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lolakuttyon Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)

I don't have a "favorite" language. I see languages and communities having strengths and weakness..I evaluate languages as being suitable or unsuitable for certain job..

If a language gets frequently get vulnerability reports, it will change my evaluation...

Php's should have been evaluated out for web applications a long time ago, if the development community was rational, but sadly its made up of far too many emotional people who takes everything personal...

lolakuttyon In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible

And can't one do all of mathematics without 3...(just map all the numbers > 1 to points inside the interval 0-1)?

lolakuttyon 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)

Oh, do you think Rust code bases won't be checked using LLMs?

lolakuttyon 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)

The point of writing in C is that I don't have to deal with borrow checker shit when it is too dumb to figure out what I want to do is actually safe.

lolakuttyon DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models

That is what I am not sure about...It is like, is having a public key closer to hacking the account than not having it? Theoretically, it is, but practically, it is not...

lolakuttyon DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models

I am wondering how much stuff (in terms of malicious behavior) one can hide in the (open) weights?

lolakuttyon Source code of the Estonian online voting system

The best way to secure elections is to have a system where winners have to give up worldly pleasures, ties and all privacy to rule.

It works great for the military and for the clergy where it is even worse. I don't know why we don't something like that for the rulers.

lolakuttyon Types of types: Haskell's Kind system

It seems that in java you could write `ArrayList<A>`. I think this type is actually of kind "type -> type". But in java it seems that we cannot have the type `A<B>`, and functors and monads require that..

lolakuttyon Do dentists know what they're doing?

Interesting! Can you expand your flow chart to show the accepted way (according to you) to end up having sex?

lolakuttyon Do dentists know what they're doing?

Yep!

lolakuttyon Do dentists know what they're doing?

Sticking too much to the narrative makes a boring read. I don't think they were crass enough to alienate anyone in their right mind. But these days there is always a risk of such things offending someone, so I actually appreciate the fact that the author just spoke their mind _without_ worrying about alienating some demographic..

There is honesty in it, and that is commendable.

lolakuttyon Do dentists know what they're doing?

At least you can ask AI to justify its recommendation as much as you please..

lolakuttyon Do dentists know what they're doing?

> constant assessment of women's bodies..

What is wrong with that?

lolakuttyon Do dentists know what they're doing?

> poll here (among straight men) to see if the women's bodies would have been as salient to them as they were to the author...

yes.

lolakuttyon Do dentists know what they're doing?

May be age also plays a role. May be you started flossing around the same time your teeth became harder on its own...

lolakuttyon Do dentists know what they're doing?

I went to a dentist in one of the new dental clinic "chains" that recently opened at my place, regarding some pain in the jaw, and they suggested to pull out a molar, and if the pain does not disappear, then suggested to take an X-ray.

I excused myself nicely, and went to someone I know for a long time, and they figured that the pain was due to the fact that I was using one side more than the other when chewing. And fixing that fixed it...

lolakuttyon Who Taught the Machines Mathematics?

Going forward, the only humans who will know something (in the relevant domains) are the one who like doing it and want to be someone who knows stuff..

I think they will be the torch bearers and envelope pushers, while the latter will just frantically search the new found expanse for useful derivations..

lolakuttyon AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary

>but now I don't have to be.

It is great in terms of what you can do, but sad in terms of what you can be.

lolakuttyon 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

>Rust cannot fail, it can only be failed...

Sweet. But why should anyone care..

lolakuttyon AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

> that AI looks like an apocalypse for human thinking

People who like to think will keep doing that. People who don't aren't already doing a lot of thinking...

So pretty much things are going to go as usual..

lolakuttyon AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

> and come up with solutions.

Why? Can't the business people talk to LLMs and have it come up with solutions?

lolakuttyon Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?

In this example, the user did not "write"/implement the LLM.

lolakuttyon Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?

Seriously? Those two are the same?

An LLM is not like a regular computer program, which one should be able to assess the operation limits of.

lolakuttyon The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

>proper spec

No one has any clue what this thing means....

lolakuttyon The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

>It’s easy to produce garbage software, but it’s not mandatory.

It is not mandatory, just like doom scrolling is not mandatory. But given human nature, both are inevitable...

lolakuttyon Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation

So? Coding is solved for toy programs?

lolakuttyon Unikernels were hard. key word: were

>VM breakouts are becoming trivial.

How exactly?

lolakuttyon Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation

> Coding cookie cutter CRUD apps..

Give me one example of a fully vibe coded software with zero human input that is running in production with non trivial amount of actual users that have been running for more than a year....

lolakuttyon Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation

Yea, I think LLMs would be much less powerful if not for the inherent randomness in the GPU...

It is like a decompression program that results in a slightly different result each time it is run on the same compressed data. If you are lucky, the delta could end up with answers to all your questions..