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Krssst··on GPT-5.5
Determinism is a smaller point than existence of a spec IMHO. A library has a specification one can rely on to understand what it does and how it will behave.

An LLM does not.

Krssst··on Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?
Robots require material resources and are quite difficult to produce. I wouldn't be surprised if we go through a period of time were intellectual work is outdated and most people are back to exhausting manual work. Basically, no middle class anymore, just some elites and many manual workers doing what the AI asks. I guess, to those future elites, humans would just be self-reproducing robots. (well robots like those we have now would definitely see use, but I am not sure about the timeline for general-purpose robots that can do many things including assemble themselves).

I don't have a strong belief this will happen however, and I hope it does not.

Krssst··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
That's absolutely not my idea of good governance, playing with oil prices is extremely dangerous considering that economy is strongly tied to them. Starting a useless war is crazy in the first place.

But it is more money in America (for the government / oil producers to misuse) which is a benefit from the standpoint of the government. Not sure it exceeds the losses though.

Krssst··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
We should be glad he did.
Krssst··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
Less oil on the market meaning higher fuel prices with the US being a net exporter.

Not sure that was the plan but it looks like a benefit.

Krssst··on Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold
The French are on their way to put a far-right government in power next year, don't count on them.
Krssst··on Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold
The end state of genAI could as well be a few billionaires being their enterprise and everybody else being unemployed or working at the factory. Robots are not there yet (far from it) and someone needs to build and maintain the thing as well as food for everyone. High unemployment could drive salaries down and make lots of thing unavailable to the common people while making humans cheaper than automation for boring manual work.

That's an extreme scenario but today's politicians are not very keen into redistribution of wealth or prevention of excessive accumulation of economic power leading to exceeding the power of the state itself. I see nothing preventing that scenario from happening.

Krssst··on German men 18-45 need military permit to leave country for longer than 3 months
Yes you are: the article says that the permission must be granted in general by authorities (I guess no war and not active military) and no penalties for breaching it.
Krssst··on Copilot edited an ad into my PR
As someone mostly outside of the vibe coding stuff, I can see the benefit in having both the model and the author information.

Model information for traceability and possibly future analysis/statistics, and author to know who is taking responsibility for the changes (and, thus, has deeply reviewed and understood them).

As long as those two information are present in the commit, I guess which commit field should hold which information is for the project to standardise. (but it should be normalised within a project, otherwise the "traceability/statistics" part cannot be applied reliably).

Krssst··on People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
People that don't want to use Apple products are not forced to do so. They can use Android (which has alternative stores, at least for the time being). Though I guess almost everyone logs in anyaway. Generally both major OS have good support from application developers, while on PC almost every one ends up being forced to use Windows at some point (to use Office, to play games).

And phones have been little spying machines from the start, people are more used to their phone spying on them than to their PC doing the same. I don't think macbooks require an Apple account for example.

Krssst··on Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing
Once you get NREs set up you don't need a constant uninterrupted supply of replacements as fossil fuels do (we burn them after all).

We'd need replacements as old infrastructure ages out but it seems much easier to wait out a supply disruption compared to oil since this just means using old equipment while the supply is cut; sure some might break after a while but electricity production wouldn't fall immediately.

Krssst··on People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
As far as I remember it was working well in 7 and 8 (deterministic and shows programs that you expect it to show). From 10 it started behaving erratically (same time it got binged but maybe unrelated).
Krssst··on People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
LTSC cannot be bought as a regular customer unfortunately. Legally, regular customers are only allowed to use the enshittified version.
Krssst··on French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?
French person here: there absolutely is a difference, at least in the "heard on TV" accent.

Could you be talking about the southern accent where maybe those sound similar?

A pet theory of mine is that people confusing "est" (sounds like "è", means "[he/she/it] is") and "et" (sounds like "é", means "and") while writing grew up with an accent that does not make the distinction between those sounds. (I don't criticize the mistake or the accent but have always been curious about this precise kind of writing mistake because those two words sound so different to me)

Krssst··on How to attract AI bots to your open source project
I dream of having a Firefox extension / feature that can check locally for LLM-generated text and highlight it automatically. Would likely have an immense resource usage, but worth it.
Krssst··on I'm OK being left behind, thanks
> Refreshing to read something that doesn't seem written by AI too (would be ironic given the contents).

As much as I dislike the idea of not writing/checking code I am responsible for, it was a surprise to me seeing a few "anti/limited AI in coding" articles that don't pass an LLM detector. (I know those are not perfect but not much else one can do).

Krssst··on Democratic Backsliding Reaches Western Democracies, U.S. Decline "Unprecedented"
It votes on all laws so it has a strong power to stop bullshit. I fail to see how the amount of voters would remove that right. The power stands with the people who actually get out to vote.
Krssst··on Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
Anecdotal evidence: when using X11 years ago I could never avoid screen tearing despite trying various options, except with one option that seemed to replace it with random frame drops. (to be fair that's probably related to my GPU, which is also the reason why I could not use wayland for so long)

Wayland just fixed all that, making it at least usable for multimedia/gaming use with my GPU.

Krssst··on Democratic Backsliding Reaches Western Democracies, U.S. Decline "Unprecedented"
> In Europe, with the advent of the EU, which shifted power away from voters to unelected bureaucracies seated in foreign countries. Removing it would transfer power away from the people to EU's adversaries and large monopolistic entities.

The European parliament is elected. When people don't shoot themselves in the foot and put weird politicians in it, being a bigger group means more power to coerce large companies into behaving better. See: GDPR or small things like removal batteries or removal or roaming fees. So in a sense it allows people to recover some power over large companies.

Generally attacks on the EU sound like they come from other countries or large companies that would benefit from it being split so that individual countries can be better bullied into submission (though the EU has not been very competent at not bullying itself into submission to the recent new American leader).

Krssst··on Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence
For reference: nuclear power plants can do load following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-following_power_plant#Nuc...

It's more cost efficient to keep them running all the time since most of the cost of nuclear is building the power plant, but power output can be adjusted if needed.

Krssst··on Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149
Browser integration means one does not need to enable the VPN system-wide as do most VPN applications. Useful if you want to switch region quickly without the OS and many apps now thinking you're in a different country and starting behaving as such.
Krssst··on Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config
The article talks of other menu entries but the screenshot of the menu literally shows the "Remove AI chatbot" option, why not just click that instead of hunting for it in about:config?
Krssst··on My journey to the microwave alternate timeline
I remember having some microwave oven that started rotating if I opened the door partially at just the right angle. Hopefully does not mean the magnetron was actually running.
Krssst··on AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
Not sure how reliable is gptzero, but it says 90% AI for the first paragraph. (I like to do some sanity check before wasting my time).

Would be nice to have some browser extension automatically detecting likely AI output using a local model and highlighting it, but probably too compute-intensive.

Krssst··on Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Combined with LSP I find it to be quite a good IDE too. Handles extremely large source trees quite well.
Krssst··on I miss thinking hard
For compilers: the C++ standard.

For OSes: POSIX, or the MSDN documentation for Windows.

Compiler bugs and OS bugs are extremely rare so we can rely on them to follow their spec.

AI bugs are very much expected when the "spec" (the prompt) is correct, and since the prompt is written using imprecise human language likely by people that are not used to writing precise specifications, the prompt is likely either mistaken or insufficiently specified.

Krssst··on I miss thinking hard
OS and compilers have a deterministic public interface. They obey a specification developers know, so you they can be relied on to write correct software that depends on them even without knowing the internal behavior. Generative AI does not have those properties.
Krssst··on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit
Liquids are not explosive, they are assumed to be used to make explosives once onboard.

Regarding quantity, hard to find information, I guess they don't want to have a terrorist handbook to making explosives online, but I would assume that 100ml would mean multiple times this amount would not be enough to make an explosive large enough bring down an airplane.

In general, considering the overall cost of the measures, I would think that there is a valid reason and that "it does not make sense at first glance so it's just a security theater" does not hold.

Krssst··on State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?
How? It's only available to companies.
Krssst··on Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
Yes, Windows 11 Home has FDE and I used it, but no password unlock. Attempting to switch to password unlocking will result in an error saying that password unlocking is not available in the current Windows edition. TPM based unlocking did work on Home for example. (but required entering the recovery key after every reboot to Fedora for some reason).
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