Comment Re:Remember those shortwave numbers stations? (Score 3, Funny) 49
I think that these are all just adult album alternative format stations that keep playing that one Wilco record.
I think that these are all just adult album alternative format stations that keep playing that one Wilco record.
If AI services are becoming too expensive in the current environment, we can look to nature for help. There is a an abundant species of large mammals in the ape family that can be trained to do this kind of work as well.
What a funny thing to say about something that is literally all text. Match up the code itself with the commit message and the ticket that caused it to happen - we work in the most documented business there is.
If you don't force/write good commit messages then you get what you deserve.
If you don't force/use good issue tracking then you get what you deserve.
In general, AI now composes my commit messages. Then I delete 2/3 of it. Sometimes I'll touch it up a bit. So it is helping our process...
For every line of code in our repo I know who wrote it, when they wrote it, what they said about writing it, and why they started to write it in the first place. If you don't know those things then you (or your organization) are doing it wrong.
For all we know, what looks to you like a one-day delay is actually a three-month delay, they just had a different launch scheduled the next day.
No. Launching a rocket is not like launching a plane. You have to get it to the platform and set it all up. You have to register with the feds. It's a whole thing. And here (well, at Vandenberg) there is just one SpaceX platform at the moment. I think they are talking about building another.
Maybe they can delay for a day, but at what cost? If your guesses are accurate that is.
You might be right and maybe I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. Here's the thing:
https://spaceflightnow.com/lau...
If you keep an eye on that site because you live 50 miles away and like to stand in your driveway to watch launches then you start to notice things. You see the schedule slip by 24 or 48 hours on about 25% of the launches. Sometimes done ahead of time and sometimes the same day (with notes about weather delay on the spaceflightnow page) and sometimes near the last second - as verifiable because the live webcast gets scrubbed with N seconds left on the clock while the camera watches the rocket getting fueled, etc.
I may be way off on the 25% number - it could be half that. It's not double. But it's really unusual for them to slip more than a day at a time.
These launches happen nearly once/week at this point. It's not hard to see the patterns. Sadly, I could not find a good record of how often they are pushed back - I suspect because it's just not a big deal to slip a day or two for these kinds of launches. Moonshots would be a very different story. Mars even more so. But there are 10K+ starlink satellites in orbit and they go 'round every 90 minutes. I suspect they could do 90 minute slips if it were not for all the actual work that goes into a launch and the time to figure it out and the federal paperwork, etc.
To me at least, launch windows makes more sense than just making non-retail employees work on a federal holiday.
Here's the other thing: Elon is an ass. You can ask pretty much any of his current or ex employees - including myself. He doesn't much care what holiday plans he's ruining.
Launches slip *all the time*. I live about 50 miles from Vandenberg, so I keep an eye on when they go up to see if there's gonna be a good view. My guess is that about 25% of them slip - and when they do, mostly it's a 1 day slip.
So slipping to the next day can't be a big deal. Especially if you're planning it ahead of time. Unless you're pushing up against the next launch - which would be unusual.
Yes, there are windows for some satellites. But I think they are roughly daily with these.
Apparently, the elite also own all the newline characters.
Pica FTW!
Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/...
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."
Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning
Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.
"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."
"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."
Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Is the USA in need of a tunnel to Denmark?
As a matter of fact, yes. Specifically, to the Greenland region.
Although a golden bridge of grossly outsized proportions and festooned with tacky ornamentation would be much preferred.
Notepad, which is a tech demo for some controls written by Microsoft
Apparently, its current purpose is a demo for their "Copilot" AI technology.
Dude. I'm so old I have actually used a VT100. I actually used a teletype for a few minutes for the heck of it. No punch cards, though.
I'm pretty clear on what a terminal emulator is. I've probably used one more days than not over my more than half century.
My point was: **We're totally ditching github!!** - and yet their website still links only to source on github.
With all of GitHub's great new AI features, it writes all your code for you! It doesn't matter whether the site is up at any given moment; just download your newly completed app at some point then the site is online. You're free to kick back, relax and scroll your social feeds because you don't actually have to do anything anymore. This is truly a golden era!
Huh. What's Ghostly?
* Click link -> https://ghostty.org/
* Clcik docs -> https://ghostty.org/docs
* Top right corner [ GitHub -> ] -> https://github.com/ghostty-org...
Nope.
...like "Tell me about Tiananmen Square" or "Tell me about Xinjiang".
Is this what you want for the future?
My thoughts back when R1 came out:
This is why NASA always packs a tin of Bondo with the mission supplies.
Formal verification mathematically proves code implements a specification. It does not catch bugs that are specified.
There are entire classes of bugs (logic bugs) that LLMs can find that formal verification literally doesn't even try to.
So you prompt the LLM to "find all the bugs".
Even if the LLM can find every last bug (which in turn assumes that this type of problem isn't NP-hard or has some issue that Godel would point out), just defining to the LLM exactly what a "bug" is seems to be pretty much the same thing as those formal specifications that you just convincingly dismissed as inadequate.
I don't think that there's anything magical about LLMs that would let them get around fundamental mathematical roadblocks.
"The pyramid is opening!" "Which one?" "The one with the ever-widening hole in it!" -- The Firesign Theatre