Posts by nsimic

Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu

The real problem with windows 11 start menu:

- hit start button

- type the first few letters of the name of the app

- wait for a couple of seconds

Why god, why? A laptop with an i7 processor, 16 gigs of ram, an ssd and a handful of apps installed. That shit should equal to a no op and appear instantly. I know it's a minor gripe, but it really shows no one in Redmond is doing user centric testing

AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals

Re: Temperature ?

They took it from thermodynamics.

They use temp definition as a measurement of randomness in the system.

Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI's GPT-4o

Re: ChatGPT prompt:

That is a bit hard as there are many C compilers out there.

But let's assume you had a programming language that has only one compiler.

Now only thing left to do is somehow convince everyone to add this programming language to a major os kernel ... Oh, wait...

'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama

I skimmed through the thread and it seems like Linus' comment was more about moving to a forge (like GitHub/gitlab) from email (centralized vs decentralized patch submission) than about R4L.

To me looked like Hector tried to make a leap to R4L because of the similarities in handling (and probably to raise more support).

Sad because avahi is actually successful in getting the fruity people to see the light.

Agent P waxes lyrical about 14 years of systemd

Re: A very significant data point for the systemd fanbois

There is a minimal implementation of an init system called machined

IMO shows that, if your goal is to write an init system, you can do it in 400 LOC

Just when you thought terminal emulators couldn't get any better, Ghostty ships

Re: Interesting . . .

> compile-time code execution

zigs comptime doesn't execute code exactly (or at least that is what I gathered from the comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42618130)

Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic

Doctorow asked a great question. What useful thing remains after the bubble bursts? Maybe it's the compute capacity. Who knows what happens once the GPU time is dime a dozen

Re: Reality will bite in the end

Still no fiber where I live and the distance to the nearest node supports paltry 12 Mbit over DSL. So I get my internet via mobile network - 4G was nice until it became so saturated that I got regular drops and went in and asked for 5G. Live next to a road that is one of the main entryways for commuters into the city. You could measure the drop in speed and ping as they start rolling in and out.

Either not many have 5G or the tech is able to better handle such loads, but haven't had connection issues since.

Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own entirely repairable hardware

I would have liked 2xWLAN so I can mesh a couple of them.

Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework

a literal quote from it or just a general vibe?

Fedora 41 beta arrives, neck-and-neck with Ubuntu – but with a different focus

Re: "A Few Small Repairs" are needed.......

fedora [does spins](https://fedoraproject.org/spins/xfce/) so you can have fedora with XFCE (or other wms).

and I'm sure you can use it without btfrs too

side note: been running home NAS experimentally on fedora server edition with btrfs (sw raid) for 5 years now - had no data loss so far even after one of the disks died

The case for handcrafted software in a mass-produced world

Fundamental problem

the chain of conclusions in the article has one weak link

> A human will define an API and some input and output formats, and specify some tests that it works

this has been tried and failed many times before, just look at BDD, CASE tools, 4GLs just to name a few.

Fresh programmer's editor on Linux lies Zed ahead

> In less than four thousand lines of code.

this sentence and it's context symbolise all that is wrong with software development today

Three words to send a chill down your spine: Snowflake. Intrusion. Alert

Re: For those who like to listen rather than view

I just logged in to write the same thing.

Microsoft floats bringing a text editor back to the CLI

Why not

VSCode?

Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams. You don't want to go there

Re: a dead-eyed robot selfie against a landscape of mid-'90s clip art

I liked the title of your comment and fed it into DALL-E:

https://imgur.com/a/obMlN2k

Smuggler caught with 256 Intel Core processors wrapped around him in cling film

Re: Polynomials

If he stopped at 255, he might have gotten away with it

Windows Terminal hits the big 1.0: Fit for production?

Or trying to find "SQL Server Management Studio" which actually responds to ssms (because thats what the exe is called)

BOFH: Is everybody ready for the meeting? Grab a crayon – let's get technical

you bastard!

Re: New Episode?

DAAS => disappointment as a service. quite fitting for this day and age.