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OtomotO··on Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year
In some jurisdictions/countries they have to call some government service which then tells them whether a person is above or below a certain age.

Theoretically you could make this double blind and that's the story they are telling.

We have no way to (dis)prove it though.

Alas, here goes the freedom, with thunderous applause.

OtomotO··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
My self hosted gitforge disagrees.
OtomotO··on Advertise in ChatGPT
I will not give them permission to store data about me, personally.

So how can they target me specifically?

Unless of course they do not honor the agreement...

For me it's also not a problem. An ad is easily spottable, because an ad tries to make you buy something.

I still find it funny. Looks like one of the last straws to pull...

OtomotO··on Advertise in ChatGPT
The problem will always be to get your hands on hardware.

Software never was the problem.

OtomotO··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
And the US calls itself a democracy and kills innocent people abroad.

I don't see any merit in these simplistic world views.

The world isn't Lord of the Rings, it's more A Song Of Ice And Fire.

OtomotO··on Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
It's incredible people still discuss the pelicans... But then again, the ad just works.
OtomotO··on Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly
Sunk cost fallacy is already too established for anything else.
OtomotO··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
I do that as well, since I am my own business
OtomotO··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Exactly that.

I wasn't reachable by phone for company related stuff outside my regular working hours unless I had on-call-duty, which means it was working hours.

I don't get why people would be proud about not setting boundaries.

OtomotO··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Many years ago my mom chose to have the company pay for her private phone number.

When she stopped working for them, they informed her, that the number legally belonged to them.

It was not a problem for her, because she wanted to get rid of the number anyway, else too many old clients would call.

But it was an interesting situation nonetheless.

OtomotO··on Java 27: What's New?
> Java includes the JVM which is subject to way more security issues and needs much more frequent updating.

Then releasing more often is better, because the security fixes get out of the door faster?!

If previously a Java Update took 3 years, then the corresponding JVM version would be 3 years old as well.

If there were patch release in between, I see no difference to now.

OtomotO··on Java 27: What's New?
Unless you're forced at gunpoint, how can there be too many releases?

Rust releases every 6 weeks, since 2016...

If you don't want to update, just don't?

If you feel (!) pressured, you should work on that.

OtomotO··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
Mhm, I just wonder how many samples they get and how much time they have to come to the conclusion.

Like a short example is easier to grade, but not in the same ballpark as a whole codebase.

OtomotO··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
> Then, by giving them context or by post-training, you can make them sample non-average parts of the distribution they learned.

How do you derive that something is "below average" or "average" or "above average"?

OtomotO··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
> You haven't been using AI extensively I presume...

Ex falso quodlibet

> I've been programming a long time and considered myself among the top in my domain

I am not trying to attack you, but you considered yourself that... I don't know whether you actually were and frankly I don't care.

OtomotO··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
AI is an average coder.

It was trained on all code the code that could be found.

Not just code written by genius programmers like Carmack and Bellard.

Given that it's average, I'd prefer a human coder above average :)

OtomotO··on Rewriting Bun in Rust
I am using Rust since 2016 productively... before I dabbled with it.

Rust is not compiling any slower than a comparable C++ codebase for me.

It is compiling much slower than a managed language like Kotlin, C# etc. though. Which is an unfair comparison anyway.

The problem with e.g. gamedev is the iteration cycles. It's very creative work and not so much your average engineering job (apart form game engine dev).

But again, that's an unfair comparison, because even in Unity and many if not most other game engines, there is a scripting language that is used for most of the game logic, that doesn't need hyper performance...

Still, when compared to such languages, Rust indeed does compile slowly AND one has to say: Rust is selling itself not only as a safe, blazingly fast systems programming language these days, but it also is used for its type system etc. and then, when you come from a managed language, compile times really suck.

(Although debug builds are better, they are not an option for game dev for example, because the binary is just too slow then... 200fps vs. 20 :X)

OtomotO··on Rewriting Bun in Rust
> I can understand when you need the absolute best performance and you decide to drop to down to C++

What? Rust generally doesn't have worse performance to C++, so this argument makes no sense at all to me.

> and I also relate with just personal preference, but beyond those it seems a no brainer to me.

That's another argument altogether.

It's totally fine to have preferences and decide to go with them of course.

OtomotO··on Chatto is now open source
Depends on whether the answer o. Stackoverflow was given willingly or at gunpoint ^^
OtomotO··on GPT‑Live
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
OtomotO··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
The sad part is that you work in FINANCE of all things and this happens there.

Like: What competence do decision makers in FINANCE have, when they are this oblivious to economics?

OtomotO··on Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
That's just two different scales.

Weapons are a great product for weapon dealers and manufacturers as well, just not so much for the people killed by them (or their families, or survivors)

So sure, if making a shitload of money is the metric, YouTube is a great product.

That wasn't the point of the person you answered to though.

OtomotO··on Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
Good != Successful.

I assume that's why they wrote good and not successful.

It's an average software product with incredible scaling behind it and a lot of elbow grease to keep it chumming along, but it's not great software by the definition of "bugs actually get dealt with"

OtomotO··on It Still Can't Do My Job: Four Years of Moving Goalposts (2022–2026)
People will not just lay down and wait for death's sweet embrace though.

There is a whole lot of people involved in food production and the owners can't own it without people willing to let them own it.

As soon as money is out of the equation many powerful lose their power.

OtomotO··on It Still Can't Do My Job: Four Years of Moving Goalposts (2022–2026)
Capital loses all it's value the moment it's all in the hands of a few.

If people cannot even get a piece of the cake anymore, the cake doesn't hold any power over them.

So if the rich and powerful just hoard the money, they will lose.

If they hoard weapons: well, if they need people to operate the weapons (or serve them), they will still fall.

The thing is: They look invincible. They are not though. They are human, they bleed, they fear, they die just like the rest of us.

OtomotO··on It Still Can't Do My Job: Four Years of Moving Goalposts (2022–2026)
I feel the same about the endless hype, so I guess it's in the eye of the beholder
OtomotO··on It Still Can't Do My Job: Four Years of Moving Goalposts (2022–2026)
Your condition is called AI psychosis. Good news is: it's curable!
OtomotO··on It Still Can't Do My Job: Four Years of Moving Goalposts (2022–2026)
If we don't have access to capital, we will abolish capital altogether.

This still backfire to the oligarchs

OtomotO··on Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says
Because the topic of the article is about the US?
OtomotO··on The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable
Including you?
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