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I think this is fairly common practice when writing compilers. You ideally want to be able to bootstrap from other languages, and C is a much simpler starting point.

I guess universities suffer from NIH-syndrome just as much as big tech does.

Or Japan? Having digital accuracy and 10 year battery life is pretty nice.

Yet

> When you see an elegantly designed building ...was that really made by a human or did the AI generate it as part of a much larger generation step?

Does it matter? Why?

The ultimate driving machine... for marginal revenue.

Can we please just make emoji bigger onscreen? They're not even em-height most of the time. Most interfaces don't scale the emojis when scaling the text.

There's so much artistry and time & effort put into these, and they end up feeling l ike a yellow smudge behind a crack on a dim screen in my life.

I'm yours!

boycotting?

So this is basically an advertisement for their product?

Wouldn't work ... without additional electronic components.

Hmmmm. Wonder if you could just induct through the glass with coils on each side? Seems perfect for high voltage applications?

So you're implying that someone in a locked Waymo was assaulted at gunpoint from outside the vehicle? These are rolling surveillance machines (in a good way?) and virtually every aspect of this would be caught on probably a dozen cameras. I'd be surprised if this hypothetical scenario has ever happened, and if it has, I'd love to see the evidence.

IMHO this article misses a couple really important points.

First, if the mesh can use Internet or other transports then it will, and it will be built out in a way where these become a necessity. If all you want is a silly new way to text your friends, then something like reticulum will be ok. But if you want a serious solution for emergency response and free communication -- free as in "no one can stop me or control what is said no matter what" then building something independent from scratch is critically important.

Second, the author also misses an important piece of functionality of meshcore: If I lose power, the mesh still works.

This is hugely important for emergency preparedness and disaster recovery. Especially in places prone to any form of natural disaster.

It's certainly the early days, and it's clear that there's a long way to go, but I really feel that these fully decentralized solar powered networks are hugely important as a simple alternative to the corporate behemoth the internet has become.

Yeah especially given that California is a leader in renewable energy sources.

How about just ditching this disgusting use of a finite resource and switch to an infinitely abundant resource?

IMHO surprisingly low. Still not clear to me why they don't just port these things to ARM or similar?

156 MHz!!!!

The fetishism of "byte count" (here, as "732 byte python script") needs to stop, especially when in a context like this where they're trying to illustrate a real failure modality.

Looking at their source code [1] it starts with this simple line:

import os as g,zlib,socket as s

And already I'm perplexed. "os as g"? but we're not aliasing "zlib as z"? Clearly this is auto-generated by some kind of minimizer? Likely because zlib is called only once, and os multiple times. As a code author/reviewer, I would never write "os as g" and I would absolutely never approve review of any code that used this.

Anyway, I could go on. :) Let's just stop fetishizing byte count

[1] https://github.com/theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431/blob/m...

PRINCIPLES.md

What would you suggest instead?

> TPU 8i pairs 288 GB of high-bandwidth memory with 384 MB of on-chip SRAM

Wow. Just Wow. I presume that's for each chip, and there are 1152 chips in a pod so that's 331TB HBM and 442TB SRAM per pod. Just wow.

Is it me or is that aluminum already developing some stress cracking?

Post actual results, make a blog post. Don't just say "this sucks" without tangible evidence.

Otherwise you're doomed to "sample size of one" level of relevance.

The synth engine is an implementation of https://soniccharge.com/microtonic Not sure what "accurate" means in your context though?

Yes, and with virtually zero context, which makes an enormous difference for TTFT on the MoE models.

Total gimmick. I guess we're "making progress", but this is will never lead to any useful application other than "Yes, you're absulotely right" bots. What's needed for real applications is 10000× the input token context and 10× the output token speed, so we're off by a factor of ... 100,000×?

This should be the top comment

And with only like a dozen tokens of context. What happens when this thing gets the ~100k tokens of context needed to actually make it useful?

I like the analogy but which 2 is AI coding?

Fast & Cheap (but not Good?) - I wouldn't really say that AI coding is "cheap"

Cheap & Good (but not Fast) - Again, not really "cheap"

Fast & Good (but not Cheap) - This seems like maybe where we're at? Is this a bad place?