infamouscow

昨日議論

For languages, I'd say Gleam and OxCaml are going to become more and more popular on here. Not sure what else.

In the industry, Ruby often (but not always) pairs with Rails. Ruby+Rails exists in a sweet spot of making most of the mundane bullshit of writing software vanish, you spend 80% of your time thinking about your business problem, and that was before LLMs. With LLMs, you can get a lot done.

It wouldn't surprise me if AI economics act as a forcing function for more Ruby adoption.

infamouscow

8 日前議論

Pointing out hypocrisy is a losing strategy in politics.

I implore you to continue with this strategy.

infamouscow

8 日前議論

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes—Dijkstra

infamouscow

11 日前議論

Gavin Newsom should take a page from all the LinkedIn CEOs and force Claude down everyones throats or be dismissed.

I don't live in California, but speeding up the government with AI would be something that solidifies Newsom's 2028 presidential campaign. He can position himself as having resolved the concerns about AI taking jobs, and still be viewed as innovative and forward-thinking. It also gives him a cover for past mismanagement by reframing those problems as finally being within grasp with AI.

infamouscow

12 日前議論

My guillotine & rope startup is going to make a killing (no pun intended).

infamouscow

14 日前議論

This is not true. It is fast as a general purpose hash table, but claiming it's the fastest across all datasets and workloads is silly.

infamouscow

17 日前議論

The government is not going to enforce this, the game theory does not work in their favor.

The SCOTUS has made it exceptionally clear mathematics and software are protected by the First Amendment. The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 tries to make a very narrow exception for nuclear weapons, but

1. The law has never been challenged in court for being unconstitutional, and

2. It doesn't apply to model weights

Any attempt by the government to suppress open models will meet legal challenges on the grounds of (1) or (2).

Congress could amend the act to include model weights, but that won't prevent legal challenges on the grounds of it being unconstitutional (which it is).

infamouscow

18 日前議論

In service to the point, if you're _really_ smart—like definitely going to grad school smart—you apply to universities with the best faculty for your intended area of study. Often that is a sole professor at a university you've never heard of, but the researchers in that area of study regard as a top school.

infamouscow

18 日前議論

If it's been 10+ years and an employer wants your SAT scores, 1600 is as good an answer as any. Anyone asking for that data point doesn't actually care about the accuracy, they just want to see if you'll compliantly jump through a pointless hoop.

(Save the "but that's fraud!" replies. It's not material to the job, so it isn't).

infamouscow

19 日前議論

The fiber cut was done by AI.

infamouscow

23 日前議論

The default garbage collection tunables are also from 30 years ago. Adding the GCMH (Garbage Collector Magic Hack) package resolves much of the slowdown, and native compilation covers the remaining gap quite nicely.

infamouscow

先月議論

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infamouscow

先月議論

It's only fraud if a person signed their name stating such.

Their name being attached to the commit is itself, irrelevant, as their is no way to submit a patch otherwise. You could use a fake name, but you're just moving this fraud problem around.

You're going to have a hard time convincing anyone that using a tool constitutes fraud. Frankly, it's silly, if not genuinely stupid.

Film photographers in the early 2000s routinely called digital "not real photography" and Photoshop "cheating" because you could delete bad shots and fix everything later. Traditional musicians and critics dismissed drum machines, synthesizers, and autotune as soulless tools.

infamouscow

2 か月前議論

> In the US we have a problem that a lot of seniors can't afford to retire.

Gen Z and majority of millennials are completely unsympathetic to this problem.

From their perspective, older generations have actively hindered their careers and financial opportunities to the point where they know they'll have to work their entire lives. They also know the US is marching towards financial calamity when Medicare becomes insolvent in the early 2030s, and don't anticipate Medicare or Social Security to exist when they're older.

infamouscow

2 か月前議論

On the bright side, my guillotine & rope startup is going to make a killing (no pun intended).

infamouscow

2 か月前議論

For most people, they will use the models included in iOS and Android on their phone.

When all these datacenter projects halt (as is their trajectory), at some point someone is going to ask about what to do with the unused GPUs. Those will probably sell to bitcoin miners or other new AI companies that know how to use exotic sources of power, though at smaller scales.

infamouscow

2 か月前議論

This is still very legal in Texas (provided it's at night).

Knowing that you can be killed is a very powerful deterrent for most criminals.

infamouscow

2 か月前議論

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infamouscow

3 か月前議論

I've only been slightly joking about starting a company that sells rope and guillotines.

infamouscow

3 か月前議論

There are carve-outs to allow for governments to make exceptions, but it's besides the point.

If the government were to hold themselves to account, they would fine themselves some amount N, and pay itself N using your taxes. It also wastes other finite resources for all the paperwork and legal action involved that could be used for something else.

Speaking pragmatically, there's no point trying to hold the government itself to it's own laws. The only time citizens do hold the government accountable, it's always done in the form of hangings, or the guillotine in France's case.

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