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New comment by nromiun in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

nromiun — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:40:36 +0000

But AAPL has a big weight on the market/indices.

New comment by nromiun in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

nromiun — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:37:02 +0000

Apple stock is down more than 4% right now. That is a big dump for such a blue chip stock. IDK if it is due to this EU ban or Apple choice of going with Gemini (instead of making their own models).

New comment by nromiun in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

nromiun — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:34:50 +0000

Is there any proposed timeline for a stable release? Big features like the recent async IO shows the language is very unstable right now.

New comment by nromiun in "Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s"

nromiun — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:36:23 +0000

> Is 1.1 Tflop/s good? Theoretically, the GPU on my M3 Max is capable of around 15 Tflop/s. But the real ceiling for this kind of task is going to be 3-5 Tflop/s

This is so true. And also why people should not take basic GPU benchmarks so seriously. Getting peak performance out of a GPU is much more complex than it is with a CPU.

And it is one of the reasons why Nvidia still has a software moat compared to other GPU companies. CUDA has so many small kernels tuned for getting peak performance for your dataset.

New comment by nromiun in "Async Rust never left the MVP state"

nromiun — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:31:25 +0000

It is an inherent limitation. Multithreading is not free after all. One of the big pros of async programming is the concurrency you get within a single thread. When you make the async runtime multithreaded by default (like Tokio) you don't get this advantage anymore.

New comment by nromiun in "Async Rust never left the MVP state"

nromiun — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:06:37 +0000

Async in Rust and C++ is nothing like it is in Python or NodeJS. Choose your own runtime is a very different model than having a default one.

Not to mention Tokio (most popular runtime for Rust) is multi-threaded by default. So you have to deal with multithreading bugs as well as normal async ones. That is not the case with most async languages. For example both Python and NodeJS use a single thread to execute async code.

New comment by nromiun in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

nromiun — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:02:03 +0000

Python 3.10 is only used for the exploit. You can easily rewrite it for 3.8 as well. The vulnerability itself does not require Python at all.

New comment by nromiun in "Copy Fail"

nromiun — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:35:47 +0000

Of course, but it does not matter as the entire AF_ALG module is forbidden by SELinux anyway (on Android).

New comment by nromiun in "Copy Fail"

nromiun — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:15:31 +0000

I tried this exploit on Android and it looks like you need root in the first place to create an AF_ALG socket. I guess it is an SELinux policy to disable AF_ALG entirely.

New comment by nromiun in "Copy Fail"

nromiun — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:10:38 +0000

To even get the su binary on Android you have to patch the OS. So this exploit can't work on Android. Because there is no su binary to target.

Update: Just tried it on Termux and as expected even creating an AF_ALG socket requires root access.

New comment by nromiun in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

nromiun — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:01:26 +0000

If you present ELIZA to people some will think it is AGI today.

There is a reason so many scams happen with technology. It is too easy to fool people.

New comment by nromiun in "JVM Options Explorer"

nromiun — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:50:26 +0000

That test does not mean anything. I can also spin up a large LLM on my 5090 and say these models are ready for on device deployment now. However that would not be true for most people. You should test a Golang hello world binary as well. I bet it will take less than 40 milliseconds.

New comment by nromiun in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

nromiun — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:15:56 +0000

AI hysteria has gone too far. People are literally telling stories of what AI may be capable of in the future and whipping themselves into a frenzy.

New comment by nromiun in "Writing Lisp is AI resistant and I'm sad"

nromiun — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:53:52 +0000

> I'd blow $10-$20 in a handful of minutes with not much to show for it but sort of OK lisp code that I ended up rewriting.

Damn. And here I have a Gemini Pro subscription sitting unused for a year now.

New comment by nromiun in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

nromiun — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:34:04 +0000

I had almost forgotten about that subreddit. Sadly it has been in a zombie state for years now. Despite having millions of members you can hardly find even 100+ comments on any post in the front page.

Last time I checked only political posts (like related to offshore programmers) got any kind of attention. Most technical posts barely gets 10 comments. Some of the smaller subreddits (like /r/ProgrammingLanguages) are much better.

New comment by nromiun in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

nromiun — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:24:24 +0000

Actually they are using everything they have to combat these cheap drones. That includes Patriot and THAAD systems as well. Specially UAE, which got struck with more drones than Israel. That is how Iran was able to take out a THAAD radar, because it was deployed so close to them.

https://www.dw.com/en/south-korea-uneasy-as-us-moves-air-def...

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/05/middleeast/radar-bases-us...

New comment by nromiun in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

nromiun — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:36:44 +0000

Getting early into any technology only makes sense if you are building your business on top of it. Or you are making money from it in some way. Other than that it makes sense for the rest of us to wait.

Of course those that believe that AI will convert into AGI and destroy society as we know it won't be convinced.

New comment by nromiun in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

nromiun — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:07:59 +0000

Apple's ecosystem is the 8th wonder of this world. Nowhere else you can put a logo on a piece of cloth or aluminum wheel and sell them for hundreds of dollars. Greatest capitalist company of all time.

New comment by nromiun in "Vibecoding #2"

nromiun — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:33:42 +0000

> The spec ended up being 6KiB of English prose. The final implementation was 14KiB of TypeScript.

Wait, this is how people vibe code? I thought it was just giving instruction line by line and refining your program. People are really creating a dense, huge spec for their project first?

I have not seen any benefit of AI in programming yet, so maybe I should try it with specs and like a auto-complete as well.

New comment by nromiun in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

nromiun — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:15:50 +0000

> Yes, OpenAI is burning $8-12B in 2025. Compute infrastructure is obviously not cheap when serving 190M people daily.

So casual. Actual ad giants like Meta and Google are serving many more people than 190M while bringing in actual profit.

Yes, let's say these are just the early days and they are burning money just like any other VC company. But how are they going to scale up their hardware/usage and get a profit at the same time?

AI hardware is getting optimized YOY too but the flagship models are getting bigger every year as well. I don't see how they are going to get profit without jacking their prices at the same time. And price increases always hits usage growth.

Serving an ad is very cheap these days, while serving a big model is very much expensive.