Tech jobs have always contained a bunch of work that didn't matter much: everything to do with perf reviews for example, and most of those reports.
Here's the thing: after we took care of all the little overhead crap that "needed to get done," *we were allowed to go after the real work, the "illegible" "trim tab" work that doesn't really show up on your perf review but actually determines the course of the business over the next 10 years.*
The grief is grief at the loss of the ability to secure a future for ourselves. The grief is the vision of a bright future were working to bring about bring replaced with the vision of the wholesale destruction of the fabric of society that is now touted as what we should labor towards since it is apparently the bet that society will collapse is the most profitable bet you can make right now. People will shower you with money so long as you make this exact bet.
Oh I'm not saying Israel's decision to attack Iran forced the US to join in on strategic or self-defense grounds. I'm saying it forced them because the US does whatever Israel tells them. That is why both US lead negotiators with Iran are Jewish [1], why US congressmen have Israeli flags outside their offices [2], why Nancy Pelosi said the #1 priority in the Capitol is Israel [3], why Netanyahu gets 3 straight minutes of applause when he starts his speech in Congress (and lots of applause interruptions later) [4].
Because when 50% of donations to the Democratic party, and 25% of donations to the Republican party, are from Jewish sources [5], it can't be any other way.
[1] In practice, critical negotiations, with Iran and elsewhere, have been put in the hands of two people, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, with close personal relationships with the president and obvious economic stakes in the relevant conflicts. - https://snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpower-suicide
[3] if this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain would be our commitment to our aid, I don’t even call it our aid, our cooperation with Israel. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1LmnQRnw8I
Denormals are not needed if you are willing to handle underflow exceptions.
Before Intel 8087 and the IEEE 754 standard, any decent floating-point unit generated overflow exceptions and underflow exceptions, which had to be handled by the programmer, unless the default behavior of crashing the program was acceptable.
Intel 8087 and the standard based on it have offered to the lazy programmers the option to not handle the exceptions, in which case overflow exceptions generate infinities and the underflow exceptions generated denormals.
When the exceptions are not handled, it is supposed that the programmer will check the final results of a long computation, and if infinities and denormals are not desired, but they exist nonetheless in the results, the programmer will investigate the reason and then the bug will be fixed.
So anyone is free to ensure that no denormals will ever appear in an application , by enabling the underflow exception. If it is desired that the program must not crash, then the program must be written carefully, so that underflows are impossible.
The algorithms deployed in these kind of codecs take into account not only human vision and mathematical laws of information, but also nitty-gritty details of how computers work, which are optimally exploited by directly having humans write detailed assembly rather than a compiler make a best guess and effort.
> The obvious and direct answer immediately of course is "to be able to pay the bills".
Slight correction, is that it's I want to pay bills now. And not deal with uncertainty for a decade while other people try to direct the economy or what ever.
Refund policies are clearly documented in our terms. We actually DO offer refunds within 24hrs of credit purchase, which is significantly more flexible than most companies that operate in a similar way. And we try to use good judgement when there are extenuating circumstances.
Agent readiness seems like an entirely helpful step. People aren't using blockchains on my websites but they are using AI, and AI do not need to use websites like humans.
Humans want to see a good-looking website, even just raw HTML. An agent doesn't even need that, ideally they would just see the content of the page in markdown.
Why not have an agent version? It saves the client agent and the website host time and money.
It would be nice if there was a standard like llms.txt to specify "agents should instead visit this mirror of the website that is a raw markdown version of what humans see"
Also, part of agent readiness on this website is the AI equivalent of SEO (or the opposite if you don't want your website being crawled for AI).
You mean that after multiple years, 30% of teens haven't even ever used an LLM? Those kids probably don't even know what an LLM means since using google is now using an LLM.
So I think one of the main failure modes of vibe coding is that unless you have a very aggressive approach the onus is pretty much solely on the developer for the code to be good.
The volume of code, addiction to said volume of code, and fact that the vibe coder may not have read it basically makes review impossible both logistically and in that IME it seems to upset the vibe coder to even suggest that it's fine to take a bit longer and do something good as opposed to some overfit mess.
It might be that we look back on this as like trying to review the assembly output of a compiler but I don't see it that way at the moment.
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Yes, but it exists because it was deemed better to be cautious and implement PQC despite the uncertainty and different points of view around the time scale to have cryptographically relevant quantum computers (or, from a different point of view, precisely due to the uncertainties). Their comment was in the wrong tone, but the doubts are there. BTW, PQC can be interesting to learn regardless of the discussion around quantum computers.
Regressions are bad and they should be avoided. Still, software engineering is a complex thing and regressions happened long time before coding agents were a thing. Unless one can pinpoint regression to changes that were more sloppy than the human-written rsync commits were I don't think coding agents are to blame.
I love the zero dependency implementation. I do this style of breathing during specific time periods of practicing Qi Gong. I will try your script when I get to my laptop. Thanks.
Every single AV2 news here in the last week has seen exactly the same question.
Either go back read the answers there first, or I will assume you are part of a FUD campaign (yes, I know HN guidelines, but again every single AV2 news in the last week has seen the same rhetorical "questions" as top "comments").
> AV1 software decoding is already very intensive so AV2 decoding benchmarks are the next thing that would be really interesting (or mortifying) to see.
I understood it as compression is 25% better : a quality of 10mbps in av1 can be achieved with 8mbps in Av2.
But, it needs 5 times more compute power for this 25% gain.
Here's the thing: after we took care of all the little overhead crap that "needed to get done," *we were allowed to go after the real work, the "illegible" "trim tab" work that doesn't really show up on your perf review but actually determines the course of the business over the next 10 years.*
The grief is grief at the loss of the ability to secure a future for ourselves. The grief is the vision of a bright future were working to bring about bring replaced with the vision of the wholesale destruction of the fabric of society that is now touted as what we should labor towards since it is apparently the bet that society will collapse is the most profitable bet you can make right now. People will shower you with money so long as you make this exact bet.