is sort of an aquihire: Mr. Deitke, who recently dropped out of a computer science Ph.D. program at the University of Washington, had moonlighted at a Seattle A.I. lab, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. There, he led the
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The author of the article appears to think that Oppenheimer's intellectual contributions were superior to those of the "AI" implementers. If you analyze in purely capitalistic terms: Yes, being an uncreative middleman who ste
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by bgwalter 1y ago
They leave it empty (that actually happens a lot, especially with foreign investors) or convert it to their 100th AirBnB.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Why don't you contradict verbally instead of downvoting? Is your connection to your slop generators broken and you cannot reply any more?
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Thanks for the links. That should be obvious to anyone who believes that $70 billion datacenters (Meta) are needed and the investment will be amortized by subscriptions (in the case of Meta also by enhanced user surveillance). The means of
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Engagement, channel and platform loyalty. YouTube channels are asking for comments because it makes them rank higher.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Heavily subsidized by the government: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/meta-massive-data-center-lou... The state offered billions of dollars in tax breaks to win the project, and the local utility will supply
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by bgwalter 1y ago
This is a strained metaphor that appeals to the egos of those who self-identify as prompt engineers. A sewage worker analogy might be more appropriate.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
In case that wasn't clear, the "idealism" referred to the motivation for culture war initiatives, not to writing open source. GenX was indeed idealistic in writing open source.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Fun facts: All of Wix, Wiz, base44 were founded by ex Unit 8200 members. Wix was used by the NSO group to create fake websites for targeting critics: https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5461537,00.html
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by bgwalter 1y ago
GenX wrote much of the open source software and the foolishly co-opted the culture war initiatives led by boomers (for job security reasons) and millennials (some idealism, some job security, some sticking it to GenX). They have sold out th
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Again the only correct comment is downvoted. Watch Tsunamis on Youtube. The water just keeps coming and coming. They are like high tides.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I find the stated goal of alerting downstream a bit odd. Most downstreams scan upstream web pages for releases and automatically open an issue after a new release. Project zero could also open a mailing list for trusted downstreams and publ
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The results were private and the methodology was not revealed. Even Tao, who was bullish on "AI", is starting to question the process.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Because we are told that they can solve IMO problems. Yet they fail at basic math problems, not only at factorization but also when probing them with relatively basic symbolic math that would not require the invocation of an external progra
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The GML-4.5 model utterly fails at creating ASCII art or factorizing numbers. It can "write" Space Invaders because there are literally thousands of open source projects out there. This is another example of LLMs being dumb copier
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Zuckerberg has no clue about software development. He always wants young people, huge bullpen offices, moonshot projects like the Metaverse that fail. Facebook open source software does not have great code quality. In some projects that alw

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