Readit NewsLate to the party but OMG this is possibly the greatest tech news discussion page of all time. Not just hilarious and impressive, but so many fantastic ideas / weirdly believable news items from the future! As an old fart software developer I've been slowly dipping my toe into the AI pool, I may have to just dive in!
jsrcout commented on Generating Cats with learned lookup tables aschrein.github.io/jekyll... · Posted by u/ibobev
Finally, a use case for AI that we can all get behind :-)
(Let me start clarifying that this is not at all a criticism of the author)
I am usually amused by the way really competent people judge other's context.
This post assumes understanding of:
- emacs (what it is, and terminology like buffers)
- strace
- linux directories and "everything is a file"
- environment variables
- grep and similar
- what git is
- the fact that 'git whatever' works to run a custom script if git-whatever exists in the path (this one was a TIL for me!)
- irc
- CVEs
- dynamic loaders
- file priviledges
but then feels important to explain to the audience that:
>A socket is a facility that enables interprocess communication
Yep. The Curse of Knowledge is a real thing.
jsrcout commented on Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing spectrum.ieee.org/it-mana... · Posted by u/pseudolus
I think part of it is that reading code isn't a skill that most people are taught.
When I was in grad school ages ago, my advisor told me to spend a week reading the source code of the system we were working with (TinyOS), and come back to him when I thought I understood enough to make changes and improvements. I also had a copy of the Linux Core Kernel with Commentary that I perused from time to time.
Being able to dive into an unknown codebase and make sense of where the pieces are put together is a very useful skill that too many people just don't have.
Reading (someone else's) code is a whole lot harder than writing it. Which is unfortunate because I do an awful lot of it at work.
jsrcout commented on We Induced Smells With Ultrasound writetobrain.com/olfactor... · Posted by u/exr0n
I predict a future where once again porn is the cutting edge with a cutting edge technology.
porn + vr + smell
But will the smell be in 3D?
jsrcout commented on We Induced Smells With Ultrasound writetobrain.com/olfactor... · Posted by u/exr0n
I'd maybe make a hypothesis that a large portion of the space is "bad" smelling stuff: smoke or garbage. When people had covid-induced parosmia, it almost always seemed to be bad smelling stuff.
I know someone whose sense of taste was ruined by a small stroke. He said basically everything tastes like old gym socks now. That would suck so bad.
jsrcout commented on US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites thedailybeast.com/air-tra... · Posted by u/throw0101a
I can't escape the impression that the person currently most responsible for these shortsighted decisions simply doesn't care what happens after he's gone.
Now, either (except, of course, to himself).
Getting a "not available in your state" page, does anyone have an archive? I've only recently tried out fil-c and hope to use it in some work projects.
https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95