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Comment · 3 days ago
Glad I stocked up on them before the tariffs took effect.
Comment · 3 days ago
Using more fingers allows for faster typing.
Comment · 3 days ago
Sounds like they are doing something similar to gain of function research. How can we make LLMs more harmful and then study their behavior?
Comment · 3 days ago
The modern universal keywords if, else, for and while are good because they are fairly short and thus quick to type.
Comment · 3 days ago
I guess we are going to learn how important secure communication is based on the stories (or lack of stories) about how it is being exploited in the wild.
Comment · 5 days ago
I think the point made here is that the application runs as if it were a modern application, even though the OS is completely unrecognizable when compared to the OS it was written for. There are other ways to run old applications on modern hardware with modern OSs, which the author would consider cheating for the purpose of TFA. Heck, I can run ancient DOS and gaming console applications on my phone if I wanted to.
Comment · 6 days ago
There is this narrative I heard from a Brazilian near me that the Supreme Court in Brazil is political and rotten to the core.
Comment · 15 days ago
That's not news though. In fact almost no company beyond maybe 10 people that has a large central repository has no other smaller repos with other smaller production projects. They still always call it monorepo, because it approximately still behaves like one.
Comment · 15 days ago
Now if he could just focus on such stuff and stop undermining democracy and working with fascists, he would be quite a cool guy.
Comment · 19 days ago
Could the dentist just stop working and continue to make that part of their income?
Comment · 20 days ago
Why would you want to override system binaries
Comment · 20 days ago
Looks dangerous to put a user writable directory ahead of system directories in PATH
Comment · 25 days ago
I must say, I had this thought. While everyone thought AI written code will inevitably lead to slop, bugs and security issues, I had the feeling the exact opposite happens. I can task an AI agent with striving for the quality metrics I want to see, and it will always work along them. No fatigue that leads to errors, almost no oversights even in more complex systems, etc.

This may actually be the time where it becomes feasible to create high quality software with reasonable (human) effort.

What we are seeing with AI generated incident reports causing issues is maybe mostly an impedance mismatch between people who have fully adopted AI and people /projects who haven't.

Comment · 26 days ago
Right. The EU still seems successful in shaping (foreign) tech to some extent. Handing out huge fines is maybe less important than effecting change. Though it would of course be good if other national/transnational regulators would join in and take care of some of these topics. Imagine for example if Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand teamed up. Together they might be able to accomplish something.

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