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by tinco 9mo ago
To be fair, working on the Rust compiler is also something to do when you're learning Rust. I guess this person is killing two birds with one stone.
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by tinco 9mo ago
If something is literally incredible, then it's prudent to stop and consider whether it should be believed or that you have made an incorrect assumption. In this case, you wrongly assume that Musk is somehow being rewarded for somethin
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by tinco 10mo ago
The GP was talking about Unreal Engine 5 as if that engine doesn't optimize for low end. That's a wild take, I've been playing Arc Raiders with a group of friends in the past month, and one of them hadn't upgraded their
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by tinco 10mo ago
I wonder what's worse, the SFBA-style software development, but also with SFBA-style 2 hour response window to serious bugs like Discord showed, or the old fashioned enterprise report your bug and within 2 months you'll receive an
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by tinco 10mo ago
Yeah it has on occasion, you're right in that it usually doesn't have much of an effect but every once in a while it does. If there's enough of the self-sacrificing users they'll together save a business or a way of doin
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by tinco 10mo ago
The author doesn't mean that the technologies weren't inevitable in the absolute sense. They mean that it was not inevitable that anyone should use those technologies. It's not inevitable that they will use Tiktok, and it is
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by tinco 10mo ago
The rails bugs weren't about Json parsing, they were deserializing into Ruby objects of classes that had side effects, and those side effects led to RCE possibilities. Since those happened, you'll find any deserialization library,
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by tinco 10mo ago
Unsafe deserialization is a very 2010 Ruby on Rails sort of vulnerability. It is strangely interesting that such a vulnerability was introduced so late in the lifetime of these frameworks. It must be a very sneaky vulnerability given how ca
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by tinco 10mo ago
This seems really irrelevant to the browser. I wonder why this was standardized, JavaScript is easily powerful enough to express this. Surely it hasn't been a performance bottleneck for it needing a native api? I agree with the other t
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by tinco 11mo ago
Perhaps, maybe I'm a bad parent but I don't see anything particularly dangerous in Doom 3. It's PEGI 18, but probably fine for teenagers.
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by tinco 11mo ago
Yeah, it's obviously just a crude razor. What I meant is that if it's not on Nintendo, it's a sign you should be more diligent as a parent. Obviously you should always monitor and ideally play the games your kids play yoursel
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by tinco 11mo ago
Easy way to know if Roblox is safe for children is to ask the following question: Is Roblox available on Nintendo? Nintendo would never turn away money, unless they feel it would damage their reputation as a company you can trust your child
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by tinco 11mo ago
I don't believe we need more academic research to achieve AGI. The sort of applications that are solving the recent AGI challenges are just severely resource constrained AGI. The only difference between those systems and human intellig
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by tinco 11mo ago
Sure, if you only consider the model they have no object permanence. However you can just put your model in a loop, and feed the previous frame into the next frame. This is what LLM agent engineers do with their context histories, and it&#x
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by tinco 11mo ago
Yeah I think LeCun is underestimating the impact that LLM's and Diffusion models are going to have, even considering the huge impact they're already having. That's no problem as I'm sure whatever LeCun is working on is g
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by tinco 1y ago
Yeah no, it's just not how it works. They're trying to support fundamental research and they have limited resources to accomplish them. Some random dude who wants to build a company that generates pretty AI pictures is just not th
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by tinco 1y ago
Yes, and consider how an animal that lives only 2 years gets Alzheimer's in the first place. They must be genetically engineered to have super turbo Alzheimer's. Normal Alzheimer's doesn't progress so fast I think.
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by tinco 1y ago
So it seems, but also this seems to have been dragging along since 2023 so it's less sudden than the press makes it seem. The contract with WSS that's underlying the complaint by the former management has apparently been allowed t
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by tinco 1y ago
Right, I suppose at that point there was some chauvinism or at least fear of being held accountable for it. But the thing that surprised me was that there was actually someone listening at Economic Affairs. Perhaps at that level a board of
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by tinco 1y ago
I am sort of surprised we even have an arm of government quick and authoritative enough to be able to intervene here. I always assumed the government would just let any frogs boil.
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by tinco 1y ago
It's not about non-compete, it's about copyleft. What's blocking redis and and with them a whole generation of open source based startups from embracing true open source licenses is that there is no copyleft license for the c
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by tinco 1y ago
It makes a difference in that it allows the cloud providers to monetize Redis without having to deal with the Redis team. Which is fair and in the spirit of the original license of Redis, but don't paint it as some great achievement of
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by tinco 1y ago
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic. Valkey is literally a fork of Redis with a generic name.
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by tinco 1y ago
I don't think that's the same thing. If you add a fruit juice concentrate to bread, that counts as added sugar. If you have a fruit juice and it contains fruit juice concentrate that's not added sugar. I don't think it&#
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by tinco 1y ago
Yeah this is insane. This is basically what was already happening, i.e. cloud companies offering a Redis service under some generic name. It barely slows them down. I can't understand how legal counsel would not have objected to adding
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by tinco 1y ago
Right, my apologies for downplaying it. That you control both the hardware and the software through the entire stack has tremendous benefit, especially for this type of customer. My point was if you as a customer don't value that aspec
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by tinco 1y ago
As far as I can tell it's one of their most significant features, and certainly one of its most capital intensive. And I don't know how many startups land institutions like INL as their launching customer, and enough other big ent
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by tinco 1y ago
And of course there's oxide.computer making motherboards with full control of the entire hardware stack running open source software specifically for customers like the Idaho National Laboratory.
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by tinco 1y ago
It's not just kids. MrBeast had me convinced he has a perfectly good business model making more money than he gives away without having to pull shady things. And with me plenty of reasonable adults judging from his interactions with pu
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by tinco 1y ago
"For example, tell it to “compile customer feedback from Slack, Notion, and email into actionable insights” and watch it research across your tools, synthesize findings, create a structured database, then notify you when it’s done.&quo

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