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marcosdumay··on The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
They are doing a very sensible approach of not trying to be the top AI researchers around, and either hiring or using commodity stuff on their products trying to find an application.

That's what basically all big techs should have done. And Oracle too.

Again, I have no idea if they found any good use for it on their applications, but they are the only one integrating it right.

marcosdumay··on The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
I dunno about people that buy their products. But being behind on AI is absolutely a positive for their stocks.
marcosdumay··on Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor
> I never understood what kind of ergonomics they are supposed to improve.

People like buttons with sharp corners in real things because they are rare and expensive, and buttons with round corners in digital things because they imitate the cheap round buttons that are everywhere.

Now that the round corners have been overused, we may get some fashion of sharp corners again.

marcosdumay··on Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity
AFAIK, US stocks pay back mostly as buy-backs.

The fact that those are so few relative to what dividends would be is a measure of the market's (lack of) health. But it doesn't automatically make the market a Ponzi scheme.

marcosdumay··on Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity
My favorite bug of the .Net connector is how the entire API supports async operations, but the underlying implementation can't tell two different executions of the same query apart, so it's random whether each call will get their own results or some other ones.

But polluting the poll with unusable connections is just Oracle copying the MS-SQL's thing. The C# recommended coding practices will automatically deal with this. (Not that you would want to follow them, but you may want to look and copy this part.)

marcosdumay··on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
You can get a Zigbee temp/humidity sensor and throw it inside the fridge.
marcosdumay··on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
Yes, Sony has a known history of respecting the user's security...
marcosdumay··on Tokens too cheap to meter
The cost is decreasing quickly, mostly because the labs stopped competing on quality. At the same time, the costs are enormous, and all labs are very openly subsidizing usage hoping to get enough scale to be profitable (while 1 of them has suspicious unity numbers and can be hiding negative marginal income).

Also, it's impossible that they become cheaper than specialized software. Or even as cheap as them. It's still possible that they become cheap enough that it doesn't matter.

marcosdumay··on NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
> preventing a dedicated American enemy from getting nuclear weapons

By killing the anti-nuclear leadership of such country and proving their opponents points that only nukes could protect them from the USA...

marcosdumay··on Telling a Computer to Do Things
> They may have learned some or all of these things for python?(please? )

On other languages those things are either obvious because you have to write the behavior yourself, or fail loudly in a way that requires you to learn them before your code will run.

You don't have to hope. The same people that fall to the foot-guns in sh don't make the same mistakes when they write it in python.

marcosdumay··on Economics Nobel Laureates' Letter Supporting the California Billionaire Tax [pdf]
Taxing gains on the value of anything used in a contract as collateral is a simple and useful start.
marcosdumay··on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
That sounds a lot like nuclear MAD.
marcosdumay··on US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments
Dedollarizing the world is enormously harmful for almost every country on the short term. That's why nobody really tried before Trump got back.
marcosdumay··on C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour
Ok, I get this.

The problem is that what you want is completely against the spirit of the entire language.

If your point is that C++ should be more like C in general, I can agree with that. But if your point is that C++ should be literal on this specific case, performance be damned, and the rest of it is ok, then no, that's a bad one.

marcosdumay··on C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour
I don't understand your problem. Did you expect your C++ program to get uninterrupted access to the computer? What progression do you think isn't happening there?

I think you are misinterpreting that. That phrase unambiguously says the loop is preserved on the final binary.

marcosdumay··on I don't like passkeys
What benefit does your 128-bits authentication schema gain when anybody can just clone a phone number?

Or do you demand that the user has an email with that 128-bits authn too, with a key on the same phone that was lost?

marcosdumay··on Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain
North and South American dinosaurs were very different.
marcosdumay··on Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields
The most relevant comparison is the short term treasure rates, that is currently at 4% for 3 months.

What means that the US is still paying banks to take loans. They just fixed it so it pays very, very little.

marcosdumay··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
That's fair. The only reference was about one datacenter blowing up. You can't have unlimited redundancy.
marcosdumay··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
No, that quotation on the GP clearly states that AWS has enough redundancy within the same region that they will continue all services running on it if a datacenter is destroyed.

It's very clearly not about you being able to set-up redundancy for yourself.

marcosdumay··on Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields
> What results?

Inflation numbers, companies firing, and the magnitude of fictional numbers on financial markets.

Lots and lots of things are slower to react, but those 3 are quite big and hard to ignore.

marcosdumay··on Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields
It's interesting that this article doesn't have the rate...

(It moved from 3.5% - 3.75% to 3.75% - 4%, the US uses a range, not a fixed number.)

But this one is something that gets results almost immediately. We will see what it does in 2 or 3 months, not years.

marcosdumay··on Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds
RSI has always being a well defined name, and you can only have RSI if you have an intelligence capable or creating itself.

It has technically existed for a long time (for longer than the name), but only on academical applications for extremely limited intelligences that could only create something like themselves. And that is still the only form that exists today.

It was never powerful enough to optimize ads distribution, and all the claims people are pushing around today are plain bullshit.

marcosdumay··on The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
Well, computers first stop being magical machines that no person can learn how to use safely, then.

And, honestly, if you think the endpoint safety problem doesn't apply to you, you are part of the problem.

marcosdumay··on The Beauty of Roundabouts
> Guess what works better and barely has any traffic issues at all.

The one that where mass transit works better.

But yeah, a city still needs cars, and roundabouts are still unbeatable in low-traffic crossings. But they are not the most impacting change a city can make.

marcosdumay··on I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
If by wealthy you mean people with a lot of money specifically, than no, the IOU is the other way around.
marcosdumay··on Java 27
Java's ecosystem is lingering since Oracle brought the language, and it's at the point where you should really look if the things you want to use are still in the state of the art, or if they felt behind every other language.

And if you are starting from scratch, whatever part of the ecosystem you use, I'm not optimist on its situation improving with time.

marcosdumay··on OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability
What kind of esthetic alteration would make you more comfortable clicking on that link?
marcosdumay··on How to write an effective software design document
In every single one of those, you are more concerned with the validation data than with high-level visions of your software.

Documentation is important for platform, and probably nothing else.

marcosdumay··on Flock cameras used to arrest a child for playing on a swing
Of a government body deciding to go around arresting people for no reason? Yes.
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