repelsteeltje

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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
I get the sarcasm, but what about Neanderthals versus Homo Sapiens?
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
...But there's a new world dawning for photonic chips. No reason to expect Moore's observation to apply there (though, maybe?), but it will have big implications for power usage.
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
Today's tech echoes 1960-1970 mainframe era: very centralized around a handful of companies controlling "massive cloud compute" in bespoke mainframe-like topology. All of that will all be legacy in a couple of years. Today&#x
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
Free (but admittedly useless) advice when you plan to fall seriously ill: - do not get on a cruise ship - do not get off at a remote island
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
Hah. Coincidentally, I was listening to this exact episode of future of coding podcast while stumbling upon this HN mention. Access to these visuals really helps understanding what they are talking about
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
> European laws require us to give people something like two months' notice. Even then we don't trust them; we pay them their salary and tell them to stay home. Escorting them to the door, and revoking access for the remainder
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
Haha, off course! The three major sources of software failures: off by one errors and race conditions.
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
I suppose that's a very powerful way of preventing "accidents" on termination. But isn't that just theatre? I mean - as though termination is the one and only case where an employee with the power to destroy the compan
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
I hope the developers of, say, the brakes in my car don't interpret 'software correctness' the way you do. Added, later: hey you changed your comment, added a whole paragraph.
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
It works == it's correct?
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
Also, any name with Google in it sounds cheap, gross, subsidized by ads, you pay less because you're the product. Chrome..., Pixel..., Gemini..., Android..., anything but Google, please.
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
Totally agree that Google should not be on a service like this in any shape or form. But "sharing data" does somewhat suggest they are sharing the payload , the actual conversations.
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
It's kind of breaking the social contract. Licences were drafted, conferences were held, and endless flamewars tried to codify what it means to collaboratively build, distribute, own and use open software. Then came the model trainers,
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
Yeah echelon seemed overwhelming at the time, and encryption was to be the answer. But it turn out surveillance works just fine if you only focus on the meta data. Knowing who takes to whom, and which sites people visit is much more valua
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
Maybe post this as Show HN ? And adjust headline to fit max chars.
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
> [..] lovely [..] cute [..] ugly [..] naive... First and foremost to me those screenshots are somewhat disappointing as they can't match my memories. NeXT, BeOS, Irix, OpenLook, SunOS, Arthur (imagine the diversity)... they were
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
> While broad access was originally intended only for NHSE employees with security clearance, the FT reported that the briefing noted that external workers had requested the same permissions “as it is too inconvenient to apply for all of
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
> Give it a few more months to years and things will likely settle how he pitched - at least in the context of note taking: only let it become "lore" if it didn't have to guess a word. I'm hesitant to admit even that.
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
This. Giving markets free reign, usually doesn't result in alignment with long term best interests or political objectives. It took years of activism and voting with our money to get banks, pension funds and similar institutions to sto
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
We tend to overestimate the short-term change, while underestimating the long term impact. A lot of hot air will likely vent when businesses realize LLMs didn't magically replace their workforce. Also, prices will go through the roof w
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
It probably won't matter to the average user: buy Apple, buy Google and be (little bit less) happy while your access to the free web gets little more enshittified... ...But there is always at least one hacker. The issue with hardening
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
Hardware attestation is like hardware DRM. It is intended to limit and restrict abundance. Abundance of clients (as a proxy for user attention) and abundance of copying, access and replay (as a proxy for "piracy"), resp. It won&#x
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
In some ways Archimedes' RiscOS was ahead of its time, in some ways it was a disappointment. It never matured due to lack of momentum, market share. I suppose that most of all, it reminds me of time when actual, genuine real innovation
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
How about consumers paying a little extra for their device? The way it's going, add sponsored big tech is dieing because click fraud detection is becoming too expensive. Either we give up privacy and track every user, or we let bots ha
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
Yeah. Actuality I was thinking about less sophisticated adversaries. So called "failed states", nonstate groups, organized crime, amateur surveillance, corporate espionage, sabotage.
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
Some scary applications come to mind. For instance, sprinkling a bunch of nodes + sensors in hostile territory should allow for gathering intelligence, guiding drones, setting of fuses...
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
It's easy to forget how much innovation divergence was happening in the early 70s. Up till the late nineties we speculated that ISAs other than x86 (spec. RISC designs) would win in the end. Imagine these 8 bitters were mostly hardwire
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
This is exactly the feeling I have. First: excessive growth of dependencies fueled by free components. * with internet access to FOSS via sourceforge and github we got an abundance of building blocks * with central repositories like CPAN, n
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
So, your theory says it's about prediction, estimation, extrapolation? Like a Kalman filter? I'm thinking of the first episode of Alex Garland minisery Devs, where a somewhat brilliant Russian guy demos predicting the exact moveme
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by repelsteeltje 5mo ago
I was thinking of declarative, but PROLOG rather than SQL. So with actual control flow and reasoning capabilities. And then you run into similar issues as the llm does, like silent failures, loops, contradictions unless you're very car

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