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by bgwalter 11mo ago
Greenspan warned about irrational exuberance, the newspapers were full of articles like the Guardian one: https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/a... https://www.theguardian.com&#x2F
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
Assuming he is correct (I think he is) and Nvidia goes down sharply, it will take AMD, Intel etc. with it. Usually the equipment makers and fabs go down with them, many times even at a higher percentage.
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
Strictly speaking, "passive aggressiveness" would imply to act or word something in an obstructive manner but in a way that offers plausible deniability. lmfgtfy.com is an active joke/taunt usually used by the knowledgeable p
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
No, "Optimus will eliminate poverty and provide universal high income for all": https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1990056932888187086#m
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
Cocaine fueled unconditional positivity used to be looked down upon, but is the default now in the grifter sphere. So much so, that they now flip the script (which their main skill) and call rational people teenagers. I suggest you follow y
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
It's actually a good thing if humans crawl sewers, clean the kitchen and decontaminate Chernobyl while robots are playing chess, dance and mimic cute kittens. This article comes just in time to silence the heretics who ask what the use
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
You are a communist if you do not like "AI" or sloppy "papers"!
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
This is an excellent article. Anthropic's "paper" is just rambling slop without any details that inserts the word "Claude" 50 times. We have arrived at a stage where pseudoscience is enough to convince investors. Th
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
That is old news. Today we learn that Optimus will be a world class surgeon and "democratize" medical care, that Grok 5 has a 10% chance of achieving AGI, that Grokipedia will be named Encyclopedia Galactica and that Elon will put
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
They are hyping up the automation as if attack scripts and mass scanning of hosts never existed before 2023.
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
It's almost like asking for accurate revenue figures.
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
No, just another academic with the ominous handle @generativehistory that is beguiled by "AI". It is strange that others can never reproduce such amazing feats.
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
> You're not fully understanding the issue with memory safety. When you write C or C++, you're promising that you won't violate memory safety at all. The post you reply to does not indicate a misunderstanding of memory saf
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
The downvoting patterns of anything that is mildly critical of Rust (see above) very much indicates a feud war. Rust has a dogmatic, aggressive and self-righteous community that uses any available tactic to push their language through. The
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
Further up they refer to Android C/C++ code, not C/C++ in general: "We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android’s C and C++ code." Which
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
Tesla down 7%, P/E still at 275, as opposed to 9 for companies that produce working vehicles like Mercedes Benz.
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
We believe this is the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention. The Morris worm already worked without human intervention. This is Script Kiddies using Script Kiddie tools. Notice
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
These are still tasks that I don't mind doing myself. I want the clanker to scrub the kitchen floor, paint walls and clean the toilet, perfectly. But that is unlikely to happen. They'll be used for crowd control (which works becau
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
The heroic fight for privacy apparently includes having an ex-NSA director on the board and building user dossiers: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/what-llms-kno... At some point they&#x27
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
This seems to be the latest open source magazine that quotes the developers in power and in the end rationalizes whatever those in power do. In this case it is telling everyone to learn Rust (as if that is enough for a successful port). Oth
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
Since it seems that Rust programmers are unable to provide a definition for "memory safety", here is what more mature and academically minded people think: https://blog.adacore.com/memory-safety-in-rust Notice tha
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
We are, however, talking in this subthread about the compiler inserting bounds checks and (incorrectly) calling the process "static checking". I refuted that point by pointing out that the same process, if done manually in C++, wo
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
I did not pivot. TFA itself defines: "Memory safety—the property that makes software devoid of weaknesses such as buffer overflows , double-frees, and similar issues—has been a popular topic in software communities over the past decad
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
Softbank is involved with Lutnick's Cantor & Fitzgerald in crypto deals: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/cantor-nears-... Masayoshi Son is BFF with Trump and Lutnick: https://asi
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
They do indeed recommend encryption, sometimes with deliberate backdoors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG So viewing their recommendations with caution seems wise.
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
I'll henceforth refer to the process of using vector.at(0) instead of vector[0] in C++ as "providing memory safety by static analysis". Static analysis has a specific meaning, and rote insertion of bounds checking isn't
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
Bounds checking is part of "memory safety" and Rust people don't get the monopoly on that term. The definition of "memory safety" is literally the topic of this subthread.
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882148
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
This subthread is about claims of STATIC checking of memory safety. A panic is not static checking. Perhaps you should read what you respond to.
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
I'm glad that I provide amusement, but rustc-1.63.0 still compiles this program that panics at runtime . My experience with Rust is 5 min, so the style may provide further amusement: fn f(n : usize) -> usize { if n == 0 {

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