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New comment by rustyminnow in "Spaghettifying DRAM"

rustyminnow — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:21:24 +0000

How do you know when it's not written by LLM except to take someone's word? If I got caught slopping I'd be too embarassed to admit it. "I wrote it all myself! I actually majored in slick writing and minored in tenuous metaphor."

New comment by rustyminnow in "Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities"

rustyminnow — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:12:48 +0000

If we also consider LLM developed software to have exponential growth, then the CVEs will also grow at an exponential (if proportionally limited) rate. Squash some, create some, repeat. An ever revolving door of vulnerabilities. Will they resolve (and patch and deploy) them faster than they can create them? One can hope.

New comment by rustyminnow in "The Art of 64-bit Assembly"

rustyminnow — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:49:44 +0000

(disclaimer: I'm not anti-ai nor do I think ai automatically makes something bad, _but_...)

To me, it's all fairly human-ai neutral except for this sentence which is oh-so AI cliche and casts doubt on the rest of it:

> This volume of The Art of 64-Bit Assembly closes the gap between a plausible explanation and genuine understanding.

"closes the gap" is a favored phrase by our artificial friends and the phrases "plausible explanation" and "genuine understanding" are just... so ... dramatic for the context.

The rest of it is pretty tame in comparison. In my armchair opinion, I'd guess it's mostly a composite of (professional) human-written/ai-revised and/or vice versa. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.

New comment by rustyminnow in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

rustyminnow — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:12:52 +0000

They've had some practice now, so next time will go better.

RealID is completely optional anyways. Just like organ donation and using the internet.

New comment by rustyminnow in "LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions"

rustyminnow — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:47:56 +0000

I asked for short form functions! Neovim has a ton of apis that accept functions as configuration. Having to write `function(x) return x > 3 end` is so much more annoying than `|x| -> x > 3`. I'd prefer just `|x| x > 3` but alas. I agree that a `|x| -> do ... end` lambda variant is redundant to normal anonymous functions though.

New comment by rustyminnow in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

rustyminnow — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:57:04 +0000

Could probably be implemented by a smartcard or yubikey-like device as well. Shoot, just build it into my state issued ID card.

New comment by rustyminnow in "Steam Machine launches today"

rustyminnow — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:32:45 +0000

In any other commercial they'd be laughing and grinning ear to ear with their fakest smile instead of wincing from dieing in Cuphead. Definitely still staged but refreshingly so.

New comment by rustyminnow in "The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate"

rustyminnow — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:01:50 +0000

What's your point? Yes, humans and AIs CAN make similar errors. However, continuity and context churn at this level is the sort of error that humans make rarely and AIs make constantly.

By itself it is not a sure sign of LLM output, but along with other signals it is highly suggestive.

New comment by rustyminnow in "The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate"

rustyminnow — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:24:08 +0000

In the article, she wasn't introduced as a researcher at all, but suddenly "She went back to her research data...". This totally smells like an LLM refactor where it re-emits surface level details, but completely misses the key beats that tie ideas together across a story.

New comment by rustyminnow in "The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate"

rustyminnow — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:15:40 +0000

Some of the headings are very AI-cliche: "Hospitality Is a Dialogue, Service Is a Monologue"; "AI Raises the Floor. Humans Raise the Ceiling"; "Your Employees Are the Moat. The Compounding Is Invisible."

The author didn't use headings like that in their 2024 blog posts.

New comment by rustyminnow in "We should be more tired than the model"

rustyminnow — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:24:44 +0000

Java has very good refactor support. I use jdt.ls which is eclipse based, but I've heard intellij is even better. I've wished for similar refactor actions in other langs.

New comment by rustyminnow in "We should be more tired than the model"

rustyminnow — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:20:28 +0000

I'm right there with you - prefer classic, deterministic tools wherever possible - but there's a limit. E.g. it's easy to rename a single getter from classic enterprise java `Foo getFoo() {..}` to a modern style `Foo foo() {..}` ... but to rename dozens of getters/setters across hundreds of classes is still tedious.

Even harder would be to update your setters from `void setFoo(Foo f) { this.foo = f; }` to fluent-style `Parent foo(Foo f) { this.foo = f; return this; }` - I'd be surprised if there's an LSP action for that at all. (I'd love to be proven wrong though)

New comment by rustyminnow in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

rustyminnow — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:41:00 +0000

Bun getting rewritten in Rust is not really the counter point you think it is. The rust version hasn't shipped yet, so there hasn't even been a chance to see if the code can be maintained. It's an impressive feat no doubt, but until they've maintained it on a months to years timeline, it's also just talk with no evidence.

New comment by rustyminnow in "Slumber a TUI HTTP Client"

rustyminnow — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:23:09 +0000

> character placement and border special characters

These characters _are_ text though. They can be copy pasted like text, I can use them in my text editor, you can stick em in a string.

New comment by rustyminnow in "Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space"

rustyminnow — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:54:39 +0000

Why would I want them hidden? I access files in ~/.config almost daily, I think this is a really good idea

New comment by rustyminnow in "Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them"

rustyminnow — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:13:19 +0000

I think in the context of containers you're right, there's a level of isolation and secrets are probably fine. But I think under other contexts that lack that isolation (e.g. bare-metal processes, local dev tooling) there are extra concerns.

(inb4: container env-vars are isolated from other containers, not from processes on the host system)

New comment by rustyminnow in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

rustyminnow — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:41:23 +0000

Nobody thought an RPI cluster would ever be competitive, and Geerling never expected anybody would. But it's fun to play "what if" and then make the thing just to see how it stacks up and that's his job. Any implication or suggestion of this being a good idea is just part of the story telling.

New comment by rustyminnow in "Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management"

rustyminnow — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:20:55 +0000

How do you expose the service for your SO when away from home? Do you use tailscale/cloudflare tunnel/vpn? public port on your router? I've been trying tailscale for myself, but there's a hair more friction than my SO would accept.

New comment by rustyminnow in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

rustyminnow — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:48:09 +0000

I don't keep tabs on OP; I just provide hypothetical answers to literal interpretations of rhetorical questions.

New comment by rustyminnow in "Framework Laptop 16"

rustyminnow — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:08:32 +0000

I would be all in on the nub if mine didn't have such terrible drift. Trackpad with top buttons beats any other trackpad though.