speed_spread

The extraction cost of minerals is only paid once. And a few big batteries will be much easier to recycle than a billion small ones in consumer electronics.

Microsoft never built the cheap, CLI-only version of NT that would have given Linux a run for its money. It would have helped preserve some of the hacker mindshare they once had with DOS.

> PWR

CANDU works fine too.

Eunice is like Wintermute's grandma. Five years per generation at the current rate, so 2035 sounds about right. All that's missing is rastafarians on a derelict space station.

There exist a space between these approaches (webview, direct graphics) and TUI which nobody dares to explore anymore and I'm not sure why: native GUI apps and widgets. For example, Lazarus (FreePascal IDE / Delphi clone) gets it right. You get performance, low resource usage, portability and a good UI that's quick to use, respects platform standards and is highly discoverable.

Agents are very good at dealing with less used languages as long as you have skills defined for each. That's really the trick.

The model wouldn't "think" that, it'd be trained on that (not entirely incorrect) assumption.

That's also assuming the device is fully documented and that hardware behaves exactly as documented.

If the kernel had a standard ABI, an out-of-tree kernel module would be the way. As it is, DKMS is a pain and so in-tree modules are the easiest where license allows it.

As an aside, as an ex Delphi/Pascal programmer I find idiomatic app-level Rust to be very readable. It can degenerate into a sigil soup but as long as generics and macros are kept in check its no worse than Pascal.

I agree I have an attitude problem, Kotlin triggers me like nothing else. I'm scared that a semi proprietary kludge will replace my still totally adequate main language for superficial reasons of syntax sugar and hype when I can see the pitfalls from a mile away and taste them everyday from our overeager architect.

And it pisses me off even more that my tooling provider is the party actually building and promoting this substandard replacement and that I can't boycott them because the other IDEs are either legacy clusterfucks (eclipse) or glorified local websites (vscode).

As much as I try to keep my composure on HN and stay constructive in my contributions, I don't know how to help derail this particular train.

Can LLMs have neuralese dyslexia?

I see you drank the kool-aid. Add this dot to your chart: I know Kotlin and _much_ prefer Java.

Also, rest assured that there is still plenty of corporate drones that don't know Kotlin and couldn't care less because Java puts food on the table while providing a stable consensual development environment. Kotlin opens many doors, most of which should have better be left closed.

I find Kotlin to be full footguns in general, letting you do stuff because 'why the hell not'. It feels like the Kotlin designers just wanted to show off, without considering that many of the resulting code patterns would be terrible.

Oh but they absolutely do. The difference was mainly that up to a few years ago, the American government (generally) didn't care to repress those with the "wrong" opinions. Whereas China was always quite adamant about it.

Laughs in Montreal. Over here, the cones surround you, mug you and leave you naked holding nothing but a steering wheel in the middle of the street. _Then_ you fall into a pothole. During a snowstorm. BTW, your car is already in a container headed for Africa.

Yes but multiply by feature flag combinations.

IMO it's an overengineered sloppy mess. It adds too many bells and whistles without taking away anything. Nul checking is about the only serious feature it has. The rest is chrome and bling. It's "ricer" Java.

I have project language called spite. You can write apps in it or out of it.

Considering that Kotlin is their own invention and that it exists mainly to schmooze people onto their platform I sure hope they're ahead with it!

Also, cheap maglev trains would be nice. Quiet, fast, reliable.

RISC-V is the ISA. They don't need to invent another one. They had Longsoon before. It's all just MIPS in disguise.

Half of the GPU game is software. I'm not saying that it doesn't or can't exist but I have yet to see what good Chinese software looks like.

For Silicon Valley, maybe. But this is Europe, where things are still rooted in reality.

The only thing it was designed for: recon. It's a spy plane. It has cameras and electronics up the wazoo. You fly it high and fast over a target, collect the info you need, refuel it and change target. Unlike a satellite, you can do that many times per day.

Against the USSR it had become risky because missiles could reach it? And satellites worked great during the cold war. But in a scenario where things got hotter and you wanted regular fresh intel from deep within enemy territory, the SR-71 could be irreplaceable.

Particularly toxic boron-enriched fuel at that, to sustain those same high temperatures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JP-7

BMW i3 with REX came out in 2013

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_i3_(hatchback)

Different logs for different business opportunities.

And it's still just a machine operating under someone's order. What it does, what it says, where it goes: the owner of that prompt is responsible for all of it even if surprising / unexpected.

... And still come home late for supper

Probably not, but then again I have an ego, and I have other things going on in my life than decrypting random stuff for someone else's enjoyment. Both of which aren't true for an agent/LLM.

It's a machine - when we attribute it human concepts such as victory, mistakes, ethics, we also shift responsibility away from the operator and soon enough bad people will use it as an umbrella. The agent ate my homework! The agent bombed a school! Bad agent, no!