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still_grokking
·2 tháng trước·discuss
I've said I'm not sure about the validity of that reasoning.

I've liked it nevertheless for context, as augmentation to parent's post.
still_grokking
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Exactly! Completely new languages without large amounts of reference material are terrible for LLMs.
still_grokking
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Or it's just some AI brain fart…

The whole things looks vibe-coded, and vibe-designed.
still_grokking
·2 tháng trước·discuss
You're looking for Scala… ;-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957121
still_grokking
·2 tháng trước·discuss
That's in large parts Scala.

It doesn't have Hindley-Milner type inference, but it has very strong type inference.

We will get linearity soon thanks to and as part of the Capybara[1] effort.

Refinement types are already long a reality.

The whole new effect tracking thing is based on delimited continuations.

The Unison style content addressability comes up now and then, maybe it will become a reality at some point. It's though mostly not a language thing but more a build system thing.

Scala is already great for for LLMs also for other reasons:

https://arxiv.org/html/2510.11151v1

[1] https://2025.workshop.scala-lang.org/details/scala-2025/6/Sy...
still_grokking
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Why would you need "header files" when a LSP server can give you just the outline of some file?
still_grokking
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Why would anybody use a vibe-coded and vibe-desinged language which effectively does not exist yet instead of an established one with such features, like Scala?

https://arxiv.org/html/2510.11151v1
still_grokking
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Wasn't that legalize the reason Gram got created?

https://gram.liten.app/
still_grokking
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Yeah, that's great!

Imagine we would download random code from the internet and just execute it, like with NPM, PIP, Maven, Cargo etc.
still_grokking
·2 tháng trước·discuss
How about SELinux, like on Android?
still_grokking
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Will this continue like that even when the prophesied Mythos Vulnocalypse hits the Kernel?

This stance doesn't seem sustainable any more to me.
still_grokking
·2 tháng trước·discuss
As I did not know what AF_ALG is in the first place I've searched for it and found this here:

https://www.chronox.de/libkcapi/html/ch01s02.html

It states the following:

> There are several reasons for AF_ALG:

> * The first and most important item is the access to hardware accelerators and hardware devices whose technical interface can only be accessed from the kernel mode / supervisor state of the processor. Such support cannot be used from user space except through AF_ALG.

> * When using user space libraries, all key material and other cryptographic sensitive parameters remains in the calling application's memory even when the application supplied the information to the library. When using AF_ALG, the key material and other sensitive parameters are handed to the kernel. The calling application now can reliably erase that information from its memory and just use the cipher handle to perform the cryptographic operations. If the application is cracked an attacker cannot obtain the key material.

> * On memory constrained systems like embedded systems, the additional memory footprint of a user space cryptographic library may be too much. As the kernel requires the kernel crypto API to be present, reusing existing code should reduce the memory footprint.

I can't judge whether this is a good justification, but there is one.
still_grokking
·3 tháng trước·discuss
Can someone ELI5 that for me?

Is this the mathematician's variant of "my language is better than your language", or what does this post actually discus? Something fundamental in the philosophy underpinning things or just the way to express them?
still_grokking
·3 tháng trước·discuss
> the only real advantage for local models (privacy/secrecy) hasn't proven convincing for broader IT either

Because of nonexistent regulation. Just wait for it…

The legal situation in for example the EU is crystal clear, only that it will take some time to go though all court instances.
still_grokking
·3 tháng trước·discuss
Looks like the Chinese are, again, winning the long game.

There is simply nothing that could compete with their open models. At the same time more and more corps got "AI addicted", so they will either have to pay ridiculous amounts of money, or use the Chinese stuff.
still_grokking
·3 tháng trước·discuss
Their vibe-coded "documentation" sucks so much…
still_grokking
·3 tháng trước·discuss
If you want to keep your shiny Apple stuff you're effectively trapped. Their walled garden approach works extremely well…
still_grokking
·3 tháng trước·discuss
The "quality" Apple delivers is by now a complete joke. It's going south since over a decade, and this never stopped.

It's like that because people are still buying. Even for the ridiculous prices Apple asks for.

So why would Apple actually care? They get away with this "quality", so from a business standpoint there is simply nothing that needs investments or even just attention.

It's a race to the bottom. Like everywhere else. That's simply how the system which people created works.
still_grokking
·3 tháng trước·discuss
This "test" makes no sense. Cyan, and especially turquoise are neither blue nor green, they are a mix (similar to orange between red / yellow).

I had actually a very hard time to answer the questions, needed to overlay most of the color with some mostly white / light gray window and only squint at the color around it to decide. In the end my result was 176, which is almost the exact turning point for most people (and that even while my monitor is set to be more cold than default; but like said I had whatever my monitor shows as "white" to compare; even that "white" is likely technically slightly blue-ish).

Color perception is anyway much more influenced by contrasts then anything else. (Likely similar to acoustic tones, which are very hard to name / locate absolutely than when comparing to some reference tone.)

Besides the things mentioned in the about popup, blue is AFAIK the color we have the most receptors for. So it's imho quite "natural" that most people perceive cyan—which is technically the exact middle—as blue-ish, and of course the color left to it, turquoise, is green-ish (and as it seems, for most people, the mentioned turning point).
still_grokking
·4 tháng trước·discuss
> GrapheneOS had to sign some sort of non-disclosure for them, in order to roll them into updates.

So doesn't this mean GrapheneOS is effectively controlled by Google now?

Also, how is keeping anything secret under NDA possible at all if you want to know what's in a security update and be actually able to build that update yourself from source?