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vFunct··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
And that's something we will have to accept, that Islamic populations will always have nukes.

How do you plan to handle a world with Islamic populations having nukes? Because that's something you will have to plan for. You have no choice. They will not let you not let them have nukes. They will make sure they will have nukes. That's just given.

vFunct··on U.S. has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on Iran
Iraq wasn't a populist movement. Iran is.
vFunct··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
Yes. Before Israel, when America had no enemies in the mideast. Thanks for confirming.
vFunct··on Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]
Its perfectly reliable for the things you know it to be, such as operations within its context window size.

Don't ask LLMs to "Write me Microsoft Excel".

Instead, ask it to "Write a directory tree view for the Open File dialog box in Excel".

Break your projects down into the smallest chunks you can for the LLMs. The more specific you are, the more reliable it's going to be.

The rest of this year is going to be companies figuring out how to break down large tasks into smaller tasks for LLM consumption.

vFunct··on New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles
There’s also a lot of reasons to have a completely public social media account.
vFunct··on MiniMax-M1 open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model
It's already sparsified from the 150T parameter model..
vFunct··on Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket
The feet landing extension reminds me of the Delta Clipper DC-X rocket, the first reusable VTOL rocket from 30+ years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv9n9Casp1o

I wonder if that's the optimal design for VTOL rocket landers? Or is that more particular to smaller lighter rockets and eventually you need heavier duty options for bigger rockets?

Also the DC-X was eventually intended to be single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO). Do any of these reusable rockets plan on being SSTO? Whether from Space-X/Blue Origin or this or the Chinese ones? SSTO is where you're going to dramatically change the economics of rockets, as you now only have to worry about refueling when launching satellites, instead of using an expendable second stage..

vFunct··on Open-Source RISC-V: Energy Efficiency of Superscalar, Out-of-Order Execution
Unfortunately, a lot of the architecture is decided by your technology node as well as library. Examples include cache architecture as well as performance-power tradeoffs. There are thousands of standard cells in libraries now, and that's all custom tuned for each technology node.
vFunct··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
And you can confirm they don't privately support Israel either through social media.

There's a lot of hopium among Zionists that they have widespread support, but really, they're as hated worldwide as the Nazis were. Japan in particular dropped from massively pro-Israel to massively anti-Israel. And this was from a poll last year. It's only gone more anti-israel since then.

I would implore you to understand how social media influences people.

vFunct··on Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU
I still don't understand why we need text rendered offline and stored in an atlas alongside tricks like SDFs, when GPUs have like infinite vertex/pixel drawing capabilities.. Even the article mentions writing glyph curves to an atlas. Why can't the shaders render text directly? There has to be a way to convert bezier to triangle meshes. I'm about to embark on a GPU text renderer for a CAD app and I hope to figure out why soon.
vFunct··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
The attacks just occurred a few hours ago.

But otherwise you can follow all sorts of Iranian ticktokers and they’ll give you the rundown.

The only Iranians that support Israel are exiled Pahlavists, like the ones around LA. No one inside Iran supports Israel.

vFunct··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
Not after Israel conducts this attack.

No one in Iran supports Israel, young or old.

vFunct··on V-JEPA 2 world model and new benchmarks for physical reasoning
I'm surprised that's not how it's already done. I'd figure some of the inner layers in LLMs were already "world models" and that it's the outer layers that differentiated models between text vs. images/robotics/other modes...
vFunct··on Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests
You're supposed to vote based on actions, not statements.

Any jackass can say anything. What matters is what they actually have done.

Never reward incorrect action.

vFunct··on Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests
The one you're paying for.
vFunct··on Apple Developer Video: Meet Liquid Glass
This is really sophisticated, like lie Aqua from OS X. Going to be very difficult for Google to copy, making them look primitive for years.
vFunct··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
Which is why the gaussian blur was invented...

People pretend this isn't a solved problem.

vFunct··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
I like it a lot. Reminds me of the OG Mac OS X Aqua theme, except a more reactive/dynamic version of it to account for accessibility.

Refreshing counter to the brutalist styles that were trending. The problem with brutalist styles is that they tend to be busy, which becomes confusing and unintuitive to new users.

This seems like it would help separate elements for easier focus, to make things more obvious.

vFunct··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
They say the text color adapts to the background based on contrast.

I'm just wondering if Apple is going to make matching CSS updates in Safari so web app developers have matching visuals.

vFunct··on Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy
Correct. The public consensus doesn't call them genocides, while calling other events as genocides. The only people going against the public consensus are this seeking to commit genocide.
vFunct··on Omnimax
First large format system I experience was Omnimax in Fort Worth in the 80's. Much more immersive than IMAX. Actually, the Apple Vision Pro movies reminds me of that experience now.
vFunct··on Cursor 1.0
this is the way.

STDIO MCP is really just a quick hack.

vFunct··on MonsterUI: Python library for building front end UIs quickly in FastHTML apps
Nice. This looks to be in the direction of where I was going. Will give it a try.
vFunct··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
Can't now. Can only show publicly when it's released at an upcoming trade show. But it's a CAD app with many, many models and views.
vFunct··on MonsterUI: Python library for building front end UIs quickly in FastHTML apps
I'm really hoping someone comes up with a pure Python declarative HTML component/CSS/JS framework, sorta like SwiftUI for the web. I tried to make something a few years ago but ran out of time.

Anyone want to vibe code that? I could use it for Django, instead of the horrible Django template language/HTMX/Tailwind/DaisyUI/etc..

I never want to write HTML/CSS/JS ever again. Give me Python UI components!

vFunct··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
Been vibe coding for the past couple of months on a large project. My mind is truly blown. Every day it's just shocking. And it's so prolific. Half a million lines of code in a couple of months by one dev. Seriously.

Note that it's not going to solve everything. It's still not very precise in its output. Definitely lots of errors and bad design at the top end. But it's a LOT better than without vibe coding.

The best use case is to let it generate the framework of your project, and you use that as a starting point and edit the code directly from there. Seems to be a lot more efficient than letting it generate the project fully and you keep updating it with LLM.

vFunct··on Git-worktree – Manage multiple working trees
Useful for parallelizing AI agent work. Have each agent work on different parts of the code in separate work trees. Or just have them work on the same section and merge the best one later.
vFunct··on Human coders are still better than LLMs
OK now we have to spend time figuring out the framework.

It's why people say just write plain Javascript, for example.

vFunct··on Human coders are still better than LLMs
No guarantee that will happen. LLMs are still statistically based. It's not going to give you edgier ideas, like filling a glass of wine to the rim.

Use them for the 90% of your repetitive uncreative work. The last 10% is up to you.

vFunct··on LLM codegen go brrr – Parallelization with Git worktrees and tmux
Yah it's not really usable for iteration. I don't parallelize this way. I parallelize based on functions. Different agents for different function.

Meanwhile, a huge problem in parallelization is maintaining memory-banks, like https://docs.cline.bot/prompting/cline-memory-bank

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