Pup Biru

what kind of monster writes a script without a shebang?

absolutely! similar is true of node in v8 (though python imo is far more mature in this regard) and probably most other languages

exactly why things like numpy are so popular: yeah python is slow, but python is just the orchestrator

further to that, “demonstrably worse for the planet” i’d like to debate: considering a huge amount of climate science is done with python-based tools because they’re far easier for researchers to pick up and run with - ie just get shit done rather than write good/clean code - i’d argue the benefit of python to the planet is in the outputs it enables for significantly reduced (or in many cases, perhaps outright enabled) input costs

yeah we have a “supply charge” that’s ~$1/day on top of that base rate too, so roughly the same situation :(

we’ve got this crap because of privatisation so it’s not likely to change any time soon.

i hope your energy prices come down when energy things stabilise in europe!

just sayin’ this is still so incredibly cheap… 8c/kwh… australian electricity prices are 24-43c/kwh (obv usd vs aud but the aussie $ isn’t that weak)

enron sold plenty of gas and real things too: it’s the double handling that’s the problem; not the nature of the goods or services

openai has practically no value and that’s well known… nvidia is paying companies to buy their chips and playing bullshit shell games

the difference is openai is a pretty well known unprofitable company, and they aren’t doing quite as much of the bullshit shell games. nvidia is selling to basically everyone, taking stakes in companies, giving weird deals… it’s bloody impossible to track how much of their sales are real and how much those real sales are actually worth, or if those sales are loss leaders for some investment then those investments look a lot like openai

so nvidia not only is invested in a lot of very questionable AI bubble companies, but also their own sales figures are… unreliable

they’re making billions upon billions because they’re using their own money multiple times. it’s kinda like leveraged trading with all the risk and it’s incredible arrogant at the scale that nvidia is doing it

and both positions are wrong. nobody ever said that the ROC wasn’t imperialist in the exact same way

chinas stance towards the south china sea and taiwan is what this exaggeration for the purposes of comedy is based on

perhaps… i guess the single directional execution model would help to prevent memory leaks, and components would help keep things relatively contained… and also javascript in general avoids whole classes of c/c++ bugs… but it’s also incredibly slow. imo it’s just not something you should write core system components in

to be clear, it’s not react that’s the problem here: its execution model is an excellent way of structuring UI… but something as core as the start menu just really isn’t something you should fuck around with slow languages with

and also, that’s not to say that FOSS shouldn’t do it - they’re open, and thus something like react makes it easier for devs to write plugs and extend etc… but that’s not an engineering concern for windows: they don’t get the luxury of using extensibility as an excuse

little measurable difference? the last time they rewrote something they replaced the start menu with fucking react

the difference will be measurable and enormous

yeah they do certainly exist, but bog standard “red light cameras”… ie single purpose cameras are not that kind of problem… imo, as long as they’re deployed to combat actual issues they’re very much a beneficial tool

i think it’s important to differentiate these new kinds of cameras from the single purpose cameras so that arguments against them can be made independently

red light cameras - at least in australia - are stock standard canon DSLRs… they take images, but not video

there are some newer ones that do things like photos of people using their phones stopped at lights etc, but generally speed/red light and “single purpose” cameras will just be doing stills, and wouldn’t be too useful for anything other than a single photo when the sensor triggers it

that’s all irrelevant though… the rule is the rule and they got caught

people should be allowed to have awards for games which only use humans, and if a game is caught cheating they should be disqualified

if they want to compete for some awards, these aren’t the awards for them: there are others

it’s kinda irrelevant to the make it to production part though: the rule is no gen ai used during development… there’s no ifs, buts, or maybes here: there definitively was, and nobody is denying that

it’s irrelevant whether you agree with the rule or not… the award is for games that didn’t use AI during development. the game should not have originally been in contention for the award

i tend to agree this is the right way to use AI assets, but this isn’t the award for them… it doesn’t matter if it was accidental, if it was removed before release, or anything else

The software had a limit on the size of the feature file that was below its doubled size. That caused the software to fail.

this is not a rust problem… nor was the original problem of code writing entries to a file multiple times, and nor is the thing that made it worse: propagation of the poisoned file

the cloudflare issues were configuration… they have nothing even remotely relayed to any of this

github copilot is fantastic for exactly this reason… completes a few lines, auto corrects, automatic find and replace, automatically fills a 3 line function body that would otherwise be an extra dependency

and these browsers are specifically not that… these browsers are intended to do things like categorise tabs, complete forms, etc automatically without your interaction

of course they’ll ask before they do things they consider destructive, but what they consider destructive and what a malicious actor can use are very different things

some of that is certainly benign, but the point with prompt injection is that it can take benign things and make them plausibly malicious