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jopsen··on Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
Or just burn some tokens scanning packages for bad behavior.

Granted some human will likely have to review it. Or packages flagged by Al could require users to explicitly allowlist them.

jopsen··on A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer
> Corporate NPC

That's a really good description, I should update my linkedin profile :)

jopsen··on AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain
Sometimes you generalize A into A'.

But often results are incremental and obvious.

But also if you jumped from A to A''''', nobody would understand why or what it relates to.

jopsen··on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
We're all biased here, me included.

IMO the concurrency model in go is the biggest reason, I'd hesitate to use it.

Managed memory, single threaded with lots of lints and good tooling. Is IMO what can raise my confidence in code, before I even review it.

Granted golang has a really good stdlib. Which counts for a lot.

jopsen··on Taste Is All That's Left
Software engineering is and has always involved engineering situations where you can let your co-workers/third-parties run wild with limited review oversight and limited blast radius.

Example: a plugin architecture with a solid API that makes degenerate behavior limited to usages of said plugin.

jopsen··on Taste Is All That's Left
> Doesn't that mean guaranteed failure in the market if you use taste as your guiding star?

If taste is maintainability, etc.. the no quite the opposite.

The startup that has no taste and vibecodes mindlessly might end up with a codebase they can't maintain or refactor. A product that can't advance.

But honestly, I don't feel like the toil is gone. Landing code in big projects remain hard.

jopsen··on Taste Is All That's Left
Taste will always be there.

But toil is not gone. We have still have code owners, lawyers, physical hardware, thousands of configurations that we can't test them all.

And notably: we will still be asked to write software we can maintain in the future.

Sure, there are short-lived non-critical software projects where LLMs will rule.

But for many big complex projects, you can't land code without reviews. You can argue its because taste is already being enforced in the name of maintainability.

jopsen··on Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
Selling properties you don't own, ideally land owned by government..
jopsen··on Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
I object!

The dashboard clearly says 89.15% uptime!

Who says nines need to be leading?

jopsen··on Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP
This offers little because while P != NP, in most practical cases it doesn't matter.

NP problems gets solved with heuristics every day.

jopsen··on One KW wind turbine without civil engineering
Wouldn't noise be a concern?

And what is the failure mode?

jopsen··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
Competent government wouldn't do this either... ...also why I think it won't last.

Doubtful it'd hold in court; this admin would have to show that it's not corruption, because we'd all assume otherwise.

jopsen··on Vulnerability reports are not special anymore
The specification doesn't have to be.

But yeah, writing specs is usually harder than reviewing the code 4 times :)

jopsen··on Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police
First time murder is typically gives around 12 years in Denmark.

Sentences are not added up. So yes, trying to shot a police officer will definitely get you decent sentence -- it's not hefty by American standards.

jopsen··on Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police
Not if you can back away
jopsen··on Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police
Probably not illegal, questionable ethics. Which could have consequences, but probably not.

Regardless, this is enormously dumb. If you want to search and arrest an activist who crosses the line, you make it as boring as possible.

jopsen··on Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
No deadline, no product.

Shipping is very important, sometimes more important than what you ship :)

jopsen··on Akse3D – open-source 3D modelling anyone can master
This is really cool, like tinkercad, but like tinkercad it desperately needs fillets.

Ideally also ability to drag faces like plasticity.

jopsen··on The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat
Every seen a pride parade?

I'm not sure what kind of special torture you'd employ to make people display that kind of enthusiasm :)

jopsen··on Fable situation update from David Sacks
The administration has a credibility issue, most certainly when it comes to rule of law and corruption.

Mythos being drummed up as a cyber weapon is not the same as it being a weapon -- and treating it as such is just dumb.

Yes, it may find vulnerabilities, but "find" is the keyword -- whatever it finds was already there.

jopsen··on Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)
And don't forget, that sometimes day dreaming about going to space, might be more fun, than actually going. It's not like you can touch it anyways.

My point is: Remember to enjoy your dreams. And 99% of the time let them be just that: "dreams".

jopsen··on 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
The games from 15-25 years ago are also great, especially the ones still available those are the good games.

CS 1.5, OpenTTD, AoE2, the likes..

Fancier graphics doesn't make games better. Gameplay, stories and jokes do.

jopsen··on Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
Moreover: what is the upside?

Spying on employees is not free. If you want to spend serious resources doing it, there has to be an upside.

jopsen··on Last.fm is now independent
I loved last.fm when every tag was a custom radio station..

It's not anymore, right?

jopsen··on Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality
It's weird to me that courts don't at-least attempt to review if the conduct was in good faith and plausibly reasonable given the facts know at the time.

The idea that officials aren't personally liable for mistakes made in good faith isn't bad. But somehow the US tends to produce a lot of cases where good faith requires a lot of faith :)

jopsen··on Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly"
There has been a lot of HIV going around, I have yet to hear reports that it's gone airborne.

But, yes, I would rather not have an outbreak of ebola.

jopsen··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
Sue the ISPs for enabling piracy?

If their license is void, then distribution is illegal, right?

jopsen··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
How is there no enforcement paths?

If Josef really wants to go after BambuLab over AGPL violations he can do what the music/movie industries did: have them blocked at the ISP level.

Cease and desist for all servers outside China. Block traffic at ISP levels.

Unlike various pirate websites there won't be a hundred copy cats to also hunt down.

jopsen··on Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
Higher energy prices is something the population notices when they come.

But when higher prices stick around industries close or never opened.

jopsen··on The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)
> What they will do is allow you to use 1 engineer with AI tools instead of 2-4 engineers.

Stop there. The costs of today state-of-the-art hype-ware will be lower tomorrow.

In a year, there will be fewer easy to find bug, and models like this will be cheaper.

Doing math based on hardware deployed today is a bit naive.

Assuming any of this is intentional about reducing devs is just dumb.

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