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Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:23AM (#50315490)
great comment, poetic and to the point
Re:Why Gopher in 2026? on Sunday October 25, 2026 @04:16AM (#50229366)
i would love it to have support for images, but maybe i'm missing the point i guess
Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:42AM (#50178125)
From the report:

"Under current policies, only six G20 members (China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, South Africa and Türkiye) are assessed as likely to achieve their unconditional 2030 targets, while the assessment of the European Union is inconclusive. Overall, this suggests limited progress in narrowing implementation gaps across the G20."

"All G20 members except Argentina, Saudi Arabia and the United States of America have new NDCs with mitigation targets for 2035."

Re:DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @06:25AM (#50129714)
not reviewing its ongoing work and spawning subagents that end up looping each other
Re:GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:20PM (#49900774)
Anthropic needs to be regulated. Heavily.
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @06:24PM (#49809083)
Are they going to reset the weekly limits after this awful inference week?
Re:The First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years on Saturday September 19, 2026 @04:03AM (#49764419)
This looks like AI generated
good old meritocracy
Re:Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @12:31PM (#49729481)
Andreessen Horowitz led Mistral's €385M Series A in December 2023.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) on Sunday September 13, 2026 @06:19PM (#49689307)
See 4.7 in https://ico.org.uk/media2/migrated/2259371/investigation-int...

Cambridge Analytica had substantial discussions with Leave.EU, the campaign associated with Arron Banks and Nigel Farage. It attended meetings, appeared at a Leave.EU press event, prepared proposals, and discussed using data and psychological profiling. At the time, both Leave.EU figures and Cambridge Analytica publicly made statements suggesting a working relationship.

Re:Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) on Sunday September 13, 2026 @05:43PM (#49689022)
Facebook knew about the Kogan/CA transfer in 2015 and failed to respond adequately, instead they relied largely on deletion assurances rather than immediately auditing, and users weren't informed until 2018.

But more, CA was created as consequence and a way to profit out of the 2012 Six4Three scandal, after Mark Zuckerberg personally designed/approved the permissive data-sharing ecosystem specifically for these use cases (as several internal mails show).

Re:Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) on Sunday September 13, 2026 @05:26PM (#49688893)
Before Trump they practiced on Brexit and the whole Leave.EU movement.

This link at best shows us Mark Zuckerberg playing his standard card of victim and faking (again) that he didn't know about anything, while all evidence point that he actively played a role in it.

Re:Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack on Sunday September 13, 2026 @04:36AM (#49681509)
Don’t tell me what to do
Re:27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter on Thursday September 10, 2026 @10:39AM (#49644516)
this is vaporware, no code available, show me the code or go home
Re:A/I shuts down – Stay human on Sunday September 06, 2026 @11:11AM (#49587253)
A/I shuts down
Wake up earlier and do sports outside before starting to work
still feels like they got away easy for raping children's minds

"Meta has long argued it could not have misled consumers about whether its services were addictive because "social media addiction" is not a recognized psychiatric condition."

that's a nice escape hatch, considering that they are using all the tricks in the book (from online gambling, etc) and then some

Re:Declarative WebGPU with S-Expressions on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:33PM (#49422281)
Hi unconed!

these are very good points, with my attempt the only run-time polymorphism is a switch inside a shader. Maybe we can exploit the pipeline constants and then branch on them, still feels like a hack, but could work for a poor man approach.

I have never done advanced/modern rendering things, just 2D/vector/sdfs and hacks, but your comment is food for thought, in that in this level of abstraction these are somewhat open problems.

Re:Declarative WebGPU with S-Expressions on Monday August 24, 2026 @05:41AM (#49417373)
I'm sorry they aren't working for you :(

I am running ios 26.6 in iphone mini. Do you know the version and device model where they are failing for you? (in Settings -> General -> Info)

Re:Declarative WebGPU with S-Expressions on Monday August 24, 2026 @05:33AM (#49417320)
hahah loved this one! so true, can I have a bit of onion too?
Re:Declarative WebGPU with S-Expressions on Monday August 24, 2026 @05:32AM (#49417316)
ahah indeed! when I was young someone or something etched into my tiny brain that "thou shalt never abstract a DSL, it is wrong!".

I think I should have outgrown this by now, there is some truth to it but I feel it is certainly not absolute at all, and this is essentially a for fun project with no rules or greater intent beyond that.

Re:Declarative WebGPU with S-Expressions on Monday August 24, 2026 @05:28AM (#49417287)
hey! indeed, it is a pattern more from Python/Kotlin/etc and on first sight it looks awful for those used to work in more lispy ways.

pngine is using a data language I made for fun with s-expressions and appropriately named "SJON". It is a data language (kinda like EDN, or er.. JSON) to declare things, not to run/interpret things, it has no reader macros, no quote/unquote, no eval, no cons or car/cdr or..., the only thing similar to Lisp is really the surface look, and on the surface triple quotes really feel like they don't belong in there.

But I need to paste WGSL into a config file and WGSL can be full of " and \, and I have no reader to extend.

In a way I'm glad you didn't spend a lot of time and got lost at the start ahah because if the triple quote bothered you the rest would too.

For instance, in SJON strings don't remember their quotes:

  (= """hello""" "hello")     ; true
  (= "a\nb" """a
  b""")                       ; true, escapes resolve before comparison
It is a data language, and one thing I wanted was for numbers to carry their units:

  (camera :ortho :zoom 2 :fov 90deg :shutter 250ms :scale 50%)
  ; unit is a suffix glued to a number with no space
  ; oh! and dates and times are also token kinds: 2026-05-19 and 23:59:59.999 lex as values
  ; these don't get interpreted, just carried over and then the schema decides what is valid
yeah... there is a schema, which is written in SJON too, that is validated ahead of evaluation, and docs have a binary IR, so a tiny runtime can consume one without carrying a parser.

For instance, the SJON schema for the WebGPU spec was sketched from the spec API.

Sorry for the long answer, yeah, it is not Lisp, just S-expressions to leverage a small part of their amazing versatility.

hackers and painters and kids and ROI and startups and capitalism and the destruction of nature and old guys with money talking like they know better in fascist social networks
Can't wait to see what will happen to all those frontend developers that the market is flooded it...
Re:Don't Paste the AI, please on Thursday August 20, 2026 @09:17AM (#49374213)
pencil pushers gonna pencil push
Re:Software Engineering fundamentals matter more on Sunday August 16, 2026 @04:20AM (#49318004)
...ah the classic middle manager analogy of code is X, where X is nothing like code at all but is being used to drive a point that is just standing on poor grounds.

keep it, we have been through "is like building a house", "like following a recipe", "like a living organism", "like $SOMETHING_WITH_COMPONENTS", etc...

we can handle your IKEA furniture, thanks you for your contribution

Wait until google cuts their funding unless they cut the ad blockers

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