drunkenmagician

"This project reeks of weapons grade AI psychosis" - fantastic quote: I will shamelessly steal & use. Apologies to pizlonator

Would be fascinating to see the raw calculated narcissism scores for said 500 CEO, illuminating I'm sure.

> Qualcomm is in advanced discussions to acquire Modular Inc in a transaction that could value the artificial intelligence company at about $4 billion, Reuters News reported Monday

2015

Visiting China recently I was surprised by how often your ID needs to be presented. Inter city train travel, tourist attractions, etc all require your ID (or Passport for foreigners). Camera surveillance maybe ubiquitous now, but the ID checks everywhere are a level beyond that.

Given the generally poor standard of government software in Singapore (from the perspective of an unfortunate user), this site probably has not had a large local readership despite it’s intentions.

Zig

Yes! This exactly.

I'm a Kiwi, but living abroad now. I have mixed views on this announcement, I do agree with the basic sentiment that NZ is broke and has been for a long time. That means 'decisions' on public spending need to be in the national interest, for the current govt, that translates into 'fiscal interest'. That said, cutting "all" govt funding to social sciences is not the right call. I would have though that a smaller budget and stricter set of criteria for funding would have been a better approach. NZ has always had a 'fringe element' looking for funding for dubious research of limited value, but de-funding everything that is not of economic value feels like the wrong approach.

Hard to make a full comparison when go_transmuxer function is not defined in the source anywhere. Also might be more interesting if native I/O for RUST (safe, not unsafe wrapped) functions were compared.

Should add "(2006)" to title

> the same for 25 years. He has a 4 years old desktop mac and the webpage takes more than 20s to load

How long did it take to load 20 years ago, on a 20 year old PC/Mac ? - seems like a very big page?

I think this is a story of the rise of TypeScript than the demise of JavaScript.

Talk to the new director with your team (ask for a meeting. You need clarity from him on a) his expectations on what the teams needs to be considered performing - his expectation of good. b) clarity on goals for next period (6-12 months) c) how he likes to work, his processes and preferences for the working relations ship. i.e email vs messaging, meetings to explore a topic vs written proposals and then a discussion.

Clarity on some of these topics will help you navigate the uncertainly - ask questions, open ended, ask for examples of how specific things work with the current team), listen more, talk less. Basically show that your team wants to work constructively with them.

I use vanilla Ubuntu 24.4 on my work laptop (thinkpad) after a decade of macos exclusivity. After a month or two its easy to understand why more people do not use Linux. Its improved a lot in recent years in its desktop environment, but vanilla ubuntu is still not even close to the polish of macos, even older versions, at least in my experience using it.

Processor roadmaps a multi year plans, I doubt Apple aligned their roadmap to geekbench supporting SVE. More likely a happy alignment of plan(et)s.

Seems very focused on academic metrics which skews the results somewhat I think. But still interesting results.

Not sure what the point of this post was. The lessons 'articulated' are well understood, and was missing the additional context need to add flavour. The author was 'happy to answer questions' - but isn't that the point of posting something in the first place? Anticipate the common / obvious questions and put that in the post, that's the missing context. Unless of course the point was to rant frustrations, which is fine too - I'd just request that be made obvious in the title or first paragraph.

I can only comment on the Singapore numbers, and the housing costs are way off, 1800 sing dollars? That might get you a bedroom in a shared apartment not much else. The salary levels also seem low for SWE's.

Is it just me, or are all the links to the papers cited wrong?

Its running on ChatGPT -4o, so its probably about as private as anything you send to OpenAI.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Enron?

Singtel (in Singapore) - Bundling free trails (usually 1-3 months) of some optional add on service, but NOT allowing you to unsubscribe during the trial processes, thereby forcing you to remember when the free trial ends and going in to unsubscribe manually. This happens even when you do not accept the additional services terms and conditions or complete other setup setups. I'm sure other telco's do similar - but Singtel is shameless on this.

All the best to them. Although I have to say (no reflection on these particular founders), that I am amazed that VC will through i million + seed at a startup with no actual product idea or business plan. This just seems like 'here's some money try to make something work' - incredible that this still happens in the US (I'm assuming). That approach is unlikely to work here in Asia / Australasia.

How we talk by Enfield was an interesting discussion on the mechanics and science of human to human speech. There’s some exploration of the nuances of speech in it.

But from who and where will Huawei future growth come from? Domestic Chiba sales alone. Their market presence is very strong there, but in the EU and US definitely not the case. It will be interesting to see if their tech can overcome the politics.

I think most would agree that we should 'build to solve a problem' rather than building around some notions that one architectural approach is inherently better than another. One size never fits all.

(2015)

Well written and article with some nice turns of phrase. Will be interesting to see how this plays out over time.

My understanding is that in the EU at least, Apple is required to allow web based installs of apps for companies that meet their criteria.

Some addition details here: https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/12/24098334/apple-ios-web-di...