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eecc··on Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care
Bullshit. Ignorant people (which correlates to poor) don’t think about the long term responsibilities of having children and just fuck unprotected on a Friday night. Oops
eecc··on Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care
Sound like “the beatings will continue until morale improves”
eecc··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
I’m not sure US academia is mediocre. It’s more like… normal?

But America being what it is, it attracts those with most potential creating and sustaining a network effect.

But there’s nothing intrinsically good or bad of the US, and it’s quite easy to mess up the equilibrium and go back to the mediocrity you mentioned

eecc··on The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
Perhaps it’s not capitalism that’s the problem but the unboundedness of the greed of a few, with respect to the other needs of humanity.

Also Adam Smith implied that unbounded avarice is irrational and disruptive to society.

The assumption is that morality survives grotesque wealth accumulation, we see many examples proving otherwise

eecc··on The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
Well, isn’t Musk doing something similar with his new solar panels fab?

Frankly it’s ridiculous how we (the West) dropped renewables like a hot potato because it became synonymous with subsidizing China’s dominance in the field.

eecc··on The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
That’s an entirely different framework, one that doesn’t concern investment decisions of Apple or Google.

I do agree that USA and EU could foot the bill and subsidize a couple billions in such industrial infrastructure, perhaps taking back a cut of the profit rather than privatizing all of it.

But they’re not doing it, or are making pitiful efforts at that

eecc··on Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
It is unfortunately still common practice among irregular agricultural workers in many parts of the world (I’m Italian so I definitely remember news about busts in southern Italy)
eecc··on I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan
AI thoughts
eecc··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
“solve”, why not solution? Like “spend” and not expenditure, why use the verb as a noun and not care about grammar?
eecc··on How Claude Code works in large codebases
I would never have these privileges granted directly to my account.

Indeed it’s a good practice to use roles where supported (AWS has them) and explicitly switch when needed

eecc··on Claude for Small Business
> Claude, fix the bug. Make no mistakes.

/s

eecc··on Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
Hmm, anxiety of making the wrong choice and have it on record? I’ve read that later gens are extremely aware of “the internet never forgets” and are terrified of any choice being the embarrassing and defining moment of the rest of their life
eecc··on Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
Don’t allow juniors to use AI. It’s like university exams: no programmable calculators allowed. Review assistants or senior who know what’s going on should though, it does help when used correctly
eecc··on Teaching Claude Why
So are mortgages, and I’m starting to wonder how will pay mine.

Please note I’ve never had this problem before, until recently.

eecc··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
Though it’s ridiculous to entertain the thought that one would pivot their career at the drop of a hat. Even just bumping into a tech stack will chain one to it as recruiters stare at yoe in a specific one and completely ignore anything adjacent, imagine doing anything more radical.

One can do it, but it’s a life changing, irreversible and likely damaging event nobody sane would take lightly. Absolute nonsense.

eecc··on Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
Nah Kubernetes is a systems level, language agnostic (at least doesn’t force you to run Golang workloads) variant of J2EE. It’s basically modern day Websphere
eecc··on Is my blue your blue?
Can you accommodate with the implant?
eecc··on The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
Looks like how GitLab does it.

As far as I’m concerned, the only sane way is to dump credentials in a well-known path and let the environment decide what to bind them with at runtime (which is how Kubernetes does it, at least the EKS version I’ve had to work with).

IOW, JEE variable binding (JNDI) did it right 20 years or so ago.

It might be worth for architecture designers to look back at that engineering monument (in all its possible meanings, it felt complicated at times) and study its solutions before coming up with a different solution to a problem it solved

eecc··on Claude Design
Well well well, that was nice read thanks!

And if it’s LLM the prompt or the rework were very good because I really liked the flow and clarity. That, or you’re a really good writer ;)

eecc··on Some iPhone Apps Receive Mysterious Update 'From Apple'
hmm, my money is on some actively used 0-day exploit that Apple is sealing shut before the CVE gets announced.

By the looks of the app list, they seem to be apps and games that used to be popular and have fallen in disrepair and apps that are starved of maintenance attention.

On the one hand it could be an exceptionally good example of "stewardship"; on the other hand, if this is true, what if authorities could later compel Apple to manipulate applications in some malign manner?

eecc··on TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression
ah ok, so intuitively it's like minimizing the error when replacing the values with a well-known distribution. So all you need to carry along is the rotation and the assumption that there is some amount of loss.
eecc··on TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression
Pardon my simplistic question, but when you mean rotation you’re essentially talking about diagonalization aren’t you?

So storing the diagonal as a matrix and the new bases is more compact?

eecc··on US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects
I’d wager the US is self sufficient also in terms of renewable energies.
eecc··on Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill
I guess the point is: delegate to kernel, then “oh, people with root can bypass with modules? Secure Boot!”
eecc··on If you thought code writing speed was your problem you have bigger problems
This is the answer
eecc··on Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk
Asked for an export but still haven’t received the mail with the download link
eecc··on We Will Not Be Divided
It is relevant. Anthropic would have argued the US military could not use its tools to process data gathered by foreign agencies when it applied to US citizens or soil.

So there you have it

eecc··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
And that’s where the authoritarian in you is shining through.

You see, Obama droned more combatants than anyone else before or after him but always followed a legal paper trail and following the book (except perhaps in some cases, search for Anwar al-Awlaki).

One can argue whether the rules and laws (secret courts, proceedings, asymmetries in court processes that severely compress civil liberties… to the point they might violate other constitutional rights) are legitimate, but he operated within the limits of the law.

You folks just blurt “me ne frego” like a random Mussolini and think you’re being patriotic.

SMH

eecc··on -fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C
Majority. Parent said majority
eecc··on I’m joining OpenAI
OT: it's not the first time I see this grammatical mistake: "didn’t trained". Is it some accepted regional variation?
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