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by bgwalter 1y ago
Are you familiar with the fact that Rust does array bounds checking at runtime, contrary to the cited claim? And that this was kind of the topic of this subthread? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28389371/why-d
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by bgwalter 1y ago
"offer memory safety at compile time through the use of static analysis " For arrays, this problem is not computable at compile time, hence the sarcastic remark that, IF THE ABOVE DEFINITION IS TAKEN AT FACE VALUE, Rust must
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by bgwalter 1y ago
If the 5 eye agencies recommend memory safety, can we conclude that they already get all their information via "AI" data harvesting in Office 365 and similar? What will happen to Pegasus? Or do they have yet unknown backdoors in R
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by bgwalter 1y ago
TFA is too long, like all articles since the arrival of you know what. So the definitions are scattered. Here it claims: Rust's big step function was to offer memory safety at compile time through the use of static analysis borrowed a
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by bgwalter 1y ago
So this pelican svg gimmick isn't actually new or advanced at all, but from 2020 or earlier.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The reality is that they go after intelligent people and political opponents on specious grounds because they are jealous and want to preserve their own power. You can dig up any number of posts on anyone, as Richelieu has pointed out pre-I
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Not if all the culture wars in 2020-2024 received $billions of funding by the same companies who now support Trump. There is nothing organic about this, and organizations like the PSF play their role by never veering into economic and class
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Many people here have pointed out in response to flagged comments that the decision was legalistic, bureaucratic and self-preserving . I.e., the PSF did not want to enter a territory where it might be forced to repay the grant. The money w
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Under a different account? They could special case his account and even give him more computing power because they know he'll not rest until every dog on this planet has a subscription to at least ChatGPT and Claude Code.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Ok, I expect the Riemann hypothesis to be proven any day now.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Gowers, Tao, Aaronson. Are there others hyping "AI"? All of these seem to subscribe to "inevitability", have no issues that their research relies on a handful of oligarchs and that all of their thoughts and attempts are
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Indeed. Free grok.com got significantly worse this week and has been on a decline since shortly after the release of Grok-4. People who have $2000 worth of various model subscriptions (monthly) while saying they are not sponsored are now go
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Certainly! Thinking ... - The user is asking about the connection between CPU bugs and price dumping in order to capture market share. - The user appears to miss the original thread starter that mentions cutting corners in models after the
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by bgwalter 1y ago
So Misanthropic claims that 416666.66 software developers have bought their expensive $200 subscription when there are 4.4 million software developers in the US. That sounds reasonable given that 10% of software developers are talkers that
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I was obviously responding to your "SV companies have been doing that forever". You have introduced the general topic.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
An LLM would have generated four pages on this topic in order to increase the token count! LLMs are advertised for serious applications. I don't recall that CPUs generally hallucinate except for the FDIV bug. Or that AirBnB rents you a
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by bgwalter 1y ago
All "AI" providers cut corners in the models right now because the subsidized cost is unsustainable. Grok's latest update made it far worse than the version right after the Grok-4 release. It makes outright mistakes now. Copi
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The alternative interpretation of the approval of Musk's pay package is that the stakeholders know the goals are unrealistic, but they want to keep the hype going in order to exit quietly. The Optimus narrative is so obviously a fraud.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Yep, he saw the Mamdani win and Vance gave new marching orders on X by pretending to care about jobs, housing etc. Sacks was one of the most prominent whiners on X asking for the bail out the Silicon Valley Bank. He is lying, just as the al
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Accenture of course can make more money by first delivering vibe slop and then have a second round of contracts that fix the slop. Customers beware.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
If the whole article isn't made up by "AI" and the dinner was factual, three things stand out: - The leak of the "off-the-record affair" was of course deliberate. - Jensen Huang has no proof of his 1 million "A
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Yet anti-war protests were orders of magnitude stronger in the 1980s, Iran Contra was treated like real scandal [1] and politicians occasionally had to resign for misbehavior. Political awareness was much stronger than now and economic issu
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by bgwalter 1y ago
"AI" absolutely contributes to brain rot. Google "AI" is just a status quo propagandist that makes things up, misunderstands questions and berates the "user" if the "user" dares to contradict. It is w
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The China "AI" threat? Xi has warned of a bubble, has shut down the Internet during exam time and is in no hurry at all to push this nonsense. Perhaps the government should loan OpenAI $1 billion so it can donate to a four times l
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by bgwalter 1y ago
That is very funny. "AI" corporations are funding a scraper to subvert paywalls: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45835090 The FBI should investigate the "AI" companies and also the demise of Suchir
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Meanwhile, Common Crawl’s executive director, Rich Skrenta, has publicly made the case that AI models should be able to access anything on the internet. “The robots are people too,” he told me, and should therefore be allowed to “read the
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It is becoming unbearable. YouTube now has "AI" slop ads for Freenow (Lyft brand in the EU) with fake cars that move without the wheels turning and "AI" "actors" that look like plastic. This of course means tha
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I'm not sure how these matters are handled in NZ, but in the EU they would just raise prices so private consumers have to save electricity while the industries are subsidized.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It looks like a maximum security prison so the locals cannot revolt against "AI". Of course no jobs are created. The data centers are there for cheaper energy, laxer environmental regulations and for the ability to process U.S. ci
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by bgwalter 1y ago
We did have that. In some EU countries, during the cassette tape and Sony Walkman era, private individuals were allowed to make around 5 copies for friends from a legitimate source . Companies were not allowed to make 5 trillion copies.

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