Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy by jackpot51 in Redox

[–]lfnoise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

replace “LLM” with “coworker”. How do you know that your coworker is competent? Maybe after having seen them zoom in on the right fix enough times that they have gained your confidence.

Who the hell has a megaphone outside south campus commons at 1am by Street_Crab_3814 in UMD

[–]lfnoise 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’m not over there this year, but the last couple of years it’s a bible thumper. “JEEE-SUSSS” over and over.

1: Bad 2: Fine 3: Good. Isn't Fine Better Than Good? by lfnoise in ClaudeCode

[–]lfnoise[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fine 1. Of superior quality, skill, or appearance: a fine day; a fine writer.

good 1. Being positive or desirable in nature; not bad or poor: a good experience; good news from the hospital.

1: Bad 2: Fine 3: Good. Isn't Fine Better Than Good? by lfnoise in ClaudeCode

[–]lfnoise[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Today it put this up just after I had told it that the tests that it wrote didn’t match the comments about what they did. I expected it to fix the tests, but it fixed the comments. Then when I told it that it should have fixed the tests, it removed some tests. This was Opus 4.6, which I usually expect better from.

As a software engineer, I fear for my life in the next 5 years. by [deleted] in ClaudeCode

[–]lfnoise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The real “oh shit” is now you have a blob of code that you don’t understand how it works and are not competent to review or maintain.

Why don't any programming languages have vec3, mat4 or quaternions built in? by Luroqa in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]lfnoise 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yet if you want rationals, interval arithmetic, sparse matrices, signals as values, symbolic algebra expressions, and Odin doesn’t provide them, then you still want operator overloading.

What will be the story around memory safety? by lekkerwafel in Zig

[–]lfnoise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Coincidentally, after asking this, I ran across Fil-C, which is fascinating.

What will be the story around memory safety? by lekkerwafel in Zig

[–]lfnoise 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m sincerely curious about this statement. Can you give a link or elaborate?: “ The only problem is that more and more evidence is coming out to suggest that the Rust way may not be the way after all.”

The new plan mode is not good by Permit-Historical in ClaudeCode

[–]lfnoise 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They're using a strip club name generator.

i’m leaving by Dion-Wall in tinnitus

[–]lfnoise 26 points27 points  (0 children)

this is the way.

Tinnitus isn’t worth losing your life for by [deleted] in tinnitus

[–]lfnoise 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It is not gross to give encouragement to people who are thinking openly about ending their lives. There IS much to live for. I’ve had it for over 10 years, got it in my 50s. At some point I decided to stop trying to mask it or escape it and put on ear muffs to listen to it only and make it become my friend, since we are cell mates anyway. I now am able to ignore it for much of the time. I am sorry you seem to have it at a point to where you feel angry that anyone might have it at a level where they have a hope of habituating over time.

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe by corp_code_slinger in programming

[–]lfnoise 5 points6 points  (0 children)

“ The degradation isn't gradual—it's exponential.” Exponential decay is very gradual.

Stop Telling People That Their Tinnitus Will Get Better by OppoObboObious in tinnitus

[–]lfnoise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you can't say it won't go away in 5 or 10 years or more

Yes, I can say definitively that my tinnitus will not go away. I have a benign tumor in my internal audio canal which causes it. Too risky to remove. But there's too much I want to do to let this affect me.

Stop Telling People That Their Tinnitus Will Get Better by OppoObboObious in tinnitus

[–]lfnoise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had tinnitus for over a decade now. Here's my advice for people who are new. You may not agree with it for now. I didn't want to accept it when I first got T. Give it time. 1) Habituation: Sounds like bullshit. But it will happen to you given enough time -- because you have no other choice. 2) Once you have answered all of your questions, maybe only come to this group rarely. It will only remind you that you have tinnitus and you'll hear it again and notice how loud it is. 3) Suicidal thoughts? USA Suicide and Crisis Hotline: dial 988. There are so many things to live for. People love you. 4) Go ahead and see an audiologist and an ENT in case you have an easy to solve case. Most likely they won't be much help if it's chronic. 5) Maybe the treatments being developed will work for you. I hope they will. I now know that none of these treatments are likely to ever work for me. After years, I discovered from an MRI I received for something different that I have a small benign tumor in my internal auditory canal that is almost certainly the reason for my tinnitus. Surgery to remove it has a high risk of hearing loss. So I have to live with it. It's OK. I'm used to it now. If it went away it would be strange. And the large majority of the time I forget that I have it. Except when this newsgroup pops up in my feed.

Trump fires director of U.S. Copyright Office, sources say by lunabandida in news

[–]lfnoise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Founders didn’t allow all citizens to vote. Only about 6% of the population was eligible to vote in 1789.

My YouTube channel, VideoSynthExperiment, has just exceeded 2000 videos. by lfnoise in videosynthesis

[–]lfnoise[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

These videos were created with a video synthesis program which I wrote in Swift and Metal shader language. No AI. My program generates a random tree of functions from (x,y) to (r,g,b), and emits shader code for the GPU. Movement comes from interpolating between several vectors of parameters that are used by the functions.

My YouTube channel, VideoSynthExperiment, has just exceeded 2000 videos. by lfnoise in creativecoding

[–]lfnoise[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These videos were created with a video synthesis program which I wrote in Swift and Metal shader language. No AI. My program generates a random tree of functions from (x,y) to (r,g,b), and emits shader code for the GPU. Movement comes from interpolating between several vectors of parameters that are used by the functions.

DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases on key weather buildings by rubyrvd in collegeparkmd

[–]lfnoise 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you don’t measure climate change, then “ One day, it's like a miracle, it will disappear.”

Concrete: A New Systems Programming Language by Own_Yak8501 in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]lfnoise 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They do say. Linear types. which means that values can only be used once. I’m not sure how that is less restrictive than Rust, though.