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by fidotron 2mo ago
> I was replying to someone who suggested sandboxing by raising a couple of places their suggestion falls short. No, you created two straw men and attacked them, then got upset at me pointing this out, while accusing me of doing exactly
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by fidotron 2mo ago
> That’s a strawman argument and you’re still dodging the question. Hmm . . . > 1. There isn’t a single universal standard for sandboxing across all the different platforms that are supported by Rust. That is a straw man, right there,
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by fidotron 2mo ago
> Nice sarcasm but you’re not actually addressing a solution to the problem I raised. Are you not concerned about an asteroid impact rendering you extinct during your next Rust build? Why not? That's the same level of relevance as y
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by fidotron 2mo ago
> 1. There isn’t a single universal standard for sandboxing across all the different platforms that are supported by Rust. Yeah, let's hold up the entire world of offensive cybersecurity capability while you work on that. Sure they
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by fidotron 2mo ago
Doing software development outside of strict containerization, at the very least, looks increasingly prone to disaster. Yes, we can argue about the culture of package management (as some of us have with especially npm from day one), but it&
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by fidotron 2mo ago
What if it's not actually AI slop and just someone jumping on it? This whole section has been completely derailed by this, as have many others. These non discussions are a far bigger problem than what they claim to be defending against
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by fidotron 2mo ago
What about tolerating and rewarding comments that complain about possible AI authoring? If the article is decent and interesting let it stand, if it's not then it will fail by itself.
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> ARM was also rooted in an academic exercise. Where do people get ideas like this from? Just nonsense.
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by fidotron 2mo ago
It even adds comments to say you asked for [thing] then leaves snarky comments about when you correct it. At that point I decided it's just not worth the babysitting that's required, and you are better off working entirely with ot
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by fidotron 2mo ago
Did they ever discuss what the root cause of the goblins turned out to be?
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It's so obnoxious it has to be deliberate, like a colleague from hell. There's a constant strand from the AI safety brigade that "people get used to sycophantic LLMs which give them unrealistic expectations of human interacti
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by fidotron 2mo ago
I was hoping this was for agents to consume job data so they can perform the job. How does the recruiting industry see itself surviving if it is just going to turn into "AI said this guy"?
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by fidotron 2mo ago
> Before working at OpenAI, she was Meta’s chief ethicist
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by fidotron 2mo ago
The SV obsession with neo Kabbalistic nonsense will get a whole new burst of energy from this.
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I think the gnarlier part is that it reveals how much (and how error prone) initialization code is. When objects start glued together in the right structure a lot becomes magically easier to deal with.
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I'm going there: Bosworth is the problem. He should never have got near being CTO.
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FB/Meta have had "don't recruit me" databases for a long time that are very easy to get yourself added to, thankfully.
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by fidotron 2mo ago
> And yet local artists captured as little as 9 percent of New Zealand streaming, download and physical sales revenue in 2024. In the official end-of-year Top 50 singles chart, exactly one New Zealand track appeared. Radio plays local mu
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by fidotron 2mo ago
A further example of how stunningly naive this was: they wanted (external NMEA) GPS connected to it (and Bluetooth beacons when indoors, which had to be created for the project) so people could publish their real time location.
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by fidotron 2mo ago
Nokia went through a phase in around 2006 of seriously believing the future was people liveblogging and serving it over 3G from Symbian based Series 60 devices. This was based on "Apache Raccoon" https://sourceforge.net
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Ten ways I've Sped Up Sonic on the Amiga 1200(patreon.com)
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by fidotron 2mo ago
> Because what loosened those patients’ grip on reality was prolonged exposure to a voice that sounded informed and assured, and always felt supportive and patient. Clearly Opus 5 was an overreaction to this then.
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by fidotron 2mo ago
It was more an expression of surprise than anything else. The defining feature of the 29K, when I was introduced to it at least, was what appeared to be an enormous register set and the way of dealing with the stack better than the SPARC eq
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by fidotron 2mo ago
Yes, I had an architecture professor that was a fan of it (and so your work, presumably!) It's the only way I'd encountered it, sadly. That was back around 2000 at Loughborough in the UK.
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by fidotron 2mo ago
How is the phrase "register window" not in this article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_window "The AMD 29000 improved the design by allowing the windows to be of variable size, which helps utili
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by fidotron 2mo ago
The single most frustrating thing about being in Canada is they can't even work out how to use their current grievances to deal with, you know, getting out of our own way like the crazy inter provincial trade restrictions. And yet the
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by fidotron 2mo ago
> Fundamentally though this is a common American attitude. Look at something that's new and different and say "This would be bad for these reasons" Among the other bits of wrongness in your comment this is spectacular. Ame
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> smell of fried croquettes drifting onto the streets, small shops run by the building owners, easy public transit access The genius of the BBC is to gloss over that in a culture that isn't Japanese these things all easily become ne
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by fidotron 2mo ago
One of the most tedious ideas of recent years is the "great engineers are great writers" meme, unsurprisingly spread by writers.
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A major feature of React (like Java) is the ability to reduce the blast radius of errant colleagues through much stricter boundaries. In the AI/vibe coding world this becomes even more valuable, on top of the fact LLMs are well versed

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