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We pray for a reduction in Islamic State proxxies metaphorically and literally blowing up chances at global peace.

Uh, ironic

I’m not Iranian and I will profit from other people suffering. Unrelated to this, I can asure you the Iranians told me they have a ultra quantum computer capable of destroying the world.

/s

Came for the ‘should degenerate’

And Venezuela!

It’s cool to rewrite simple libraries to understand how code works at lower levels.

What style of formatting are you using? It seems peculiar at times.

I was enthusiastic about this project. But I am afraid these recent tangents will only reduce momentum.

Using HTTPS is terrorism.

Imagine all the people
Living for today…

Carmakers need to stop sabotaging themselves to compete.

Got it! Really cool puzzle. I used to enjoy solving puzzles like this, but nowadays I don’t spend time in that.

In political unstable times, a controversial project taking time gives more opportunity for opposition to delay or cancel the project. It is not my thinking that is short-sighted.

Why have we seen some countries try to revive nuclear? It is not better than alternatives. Old plants are already too old to operate and new ones are expensive and take time. Is it just an excuse to continue mining and keep dangerous materials?

US tech centralization is terrible !!!

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These threats to ban social media have shown that this topic is all about power and control and nothing about the people. Instead of investing in long term, sustainable solutions - less centralized networks, open algorithms, interoperable protocols - countries have been trying to reduce exposure to the internet to minimize damage.

Are solarpunk values part of your thinking process … which company you will be working at?

I do not  think necessarily about solarpunk, but it ends up being related to solarpunk. When you build software with the intention of it being used for a long time and for many contexts, you make it more sustainable, better against aging.

And, maybe in a broader sense, is hoping to work on projects aligned with solarpunk values realistic?

It is realistic and it should be done. Values are a guideline to follow when you need to make a decision. Values of sustainability, justice, hope will certainly guide you to build something that will help more people and have a positive impact in the world.

I work for a company that mainly does PoC projects with low TRL. This gives me the opportunity to choose the technologies that align with solarpunk: open-source libraries and standards, products that can be self-hosted and scale as needed.

Moreover, my team and department avoid using big tech products: Mattermost for comms, Nextcloud for storage and docs. Non-developers use Windows for" compatibility" reasons, otherwise, we use Linux.

Additionally, the company makes products that will be used in renewables and similar sectors, which makes it super solarpunk.

I have talked with the author to confirm what he meant with this and other posts he made on compilation. He has confirmed that most (if not all) C compilers are not deterministic. He has pointed me to here as an example. He added that optimizations are not applied in deterministic order and when you add LTO it worsens the problem.

I agree that LLM are made to be more exploratory, this is good as it allows them to experiment with more different topic, as opposed to always saying the same. However, I do not agree it is a feature for code generation, as you would need it to follow strict ruleset (code syntax, specification, tests). Whatever errors it generates and people accept are little mistakes in the threshold of acceptance for the person and a tradeoff for the cost of fixing the problem. In some contexts we see people focusing almost only on short term which leads to a lot of errors being allowed.

Moreover, you cannot say compilers are deterministic. There are situations where they are not (at least for the user).

https://krystalgamer.github.io/high-level-game-patches/

GCC’s unwarranted behaviour

In order to keep the code as small as possible I was compiling the code with -Os. Everything was working fine until I started to remove some printfs and started to get some crashes. Moving function calls around also seemed to randomly fix the problem, this was an indication that somehow memory/stack corruption was happening. After a lot of testing, I figured out that if -O2/-O3/-Os were used then the problem would appear. The issue was caused by Interprocedural analysis or IPA. One of its functions is to determine whether registers are polluted across function calls and if not then re-use them.

a relative time formatting library that contains no code

The library is two text files (code) that are processed by an LLM (interpreter) to generate code of another type. This is not that new in terms of workflow.

I think what makes this the worst is the fact that the author admits that you can’t be sure the library will work until you generate the code and test it. Even then you cannot guarantee the security of the generated code and as you do not understand the code you also cannot give support or patch it.

When Performance Matters

If performance of a datetime processor is not relevant, what is? The author mentions they would like a browser implementation to be fast, documentable, fixable. However, operative systems, browsers, and other complex systems are made of little utilities like this that have very well documented functionalities and side effects.

But the above isn’t fully baked. Our models will get better, our agents more capable.

The whole assumption is that instead of creating a good stable base that anyone can use we should be just shtting out code until it works.

Eventually the hardware will be good enough to support a shitty bloated browser so we don’t need to optimize it.

Eventually people will harden their PC enough so we shouldn’t care about security.

Low effort pizza is the best dish.

America is the crazy girlfriend constantly threatening to breakup. We must reassess this relationship: we are no longer “lovers”, maybe not even “friends”.

Trump, who represents the USA for the next few years, said this:

The USA is the economic engine on the planet. And when America booms, the entire world booms. It’s been the history. When it goes bad, it goes bad, the whole… You all follow us down, and you follow us up. And we’re at a point that we’ve never, I don’t believe we’ve ever been, I never thought we could do it this quickly. My biggest surprise is I thought it would take more than a year, maybe like a year and one month, but it’s happened very quickly.

No one in a healthy relationship tells their partner they will follow them “down”.