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dmitrygr

13,598 karmajoined 14 years ago
I make things and I break things for fun.

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https://dmitry.gr/ long ago: http://palmpowerups.com/

Places we might have crossed paths: VMWare, Google, Apple

Submissions

I co-founded Wikipedia, but an anonymous mob runs the show – and now I'm banned

washingtonexaminer.com
30 points·by dmitrygr·3 days ago·18 comments

Britons ordered to remove air conditioning from homes in 40C heat under Net Zero

telegraph.co.uk
8 points·by dmitrygr·12 days ago·3 comments

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1 points·by dmitrygr·16 days ago·0 comments

Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years

theregister.com
10 points·by dmitrygr·16 days ago·3 comments

California 'billionaire tax' makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls

theguardian.com
8 points·by dmitrygr·23 days ago·5 comments

Nightmare Eclipse drops 'RoguePlanet' zero-day granting SYSTEM privileges

bleepingcomputer.com
7 points·by dmitrygr·last month·0 comments

I paid someone to hack my Meta glasses

thenewthings.com
3 points·by dmitrygr·last month·0 comments

Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter

dmitry.gr
3 points·by dmitrygr·2 months ago·0 comments

Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter

dmitry.gr
238 points·by dmitrygr·2 months ago·52 comments

FFmpeg developer calls out OxideAV for AI license laundering of his code

github.com
83 points·by dmitrygr·2 months ago·6 comments

OpenAI president discloses his stake in the company is worth $30B

apnews.com
9 points·by dmitrygr·2 months ago·0 comments

BMW is one step closer to selling you a color-changing car

theverge.com
5 points·by dmitrygr·3 months ago·2 comments

The Subprime AI Crisis Is Here

wheresyoured.at
56 points·by dmitrygr·3 months ago·25 comments

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1 points·by dmitrygr·4 months ago·0 comments

Ads on Apple Maps – Coming Soon

ads.apple.com
3 points·by dmitrygr·4 months ago·1 comments

Sam Altman is under fire from critics again for 'disgusting' AI remarks

indy100.com
4 points·by dmitrygr·4 months ago·1 comments

Austin draws another billionaire as Uber co-founder joins California exodus

statesman.com
5 points·by dmitrygr·4 months ago·0 comments

Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for copyright and trademark infringement

engadget.com
14 points·by dmitrygr·4 months ago·0 comments

What's the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework?

404media.co
4 points·by dmitrygr·4 months ago·1 comments

CloudpilotEmu / PalmOS 5

cspeckner.de
4 points·by dmitrygr·5 months ago·0 comments

comments

dmitrygr
·22 hours ago·discuss
The original paper quoth:

> our reference-counted translation model, where every variable is pessimistically wrapped inside a Rc<RefCell<T>> type, checks that would usually execute at compile-time are shifted to run time, degrading performance.
dmitrygr
·2 days ago·discuss
> The challenge is that

Why is that a challenge? As long as they are open about this, all is OK.
dmitrygr
·2 days ago·discuss
And what happens when your "tests" are also vibecoded. Right now all of these houses of cards reset on human-written tests. What happens without them?
dmitrygr
·3 days ago·discuss
Just wait a year. It will die down just like crypto and NFTs did. Hype goes in cycles.
dmitrygr
·4 days ago·discuss
> with knowledge specialization becoming unnecessary,

I will take the other end of this bet
dmitrygr
·4 days ago·discuss
Repeated nuisance alarms have the same effect on all humans, not just on pilots - it trains them to ignore the alarms. Eventually this will lead to non-nuisance alarms being ignored and lives being lost.
dmitrygr
·4 days ago·discuss
This sort of nonsense is well studied in aeronautical world, and will lead to too many alerts, which, in turn, lead to predictable outcomes: https://flightsafety.org/asw-article/normalization-of-devian...
dmitrygr
·4 days ago·discuss
I've had now-ex friends send me unsolicited ai-slop catch-up messages summarizing their life "since we last spoke".
dmitrygr
·11 days ago·discuss
> Meta’s rate limit is ridiculous. [...] feature [...] doesn’t use Meta’s servers. It runs on-device, using the chips inside the glasses [...] I turned off my internet, and it kept working.

BMW heated-seats style move. Classy.
dmitrygr
·11 days ago·discuss
yes, compared to the length of time ballpoint pens have existed (88 years -- since 1938), this is very recent - only 9 years ago
dmitrygr
·11 days ago·discuss
Material sciences needed for modern jet engine blades are a closely guarded secret, and thanks to not manufacturing them in china, those secrets have managed to remain not stolen.

Fun story: it is not just jet engines - it is only recently that china was able to actually make indigenous ballpoint pens https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38566114
dmitrygr
·11 days ago·discuss
Nobel prizes? Manned moon landings? Reserve currencies? AC units per capita?
dmitrygr
·11 days ago·discuss
> a big part of the problem is that many people do not have a legal pathway available to them

I have no legal pathway to own the moon. That does not mean I get to just take it. Just cause you want something does not mean there must exist a way for you to get it...
dmitrygr
·12 days ago·discuss
We are in violent agreement
dmitrygr
·12 days ago·discuss
Did you read the opinion? SCOTUS only said a process was broken by a step being missed. Trump can still fire Cook, just has to let Cook have a hearing about it. Nowhere that I see did they say Trump must at all consider what Cook says at said hearing or be bound by it in any way - only that she must be able to get a hearing. This does not seem to contradict his authority to fire her. Just like your job's HR will gladly give you a hearing about terminating you, even if their minds are all made up and nothing you say will change a thing.
dmitrygr
·12 days ago·discuss
> The system works when everyone executes the system faithfully, but that isn't meaningfully happening

You are entirely right, we really need to prosecute presidents who do not follow SCOTUS rulings, like [1] and [2]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/opinion/joe-biden-student-debt-forgivene...

[2] https://www.cato.org/blog/obama-administration-ignores-supre...
dmitrygr
·12 days ago·discuss
> can't setup genuinely independent agencies

The US constitution lays out three AND ONLY three branches of government. The congress cannot create a fourth without an amendment. If they create an agency in the executive branch, by definition it reports to the head of the executive.
dmitrygr
·12 days ago·discuss
> They govern by consent of the other branches, and that's trivial to take away

That is entirely not at all what the us constitution says
dmitrygr
·12 days ago·discuss
Ah. Nice! Which university is this? (I keep a list of how seriously to take grades from various places, and this is notable info)
dmitrygr
·12 days ago·discuss
> It's not reasonable these days to expect people to hand write a 4, 6, 8 page length essay on paper and pen with a finite time limit in a classroom.

Say what? Writing by hand is not only useful to write. It helps practice fine motor control. Something you need in many places in life, and most people have no practice of other than by writing.