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New comment by moomin in "Deus Ex"

moomin — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:24:40 +0000

Indeed, the narrative here, which is the commonly recited version, does exactly this, and so fails to explain why Deus Ex 2 didn’t hit nearly as hard.

New comment by moomin in "AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt"

moomin — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:52:08 +0000

I mean, he wasn’t using, or even envisaging, a language that could natively support proofs.

Personally I think proving Kubernetes, for instance, would be an exercise in pure frustration. There’s just too much to do.

New comment by moomin in "C++26 Disapproved"

moomin — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 09:27:46 +0000

I’ll admit I only learned they were different today. I’d like to think that if I were a regular C++ user I’d be on top of this, though.

New comment by moomin in "AI is destroying my CS degree"

moomin — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:00:01 +0000

Answers so far are assuming that this is complaining that their traditional CS course is not that useful for getting a job anymore.

That’s not what it’s about. It’s actually from someone who genuinely wants to learn for the sake of learning who’s talking about how AI is creating havoc in her studies.

New comment by moomin in "Anthropic S-1"

moomin — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:10:40 +0000

Same thing that blocks you from most things: capital. That’s what capitalism is for.

New comment by moomin in "Shitter – A Nitter Fork"

moomin — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:00:50 +0000

Then reasons no longer matter to you.

New comment by moomin in "Shitter – A Nitter Fork"

moomin — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:00:19 +0000

I've reached the point where I go "If it's on Twitter I don't need to know". We'll all reach that point eventually.

New comment by moomin in "EA is shutting down BioWare"

moomin — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:10:49 +0000

Nah, ME3 is pretty poor throughout. Almost every mission feels anodyne and flat, the skill balancing is way off. There’s still some decent writing though.

People go on about the ending but never really address the whiplash of revealing a third party at the finale. It’s not a question of Shepherd survives or not, it’s that even with all the changes they made, it just doesn’t feel like it has very much to do with what’s gone on before.

New comment by moomin in "The reverts will continue until morale improves"

moomin — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:12:24 +0000

I’ve experienced this myself. I’ve had to downgrade my opinion of my own code. LLMs are great at pointing out the edge cases that you might have taken years to find. Honestly feels quite dispiriting but we move on.

New comment by moomin in "Were Software Engineers blue-collar workers all along?"

moomin — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:09:23 +0000

I've remarked on this before: IT Departments seem practically designed to obfuscate the actual cost of development. The discourse online very rarely has numbers against it. My theory as to why this is is that firms really don't want devs to know how much they budget for a dev, and so they structure the organisation to hide that information.

New comment by moomin in "Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0"

moomin — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:49:57 +0000

I’ve had a good think about this, and while it’s good to see them finally answering bubblewrap, the truth is that we as an industry have been ridiculously at permissioning for some time and this does not solve this. It’s all very well saying we have read only resource access, but then you connect up to JIRA and all of a sudden you’ve got a different identity system, different resource model and and more complexity than you can shake a stick at.

Our current answer of just making the security model more and more complex isn’t working. It just means that, when things inevitably fail, we can say “well, they didn’t secure it correctly”. When even describing what is correct is hard, and setting it up is harder.

Honestly, this looks good, but we need a root and branch rethink of security if we want something that can protect us from rogue agents.

New comment by moomin in "Theranos.world"

moomin — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:59:37 +0000

I’d forgotten there was a time when “Tesla fan” didn’t feel like a political statement.

New comment by moomin in "Theranos.world"

moomin — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:33:54 +0000

I recall there were plenty of people on here going into bat for Theranos way after others were calling it fraud.

The thing is, she expertly rode a belief system that was already prevalent: that SV was going to change the world and that SV and what was happening there was different. Plenty of WeWork fans as well. Plenty of fans of firms that actually did something as well, but most of those "did something"s were a website.

New comment by moomin in "Mistral Large 4"

moomin — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:11:29 +0000

Someone actually tried this and found no evidence of pelicanmaxxing.

New comment by moomin in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

moomin — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:48:16 +0000

Oh, they don't need a reason to let the core product stagnate. They've been doing that for years.

New comment by moomin in "Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy"

moomin — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:57:43 +0000

I recently tripped the safeguards by referring to a fake deployment tool. I started referring to it as a virtual one and it was fine.

New comment by moomin in "GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence"

moomin — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:47:31 +0000

This has got to be a panic move from OpenAI, right? They’ve had some bad press lately because from their billing changes, and Anthropic have finally released a fast, relatively cheap Opus with improved written English.

New comment by moomin in "Grok 4.7"

moomin — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:02:16 +0000

It’s not just that it was generated, it’s that they argued in court, _and won_, that it was legal, giving every last predator a nigh-on unverifiable defence.

New comment by moomin in "Brood War Bench"

moomin — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:04:26 +0000

Wondering what it would look like if you allowed them to write scripts. You could throttle the number of clicks to make it interesting.

New comment by moomin in "I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture"

moomin — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:11:38 +0000

Pretty sure Gödel’s theorems imply the halting problem if you squint hard enough.