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by jerf 8mo ago
Goals aren't results. It was a goal for Markdown to be simple and universal. It is not a result. You may be struggling a bit because you are reading some sort of moralization into the statement, some sort of emotional judgment, but the
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by jerf 8mo ago
"In today’s article, we’ll build a rudimentary blur algorithm and then pick it apart." Emphasis mine. Quote from the beginning of the article. This isn't meant to be a textbook about blurring algorithms. It was supposed to
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by jerf 8mo ago
The main problem with "Markdown support" in Notepad is that "Markdown support" is an ill-defined phrase. The closest thing to a well-defined definition is to support CommonMark but that is far, far from universal. Micr
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by jerf 8mo ago
While I would never consider this approach advisable in any language that doesn't build in support for this sort of thing from the start, the thinner the runtime, the less dangerous it is. Go's runtime is fairly thick, and also,
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by jerf 8mo ago
Other prior art: https://github.com/bouk/monkey with accompanying blog post https://bou.ke/blog/monkey-patching-in-go/
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by jerf 8mo ago
We've always had sociopaths and narcissists, and if you're looking to "capitalism" as the reason why they exist, you're in out-and-out category error territory, not-even-wrong territory. Now that this power exists
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by jerf 8mo ago
We have separate words for intelligence and wisdom for a reason. Intelligence is not particularly correlated to ethics or morality. Probably sounds obvious when I say it directly, but it is clearly something that you have banging around
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by jerf 8mo ago
Yes, because governments are so restrained in their use of propaganda. What it is is the consequence of the power existing . 200 years ago nobody was arguing about how to hook people in the first 0.2 seconds of video, but it's not b
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by jerf 8mo ago
https://jerf.org/iri/post/2025/fp_lessons_purity/ may help, perhaps even especially if you are not a functional programmer. See also https://jerf.org/iri/post/2958/ .
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by jerf 8mo ago
The random-clickers have been around for a while, clicking through ads to try to break profiles on users and cost the ad networks more money than it is worth. They have not been very successful in their goals. I suspect, without sarcasm, th
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by jerf 8mo ago
A lot of people are mentally modeling the idea that LLMs are either now or will eventually be infinitely capable. They are and will stubbornly persist in being finite, no matter how much capacity that "finite" entails. For the sam
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by jerf 8mo ago
DNS naming rules for non-Unicode are letters, numbers, and hyphens only, and the hyphens can't start or stop the domain. Unicode is implemented on top of that through punycode. It's possible a series of bugs would allow you to pun
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by jerf 8mo ago
That may be the case for some of the people involved. Does every single one of the people taking them out of the box think the way you do, and are all, to the last person, doing it for that reason? The odds of that are indistinguishable fro
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by jerf 8mo ago
This, IMHO, puts the "can we keep AIs in a box" argument to rest once and for all. The answer is, no, because people will take the AIs out the box for a bit of light entertainment . Let alone any serious promise of gain.
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by jerf 8mo ago
For identity theft, I think at this point it depends on where you set the bar. I've never had someone clean out my checking account or anything truly large, but my wife and I have had fraudulent charges on our credit cards several time
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by jerf 8mo ago
While that speed increase is real, of course, you're really just looking at the general speed delta between Python and C there. To be honest I'm a bit surprised you didn't get another factor of 2 or 3. "Cimba even proces
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by jerf 8mo ago
It is not weird in the slightest. These things are coordinated at the state level all the time. This is probably one of those good tests of "is your 'conspiracy theory' meter properly calibrated", because if it's go
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by jerf 8mo ago
This game assumes the computations run to completion on systems that will never run out of resources. No one in this universe will ever compute Ackerman's Number, BB(6), or the final answer given in the post. Computations that never co
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by jerf 8mo ago
That is not a number, that is infinity. The (implicit) rules of the game require the number to be finite. The reason for this is not that infinity is not obviously "the largest" but that the game of "write infinity in the sma
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by jerf 8mo ago
At the moment , good code structure for humans is good code structure for AIs and bad code structure for humans is still bad code structure for AIs too. At least to a first approximation. I qualify that because hey, someone comes back and
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by jerf 8mo ago
Grovel over your linter's command-line options and/or configuration file. It's not an uncommon feature but from my personal and limited experience it is also not always advertised as well as you like. For instance, golangci-l
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by jerf 9mo ago
Nobody has to have instructions on how to "hack" the Steam Deck because it's a computer and you just run whatever you want on it. The instructions on how to crack open the immutable OS image are readily available from Valve b
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by jerf 9mo ago
If it's just the SSID it's pretty useless for making sure people are at work. I can totally connect to "Office_CA-SJC-03" from home, or any other SSID you care to name.
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by jerf 9mo ago
"Roguelites have proliferated" I know it's easy to feel that this is people chasing trends, but I've really come to appreciate roguelites over many of the PS2 era games because they give me real progression in a single p
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by jerf 9mo ago
If AIs were to plateau where they are for an extended period of time, I definitely worry about their net effect on software quality. One of the things I worry about is people not even learning what they can ask the computer to do properly b
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by jerf 9mo ago
Yes, it absolutely can. I'm sure the various high-end intelligence agencies have a much better view on this than the public does. All kinds of ways of cross-checking the numbers, all by doing things they'll be doing in their norma
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by jerf 9mo ago
I dunno about everyone else but when I learn more about what a model is and is not useful for, my subjective experience improves, not degrades.
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by jerf 9mo ago
Dying on the exact same frame , or just generally in the same spot ? In the case of the latter my first thought would be thermals. Different video codecs have significantly different decoding costs, and may also stress different parts of
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by jerf 9mo ago
If you are the sort of person who needs a reference for "weight equipment lasts a long time", feel free. Whatever guilt and shame you think I should be feeling over such a claim, believe me, I don't. I'm more in the &quo
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by jerf 9mo ago
I've never seen that one, but yeah, that is very definitely what I was getting at. Very in line with my thinking. Thank you for the expansion.

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