StilesCrisis

Paragraphs and paragraphs of shaggy-dog setup, then "a coworker enabled ASAN and reported a bug [here]" with no elucidation. Disappointing.

Given that the name defaults to "Phantomdrive" I have a hunch that it is not as fully nondescript as you are suggesting it ought to be.

If there is enough content to fill a book, then it's fine. The issue is that usually, there's enough for about two chapters, and then it's just padding.

The problem is when someone writes one viral blog post, then decides to pad it out and sell it as a book. If you can find the original post, you get the entire substance for free in ten minutes.

Sure. Rationing is a common response to shortage in general even though it isn't very effective.

Fixed point! Not floating. That's the whole trick.

"Shortage" means exactly that. It doesn't mean "there's no GPUs at all." In a gasoline shortage, prices go up and there are lines at the pump, but there are still cars on the road.

"Baked ambient occlusion" does exist. It only works well in games where most objects are fixed. If there's a lot of flexibility in where objects are placed, then movable objects will stick out too much (they will lack the AO shading). It sounds like you're proposing using it only on static walls, which seems like it'd be totally viable.

Blizzard? I've never heard of Alienbrain used elsewhere.

If you ask an LLM, "what known example did you use to solve this?" it is very likely to cite something plausible-sounding. That absolutely doesn't mean it is what it actually did. It is trying to give the "right answer" and please.

Why worry about memory safety? Users can literally "kill -9" anyway.

We absolutely buy berries (and tomatoes) when in season. The flavor is much better!

The iTunes store originally sold m4p (protected) files, not m4a files.

They even refunded the controller and Chromecast Ultra, which still work to this day (just not to play Stadia).

Did they actually post their DOOM source anywhere? They didn't seem to have posted the compiler source, just a playground.

Why would your Roku be any more or less safe than a TV? It's the exact same idea.

Are they waking up? I haven't seen evidence of it yet.

Civilization can't rely effectively on systems that are this fragile.

That's American politics in a nutshell. We've spent 250 years assuming scruples and common decency would be sufficient.

Without trying to sound crass, food banks _are_ the reason we don't see people dying of starvation in first world countries. If people need food, a food bank will give it to them no questions asked.

That's not really a language. It was just a reporter dumbing down the idea of "vectors in latent space" which eventually became LLMs.

I just think that Protobuf is not a good format for writing reliable software that aims for decades of usage.

I am not a fan of Protobuf at all, but it's already demonstrated its ability to ship extremely reliable software with multi-decade lifespans. It's one of the few things Google _hasn't_ deprecated, and it's the backbone of the search and ads stack.

For a maintainer it's way easier to tell their own agent to reimplement the same idea.

This only makes sense if you assume the original PR was just vibe-coded with minimal human effort. Maybe one day but I don't think we are there yet.

Haven't checked, but I'm pretty sure Google falls back on older browsers.

The babysitting work would still be impossible if you didn't actually know how to code.

As much as I agree with the spirit of your post, standards did in fact change after the Therac-25 incident. That was nearly 50 years ago, after all! There are very high quality bars for medical equipment.

All the same, they don't need a thousand copies of one GitHub repo. They need a thousand different copies of various unrelated repos. Maybe some disc duplicators can handle that without constant user involvement, but all the ones I've worked with are designed around mass replication of one individual ISO.

I'm so tired of HN putting sites on the top with zero human authorship. I have to listen to Claude-voice enough at my job.

What's the point of any of it to begin with? Why paint a painting? Why learn to play guitar?

Such models do exist but the one you linked lacks a burner entirely.

https://tapeandmedia.com/Epson_DiscProducer_autoprinter_PP_1...

"Epson Discproducer PP-100AP Autoprinter for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray Disc (prints only - does not duplicate disc)"

Yeah, I skimmed the code, it's all vibes all the way down. I wanted a slice of history, I got slop.