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"With a mortar launcher. Because that's its own sentence".

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The bar is embarrassingly low, but Zelensky might be the best President Ukraine ever had

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Best technical read in a while. Computers actually suck at (precise) math, and we need to do a lot of math-y contortions to make them somewhat work, even in seemingly trivial calculator apps on your phone. chadnauseam.com/coding/rando...

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

If I come up with some new philosophical paradox, but each time I tell someone about it I will word by word replace it with the Ship of Theseus paradox, until eventually no original expression remains, will it still be my paradox or

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The whole field of computer security is us humans pretending that computers (things we built specifically to run arbitrary code) can be prevented from running arbitrary code.

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Breaking: Investors just discovered that "AI" isn't magic, it's just code and overhyped technology. Who knew?

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

Say whatever you want about Elon Musk, his life is full of important lessons for us all. Like "don't come to the most important event in your life high as a kite, or you are bound to do something stupid while the entire world watches". It's a good rule to follow.

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I'm involved in tech hiring. I've interviewed thousands of engineers. And I'd like to tell you about a disturbing trend I've seen in tech in the last 10 years 🧵

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Jews once made up 40% of Baghdad’s population. Today, not a single Jew remains in Iraq. This is what ethnic cleansing looks like—and it’s a story the world refuses to tell.

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One thing I did not expect to live through the resurgence of is the actual state-sponsored piracy.

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At this point it is safe to say that if you aren't using Firefox you are actively making your experience worse

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Submitting university projects in a very sorry state, while mumbling the Cult of Done Manifesto to myself to soothe my conscience

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submitted 64 days ago • 11 comments

Living with the rage of having seen, first-hand, the bitter truth behind the lies: a fully functional operating system and office suite can run perfectly well on 32mb RAM and a 200mhz CPU.

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On Linux you're an admin On Mac you're an end user On Windows you're a victim

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Computer security is fundamentally unsolvable because "arbitrary code execution" is exactly the thing we WANT general purpose computers to do, and why we even have them in the first place.

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The biggest lesson we’re gonna take from this decade of technology is that just because something is “new” doesn’t mean it’s an advancement

submitted 79 days ago • 12 comments

Von Neumann architecture of computers places data to be operated on indistinguishably from instructions to guide the operation, necessarily on the same physical medium. There is no inherent separation between levels of system access, 1/3

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Still Life of the Remnants of a Meal with a Lunging Cat, 1717 by Alexandre-François Desportes

submitted 79 days ago • 9 comments

Orangutans evolved to live in big families, but formed a culture of solitary living to adapt to post-ice age food scarcity in their habitat. I keep thinking about this, and it feels like there is a lesson in it

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If a problem is solvable in a deterministic way, you should not attempt to slop together an AI/LLM solution for it, full stop. No exceptions. The obvious exception is running a scam against your customers, but again, you obviously also should not do those.

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no no no, LLMs are not a black box. they use transformer architectures: a number of attention heads are fed vectors and then the outputs are added back to the residual stream in a feedforward manner. and each of those things is a completely opaque black box

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I honestly believe all LLM results should come with a disclaimer reminding people that the thing doesn’t (and absolutely cannot) know any facts or do any reasoning; it is simply designed to sound like it knows facts and frequently sweeps some up accidentally in the process.

submitted 81 days ago • 140 comments

if you think about it, a heating radiator with a thermostat is a type of software defined radio

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A sad reminder that megafauna did not go extinct for hundreds and hundreds of years after the last Ice Age ended. Mastodons survived still on distant islands at the time the Great Pyramids were being built — only dying out when humans finally got there.

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