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Octoth0rpe commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora   openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo
mnky9800n · 5 days ago
We are heading towards a world where during the moment a company wins a bid to serve you an ad and it actually serves you an ad it generates a custom ad made just for you that will have video, etc. that is most likely to get you to engage in whatever the ad is attempting you to engage in.
Octoth0rpe · 4 days ago
I wonder if the next gen ad blocking strategy will involve convincing ad generators that I respond _really_ well to plain text ads with a font color of #FEFEFE on a #FFFFFF background.
Octoth0rpe commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora   openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo
monkaiju · 5 days ago
It might have required a GoT level budget to make, but it wont look as good a GoT. Just a few days ago McDonalds learned that (again) in the Netherlands
Octoth0rpe · 5 days ago
I think 90% of the McDonald's backlash was specifically related to the tone/content of the ad (anti-holiday, you're better off in McDonald's _than with your family_!), not the actual quality of the video.
Octoth0rpe commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban   reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
henryfjordan · 5 days ago
Youtube really wants to send me down the alt-right pipeline. I watch a few WW2 history videos and suddenly I must identify with "Mr Mustache" as the kids say. TikTok wants to radicalize me the other way, and shows me every video of a cop abusing their power that they can find. It cuts both ways.

I think what's killing Dems is that they don't understand the medium. Mamdani did really well by making good social media posts. Him and Trump had a grand old time at the whitehouse because they have a competent grasp on social media in common. Newsom has been trolling lately and his approval ratings are only going up.

Dems being a million years old is killing the dems.

Octoth0rpe · 5 days ago
> I think what's killing Dems is that they don't understand the medium.

Generally agree, but

> Him and Trump had a grand old time at the whitehouse

Yeah, but that wasn't entirely positively received, despite his earlier social media success. Him buddying up with Trump was a huuuuge turn off for me.

> Newsom has been trolling lately and his approval ratings are only going up.

Newsom's content is also a huge turn off for me, and I am not convinced that his supposed approval ratings are not simply more CTR type machinations from the DNC. Maybe there's some segment of the population that genuinely wants whatever the hell Newsom is pushing content-wise, I certainly don't have #s on my side. Mamdani's efforts - Trump buddying aside - were much better.

> Dems being a million years old is killing the dems.

Yes, but I think age is simply a proxy for a number of other highly correlated behaviors and positions. Most progressives can name a couple of >70yo dems for whom these complaints do not apply.

Octoth0rpe commented on Amazon EC2 M9g Instances   aws.amazon.com/ec2/instan... · Posted by u/AlexClickHouse
llm_nerd · 6 days ago
In Amazon's Graviton 5 PR they note that over half of all new compute capacity added to AWS over the past three years has been Graviton-based. That's an amazing stat.

It really is incredible how ARM basically commoditized processors (in a good way).

Octoth0rpe · 6 days ago
Inversely, I think it's siloed things in somewhat unhealthy ways. We now have a number of vendors that sell/rent you machines that are not generally purchasable. I don't think we've seen too many negative consequences yet, but if things continue in this direction then choosing a cloud provider for a high performance application (eg, something you'll want to compile to machine code and is therefore architecture specific in some way as opposed to a python flask app or something), one may have to make decisions that lock one into a particular cloud vendor. Or at least, it will further increase the cost of changing vendors if you have to significantly tweak your application for some oddities between diff arm implementations at different hosting providers, etc.

I would much rather see some kind of mandatory open market sale of all cpu lines so that in theory you can run graviton procs in rackspace, apple m5 servers in azure, etc.

Octoth0rpe commented on America Has Become a Digital Narco-State   paulkrugman.substack.com/... · Posted by u/rbanffy
prngl · 7 days ago
I think this is spot on. It’s interesting how rhetoric about “liberty” seems to practically serve oligarchy. I suppose an alternative to bans and regulations is to genuinely pursue the elimination of deprivation, orient our collective capacities towards our collective well-being, and then let people do what they will. Anything short of that seems to be a rather false liberty (and a rather false democracy, while we’re at it).
Octoth0rpe · 7 days ago
I think we treat the maximization of liberty (in my mind a primary function of government/society, with reasonable limits) as the same goal for both corporations and people, which ultimately is a side effect of treating corporations like people. But these are entirely oppositional goals: Maximizing personal liberty of actual people requires significant binding restrictions on corporations.

In the US we have this overly simplistic narrative of pro-liberty GOP versus anti-liberty DNC which I think badly needs to be separated into pro _personal_ liberty positions (healthcare, including abortion, quality public education), versus anti _corporate_ liberty (environmental regulation, financial transparency, etc).

Octoth0rpe commented on Java Hello World, LLVM Edition   javaadvent.com/2025/12/ja... · Posted by u/ingve
emptysea · 9 days ago
Ruff’s ast is used by Ruff, Ty, and Pyrefly
Octoth0rpe · 9 days ago
Thank you! this looks pretty helpful
Octoth0rpe commented on Java Hello World, LLVM Edition   javaadvent.com/2025/12/ja... · Posted by u/ingve
znkr · 9 days ago
LISP ;-)
Octoth0rpe · 9 days ago
I can appreciate this answer, but I don't think it's really what I'm asking.

I think I'm more looking for some kind of standardized struct definition that translates easily to llvm IR and is flexible enough for a wide variety of languages to target.

Something like this: https://gist.github.com/thomaswp/8c8ef19bd5203ce8b6cd4d6df5e... (Which doesn't meet my criteria because AFAICT isn't used by anything, but is reasonably close to what I want) or this: https://docs.rs/sap-ast/latest/src/ast/lib.rs.html#1-83 (which seems specific to SAP, I would like something more general)

Octoth0rpe commented on Java Hello World, LLVM Edition   javaadvent.com/2025/12/ja... · Posted by u/ingve
Octoth0rpe · 9 days ago
I've been playing with a very basic compiler for a language that looks a bit like go -> llvm ir, but I'm finding myself constantly revising my AST implementation as I progressively add more things that it needs to represent. Is anyone aware of any kind of vaguely standardized AST implementation used by more than one project? I've been searching this morning for one and am coming up empty. My thinking is that if I can find some reasonably widely used implementation, then hopefully that implementation has thought out lots of the corner cases that I haven't gotten to yet.
Octoth0rpe commented on Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop   geohot.github.io//blog/je... · Posted by u/cspags
bloppe · 9 days ago
I agree about some criticisms of the framework. I think they could do away with the plug modules and just go all in on usb-c. I don't mind the occasional dongle for HDMI. I also would prefer a thinner screen bezel, even if that means it's not swappable either.

But having easy access to internal hardware for upgrades is pretty huge. Rather than blowing 1-2k on a new machine every few years, it's just $200-500 for more RAM and a better CPU (assuming prices go back to normal in a reasonable amount of time)

Octoth0rpe · 9 days ago
> I think they could do away with the plug modules and just go all in on usb-c. I don't mind the occasional dongle for HDMI.

Strong agree. After all, their plug modules are really just dongles that are integrated into the body, which makes them worse IMO. More expensive, model-specific, etc.

Octoth0rpe commented on It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)   javascript.tm/letter... · Posted by u/pavelai
nacozarina · 12 days ago
Our trade has a solid tradition of terrible names for programming languages. They are ALL bad. The whole Ekmuhscrip.js schism fits perfectly. Yes, this is our circus, and these are our monkeys.
Octoth0rpe · 12 days ago
> Yes, this is our circus, and these are our monkeys.

In this case, it's Oracle's circus and we are the monkeys.

u/Octoth0rpe

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