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podocarp··on Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C
Lol at some point just implement a small compiler in C… reflection is kinda a hilarious thing to have like I understand the use case for generics, since it's not that that that hard to do with macros and quite commonly wished for
podocarp··on Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped
Not surprised, since it wasn't used in Android to begin with they probably thought nobody will notice if it's removed. And indeed, for the vast majority of people nobody will notice.
podocarp··on Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers
I think what you're saying is you need purpose? So even with your dad not really fearing (or expressing his fear about) death you still feel that the benefits were him not having to suffer etc. etc.

I think that's what religion gives, and it doesn't have to be organized religion. I'm not proselytizing, I'm just pointing out why across so many human cultures people always come up with stories and thoughts about the afterlife. The cold unknown means basically nothing and the fear I think comes from the nothingness -- imagine a life full of the sorrow and joys, and then it just vanishes. And worse of all, if nobody even remembers much it of it, it literally vanishes. For example if a war veteran never tells his experiences to anyone, he basically just vanished from earth and one can ask so did the things he went through happen? If a tree falls and nobody hears it and all that.

I'm probably expressing it poorly but I've been thinking about it too after experiencing some loss too. In my case the person just graduated college. I think the dead have it easy, the suffering lies with the living…

podocarp··on The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]
How is nuking some other country a better future. How are you going to argue for that I wonder. You're going to cause millions of deaths even without retaliation. How are you going to justify that, simply because "they're not us"?
podocarp··on Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers
Fear, fear of the unknown, fear of death
podocarp··on The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)
Lol they don't even have tun tap in the kernel, can't even host VMs properly without extra setup or hacks
podocarp··on How Singapore's government-run dating service works
Entirely dismissing how important looks, vibes, personality are in relationships. Not even dating -- if someone smells, you're not going to be incentives to make friends with them. This seems to me to just be trodding the same pseudoscientific route as MBTI personality tests, trying to condense a person into a list of multiple choice questions. That will never work. No algorithm can do it. Social interaction is not a solved game.
podocarp··on Systems that no one will test
LARP is benign, or at least unintentional, I suspect most are just fraudulent claims. Air gap is easily explained by the two words themselves. You would be daft to think anything on AWS was air gapped.
podocarp··on Systems that no one will test
Air gaps and data diodes are mostly impossible or useless for regular commercial settings. That means your daily servers and VMs. Even tcp requires back and forth. I don't even know if satellites broadcast unidirectionally and just hope base station picks up on it. Surely just shouting into the void is never "communication". It's like receiving FM radio. That's useless for most companies. And if that is already useless, true air gapping is even more useless. Why would I run something offline in the age of the internet? And bypasses are always put in to make things more convenient, defeating the purpose of having the measure in place in the first place.

Thus there is only a very small segment of industries and people that utilize these things, and with it becoming a niche, it gets forgotten. I won't be surprised that the only users are small part of government and defence.

A more useful thing will just be what homelabbers use - if you're lazy cloudflare tunnels, or if you put in the effort, corporate VPN and DMZ and ACLs and VLANs etc. It's already well established, it's not a lack of knowledge, it's a lack of effort.

podocarp··on Systems that no one will test
Bro Alaska has big mountains and wide tundras and is going to be too meditative, I vote for Georgia swamps with its mud and mosquitoes and gators and all
podocarp··on You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
I'm not too sure about that. Personally I feel like for myself it's tied up with self esteem. I have confidence in my skills, just never when there's strangers watching. Also to maintain the world state in your head and avoid stepping on toes etc.

I can feel my heart rate go up. Sometimes when asking or answering questions in the lecture hall I start quivering. Just the thought of standing up, preparing my question and follow ups can cause this.

You may be right in that it's an excuse. But at the same time there's this disgusting physical reaction and yes it's easier to give in than to stand up.

It's easier to interact with loved ones and close friends because you know they know you and won't judge if you say something wrong etc. But not so for any other interaction.

podocarp··on You are no longer invited to dinner
Humans have a great capacity to convince ourselves of anything, it's the beauty of language! For every decision you want to make, you can always find one quote or idiom supporting it, and another against it. Yes we have to learn from the lessons of history yet every time "it's different this time"!
podocarp··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Aren't grapes for wine different from those for eating? Probably tastes bad if you eat it directly?
podocarp··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Lol I would love to see how he argues that alcohol increases creativity. This is one of those things that sound plausible but very debatable if true or not.
podocarp··on Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
Send it to Titan and cool it in the methane lakes
podocarp··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
Money is money mate -- plenty of Toyotas in China. It's the politicians stopping it with taxes and tariffs. Everyone has a price, how much is history worth at a 5k discount? 10k?
podocarp··on Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
Blanche spinach, try not to eat them raw. Speaking of oxalates, I did not know yam leaves were inedible. Saw a little tender shoot, bit a little piece off. Tastes like mushroom. I don't think it's toxic but it's like eating glass.
podocarp··on F-Droid 2.0
What about for some reason cancelling YouTube premium on mobile requires you to go through the store to do it?

While we're on their subject, Amazon customer service chat can only be done on the app, not on browser on mobile.

The future is now!

podocarp··on Tokens too cheap to meter
Surely if you're using them to grep or do something to code they have to read the code?
podocarp··on Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
Microsoft is definitely not like that. There are a bazillion versions of copilot. Copilot pc. Copilot vscode. Copilot on Windows. Wtf is going on.

Also famously, the million types of context menus in Windows.

podocarp··on Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second
And if you tell the reviewer the author is a competitors model it becomes extra snarky and vigilant. Then give the review results to the author and tell it it's from the competition and it will also become slightly outraged.
podocarp··on Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second
Feel like you could spend 6 figures building out a team and the rest renting compute for a whole year, and get the team to create a local inference solution with that kind of budget…
podocarp··on Lazydraw: Terminal ASCII editor for drawing diagrams and sketches
Damn, would be actually pretty good for diagramming in markdown etc. Recently when writing my wiki in vim I've wished for more tools than just text. Sometimes text really becomes a blocker, and you wish for at least some level of code execution, latex, and of course diagrams.
podocarp··on Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
Number go up

Neuron activation

podocarp··on Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
No, you're not his enemy due to "technology", it's because of money. You're against his stonk go up. You're a naysayer. You don't agree. The only use of LLMs by potus so far is image generation.
podocarp··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
That's just totally different. In research, you have attribution. Mainly because if you're an employee you generally understand that you're trading work for coin and don't expect to be mentioned in some way. Perhaps very few industries do it, like movie credits etc.

This would be the equivalent of "the crane built the skyscraper" or "the bulldozer produced timber". Yes in raw joules they probably did most of the work but you see it's not the usual way we do things.

podocarp··on Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
Yes exactly. If a fireworks factory blew up half a town due to negligence, it doesn't matter if there's intent or not. Someone has to pay for the damages, and regardless of penalty half the town is on fire. The facts are, that something made by openai went to do xyz. It doesn't matter if it's an accident. Of course the penalties are different but there's no argument that there should be a penalty. It doesn't matter if it's a cat or dog or AI or employee that did it.
podocarp··on Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
Wait so if I was making a bomb but you couldn't prove I wanted to blow someone up or had some motive (e.g. I'm just a chemistry enthusiast, plenty of those YouTube channels around) so it just becomes an "accident"?

So as long as there's no motive behind it then it's just OK?

podocarp··on Jev in 25 Lines of Python
What about switching to numbers or just some random Unicode character like smiley faces. Could be interesting if someone tested what LLMs like to say on a "cold start" lol.
podocarp··on Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?
Mathematics that our universe does not support is still mathematics. Also you're viewing this through a human lens. How do you know it doesn't support what you think it doesn't support? Mathematics after all is a very human pursuit. Some alien species may have started off with ternary or even continuous logic. We have no counterexamples to show that that is beyond our universe.
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