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Readit Newsal_be_back commented on Leaving Intel brendangregg.com/blog//20... · Posted by u/speckx
A houseplant with tiny turtles for leaves… very informative if under the influence of some substances.
It’s not a Hello World equivalent.
So much around generative ai seems to be around “look how unrealistic you can be for not-cheap! Ai - cocaine for your machine!!”
No wonder there’s very little uptake by businesses (MIT state of ai 2025, etc)
al_be_back commented on SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia cnbc.com/2025/11/11/softb... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
Makes no sense to sell their entire position on a key infrastructure player, if you’re going all in on ai. That’s very odd.
this is not practical or desirable in my view: de-google, de-apple, de-meta, de-aws etc etc etc
What next, become stone masons? nah, that's too corporate, pick berries instead ;)
Come on, what happened to moderation, discipline and planning? How about use what you need, hedge your risks (mix providers, products), be more proactive than reactive to demands for consumption?
al_be_back commented on Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy github.com/jackdoe/pico2-... · Posted by u/jackdoe
I feel with people that say that "AI have take the fun out of programming" for them, but at the same time I think to myself: is it about doing, or is it about getting things done? Like I imagine someone in the past loved their job walking each night through their city, lighting up the gas-powered street lights. And then one day someone else implemented electric street lights, and the first person lost the job they loved. But in the end, its about providing light to the city streets, no?
For the great majority of work, it is not about fun, but about doing something other people need or want.
For me, AI allows me to realize my ideas, and get things done. Some of it might be good, some of it might be bad. I put at least as much time, attention and effort as the "real" programmers do, but my time goes into thinking and precisely defining what I want, cutting it up into smaller logical modules, testing, identifying and fixing bugs, iterating all the time.
>> doing, or is it about getting things done
Who says the thing is done? there is a massive danger now, with the sheer amount of complexity & speed brought by ai, in that it's increasingly harder to verify / do proof-of-work.
>> AI allows me to realize my ideas
sure for a personal/pet project. however, when working for a customer/client, they've ideas, needs, wants and usually have their own users and shareholders to satisfy - need proof.
>> lighting up the gas-powered street lights
ok, no this metaphor may well be loved by ai companies, but doesn't actual work in so many levels. For one, ai (as actually provided) is not electricity or a physical system, a brain, or a mind, it's software (I use it v-selectively). Second, the job being done (lighting, or coding) is ultimately to produce / output the desired outcome for whoever ordered it - a solution to a problem - failing that it's just work and wages for the worker but no effective solution (lighting the dark side of the moon, kinda).
I agree with the OP, as system complexity went up, so does the ability to keep up.
al_be_back commented on I hate screenshots of text parkscomputing.com/page/i... · Posted by u/paulmooreparks
Couldn't agree more, if posting on coding sites/forums, they usually have code highlighting.
However, a screenshot acts like a print-out / pdf, and very handy for sharing in other platforms e.g social media, mobile devices.
Like many others I like the use of ai for OCR in imagery. Won't be long before ai tool can copy the style + content from an image, or video.
This reminds me of the movie 300 where an army shows up with potters and other tradesmen, while the army of Sparta were all soldiers.
Opinion: as an expat, I'm not sure who would join the CAF nowadays. Not much to be proud of in my opinion. Without exaggerating, not a single person I grew up with is doing well, and I had to leave Canada to start my family.
> the movie 300
In high-tech warfare we're seeing these days your metaphor is reversed. These artisans (potters etc) are tech engineers, mathematicians, chemists. They are quick to mobilize and become effective (operate drones, robots, cyber, complex machines).
I cannot comment on your opinion of Canada, it's too vague in my opinion.
Generally, western Armed Forces (CAF included) reduced their personnel and spending when the Cold War ended (90s). Rightly so. Since then, war is fought very differently and AF are now very quickly adapting.
Recent conflicts in near/along Levant and near/along the Black Sea, show how effective certain types of warfare are in the current climate.
How much useful combat skills can be taught in only a week? It seems like an extremely low estimate on the training needed to play a useful role in the military.
It is relative, depends on the "type of warfare" being fought, and the countries/economies involved.
In a high-tech modern warfare, the countries with a fighting force that has higher academic education, higher tech literacy are relatively quick to mobilize and become effective militarily.
al_be_back commented on Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser github.com/dillo-browser/... · Posted by u/nazgulsenpai
Maintainer here.
We are currently in the process of moving Dillo away from GitHub:
- New website (nginx): https://dillo-browser.org/
- Repositories (C, cgit): https://git.dillo-browser.org/
- Bug tracker (C, buggy): https://bug.dillo-browser.org/
They should survive HN hug.
The CI runs on git hooks and outputs the logs to the web (private for now).
All services are very simple and work without JS, so Dillo can be developed fully within Dillo itself.
During this testing period I will continue to sync the GitHub git repository, but in the future I will probably mark it as archived.
See also:
happy anniversary!
> Uses the fast and bloat-free FLTK GUI library [1]
Bloat as a moat, is sadly the strategy of much of the web or apps in recent years. High Performance has shifted into how fast we can serve bloat. Efficiency has become about pushing the most bloat with least time.
Pages are bloated, sites are bloated, browsers are bloated, browser-market is bloated (two-a-dime! or three for free). The whole damn web is a big bloat. wtf happened.
al_be_back commented on Removing XSLT for a more secure browser developer.chrome.com/docs... · Posted by u/justin-reeves
Removing html and css would also make the browser more secure - but I would argue also very counter productive for users.
Most of read-only content and lite editing can be achieved with raw data + xslt.
The web has become a sledgehammer for clacking a nut.
For example, with xslt you could easily render a read only content without complex and expensive office apps. That is enough for Academia, Gov, and small businesses.