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cmpxchg8b··on Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude
It is not Anthropic’s job to police society. This line of thinking sets a very dangerous precedent.
cmpxchg8b··on Margaret Hamilton has died
I believe it is protected in some states. https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-wins-traffic-li...
cmpxchg8b··on Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com
It’s not Amazon’s place to police this at all.
cmpxchg8b··on NATS publishes preliminary report on technical incident of 8 September
Safety critical systems demand formal verification. This wasn't bad luck, this was poor craft.
cmpxchg8b··on Nvidia's Risky Business
That has literally nothing to do with the article.
cmpxchg8b··on The Shape of Things to Come
I think the domain "yegge.ai" says it all. It's becoming like the NFT craze, and I say that as someone who uses AI every day.
cmpxchg8b··on Our position on open-weights models
Whataboutism is juvenile.
cmpxchg8b··on Mmorpg World of ClaudeCraft, vibe coded with Fable 5
hugged to death
cmpxchg8b··on GTA 6 Developers Unionize
Former gamedev here. This matches my experience. However, working in the games industry from 2000-2011 did wonders for my ability to thrive in big tech. It is easy mode compared to games.
cmpxchg8b··on Claude's Cycles [pdf]
Some knowledge is fundamental and has no recent cut-off. See also: there is nothing new under the sun.
cmpxchg8b··on The next two years of software engineering
Maybe, but these days a vast amount of software is hidden behind online services. I'm not sure you'd see the hidden iceberg.
cmpxchg8b··on Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs
8GB? What is this, an LLM for ants?
cmpxchg8b··on The next two years of software engineering
This is such a stupid argument. A very significant amount of code never makes it into the public sphere. None of the code I've written professionally in the last 26 years is publicly accessible, and if someone uses a product I've written they likely don't care if it was written with the aid of an LLM or not.

Not to mention agent capabilities at the end of last year were vastly different to those at the start of the year.

cmpxchg8b··on Self-referencing Page Tables for the x86-Architecture
Googling for it brings up a ton of results.
cmpxchg8b··on Self-referencing Page Tables for the x86-Architecture
I'm confused, is this meant to be presented as new work? Windows has done this for a very long time.
cmpxchg8b··on UniFi 5G
How does this differ from Invisagig?
cmpxchg8b··on Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?
What a load of ableist bullshit. Guess what, you can have autism, ADHD and anxiety and still be really fucking clever. The article starts with the premise that they are incompatible.
cmpxchg8b··on Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
They both offer virtualized guests under a hypervisor host. EC2 does have more offload specialization hardware but for the most part they are functionally equivalent, unless I'm missing something...
cmpxchg8b··on Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver
Yes, the negativity is infuriating. This is the mindset that is going to get left behind. I'm no LLM maximalist but they clearly have their uses in the right context and the right hands.
cmpxchg8b··on WinBoat: Run Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration
" Run Any App: If it runs on Windows, it can run on WinBoat. Enjoy the full range of Windows applications as native OS-level windows in your Linux environment"

Bold claim. Lets see it run Fortnite with anti-cheat.

cmpxchg8b··on Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
128MB? Quantization has come a long way!
cmpxchg8b··on Dull Men’s Club
There’s actually a large amount of women in the DMC FB group. Everyone is welcome.
cmpxchg8b··on John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025
Why would John Carmack who is so rich that he does things for shits, giggles and personal development, give a hoot what a VC cares about?
cmpxchg8b··on John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025
GLQuake was released 11 months before Quake 2.
cmpxchg8b··on John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025
Appeal to authority is a logical fallacy. People often fall into the trap of thinking that because they are highly intelligent and an expert in one domain that this makes them an expert in one or more other domains. You see this all the time.
cmpxchg8b··on 2-Year Call of Duty False Permanent Ban Reversed by Court Case
Could a case have been made for defamation, as their actions had caused Steam to falsely label them as a cheat?
cmpxchg8b··on Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU
Ken, how has the technology for interconnects changed over the years? Seeing all of these disparate regions in 2D it really interests me on how they are routed.
cmpxchg8b··on Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work
Literally a real-world race condition in the end to end tests.
cmpxchg8b··on RISC-V is currently slow compared to modern CPUs
Ask the Itanium team how putting faith in software optimizations to overcome hardware issues saved their bacon.
cmpxchg8b··on Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed
If you have a page mapped at address 0, accessing address 0 is valid.
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