timwa
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- Comment on Someone created a public domain version of Netflix 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately it is the nature of the anti-coding-LLM debate that people who never wrote a line of assembly language, and never in their lives wrote a line of code that wouldn’t be run in a managed runtime of some kind, now think they’re the Masters of the Coding Universe and are qualified to dictate what are the Right Tools and the Wrong Tools to be a Real Programmer™.
Fortunately, as you rightly point out we’ve seen this dance a hundred times before. This too shall pass.
- Comment on Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical? | flyingpenguin 4 weeks ago:
TL;DR:
- Some of Cloudflare’s customers are bad people.
- Canonical used Cloudflare to defend attack.
- Did Cloudflare blackmail Canonical!???!?!??!!!11
TWTLT;DR:
- No.
- Comment on How The Heck Does Shazam Work? (An Interactive Exploration) 1 month ago:
That’s brilliant, thank you!
They should cover JPEG compression at some point; when I first learned how that worked (at uni nearly 40 years ago… God) I was blown away by how beautiful that algorithm is.
- Comment on A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta 2 months ago:
That sounds sweetly naive. “Producing innaccurate technical advice, with a confident tone, at scale” sounds like the perfect credentials for a career in consultancy.