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In all honesty and writing it straight: this kind of success you're writing of would best be not achieved at all, as it's poisoning society and civilization.
> you'd end up with brick and mortar stores doing a lot of showrooming and then online stores gaining the bulk of sales because they're cheaper (because their overhead is low)
This is what I see happen in Poland with clothes and electronics stores, but I don't exactly understand what MAP is supposed to be solving here, given that the brick&mortar and on-line stores are literally the same entity/brand, and in case of clothing, they're also the manufacturer brand?
> The Wilshire 5000 stock index, for example, actually only includes about 3400-3700 companies now.
That amazed me when I heard it recently. The number of tradeable things continues to increase, but most of them are two or three steps removed from real-world production.
You're saying it should look like those damned browser certificate failure sites, with option to open the damn site hidden under button that looks like an unassuming link?
Clojure is my favourite alternative language on the JVM, besides offering what Lisps have provided for decades, their philosophy of embracing the host platform, instead of all the talk that the next JVM will be rewriten in it like some others do, makes being around Clojure folks much more appealing.
What are the chances some company offers to "save" them with a security service which coincidentally will also require users to use the latest officially-sanctioned browsers, OSes, and "trusted" hardware to pass the "security check"...
The prevalent discourse/attempt-at-a-meme-but-people-are-taking-it-seriously saying "Bluesky is down because of AI vibecoding!" is starting to get annoying and unoriginal.
Even when Bluesky confirmed it's a DDoS, the line is now "maybe they wouldn't have gotten DDoSed if they didn't vibecode and their code was better."
The Design of Everyday Things.
Yeah but the "good faith" math had a big margin of error, and if I estimate 5k-20k shops and pick the lower number that just happens to make my company look great, that kind of changes things.
Which would be entirely reasonable cost as part of a healthcare visit.
When people complain about healthcare costs, they're not complaining about things that cost the same as a cup of coffee locally.
The subcaption is wrong: “The case will determine whether an unnamed plaintiff can take the hospital and its doctors to federal court.”
The cert petition doesn’t have anything to do with doctors, this woman, or her freedom. This is the question presented: “Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine can be triggered by a state-court decision that remains subject to further review in state court.”
Rooker-Feldman is a general legal principle governing the allocation of power between state courts and federal courts. It says that, where a state court has rendered a judgment on a case within the state court’s jurisdiction, federal courts can’t second guess that determination—effectively exercising appellate jurisdiction—expect pursuant to a specific statutory power (such as the habeas statute).
This legal principle doesn’t even have particular application to medical or individual freedom cases. It arises all over the place, because state courts and federal courts have overlapping jurisdiction in most areas of law. State courts can hear federal-law claims, except in areas like patents or federal tax that Congress designates as exclusively federal. And federal courts can hear state-law claims either under diversity jurisdiction or as ancillary to a federal claim. So you often have a party that loses in state court then seeks to try and litigate the same action in federal court. It arises a lot in cases involving things like water rights, where there’s state-law property rights with interstate federal regimes often overlaid on top.
Yes, just use random results. You’ve just saved yourself weeks or months of work of gathering actual results.
I recently fell down the rabbithole of AI-generated videos, and realised that many of the "flaws" that make them distinctive, such as objects morphing and doing unusual things, would've been nearly impossible or require very advanced CGI to create.
> When we showed Buzdar our undercover footage, he insisted it had been filmed before his tenure or that it had been staged. When asked what he would say to local parents watching this footage, he said: "I can say to them with certainty, with confidence, that you should get your treatment done at THQ Taunsa."
Not gonna fix this with education if they won't admit to having a problem in the first place.
Interesting. Not clear what it really does. The hardware is an oscilloscope probe on a 3-axis CNC mechanism. That's called a "flying probe", and you can buy one.[1]
Fine. But what does the AI do? It "ingests the project", but what does that mean? Finding all the pins? That's a start. Using a SPICE model to figure out what should be on each pin, and checking? Now that would be impressive. Probably something in between.
The usual use for this sort of thing is that you probe a known-good board to find out what voltages and signals appear where, and then compare with newly manufactured boards. That's a common production check.
There's potential here. If the AI has some concept of what the board under test is doing, and can diagnose problems, that's quite useful.
You'll never see a neural interface ad. You'll just have always been a Pepsi drinker. It's right there in all your favorite childhood memories, after all.
For "this forum" read "the small but persistent crowd of pro Trump tech bros".
China proofing the Philippines? Undead General MacArthur would like a word. If there's a war over Taiwan they're the next nearest set of islands.
This article really felt like a misdiagnosis to me.
Sure, a lot of these people were just buying hype from these "get rich from drop shipping!" influencers, just like a million other suckers who got dollar signs in their eyes with real estate schemes, pyramid sale schemes, yada yada, a tale as old as time. I don't think this "passive income" trap is really anything new, and I don't think it was some unique thing that "ate a generation of entrepreneurs", as if that trap didn't exist then instead we'd see all these successful people.
Instead, what I think has drastically changed over the past 40 years or so is the ability of a solopreneur to make real money. Just look at all the posts on HN asking about how much people make on their side gigs. You rarely see anything more than a couple hundred bucks a month. There are notable exceptions, but unfortunately a lot of those notable exceptions are scammy, spammy business models. It's just simply much harder as a small/smaller business to make money and compete with the big boys. Wealth inequality doesn't just apply to people, but also companies. For example, in the past many entrepreneurial types may have started retail stores, while now it's incredibly difficult to compete with the likes of Amazon et al. I read an article recently that the number of public companies has halved compared to a few decades ago. The Wilshire 5000 stock index, for example, actually only includes about 3400-3700 companies now.
> Physical robustness. Strength, perhaps brutality. Competence in physical tasks. Honesty. Parentage. Birth order (see primogeniture.) Those matter in per-technological societies, and they matter in failed societies now. Those are perhaps humanity's core values.
This is really bleak to me. We can do better than primogeniture, and of course the gender discrimination that goes along with it. You might as well write that subjugation of women is a "core value", simply because it has been for so many time periods.
> Physical robustness. Strength, perhaps brutality.
John Henry is not going to beat the steam shovel any time soon.
> For the lifetime of almost everyone alive now, reading, thinking, and writing have been valued skills which moved one up in society's hierarchy. This is a historical anomaly.
It's not an anomaly; rather, it's the other way round. These used to be highly specialized skills that carried significant status, and got democratized by mass education in the 20th century.
We're not prisoners of history. We don't have to go back to being serfs for the few people who own all the land, oil, food, energy, data centers, and operating systems. I hope.
You can if you're exhausting the global production of oranges.
> Rosalind, make me a coffee! There are other ways to pay homage.
Isn't this more akin to "Rosalind! You are a respected world-class expert! Can you help me?"
> no one should have to control some one, until they become a threat
The Helots were a threat to Spartans. Black Haitians to the French. Jews to the Reich.
Threats feel like a reasonable reason to reduce another’s rights. But they turn out to be the most usual way of tricking oneself into becoming a monster.
That's not the best framing, IMO. More important is, even a PhD expert human wouldn't one-shot complex programs out of short, vague requests. There's a process to this. Even a thesis isn't written in one, long, amphetamine-fueled evening. It's a process whose every steps involves thinking, referencing sources, talking with oneself and other people, exploring possibilities, going two steps forward and one step back, and making decisions at every point.
Those decisions are, by large, what humans still need to do. If the problem is complex, and you desperately avoid needing to decide, then what AI produces will surprise you, but in a bad way.
> the fact that these organizations then have control over their own messenger ... means their employees won't use it.
Not sure what you mean here; I happily use whatever work email and messenger systems are provided for work. Most people do. I don't actually mind that IT services have access; they are in any case covered by GDPR.
In some cases there has been a legal crackdown on back channels: https://www.ft.com/content/68c26cf6-52d5-11e3-a73e-00144feab...
The Boris Johnson problem remains, but it can at least be made against the rules for normal work purposes.
(Remember not to type crimes into a computer, people)
"I could retrain, but my core skills—reading, thinking, and writing—are squarely in the blast radius of large language models."
Yes.
For the lifetime of almost everyone alive now, reading, thinking, and writing have been valued skills which moved one up in society's hierarchy. This is a historical anomaly. Prior to 1800 or so, those skills were not all that useful to the average farmer. There were more smart people than jobs for them. Gradually, more jobs for smart people were developed, but not until WWII did the demand start to exceed the supply. Hence the frantic technical training efforts of WWII and the following college boom. This was the golden age of upward mobility.
It's hard to imagine this today. Read novels from the 18th century to get a feel for it. See who's winning and who's struggling, who rises and who falls, and why. Jane Austen's novels are a good start.
The nerds didn't take over until very late in the 20th century. There were very few rich nerds until then. Computing was once a very tiny world. You could not get rich working for IBM. The ones who left and got rich were in sales.
So what was valued? Physical robustness. Strength, perhaps brutality. Competence in physical tasks. Honesty. Parentage. Birth order (see primogeniture.) Those matter in per-technological societies, and they matter in failed societies now. Those are perhaps humanity's core values.
That may be where we go once AI does the thinking. That's where we go when smarts are not a scarce resource.
> like organizing one's notes, which if in contemplation of obtaining legal advice seems privileged to me
Is it? Aren’t notes, et cetera, not privileged by default?
I like the immutability thing and there is certain kinds of code for which it is genius but I would say you lose a factor of two or so in performance relative to mutable data structures. You might say that it is a small price to pay but people who care about performance feel differently.
I think also Python just has the whole ecosystem for ML work, like so often I can just
uv install whatever
Python is also a better language for metaprogramming and advanced programming. Like if you look at Graham's On Lisp my two takeaways are: (1) if we was using Clojure instead of CL he would not be fighting with nconc, and (2) almost all the examples in the book can be worked in Python without macros except for the thing where they build an async system for CL and... Python has an async system built in.
Similarly you can implement the stuff in Norvig's book Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp in Python pretty easily. Performance for branchy "old AI" tasks like rules engines and the semantic web is inferior in Python compared to the JVM but actually it is not so bad if you use PyPy.
> organizations make their own messenger, and the fact that these organizations then have control over their own messenger ... means their employees won't use it
Legally mandate its use for official communications.
Yeah, do they think they have a country or something? Don’t they know they’re just an economic zone between France, Italy, and Germany.
That's why I did the flamingo on a unicycle.
For a delightful moment this morning I thought I might have finally caught a model provider cheating by training for the pelican, but the flamingo convinced me that wasn't the case.
Code isn't going anywhere. Code is multiple orders of magnitude cheaper and faster than an LLM for the same task, and that gap is likely to widen rather than contract because the bigger the AI gets the sillier it gets to use it to do something code could have done.
Compare the actual operations done for code to add 10 8-digit numbers to an LLM on the same task. Heck, I'll even say, forget the possibility the LLM may be wrong. Just compare the computational resources deployed. How many FLOPS for the code-based addition? How many for the LLM? That's a worst-case scenario in some ways but it also gives you a good sense of what is going on.
Humans may stop looking at it but it's not going anywhere.
This lens
https://7artisans.store/products/50mm-f1-05
is a fantastic wide aperture lens which is commercially available, affordable and a great value. Personally I tend to get bored if I am walking around with a 50mm lens but with that lens, the challenge of manual focus, the ability to take photos with hardly any light, and the ability to take dreamy photos like people have never seen I have so much fun. They make it for all the major camera brands.
Overall I am impressed with Chinese lens manufacturers who make other lenses like
https://www.venuslens.net/product/laowa-9mm-f-5-6-ff-rl/
which again are a great value and let me take pictures you haven't seen before.
AI being what it is, at this point you might be able to ask it for a token to put in a web page at .well-known, put it in as requested, and let it see it, and that might actually just work without it being officially built in.
I suggest that because I know for sure the models can hit the web; I don't know about their ability to do DNS TXT records as I've never tried. If they can then that might also just work, right now.
Back in the 80s, Zortech was located in London while I lived in the Seattle area. International phone calls were too expensive, so we would communicate by fax. Late at night, sending a fax cost about a dollar a page. (No email then.)
An unanticipated result is I have a record of our conversations, which would have all been lost if it was phone calls.
It will work great in Spain! /s
Idk but ironically, I had to re-read the first part of GP's comment three times, wondering WTF they're implying a mistake, before I noticed it's the car wash, not the car, that's 50 meters away.
I'd say it's a very human mistake to make.
Or JLPT N2. Which is quite difficult - approx 4000 words and 1000 kanji. That's several years of learning for all but the most proficient.
(The scale starts at N5 and lower numbers are harder)
my answer which seems to be increasingly unpopular is: "depression kills. attack it with all the tools available. see your pri care doc for an SSRI and be willing to work with them with dosage and medication for effectiveness and comfort. exercise, preferably exercise a lot. try the talking cure. go to church or something like that."
a lot of people have problems with some of those things and in that case do all the others. like personally i find it hard to not get exercise, i can't get it how people hate going to the gym, but i know a lot of people find it hard.
Yep, that is exactly what happens. It's a disgrace that their models aren't open, after training on everything humanity has preserved.
They should at least release the weights of their old/deprecated models, but no, that would be losing money.
I've been running this on my laptop with the Unsloth 20.9GB GGUF in LM Studio: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF/blob/mai...
It drew a better pelican riding a bicycle than Opus 4.7 did! https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/16/qwen-beats-opus/
It doesn't matter how many can run it now, it's about freedom. Having a large open weights model available allows you to do things you can't do with closed models.
Not your money.
At least this furthers humanity's scientific and technological knowledge, whether it fails or succeeds, unlike most other things people would do with that money, like buy a house to flip it, or buy a car, or sth.
This is a neat trick that people have been doing with Yubikeys for a long time, but from an operational security perspective, if you have a fleet rather than just a couple of hosts, the win is only marginal vs. short-lived keys, certificates, and a phishing-proof IdP.
The reason AWS does that is because there is a lot of base level work to verify you as "not a spammer" and to keep verifying you. So this is their way of making sure you pay the base cost.
They could price per use, but it would have to start with a base fee that is about the same at 10,000 emails.
Supposedly (https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1seune4/claude_ch...) they can't even see their own reasoning afterwards.
Pretty sure all partial offload systems I’ve seen work by layers, but there might be something else out there.
Me too. It had me genuinely wondering if the Brits have their own version of April Fools in the middle of the month.
Forget the AI -- I'm just as shocked to see that shares went from $500+ in 2021 to below $3 this year. That's insane. I had to verify it's actually real.
I thought this was just a normal shoe company that had invented a cool look with some good branding.
It's a crazy crowded space. Any entry into this field looks like a "me too" product driven by FOMO instead of being motivated by (a) serving customer needs, (b) serving social needs, or (c) making money. (All of which are fine with me) It will get 0.5% market share -- and I'm supposed to get excited?
If you lived in New York City you might think there are Duane Reades coast-to-coast but there are not. If you are based in the Bay Area you see billboards that are very different from anywhere else. I'd say the viewpoint is a lot like this famous artwork
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Ave...
but maybe instead of the rest of the US being 1/5 of the vertical space it is 1/25 of the vertical space. Problem is most customers do not live in the bay area and most web browser users do not live in the bay area and most web developers do not live in the bay area. Based in the Bay Area they can hop in their cars and drive the longest 40 miles in America to get to Google and Facebook's headquarters so Mozilla is talking to those people all the time and not talking to the rest of us.
We don't get costly signalling to show they care about the rest of us, we don't even get cheap talk.
They probably think René Girard is deep because they are surrounded by people who think René Girard is deep. If Mozilla wants to be relevant and not just an also-ran it needs to "think different" like the other 99.9% -- it's not that hard if you change your location.
Really the EU needs to apologize for those damned cookie popups and invest in a privacy-first browser. Whether that is "fully fund Firefox" or "fully a fund a Firefox fork" or pick up another browser engine or start a new one.
I see the warning lights flashing: a few years back web sites that didn't work with Firefox were few and far between, this weekend I bought tickets for a comic book convention and they took my money but didn't give me a ticket because the site didn't work with Firefox. I use Firefox as my daily driver so all the projects that I work on work with Firefox; the rest of my team doesn't give a damn and if you lose me another site will become Chrome-only.
People started using messaging apps because it's free where SMS was not, and it worked on desktop.
That's not really how datacenter power works. It's usually a bulk buy with a 95th percentile usage.
Wait what? Opus 4.6 currently has a 3x multiplier and Opus 4.7 does not require more compute.
I'm finding the "adaptive thinking" thing very confusing, especially having written code against the previous thinking budget / thinking effort / etc modes: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/adapti...
Also notable: 4.7 now defaults to NOT including a human-readable reasoning token summary in the output, you have to add "display": "summarized" to get that: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/adapti...
(Still trying to get a decent pelican out of this one but the new thinking stuff is tripping me up.)
They could, in theory, have contracts that say the AI can't fire them.
> It has barely hit 50% and it's already plateauing.
Is it plateauing? From the chart it doesn't look that way at all to me.
You could say it's flat between August 2025 and now, but it also was from Jun 2024-Feb 2025, or August 2023-March 2024. There's just a lot of noise to it -- lots of short plateaus or even dips followed by lots of sudden jumps. Indeed, it seems to have a bit of a yearly cycle to it, suggesting we're at the inflection point of another jump upwards.
So it still seems to be growing strongly to me. The rate of growth has slowed maybe the tiniest bit 2024-2026 compared 2018-2023, but I don't see it anywhere close to plateauing yet.
Doesn't seem that new. I go to a meditation group each week where we do body scan + attention on breath, it seems you are putting together different elements that mediators are likely to put together. Communicating that it is mix and match is good but not new -- there are a lot of big words here for a subject which is actually simple and experiential.
I am interesting in meditations you don't find in the literature like the method I use to cut off the mind-body connection over the breath to deal with acute stress. (e.g. attention to the breath is good for a daily habit when things are basically calm, when you are tilted the mind causes chaos in the body and vice versa and that attention makes the problem worse not better.
The more efficient tokenizer reduces usage by representing text more efficiently with fewer tokens. But the lack of transparancy does indeed mean Anthropic could still scale down limits to account for that.
You mean I can see your medical records on the block chain?
Wow this is a confusing name.
At a glance it looks identical to Mozilla Thunderbird, but has nothing in common.
And then of course it's also the same as a well-known hardware interface.
I know it's hard to come up with names and pretty much everything is used by something else, but this seems particularly bad.
Isn’t twinax just “I heard you like coax so I put coax in your coax.”
https://x.com/taylorotwell/status/1534178479201259520
I really don't think he's hurting for funds.
Another cross-check I've run is, are the claims Anthropic is making for Mythos that out of line with the current status of AI coding assistents?
To which my answer is clearly, no, not even remotely. If Anthropic is outright lying about what Mythos can do, someone else will have it in a year.
In fact the security world would have to seriously consider the possibility that even if Mythos didn't exist that nation states have the equivalent in hand already. And of course, if Mythos does exist, nation states have it now. The odds that Antropic (and every other AI vendor) isn't penetrated enough by every major intelligence agency such that they have access to their choice of model approach zero.
I wonder about the overlap between people being skeptical of Mythos' capabilities, and those who are too skeptical of AI to have spent any time with it because they assume it can't be any good. If you are not aware of what frontier models routinely do, you may not realize that Mythos is just an evolution of existing capabilities, not a revolution. Even just taking a publicly-available frontier model, pointing it at a code base and telling it to "find the vulnerabilities and write exploits" produces disturbingly good results. I can see the weaknesses referenced by the Mythos numbers, especially around the actual writing of the exploits, but it's not like the current frontier models fall on their face and hallucinate wildly for this task. Most everything they produce when I try this is at least a "yeah, that's worth thinking about" rather than an instant dismissal.
It's becoming so ubiquitous, I highly doubt it. At worst I think a manager would just see it as fluff, but not a negative.
This doesn't look like John McWhorter to me. Does it look like McWhorter to you? It looks like Geoffrey Pullum. You know, that Geoffrey Pullum?
https://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/aave-is-not-se-with-mistake...
There's no "proof" involved. That's the problem with the analogy. It's not about how much "financial capacity" you have. It's about how many bugs you find or fix. The bugs are there where the models help attackers/defenders or not.
In this particular case there's also the simpler, more technical/mathematical argument: you cannot possibly just "accidentally" have that exact noise. Getting those specific bits instead of any other sequence from the space of random numbers that much long requires you to extend effort at least equivalent to possession of the exact copyrighted work that happens to fall out of the XOR exercise.
In the Win 8 I thought Microsoft was visionary in integrating the tablet with the PC and in particular had a better vision than either Apple or Google. On the other hand I had a lot of weird ideas that turned out to be wrong or irrelevant: like I thought that 2-in-1s and other hybrids were just insane, like a conspiracy to confuse flight attendants, that Synoptics must be lording over the industry using patents to force every device to have a (worse than useless in my mind) trackpad, that the laptop hinge only existed because of the airline industry, or that the trackpads and insanely expensive cases with special-purpose keyboards just existed because there is so much QRM [1] at the consumer electronics show (CES) that you couldn't expect to demo something that depends on a bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
Around that time my hackathon kit was a bottom-of-the-line Android tablet with a $5 plastic clip and a cheap bluetooth keyboard and cheap mouse and with $75 of client hardware I would connect to a $2 hour machine in AWS and have a machine that was so sleek it made macbooks look clunky in comparison and also vastly more powerful than the bulky desktop replacement laptops and the gaudy gaming laptops -- it turned heads.
People thought my kit was fashionable but that's all the agreement I got with my vision. Laptops still have hinges, there is no resistance against crap trackpads [2] and those expensive cases, people are still surprised you can use a keyboard and mouse with your iPad, etc. I believed in Win 8 and told people "just hit that damn windows key on your keyboard" but I think I was the only one.
[1] ham radio jargon for "radio interference"
[2] even mac-ers admit that Apple trackpads are at best tolerable
> "What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there's the real danger" - Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
I always preferred this take:
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.” ― Alfred North Whitehead
It's both opposite and complementary to your Frank Herbert quote.
I ate so much paste in elementary school, was probably one of the high points for me.
>Not everyone needs this? Nowadays, we go to AI first and then website. Even Google shows an AI summary first.
Who is "we"?
Why would I want to give AI companies, already a very closed club of 2-3 big players, the keys to the web?
Why would I trust them to show this info in their results over their sponsored results?
Why should the use have to actively work (ask questions to get it out of the LLM step by step) to learn about my product or services? What if they don't know what they should be asking about?
It's a famous problem, I've seen a a few tries at it, even tried my own, never saw any real solution. I think the issue of "looking back over the last few years" is the way.
Atmosphere is the established name for all apps using the AT protocol. See https://atprotocol.dev/atmosphereconf/ for example.
That's a pretty big gimme!
You're not taking into account the thermal strain on the machine, though. A machine that's 100% utilized (even worse if it's in bursts) will last less than an idle machine.
don't mind if you do 'guv, don't mind at all.
Another trick when SIMD is not available, is pseudo SIMD via SWAR, one example,
https://lemire.me/blog/2022/01/21/swar-explained-parsing-eig...
FIXAPL is an interesting spin on APL without overloading on arity.
Many array languages overload glyphs on arity so they basically behave depending on if you call them with 1 argument (in "monadic form") vs 2 arguments ("dyadic form")
monadic: G A1
dyadic: A1 G A2
where G is the glyph and AN are arguments
The overloading can lead to confusion (but is also interesting in its own way because you can reduce the number of glyphs in the language surface).
That overloading is I would say also one of the reasons array languages might not be as approachable and one aspect of the 'difficult to read' argument.
Maybe even more important: avoiding overloading on arity helps with composition (I still have to dig into this deeper).
Look at any other war in human history, when was this any different for the upper classes?
Increasingly of the opinion that "free service with no support that's structurally essential for an economy" is some kind of trap. Possibly just the most comfortable kind of trap, a local optimum from which it's difficult to escape.
This is starting to become important as countries (very unwisely!) start tying things like national ID and banking to smartphones.
This is a bit like saying stop using Ubuntu, use Debian instead.
Both llama.cpp and ollama are great and focused on different things and yet complement each other (both can be true at the same time!)
Ollama has great ux and also supports inference via mlx, which has better performance on apple silicon than llama.cpp
I'm using llama.cpp, ollama, lm studio, mlx etc etc depending on what is most convenient for me at the time to get done what I want to get done (e.g. a specific model config to run, mcp, just try a prompt quickly, …)
The fun bit is right at the start when the author notices that the compiler spots this and optimizes it away.
We didn't get into the deeper question of benchmarking it vs. a three-register swap, because I suspect the latter would be handled entirely by register renaming and end up being faster due to not requiring allocation of an ALU unit. Difficult to benchmark that because in order for it to make a difference, you'd need to surround it with other arithmetic instructions.
A meta question is why this persists. It has the right qualities for a "party trick": slightly esoteric piece of knowledge, not actually that hard to understand when you do know about it, but unintuitive enough that most people don't spontaneously reinvent it.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root , which requires a bit more maths.
The other classic use of XOR - cursor overdrawing - has also long since gone away. It used to be possible to easily draw a cursor on a monochrome display by XORing it in, then to move it you simply XOR it again, restoring the original image.
Printing does not of its own cause inflation. In Japan it seems that efforts to inject money into the economy end up immediately stuck in low interest savings accounts.
I just don't idolize individuals.
I find rather strange the complaint about compatibility across JIT implementations, there is exactly the same problem across any programming language with multiple implementations, interpreters, compilers, JIT, whatever.
You can still do that, there are options available.
Even on my laptops I can at least change hard disks and memory modules.
It's been amazingly linear since 2014.
amazon.com needs to get with the program. Still IPv4 only.
Pity that the phones, tablets and major OSes are basically owned by foreign powers.
One way to complain, https://european-union.europa.eu/contact-eu/write-us_en
No smartphnone and dependent on two US companies, is there an official complaint form?
EDIT: A possible way, https://european-union.europa.eu/contact-eu/write-us_en
Obvious reminder that anybody can publish an Internet-Draft.
Navegante is a monthly ticket I was talking about, replacing the old L1, L12, L123, L123X kind of monthly subscriptions.
If you get simple tickets they will only cover Metro/Carris, then you need additional ones for CP, Fertagus, Transtejo, Softlusa.
Do the multimodal finally cover all of them, it has been a few years since I was a few days in Lisbon beyond the airport and travel north?
It used to be that some could be reused between transports, but only if the amount of travels was empty, and then recharged on the other system, being tied to it, until the travels would reach zero again.
and a rare Motorola SC02SH007DK04 graphics chip. As far as I know, no datasheet or detailed documentation for that chip has survived, so its exact features are still unknown
The "SC" prefix indicates a custom chip that Motorola made for someone else - in this case Compaq. A quick search of the Internet shows that it's an SVGA-class card with a blitter and hardware cursor. Here's some register-level docs:
https://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs422/readings/hardware/vgadoc/COM...
BK's page is also completely unusable without JS. It's an "appsite", not a website.
McD's is readable with JS off, because the "meat" of the content is plain HTML. I also like how the other links here are to URLs of the form "/en/products/nnnn", which further reinforces the fact that the pages are server-side.
The 90s were so glorious. You could plug SRAM chips into sockets on the motherboard! Today, we're sheeple content with our soldered-down RAM and cricket flour cookies.
I can say I have seen a lot of cases where someone who was flagrantly guilty of abuse complained loudly that their account at some big tech company was unfairly canceled. I cannot say that's what is going on here, and I can also say I've seen plenty of cases where it was unfair and there was no due process.
There is a very fine line between dumb and provacative.
I'm kind of curious how long it will be before people start publishing copyrighted works on the TrumpCoin block chain. :-)
Just give them computers already...
What is with this BS idea of medieval jail conditions...
Indeed. All software products you can get your hands on are open source - compiled code is only little more difficult to read than source code, but not that much if you learn how.
Which is why ~all companies switches to offering software as a service, so this mindset doesn't apply :).