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kykat··on Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning
Not just when running out of context, it's always. Once it fixates on a goal, all hell breaks loose and there's nothing that it won't be sacrificed to get there. At least that's my experience with Claude Code, I am pressing the figurative breaks all the time.
kykat··on AI Slop Is Infiltrating Online Children's Content
I think that generative AI has many more downsides than upsides. It is and will continue to be a net negative for society, unless we have the collective discipline to manage the dangers.
kykat··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
I will be able to do something that demands it once I have it ;)
kykat··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
Will you send me an H100?
kykat··on Java is fast, code might not be
I can only say what I observed in testing, and that's that having millions of instances of a class like Point3D{x, y, z} in JS uses significantly less memory than in Java (this was tested on Android, not sure if relevant). It was quite some time ago so I don't remember the details.
kykat··on Java is fast, code might not be
V8 automatically optimizes objects with the same shape into efficient structs, making array of objects much more efficient than in Java.

And the manually manager int array acts more like system memory, it's not continuous, so you could have point i 0 and 2 and the data would be: [1, 2, 3, x, x,x, 3, 2, 1] (3D points).

So I am not describing a struct of arrays.

kykat··on Java is fast, code might not be
"You think" is cheap, try doing it, rewrite an existing library in rust and see how it goes. Doing a rough prototype is easy, but the real work starts after that.
kykat··on Java is fast, code might not be
I saw something like that being suggested when working with GIS data with many points as classes in Java, the object overhead for storing XYZ doubles is quite crazy. The optimization was to build a global double array and use "pointers" to get and set the number in the array.

Even JavaScript is much better for this, much, much better.

kykat··on Java is fast, code might not be
This has been the key for me as well, memory allocation in hot paths is usually the first optimization that I look for. It's quite surprising to see how far very inefficient algorithms (time complexity wise) can go as long as no allocations are made.
kykat··on Java is fast, code might not be
I've been using sqlx + postgres very successfully with claude in the last couple of months. However, we've been raw dogging MySQL and node.js at work for over a year, and I also used raw SQLite from C++ before that (I am still traumatized by all the pointers, never again), so...
kykat··on HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)
I honestly don't know who is still buying HP products, haven't seen one around me in years, probably just clueless people walking into a store and thinking "I've heard this name before"
kykat··on Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
He clearly doesn't care about using Linux, he should just ignore it. It's fine.
kykat··on Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
Again, we may live in a parallel universe. Because I am using KDE and wayland and NVIDIA, and it works beautifully. Although NVIDIA really started to work great only fairly recently (last couple of years).

And using X is a noticeably worse experience.

I'am excited to follow the still very early development of xfwl to see how a classic DE works in wayland.

kykat··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
I propose we ban all computing devices to prevent fraud and harm to children.
kykat··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
Don't use the enemy language
kykat··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
You thought it wasn't reporting every app you install?
kykat··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
24-hour wait is a one time setup, I'd imagine that fdroid will keep working as usual after this super hidden don't enable me option is enabled.
kykat··on North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim
You said it yourself "they often use stolen identities to conceal information about themselves", fake identity.
kykat··on On The Need For Understanding
After vibe coding: I can't understand how I could deal with coding before.
kykat··on MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)
It seems like every few weeks there's an article on how drugs are amazing hitting the front-page.
kykat··on Meta is reportedly laying off up to 20 percent of its staff
> Even if the code itself is unused or unwanted.

It will be better for Meta if the slop code is left unused.

I always said it, companies should be thankful that employees are lazy, an infinitely motivated idiot can be very destructive.

kykat··on Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age
It's shocking how few people here seem to notice it, you would expect people using claude et al all day could feel the distinct smell of slop.
kykat··on Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age
I wouldn't be so sure, I think the ultimate goal is to link your network activity to your government id, just like the way it's done in China. So the only root left is the government basically.
kykat··on Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age
I like the idea, and hope that they are ready to challenge the law. However, the text in this website has a very distinct Claude feel to it.
kykat··on Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age
The API seems like a funny joke anyway, `sudo setage 12987123`, done.
kykat··on Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you are. We won't
I think it just wants to invite a lawsuit
kykat··on Shall I implement it? No
Which is made possible only because of the excellent foundations that were built during the past decades.

However, while I say that we should do quality work, the current situation is very demoralizing and has me asking what's the point of it all. For everybody around me the answer appears to really just be money and nothing else. But if getting money is the one and only thing that matters, I can think of many horrible things that could be justified under this framework.

kykat··on Expected 60-70% workforce reduction across engineering orgs within 18 months
Using claude code everyday for the past 2 months for working on a project makes me not too worried about this. Will engineering teams be smaller? Maybe, but design, testing and QA will have to work much harder and quicker if they want real word results.

And I don't understand the obsession with "fleet of agents", it's much easier to follow a single agent that's quick. I don't want more cluades, I want faster and smarter claude.

kykat··on No right to relicense this project
There would be no open source without the gpl
kykat··on iPhone 17e
709 euro in Austria (828.89 us dollars), a 38% increase in price...
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