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rootlocus··on Microsoft's Satya Nadella: We Can't Let AI Giants Eat the Economy
CEO of a company that failed to become an AI giant says we can't let the companies that succeeded take their slice of the pie.
rootlocus··on JetBrains IDE Expertise, Now on LinkedIn

    Q: Will this help me get hired?
    A: Having connected apps on your LinkedIn profile is extra proof of your practical experience with leading tools. While connected apps make your expertise visible, they are just one part of your profile. Think of it as a way to let your tooling speak for itself.
From wikipedia: "A rat race is a metaphor used to describe an endless, self-defeating, or pointless pursuit. [...] The term is also commonly associated with an exhausting, repetitive lifestyle that leaves no time for relaxation or enjoyment."
rootlocus··on A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?
Oh, you have to look up him pretending to play Path of Exile 2 with best in slot gear and casualy saying he's looking to upgrade his items because he can't tell the difference between required level and actual utility of an item.

And yes, he obviously paid a human, GP was making a joke.

rootlocus··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
To be fair, game developers have been rendering text on the GPU for over two decades. I've done it in college a decade ago with bmfont [1] (nowadays the engine does rasterization during import). Whoever thought was making a case with "outputting text to a terminal emulator is a PhD level problem" was really out of their depth and was making a case for unnecessary inefficiencies. Kudos to Casey for proving a point.

1. https://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/

rootlocus··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
He and Casey Muratory make a lot of cool instructive content, but their condescending attitude towards the industry always made me thing "Huh, must be really nice working alone and making all the decisions yourself."
rootlocus··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
Git LFS has file locking, and no VCS can provide you with the tools for diffing binary assets. I don't see any meaningful difference between Perforce, Diversion or Lore and git + LFS + file locking. Unless there's a meaningful performance impact for large projects (I only work on small / medium projects), the capabilities are the same. However, I get excellent git support for code in any editor, as opposed to Diversion or Lore which have none.
rootlocus··on Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved]
How is their "Claude for Government" having such a good uptime? I thought they were a supply chain risk and banned from use by the government?
rootlocus··on Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
> there is more restriction than ever of the distribution of information.

There's an endless source of information if you look for it. Just because social media doesn't stuff them in your face doesn't mean they're censored.

On the other hand, you can shove proof in people's faces and they'll still find reasons to argue against it. Information availability is not the problem. It's more energy consuming to search and filter information so people largely avoid doing it.

There's a trope in movies where the antagonist is secretly recorded and broadcast so regular people finally see the truth and wake up. I've seen journalists risking their carriers to expose corruption only for people to shrug and look the other way.

rootlocus··on Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
We have abundant free flow of information today and yet I see a rise of tyranny.

"This is how democracy dies, with thunderous applause." feels more grounded in reality.

rootlocus··on Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?
In my experience it doesn't take anything that ample to encourage far right extremism. It's enough to point at an existing problem and a convincing scapegoat. It works today not eventually and it works regardless of any reason or reality.

It's true though that multiple problems mean multiple propaganda seeds.

rootlocus··on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
2x RTX3090 are around $4400. Without any electricity costs or other parts, that's 3.6 years of $100/m claude.
rootlocus··on Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?
Regulations aside, Europe is extremely divided. There's constant resistance from individual states, disputes and far right extremism gaining traction. At this point, it seems like EU can barely agree to make any decision.
rootlocus··on Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine
What's the deal with all these projects spiking thousands of stars in a few days? I find it hard to believe people are just flocking to random obscure niche projects and starring them instead of just... vibe coding their own projects.
rootlocus··on Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?
You also need to scrape huge amounts of data with no regard for copyright which is:

1. No longer possible the same way it was for openai and anthropic and

2. Much more regulated in the EU

Also the EU would need state backing since we don't have the same private capital, meaning the regulations are even tighter.

rootlocus··on Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?
We can debate the details and implementation but EU legislature is, at least in spirit, trying to protect human rights. What does it say about progress that the same laws that protect human rights also stifle innovation?
rootlocus··on I wrote 5000 lines of assembly because I was angry
Can anyone explain why OPs comment is dead?
rootlocus··on If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
They have enough info on you and your sessions to eventually catch you, label you as bad faith actor and ban you automatically. I don't think many would risk it.
rootlocus··on The Ü Programming Language
Using a font so close to Fraktur for a german letter is definitely an intentional choice if you want to evoke nazi imagery.
rootlocus··on Stop Ruining It
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

rootlocus··on The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters
While I agree it's incredibly jarring in some games, I'm always thinking back at a presentation by David Rosen on procedural animation: "First, do no harm to the gameplay". He's talking about animations in particular, but I feel that should be a core pillar for any game designer.

Many things are unnatural in games: you don't instantly recover from a beating by eating one apple in real life, but we're ok with it in games because it makes the gameplay fun.

https://youtu.be/LNidsMesxSE?si=fGFCTCHm77OJiYu3&t=260

rootlocus··on The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters
> Before the encounter with the first Troll, the dumbfounded mythical character, Atreus, asks: “We’re going to fight that?!?” Kratos, the main character, answers: “We have no choice,” in a matter-of-fact, almost resigned way, as if shruggingly accepting the design conventions of the game itself.

I didn't see it like that. Atreus thinks he and his father are normal humans, even if he saw his father perform incredible feats of strength such as carrying a huge tree trunk. Atreus has no idea what his father is capable of, and he himself has been mostly sick and frail. The boy is scared. Nowhere does that scene read as "That looks humanoid, I don't think we should kill it". Draugrs are more humanoid and they've been killing some on the way. The troll is incredibly fierce and the largest opponent they faced until now. That's a completely natural reaction from the boy with no moral implications.

It's actually a little later in the game when they're assaulted by Reavers (actual living humans talking about eating them) that Atreus kills one in self defense and remains shocked by the experience. Kratos shows empathy and care when he comforts him and says "Close your heart to it". [1]

There's a deep thread about humanity and the right or need to kill in self defense in the game, and Atreus goes through a rebellious phase where he thinks godhood gives him the right to do anything. But the troll scene? That's reading too much into it.

1. https://youtu.be/_oOZG5-tqpA?si=w6-PyJXjTZ-qSv2q&t=4173

rootlocus··on Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists
Imagine placing the feet on the ground at some location and then pinning them there. Now you can move the hips and the upper and lower legs as well as the knee orientations change to keep the feet planted in the same position.
rootlocus··on Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb
Isn't that a strawman? There's a significant difference between "using AI" and "wholesale giving over your thinking to an AI". You won't find anyone arguing against the second.
rootlocus··on Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb
For subjects I care about, I will hammer the AI with questions, ask for references, proofs, explanations, code samples, book recommendations until I'm satisfied with the answer and I can explain it myself.

For things I don't care about.. meh. I wouldn't have done any research without AI anyway and I'm probably getting a better nuanced or grounded answer than whatever someone who thinks they know might confidently explain me.

I'd argue getting your answers from social media is orders of magnitude worse, and the time to teach critical thinking skills was a few decades ago.

rootlocus··on Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
We have a dedicated snowflake id generator service that returns batch ids. It's also distributed, each service adds its own instance number to the id. When it overflows it just blocks for the next ms. For our traffic, it's never a bottleneck.
rootlocus··on New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
The one he's carrying.
rootlocus··on Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores
The store could make it mandatory to swipe your fidelity care before calculating your prices. They already do something similar with specialized promotions.
rootlocus··on Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
With all due respect to the guidelines that requires assuming good faith, this sounds like the beginning of a nirvana fallacy.

You don't have to provide a perfect solution to point out something is wrong. People who don't care about the people they lead don't make good leaders. I'd rather have leaders who hurt others by accident than on purpose.

rootlocus··on Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
So I'm free to murder, I'm just not free from the consequences of murder?
rootlocus··on Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?
> I can't see Trump or anyone else willingly misusing that trust.

I don't think many people share this sentiment.

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