> Civilization can't rely effectively on systems that are this fragile. That's American politics in a nutshell. We've spent 250 years assuming scruples and common decency would be sufficient.
Without trying to sound crass, food banks _are_ the reason we don't see people dying of starvation in first world countries. If people need food, a food bank will give it to them no questions asked.
That's not really a language. It was just a reporter dumbing down the idea of "vectors in latent space" which eventually became LLMs.
> I just think that Protobuf is not a good format for writing reliable software that aims for decades of usage. I am not a fan of Protobuf at all, but it's already demonstrated its ability to ship extremely reliable…
> For a maintainer it's way easier to tell their own agent to reimplement the same idea. This only makes sense if you assume the original PR was just vibe-coded with minimal human effort. Maybe one day but I don't think…
Haven't checked, but I'm pretty sure Google falls back on older browsers.
The babysitting work would still be impossible if you didn't actually know how to code.
As much as I agree with the spirit of your post, standards did in fact change after the Therac-25 incident. That was nearly 50 years ago, after all! There are very high quality bars for medical equipment.
All the same, they don't need a thousand copies of one GitHub repo. They need a thousand different copies of various unrelated repos. Maybe some disc duplicators can handle that without constant user involvement, but…
I'm so tired of HN putting sites on the top with zero human authorship. I have to listen to Claude-voice enough at my job.
What's the point of any of it to begin with? Why paint a painting? Why learn to play guitar?
Such models do exist but the one you linked lacks a burner entirely. https://tapeandmedia.com/Epson_DiscProducer_autoprinter_PP_1... "Epson Discproducer PP-100AP Autoprinter for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray Disc (prints only - does…
Yeah, I skimmed the code, it's all vibes all the way down. I wanted a slice of history, I got slop.
That isn't a burner at all. It prints labels onto CDs.
Some poor intern is spending their summer burning CDs in a Redmond office building...
I wouldn't be surprised if the author wrote the beginning and then asked Claude to take it from there.
One big difference to note: Quake in 1996 didn't host central infrastructure or have any expectations of recurring revenue. By 2007 things had changed. WOW was built around Blizzard-hosted infra and recurring revenue as…
Yes, it does, and also quite lucrative AIUI.
DKB was created by the Odyssey team so it makes sense that it scratches the same itch!
Reeks of AI prose past the first paragraph or two. I don't need to know a bot's opinion on how to convince others.
The release date was late 2004. It's definitely true that Blizzard massively underestimated demand. They expected the initial printing to last for months, and it sold out immediately. They needed to race to roll out…
This bit feels naive, in 2007: > While there may have been some money in it for a few select games, most were not profitable - they were created for other reasons, such as genuine intrigue in mechanics, users' fun, and…
I explicitly didn't say "infinity or negative infinity" because I didn't think that level of pedantry would be needed here on HN. I guess I was wrong.
IEEE-754 doesn't mandate exact results for functions like exp(x). It mandates things like "within 2 ULP of the true answer." Hardware vendors are free to implement these functions in any way that meets the error…
Floating point defines n/0 the same as math. It's infinity as long as n isn't zero.
> Civilization can't rely effectively on systems that are this fragile. That's American politics in a nutshell. We've spent 250 years assuming scruples and common decency would be sufficient.
Without trying to sound crass, food banks _are_ the reason we don't see people dying of starvation in first world countries. If people need food, a food bank will give it to them no questions asked.
That's not really a language. It was just a reporter dumbing down the idea of "vectors in latent space" which eventually became LLMs.
> I just think that Protobuf is not a good format for writing reliable software that aims for decades of usage. I am not a fan of Protobuf at all, but it's already demonstrated its ability to ship extremely reliable…
> For a maintainer it's way easier to tell their own agent to reimplement the same idea. This only makes sense if you assume the original PR was just vibe-coded with minimal human effort. Maybe one day but I don't think…
Haven't checked, but I'm pretty sure Google falls back on older browsers.
The babysitting work would still be impossible if you didn't actually know how to code.
As much as I agree with the spirit of your post, standards did in fact change after the Therac-25 incident. That was nearly 50 years ago, after all! There are very high quality bars for medical equipment.
All the same, they don't need a thousand copies of one GitHub repo. They need a thousand different copies of various unrelated repos. Maybe some disc duplicators can handle that without constant user involvement, but…
I'm so tired of HN putting sites on the top with zero human authorship. I have to listen to Claude-voice enough at my job.
What's the point of any of it to begin with? Why paint a painting? Why learn to play guitar?
Such models do exist but the one you linked lacks a burner entirely. https://tapeandmedia.com/Epson_DiscProducer_autoprinter_PP_1... "Epson Discproducer PP-100AP Autoprinter for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray Disc (prints only - does…
Yeah, I skimmed the code, it's all vibes all the way down. I wanted a slice of history, I got slop.
That isn't a burner at all. It prints labels onto CDs.
Some poor intern is spending their summer burning CDs in a Redmond office building...
I wouldn't be surprised if the author wrote the beginning and then asked Claude to take it from there.
One big difference to note: Quake in 1996 didn't host central infrastructure or have any expectations of recurring revenue. By 2007 things had changed. WOW was built around Blizzard-hosted infra and recurring revenue as…
Yes, it does, and also quite lucrative AIUI.
DKB was created by the Odyssey team so it makes sense that it scratches the same itch!
Reeks of AI prose past the first paragraph or two. I don't need to know a bot's opinion on how to convince others.
The release date was late 2004. It's definitely true that Blizzard massively underestimated demand. They expected the initial printing to last for months, and it sold out immediately. They needed to race to roll out…
This bit feels naive, in 2007: > While there may have been some money in it for a few select games, most were not profitable - they were created for other reasons, such as genuine intrigue in mechanics, users' fun, and…
I explicitly didn't say "infinity or negative infinity" because I didn't think that level of pedantry would be needed here on HN. I guess I was wrong.
IEEE-754 doesn't mandate exact results for functions like exp(x). It mandates things like "within 2 ULP of the true answer." Hardware vendors are free to implement these functions in any way that meets the error…
Floating point defines n/0 the same as math. It's infinity as long as n isn't zero.