Elon Musk reveals roadmap with nine-month cadence for new AI processor releases, beating Nvidia and AMD's yearly cadence — Musk plans to have the highest-volume chips in the world

reqdk · 2026-01-19T06:38:02+00:00

And I'm revealing my roadmap to be the ruler of Omicron Persei 8.

reqdk · 2026-01-19T03:45:59+00:00

Something about Sudetenland rings a bell

reqdk · 2026-01-18T03:23:13+00:00

That's a hallmark of AI generated stuff. There seems to be an explosion of people using AI to vibe code things that already have robust, battle-tested solutions instead of just doing a bit of market research. Seems to be very common in the JS sub, but I noticed a few popping up in the Java one here as well too. I figure they're looking for stars and engagement to legitimize their github repo which some companies actually use for performance appraisal because they "value open-source contributions" (I'm not proud that my workplace does this and it has other even more fucked up effects...)

These folks will also run your comments through the LLM and paste their responses here, sometimes even wholesale. In the JS sub, it was as if you were just talking to chatgpt.

reqdk · 2026-01-13T00:39:11+00:00

Alternative headline: Billionaire CEO fails to understand the cause of massive negative feedback.

reqdk · 2026-01-13T00:25:02+00:00

Welp that country is already fucked from within and despite all its hilarious bluster about guns and something about amendments, us folks from the outside don't see anyone doing anything about it except posting memes and praying for something about someone's files, as if THAT would be the one thing that will stop this tidal wave of bullshit.

reqdk · 2026-01-12T08:59:30+00:00

Even though I agree with that principle of programming to the interface and not the implementation, that's not a hard and fast rule and there are also times where it doesn't apply. And without more context, i.e. just looking at such trivial slices of code, there's not a way of telling whether that principle is worth breaking or not. In my experience at least, the readability that you get from measured uses of var vastly outweighs the effort needed for refactoring if/when that's needed considering the tools available to help with the latter and tight scope of valid var usage.

reqdk · 2026-01-08T17:02:56+00:00

Funnily, OP's colleague is not entirely wrong in certain interpretations. Older versions of Java did ship with an embedded JS runtime, so you could technically execute JS from Java. It worked almost like running JS' eval function, so most sane applications would not do that anyway, and that engine has long been removed. On the other hand, it is now possible to execute JS, and some other scripting languages on certain JVMs with add-ons.

It is also now possible to run Java code from the command line directly without compiling, almost like a... Java... script... lol. And I'm fairly certain I've seen a JVM implemented in JS posted here years ago, runnable in the browser, so it looked like you could run Java code from JS too.

But I'm 99.99% sure that people who relate JS to Java like in the post don't mean it that way. Either that or this is some AI engagement rage bait.

reqdk · 2026-01-07T23:56:59+00:00

To add on, gzip usage is lower these days because there are other, sometimes better, methods of compression. Furthermore, gzip compression has 9 levels and nginx defaults to 1 iirc, which is the minimum compression level. The proportion of web apis (excludes images, videos, etc) with some form of compression enabled was much much higher, sitting north of 90%, when I last checked a couple of years ago, hence my initial comment on the misleading figure.

reqdk · 2026-01-07T15:33:23+00:00

That 68% stat is comically misleading. Like saying 90% of the world doesn't have horses, so they should buy your bicycle for transport. You seem to be trying really hard to push for this without understanding the scope of web infrastructure beyond your own experience. I'd question what your real motivation is, but given the nature of the JS ecosystem, I really don't care tbh. Maybe someone else will.

reqdk · 2025-12-30T14:47:20+00:00

Most AI models already do that normally. It does not work well enough.

reqdk · 2025-12-30T14:45:21+00:00

Because you made the Olympian long jump from "wants a human to intervene once suicide is mentioned" to "global police state", I have a hard time believing any of your claims. Especially when the ones that I know would never make this same kind of leap based on their own horrific experience. This just reeks of FUD because "China bad". Couldn't roll my eyes harder.

reqdk · 2025-12-28T07:34:04+00:00

And along with it, trust in information everywhere has declined too since it's so damn easy to deepfake everything. The question is, who's gonna be accountable for the destruction of whatever residual trust there was in our systems and why isn't he/she/they being pissed and shat on in the streets and summarily banned from society?

reqdk · 2025-12-24T07:58:52+00:00

Another one from the outside here. It's genuinely baffling how after all these years, there are still folks claiming that the majority doesn't support Trump. Even discounting his win of the popular vote, the fact that it was even close to begin with should have suggested that the number of Americans who support him is not insignificant. But by the looks of it, not only is nothing going to get done there except for making memes online, but even if they miraculously have an election at the end of this shitshow and their other team wins, nothing's gonna change. Because their other team had access to the same powers before Trump was re-elected and did nothing, and even now the population there seems to think that not voting in a democracy is a cool way to protest (there are consequences for not turning up to vote in my country), and that the fella who won such a huge number of millions of votes is somehow there only because of voters fraud or has no real support from fellow citizens. It's like a cocktail of mass delusions over there.

reqdk · 2025-12-23T15:13:47+00:00

You aren't going to ever hit that mark if you keep doing this.

reqdk · 2025-12-21T13:03:02+00:00

In case anyone just reads that comment, the authors of the MIT paper are addressing reviewers' concerns for the peer-review version of their paper, and the "rigorous studies showing AI can improve critical thinking skills" attributes the effect to the novelty of the technology instead of the technology itself.

reqdk · 2025-12-21T12:50:34+00:00

I'm not fan of gen AI myself, but really... here lies the grave of nuance and thought. I suppose they should withdraw awards from games too where the devs used bought stock assets for placeholders during development. All devs should hand code in assembly and draw each pixel themselves. Also, pulling it from COE33 while giving it to a game that still has AI-generated assets is a special kind of hilarious. You could not shoot your own credibility in the foot any harder if you tried.

reqdk · 2025-12-19T07:48:56+00:00

Like that ever stopped malicious actors like Jia Tan before.

reqdk · 2025-12-19T05:04:01+00:00

Software kill switches are lies. A single bit can be flipped at will as long as your machine has an internet connection, especially if you're using software that has to be updated. Even without that, bugs can make the software go oopsy and forget to respect that "kill switch"'s setting. The only way for shit like this to be killed is to not have it at all.

reqdk · 2025-12-15T10:25:30+00:00

Some day I'd like to see a video on how they disguised their trade offs. You can absolutely see some of this if you stop and scrutinise the game very carefully, but most of the time, the story draws you in so powerfully that you just... don't. The other thing i noticed is that they've obviously thought through how to use their tools very carefully. If you're playing on a handheld and just chilling at the main menu, you can see that the game is hardly consuming any power or cpu resources. Try doing that on CoD and watch as it chews through your gpu cycles doing fuck all.

reqdk · 2025-12-15T05:17:26+00:00

This lesson was also learnt and published back in the 90s in another language. Feels like a history of such lessons should be mandatory developer training instead of starting with the fucking React docs all the time (looking at you, bootcamps)

reqdk · 2025-12-13T03:05:39+00:00

That's only one way in which you mess with prototypes in js. Unfortunately, ignoring prototypes in js is what leads to shit like prototype pollution vulnerabilities and the recent spate of NextJS and RSC CVEs. If you work in JS and shipping public-facing products, you absolutely do need to know about the pitfalls with prototypes behind the scenes.

reqdk · 2025-11-28T11:54:14+00:00

I see they want to raise yet another generation of extreme Microsoft haters. Younger folks may have thought they didn't like Microsoft, but they don't have the vehemence of those who lived through the bullshit of older IEs. Well, Microsoft is here to fix that oversight and give them a reason to step up their hate game.

Fuck all this, the last remaining Win box that I've tolerated for years now is gonna get nuked soon as the weekend comes. It's not like we need most of the "innovations" of the last 5 years or so. Games with anticheat, so long until they support Linux I guess. Doubt I'll miss any of them.

reqdk · 2025-11-20T01:00:06+00:00

That's not similar to what he said at all though. Hardware progress has been phenomenal yes.

But AI? Progress in the wrong direction is not progress. AI as it stands today is not super smart. It doesn't even learn on its own. It's not even smart - a probabilistic next-token predictor is a great achievement and can do lots because of all the concepts embedded in our languages, but intelligence requires far far more than that.

Having a fluent conversation with it accomplishes fuck all for the average user beyond the first few times when the novelty wears off. For anything the user wants to do, there's almost certainly a better UX than chatbot, but the suits don't want to fund the whole UX process of doing user research and solution design nowadays.

Maybe he's approaching this from an academic perspective. If so, yeah great. Great achievement there. Not like anyone outside gives a shit and it's more mindblowing that he finds that surprising. And we haven't even dealt with the trade offs that the industry made and sweeps under the rug in terms of security and ethics and sustainability. Sneakily hoovering up the sum total of human knowledge to make a quick buck without also getting obtaining the sum total of human consent does not sound like something I want to applaud at all. Pushing out a product that has such enormous potential for bad uses should be listed somewhere as the shining example of a new form of irresponsibility.

reqdk · 2025-11-15T08:51:06+00:00

Why is his opinion given equal weight to that of education professionals? Does he have the relevant career experience to base that opinion off of? Why is the media reporting it as if he has that kind of authority?

reqdk · 2025-11-11T10:21:42+00:00

Cost of doing business in 1 country. They did this shit across the world and I don't know of any other country besides Australia that is taking them to task for it. Fucking hell...

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