da-x

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Comment · 9 days ago
It's kinda amazing in retrospect that HTTP was ever the default for sites, even when the Internet was very widely used, and for years.
Comment · 27 days ago
Also, will Intel remain Intel or become SuperIntel?
Comment · 1 month ago
$4.65B seed round. That's a lot of investor faith in a seed round.
Comment · 1 month ago
- Don't put them in non-trivial paths so they are not easy targets. I never put them under a path that `git clean -xdf` erases, for example.

- One thing that always scares me is that some third party code will just do a getenv AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID in whatever language and send it out somewhere. So I tend to either invent non trivial environment variables names, and/or do unsetenv when the process starts, after it loads them to some internal config struct.

Comment · 1 month ago
Terminals and web browsers are our main UI drivers right, so yeah, it makes sense to have a super app that provides them both in the best way. Embdding a terminal inside a web app is annoying because of Ctrl-W and other issues, and embedding a web broswer inside a terminal is even more weird. So we wind up having Wayland compositors do the work to combine them in one environment.

I tried to do this with a simple wgpu + winit app, servo, and alactitty_terminal, and it kinda worked, but both terminal and web browser rendered poorly.

Comment · 1 month ago
Frankly, I don't know how this 10% chance can even be calculated.
Comment · 1 month ago
I see this too. Generally, having a builder mindeset is independent from the tools available.
Comment · 1 month ago
I think that the future in which these projects will remain relevant does not exist.
Comment · 1 month ago
I think this has changed since then, their policies toward open source improved (e.g ROCm).
Comment · 1 month ago
While the logo somewhat like the shape of the Star Trek franschise Starfleet logo, the small text reads 'Starship Troopers'-inspired, and to remind, in that Heinlein fiction human societies pride themselves in becoming authoritarian. That's the scary part.
Comment · 1 month ago
I've read the whole thing, but I usually read the end paragraphs of long articles because that's where he point is made.

Leading to it is:

> A recent report issued by Britain’s most important cultural funding body, the Arts Council, warned against the use of “terms like excellence” which may promote “unhelpful hierarchies about what kinds of work are valued”.’

Which I find despairing. Article ends with:

> The cultural elite has abandoned cultural elitism.

So the point goes far beyond 'social media despair', it goes to say that the entire culture is regressing.

Comment · 2 months ago
Understanding human interaction nuance to an exact degree. For example, even when given all the scripts of the Seinfeld TV show, they still cannot come up with a new script does not feel as good as any of them (once they can, I want to watch these episodes..).
Comment · 2 months ago
These kind of things have used to be more impressive in the past, when you knew that humans made them.
Comment · 2 months ago
Please share more what you would expect out of sokoban as an AI coding benchmark?
Comment · 2 months ago
Yes, it's after multiple attempts at the problem. It's hard to nudge it to have it come up with an algorithm that generates 'interestingly difficult' levels.

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