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dudinax··on Northflank Breached
Obscurity has always been party of security and will never go out of style.
dudinax··on Hang on to Your Firefox
firefox still support ublock origins
dudinax··on The turbulent AI era is here
He calls for a tax on tokens.
dudinax··on There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
quaint?

I don't think we're going to make it.

dudinax··on FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again
That's one way it could go but it doesn't have to. The NRC guy walking into a comtrol room is not anybody's friend.
dudinax··on First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
Maybe we do
dudinax··on A Beautiful Theory Falls to Ugly Data
How is this theory taken seriously when people have other motivators to buy durable goods early even when they know for certain the price will go down but not when?
dudinax··on The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games
Why do gamers need protection? Games aren't essential resources. There's zero reason you have to buy a game that doesn't allow users to run servers. Why would you prevent gamers who don't care from buying these games?
dudinax··on White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems
Because you're using fibres laid years ago. Often pulse velocity isn't known to better than one part in 1000.
dudinax··on Miscellanea: The War in Iran
War games aren't useful for guessing the real course of the war. 'Iraq' was able to prevent a US invasion in pre 2003 wargames.
dudinax··on Play Aardwolf MUD
I once ran multiple bots on Ancient Anguish that would do simple quests for cash and follow other player to steal their gear if they dropped anything. The bots would then find my main and hand everything over.

The mods teleported my chars into a dungeon and virtually tortured them while trying to get me to admit one person was behind the lot.

dudinax··on AI has a deep understanding of how this code works
With the understanding that generated code for X may never be mergable given the limited resources.
dudinax··on Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
Global warming was understood for almost a century by 1980
dudinax··on God created the real numbers
We do not know whether work time and space are continuous
dudinax··on Revisiting Moneyball
There's a pitch clock now? So much for the Jamie Moyer rule that "the game doesn't start til I start it."
dudinax··on I deleted my second brain
personal notes become cryptic team notes when you leave. If something ought to be team knowledge before that, it needs to get translated into a form that more people can easily read.
dudinax··on Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students
Because he's not either of those things. He's a self serving tyrant. He has no philosophy of governing the state because he doesn't care about governing the state.
dudinax··on Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students
Has there ever been an empire that committed suicide at the height of power?
dudinax··on Planetfall
I don't think he designed alpha centauri.
dudinax··on The Cannae Problem
A democracy has to protect itself from coup attempts
dudinax··on The Cannae Problem
They had bombs in Hezbollah pagers. At this point I'd need to be convinced mossad didn't know about thousands of hamas soldiers massed for an attack.
dudinax··on Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week
Trump had much superior social media targeting.

Muslims in Michegan were convinced Harris is a genocidal maniac, while most everybody else heard she was in bed with hamas.

Liberal suburban housewives heard she was a merciless prosecutor while others learned she was soft on crime.

dudinax··on Migrating away from Rust
"Hard" maybe the wrong word.

Tasks that are simple in most other languages, like a tree that can store many data types, are going to take a lot more code and a lot more thinking to get it to work in rust.

Generics and traits have some rough edges. If I rub up against them, they're really annoying. Otherwise, if I can avoid those then I agree with you that rust is smooth, and the trade off is worth it.

dudinax··on Migrating away from Rust
My feeling is that rust makes easy things hard and hard things work.
dudinax··on Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
Every llm output is a hallucination. Sometimes it happens to match reality.
dudinax··on Obituary for Cyc
What did you mean when you said "Have you ever not hated LLMs"?
dudinax··on A university president makes a case against cowardice
And yet the US has some of the best universities in the world academically.
dudinax··on Why is the world losing color?
It's the Seattlefication of the world.
dudinax··on Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)
The kind of prof who never coded a useful program in his life.
dudinax··on Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)
relatively cheap lesson in the importance of knowing your hardware.
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