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New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:03:42 +0000

I was anticipating that having AI write code to pass tests (human and/or AI written tests) would be worthwhile, but in practice, I've found that even models such as Opus 4.6 Thinking, High Effort simply "cheats", or rather, fails to generalize much too often. It's occurred to me that perhaps I need some amount of randomness in the tests to keep the models honest, but it feels wrong. We'll see.

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:55:00 +0000

Anaphylactic shock, and possibly death, is a potential outcome from the worm breaking internally. Far too risky.

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 04:02:25 +0000

Steam Deck spotted, two minutes, seven seconds in. Seems to be getting a fair amount of use for puppeteering robots at Disney.

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "Classical statues were not painted horribly"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 03:52:47 +0000

Isn't a rather good deal of color from feathers a result of "structural color", rather than pigmentation? I'd be curious if fossilized feathers could ever, in theory, preserve enough microscopic detail to guess at that.

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "Classical statues were not painted horribly"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 03:44:41 +0000

Maybe it's just me, but this "We have to fudge the truth because nuance would support the alt-right" business just seems to drive a bigger wedge into the political divide than would just being reasonable. Folks closer to center see it as controlling the narrative, lies, and conspiracy when the full truth comes out. I'd prefer not driving more people into the fringes.

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:41:45 +0000

Following similar thinking, there's no world in which AI becomes exactly capable of replacing all software developers and then stops there, miraculously saving the jobs of everyone else next to and above them in the corporate hierarchy. There may be a human, C-suite driven cost-cutting effort to pause progress there for some brief time, but if AI can do all dev work, there's no reason it can't do all office work to replace every human in front of a keyboard. Either we're all similarly affected, or else AI still isn't good enough, in which case fleets of programmers are still needed, and among those, the presumed "helpfulness" of AI will vary wildly. Not unlike what we see already.

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "What my mother didn’t talk about (2020)"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 01:21:36 +0000

For the record, having suffered the effects of extreme dehydration before, if someone insists on aiding me in the process of dying (against my wishes) please get it over with quickly. End it with the morphine right off. Dehydration is a miserable process; the immediate misery of thirst aside, the delirium, paranoia, and irritability are not the least bit merciful to inflict on someone, in my personal experience.

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "What my mother didn’t talk about (2020)"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 01:10:52 +0000

If that's in line with the patient's wishes, cool. Otherwise, not so cool, both for the act of killing someone and for undermining the arguments in favor of legal euthanasia.

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:57:51 +0000

Everywhere, license agreements that can be changed by the company at any time, pretty much for every game developer that can afford a lawyer to write up said license agreement. They could all start doing shady stuff at any time. Might still leave thousands of games, but they add up to a drop in the bucket of the overall market.

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "The Myth of Developer Obsolescence"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Thu, 29 May 2025 12:08:39 +0000

We can barely afford 5 dimensions with our current operating budget, and it's just not going to scale, I'm afraid. Saddle up boys, I'm proposing we draw them on a _hyperbolic plane_. Two dimensions, fits on a coffee table, room for as many parallel lines as we'll ever need. Hell, some of them can be ultraparallel. Plus, we can deploy it on AWS non-End User Computing for Logical Infrastructure Deployment.

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "Why Is the Kiwi's Egg So Big?"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Sat, 03 May 2025 10:28:07 +0000

Acknowledging that my own reading of the situation may be flawed, I'd though the situation was that pigs on average are better at sniffing out truffles, but dogs are the better truffle hunters on account of being "good enough" and the fact that dogs, unlike pigs, aren't going to eat half the truffles they find.

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "Brain scans of infants reveal the moment we start making memories"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:24:24 +0000

I'd go so far as to liken it to a series of memory wipes between age 3 to 4. Memory otherwise appears to function quite fine, from day to day and year to year, but then large blocks all vanish in rapid succession.

Also interesting, as the article alludes to, is that infantile amnesia seems specifically related to episodic memory. Motor skills, language, and other learning obviously survives.

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "A look at the creative process behind Bluey and Cocomelon (2024)"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 11:34:33 +0000

Personally, I'm convinced Bluey is covertly a wholesome show for parents, dressed up as a kids' show, but ultimately still for the sake of children by way of 1) encouraging watching together, 2) improving parents' mental health and well-being, which has positive outcomes for their kids, 3) getting parents to be more engaged and imaginative.

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:28:18 +0000

Heard the of bimodal salary distribution? I'd bet it matches up quite well with a bimodal influence distribution.

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 02:52:53 +0000

> flame retardant insulation

Which are almost definitely known to the state of California to cause cancer.

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "The trap of "I am not an extrovert""

sdiupIGPWEfh — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:34:17 +0000

Which reminds me that verbal and emotional abuse from parents and close family can have a severe impact reaching far into adult-hood. You can't help having internalized behaviors build around trying to avoid abuse. You can rationally understand that maybe most people aren't judging you like that, but you're also keenly aware that the world is filled with enough who are and with strangers you can never tell who's who.

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 14:16:35 +0000

> This is what I’m thinking. All of the kids I know from 16-22 are the most level headed group of young adults I’ve known.

Taking this on a bit of a tangent, but as an elder millennial, I recall having been told (by elder relatives in their mid-30s at the time) all about how one day I'd too be an "old fogey" looking down on "teens being teens" and how such progression is just the way of things. Hell, I still hear people preaching such "wisdom" today to their youngers.

Yet here I am, just past the age I'm supposedly meant to start ragging on "kids today", and all I can remark is that this same 16-22 set you speak of are remarkably respectful, polite, and considerate, perhaps more so than my own cohort at that age. I almost worry they're not rebellious enough for their own good.

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "A simple way to understand CRDTs"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:46:59 +0000

> Didn't they explicitly acquire the people behind CRDT's.

They may well have hired some of the cohort behind early CRDT research. But I don't believe that work was ever directly applied to Google Docs, from what I've read. Google probably has other applications for CRDTs far beyond anything I'd comprehend.

> Wasn't it also part of Google Wave?

The whitepapers and other material I've read all points to OT being used for Google Wave, which was later applied to Google Docs as well.

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/wave/whitepapers/...

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "A simple way to understand CRDTs"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 02:41:34 +0000

> It's what used when multiple people edit a Google doc at the same time.

I expect Google Docs is still using Operational Transform, rather than CRDT, which solves a similar set of problems, the former being suited for running off centralized servers and the latter being more suited for distributed scenarios. Though you could still certainly create something Google Docs like with CRDT.

New comment by sdiupIGPWEfh in "The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest princess"

sdiupIGPWEfh — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 01:25:54 +0000

Gotta add some Angostura bitters nowadays to give your Moxie some moxie.