pa7ch

The DVD menu for Requiem for a Dream will always be imprinted in my mind. I remember being young and setting it up for some friends and I kept flipping sources past what I thought was just an infomercial only to realize it was a brilliant little DVD menu.

Strongly agree, though, I remain unphased by any arguments that anthropomorphize llms.

There is a lot of your time involved in hiring someone else even if not active labor. And potentially stress in finding a contractor who will do a good job and the right job.

Doing it yourself can be rewarding and potentially much quicker. Why not do it yourself if you're able ( and assuming its not one of those things a pro could do in 1/10th the time).

A bit much describing our tech leadership as smartest people we've ever seen.

Its not hard to imagine this is a serious risk in some cases. For example: A youtuber essentially working as a journalist made a big story recently about some illegal actions of a lying and litigious company (Bricks and Minifigs story). The youtuber has a 3rd video ready for when his gag order drops, if that were to be released early he could find himself in jail.

What do you mean by this tower of power effect? Was it just that the 747 had a more powerful take-off or something due to 4 engines?

I'm worried many companies no longer care much if they make a mess or a way to hold them accountable.

I can't imagine concentrating on a complicated project like that on the go, but I went back to stare in awe at said picture and I think its a train or bus. Still a flex.

I think the author addresses this in saying that since AI output is statistically plausible by design its unlikely to improve in this area. Why do you think AI will get better in this way?

Its a shame there isn't more goodwill for some companies to bankroll a project like asahi linux. Keeping up with reverse engineering apple silicon seems like a very large task.

What has that got to do with blocking AI crawlers?

Risk limiting audits are why this work. You physically sample ballots at random. The number you sample grows as the gap in the electronic tally shrinks to reach high confidence the election was tabulated correctly.

He has been living in LA and working for the EFF for some time now.

whats wrong with usb-a? I feels more sturdy and less likely to have connection issues then usb-c in my experience.

Very weird to market this as subscribing to "Elon process for software"

I remember when defcon ctf would play Geohot's PlayStation rap video every year on the wall.

Honestly seems like zig is shaping up to be a better fit for kernel. Regardless the language that attracts skilled kernel devs will matter more then lang.

Gokrazy is a minimal linux distro that just boots into a go init program. You can run on a raspberry pi or pc. It has a little init system that just takes a path you normally use in `go run` and just runs them and restarts as needed. Its been a joy for me to play around with. Has A/B updates as well.

https://gokrazy.org/

I feel like wc3 is undersung. To me it achieved the perfect balance of allowing potentially mechanically worse players to win with brilliant tactics or strategy. It put the emphasis on strategy in rts more then anything else.

As a kid I was shit at it and played customs maps and goofed with the editor. Now I've gone back to find grubby streaming and revealing the depths of the meta evolution, and counters.

I like that even when a strong meta develops people can potentially counter with strategies that aren't as well rounded for long term use but upset the current meta.

I think its fundamentally more difficult to host communications services where spam is possible and there is no auth/contact system in place before first communication can happen.

I was a big fan of the original check handle proposal: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...

I see the desire to avoid mucking with control flow so much but something about check/handle just seemed so elegant to me in semi-complex error flows. I might be the only one who would have preferred that over accepting generics.

I can't remember at this point because there were so many similar proposals but I think there was a further iteration of check/handle that I liked better possibly but i'm obviously not invested anymore.

Mm thats a good point. I'm not entirely clear on the limits of trademarks in this case. Its Zigbook rather then Zig.

Its the opposite in my understanding. Zig has a BDFL.

Trademarks are the usual cudgel of choice to enforce a bad actor claiming to be part of offcial Zig.

I've not seen it called this before. I'd say something like 'fail-safe' instead.

The regulation good/bad dichotomy has been very effective reducing the thinking of the constituents of modern neolibs in the US.

On one end we have regulations as part of regulatory capture. Opposite effect of regulations that would help say a small business compete fairly.

I feel like people always take the designed for juniors thing the wrong way by implying that beneficial (to general software engineering) features or ideas were left out as a trade off to make the language easier to learn at the cost of what the language could be to a senior. I don't think the go designers see these as opposing trade offs.

Whats good for the junior can be good for the senior. I think PL values have leaned a little too hard towards valuing complexity and abstract 'purity' while go was a break away from that that has proved successful but controversial.

You say the term pivot like its a startup founder who has every option in life. You should feel bad for anyone who would struggle for a basic job.

This is really nice. Clean and easy way to use gvisor isolation to solve a github problem.

gvisor seems like the right level of isolation for a lot of code a dev would run on various machines. So just making it more in reach I think is a boon.

How about KiVM. Like MB -> MiB. KibiVM! Why Kibi? Idk but its fun.

Its my understanding of knife sharpening that carbon steel is easier to sharpen then stainless and that softer steels are more difficult then high hrc steel due to burr removal.

Curious why use both? I use restic directly with B2 backblaze, whats rclone doing for you here?