I agree that LLM are made to be more exploratory, this is good as it allows them to experiment with more different topic, as opposed to always saying the same. However, I do not agree it is a feature for code generation, as you would need it to follow strict ruleset (code syntax, specification, tests). Whatever errors it generates and people accept are little mistakes in the threshold of acceptance for the person and a tradeoff for the cost of fixing the problem. In some contexts we see people focusing almost only on short term which leads to a lot of errors being allowed.

Moreover, you cannot say compilers are deterministic. There are situations where they are not (at least for the user).

https://krystalgamer.github.io/high-level-game-patches/

GCC's unwarranted behaviour

In order to keep the code as small as possible I was compiling the code with -Os. Everything was working fine until I started to remove some printfs and started to get some crashes. Moving function calls around also seemed to randomly fix the problem, this was an indication that somehow memory/stack corruption was happening. After a lot of testing, I figured out that if -O2/-O3/-Os were used then the problem would appear. The issue was caused by Interprocedural analysis or IPA. One of its functions is to determine whether registers are polluted across function calls and if not then re-use them.

a relative time formatting library that contains no code

The library is two text files (code) that are processed by an LLM (interpreter) to generate code of another type. This is not that new in terms of workflow.

I think what makes this the worst is the fact that the author admits that you can't be sure the library will work until you generate the code and test it. Even then you cannot guarantee the security of the generated code and as you do not understand the code you also cannot give support or patch it.

When Performance Matters

If performance of a datetime processor is not relevant, what is? The author mentions they would like a browser implementation to be fast, documentable, fixable. However, operative systems, browsers, and other complex systems are made of little utilities like this that have very well documented functionalities and side effects.

But the above isn’t fully baked. Our models will get better, our agents more capable.

The whole assumption is that instead of creating a good stable base that anyone can use we should be just shtting out code until it works.

Eventually the hardware will be good enough to support a shitty bloated browser so we don't need to optimize it.

Eventually people will harden their PC enough so we shouldn't care about security.

Low effort pizza is the best dish.

News Flash: Drinking poison may affect lifespan.

We need to raise awareness because most people do not even know what is on the table. I have seen many reactions to Australia ban on social media and most people show support for it without considering the catch of 'how do you implement this?'

Crucially, the document reveals that EU governments see metadata – specifically traffic and location history – as the most vital tool for law enforcement.

Ah, yes. Store data at the risk of it being hacked or used by companies in order to protect the people from themselves.

The use is explicitly optional for EU citizens or third-country nationals. The physical travel document must still be carried when crossing the border.
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They always present it as optional, and then create a whole infrastructure around it that expects and forces you to have it.

EU needs to stop listening to the giant companies and focus on the clean tech they are always delaying.

I keep seeing people celebrating the victory without commenting the rest. It was a good victory indeed, but it is just the beginning. The party lost 8 seats relative to 2021 and Russia will keep trying to corrupt, sabotage, attack the country.

ELI15 Why are car companies in Europe so stuck with cars other than eletric? Shouldn't eletric have better margins and include State/European incentives? And it is also cheaper in the long run for the consumer.

Well, yeah. They have no way to enforce this on non-commercial forms of communication, like many open source projects. So the outcome will be that they will have an initial result of catching a lot of small criminals, but all real dangerous criminals will use anything else and continue business as usual. As a collateral damage everyone else will be less private and secure, as most people will not bother to switch to alternatives.

This graph is terrible for proving your point. Which browsers are ... ?

• building a new engine and/or rewritting old code; instead of just being another fork/reskin of browser xyz;
• still active, with expectations of continuing for the next few years; with funding from people and companies;
• doing rapid advances towards being a good enough replacement of Chrome, Firefox, Safari;

This graphs says nothing of that.

edit: autocorrect