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otabdeveloper4··on Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from
> Yes there's a salad on the menu

The salad is also pretty trash if you use the default dressing.

otabdeveloper4··on Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from
There's no point to AI's existence if it's dumber and more careless than the baseline stupid human.
otabdeveloper4··on The case of the 9 bit AES key
> but why should PDFs have encryption built-in to the file format?

So you could open encrypted documents on iOS and Android.

otabdeveloper4··on The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI
TL;DR - you didn't make a game, but lied on the Internet that you did.
otabdeveloper4··on The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI
> then you’re experiences are about 8 months behind

I've been hearing this excuse for the past five years, bro.

When will AI finally be a real boy? Gimme a real date so I can make fun of you.

otabdeveloper4··on The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI
> In what way does it not work?

It doesn't fulfill its primary purpose of being a (fun) game.

otabdeveloper4··on Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible
When your software crashes and doesn't do what it's told I will think back on the thousands of bullshit tests Claude wrote and feel less bummed out about it. (Maybe.)
otabdeveloper4··on OBS Studio 33
I will "tend to" send patches or money. We'll see how the belt-and-suspenders vibe goes.
otabdeveloper4··on The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI
> Claude Code can build that application in an unprecedentedly short period

Yes, with the caveat that the application doesn't actually work.

P.S. If you wrote non-working applications even before the age of AI, then this is an upgrade, I guess.

otabdeveloper4··on The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI
> erm, Claude, do it again but leave out the bad stuff and make it good this time, mmkay?
otabdeveloper4··on ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems
Works for China and Russia. Skill issue.
otabdeveloper4··on OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
> or they will implode financially

They are too big to implode.

otabdeveloper4··on The Goose Programming Language
> The documentation is perfectly comprehensible

That's, like, a stunningly low bar for documentation. "The vehicle is perfectly capable of performing motion, why are you complaining?"

otabdeveloper4··on OBS Studio 33
> tend to

Whew, thanks for putting my fears at rest. You're only pwned some of the time, not always.

otabdeveloper4··on How is music possible
Rock and metal bangers are all in minor, and they're certainly not "sad".
otabdeveloper4··on How is music possible
Yes, modern art is literal trash with no redeemable qualities.
otabdeveloper4··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
"Complex systems" and "emergent properties" are two absolutely different concepts that are absolutely not related in any way.

"Complex systems" are unstable systems that cannot be solved with simple equations. They do not magically take on properties that they didn't have before.

otabdeveloper4··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
> I definitely agree that the argument of them being just a probabilistic word matching engine can also be applied to our own brains lol.

You can apply anything you want. You can also apply the argument that our owns brains are just a block of cheese too, if you want. (Nobody will stop you.)

otabdeveloper4··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
There's no such thing as "emergent properties". The phrase is just a technobabble way of framing primitive animist superstition.
otabdeveloper4··on LayerFS: The filesystem for AI coding agents
Less than 12 months apparently.
otabdeveloper4··on LayerFS: A filesystem for AI coding agents
> is battle tested in mission critical systems for years

And still crashes and corrupts filesystems all the time.

(I have one server platform where just doing `insmod btrfs` immediately locks up the server, hard, without even any kernel panic or log message.)

otabdeveloper4··on Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
> That still requires trust stores to be distributed to the clients

There's no such thing as a "trust store" in practice. To be "trusted" you just need to demonstrate you have control over a DNS TXT record, and we don't need a special "store" or intermediary for that.

Certificate authorities are an artifact of a bygone time and an entirely different model of internet infrastructure.

otabdeveloper4··on Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
Correct, we only need zero.
otabdeveloper4··on Advanced coding in low-resource programming languages
What's wild is that these AI-psychosis people will be running with the "no end in sight" and "exponential improvements" take for years and even decades to come. Even as LLM technology goes through an economic bust and stagnation.

It's like a doomsday cult in reverse.

otabdeveloper4··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
No, version pinning is a lockfile that has verified hashes of git revisions.
otabdeveloper4··on "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math
AI isn't making math discoveries. It's generating a metric shitload of syllogism slop, whuch may or may not correspond to reality. We will probably never know, because really who has time for this bullshit?
otabdeveloper4··on Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages
> cyber-capable

Ou-la-la. Spicy. But actually we already have those kinds of AI.

otabdeveloper4··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
> You can pin versions.

You can, but you won't. Let's be real for a second now - the only reason you use this feature is because you can't be bothered to use a real package manager that pins versions.

otabdeveloper4··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
> and which directly pulls in any dependency and exploit

Fix't it for ya.

otabdeveloper4··on OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics
> advancements

They're not advancements yet. At this point they're just LLM hallucinations that may or may not be advancements.

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