Right, which works great if your daytime job is fighting in the trenches, but maybe less so if your only opportunity is software development or other mentally exhausting job.
Bravo lol
Readit Newspdmccormick commented on Craft software that makes people feel something rapha.land/craft-software... · Posted by u/lukeio
pdmccormick commented on A new AI winter is coming? taranis.ie/llms-are-a-fai... · Posted by u/voxleone
There is no difference between "hallucination" and "soberness", it's just a database you can't trust.
The response to your query might not be what you needed, similar to interacting with an RDBMS and mistyping a table name and getting data from another table or misremembering which tables exist and getting an error. We would not call such faults "hallucinations", and shouldn't when the database is a pile of eldritch vectors either. If we persist in doing so we'll teach other people to develop dangerous and absurd expectations.
"Eldritch vectors" is a perfect descriptor, thank you.
pdmccormick commented on OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months wheresyoured.at/openai400... · Posted by u/chilipepperhott
That seems like a lot of money. How quickly can sustainable capacity be built up in terms of building power plants, data center construction, silicon design and fabrication, etc.? Are these industries about to experience stratospheric growth, followed by a massive and painful adjustment, or does this represent a printing press or industrial revolution like inflection point?
Would anyone like to found a startup doing high-security embedded systems infrastructure? Peter at my username dot com if you’d like to connect.
pdmccormick commented on SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3 github.com/francoismichel... · Posted by u/tempaccount420
I do hate the name ssh3. I was glad to see this at the top of the repo:
> SSH3 is probably going to change its name. It is still the SSH Connection Protocol (RFC4254) running on top of HTTP/3 Extended connect, but the required changes are heavy and too distant from the philosophy of popular SSH implementations to be considered for integration. The specification draft has already been renamed ("Remote Terminals over HTTP/3"), but we need some time to come up with a nice permanent name.
HTTPSSH.
Why not just SSH/QUIC, what does the HTTP/3 layer add that QUIC doesn’t already have?
pdmccormick commented on Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music music.ishkur.com/... · Posted by u/sajberpank
“It sounds like a bunch of DJ’s dared each other to set their drum machines to BPM=1000”
That has been my favorite line from this for decades (at least that’s how I remember it going).
pdmccormick commented on Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained" lwn.net/Articles/1035736/... · Posted by u/ksec
Could you be more specific about where you think the brain rot is? I thought the issues regarding bcachefs and Linux kernel development revolved around respecting conventions for code freezes and release candidates. It seemed more about getting along socially than technical objections to the technology.
I love projects like these. They touch upon so many low level aspects of Unix userlands. I appreciate how systemd ventured beyond classical SysV and POSIX, and explored how Linux kernel specific functionality could be put to good use. But I also hope that it is not the last word, and that new ideas and innovations in this space can be further explored.
Recently I implemented a manufacturing-time device provisioning process that consisted of a Linux kernel (with the efistub), netbooted directly from the UEFI firmware, with a compiled-in bundled initramfs with a single init binary written in Go as the entire userland. It's very freeing when the entire operating environment consists of code you import from packages and directly program in your high level language of choice, as opposed to interacting with the system through subprocesses and myriad whacky and wonderfully different text configuration files.
pdmccormick commented on NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock nist.gov/news-events/news... · Posted by u/voxadam
To keep things in perspective, a vertical shift of a few centimeters could be measured if two of these clocks were placed next to each other, just by the lesser gravity/time dilation at the increased "altitude".
It's an amazing time to be alive. While not this precise, you can have atomic cesium beam clocks of your own for a few thousand dollars each, and some elbow grease.
I wonder how many more orders of magnitude of precision will be realistically possible. I wonder if we'd ever be able to use gravity to "see" things at non-cosmological scales, like if you could resolve the gravitational waves and interference patterns caused by a person walking by.
pdmccormick commented on RFC: PHP license update wiki.php.net/rfc/php_lice... · Posted by u/josephwegner
I remember studying the source code to the PHP Zend Engine 25 years ago, and seeing a triple C pointer for the first time (I think it was `zval***`?) I did a lot of PHP in the following years, including using PHP for a high school programming contest (but my submission was rejected because the PHP language and using it in a standalone CLI context in particular was unfamiliar to the staff). I appreciate what it enabled me to accomplish in that era.
MythBusters-types of people can only exist in a country with garages and residential suburbs.
I think what most changed music and mechanics was the transition from suburbia to flatsharing in the city centers.
Not to mention intact families where parents had sufficient discretionary time (i.e. jobs that paid the bills with reasonable weekly hours) and a culture of prioritizing passing down knowledge to children and creating spaces in the home for them to pursue their individual interests and talents. People are not just atomized economic units.