Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Marcus on AI
• Gary Marcus
It’s not even really trying to hide it
matklad
• Alex Kladov
One of the eternal schisms in programming is over the question of whether the standard library should be minimal or encompassing. This is the wrong question to ask. The right one is:
Marcus on AI
• Gary Marcus
How what one young man did might come to symbolize an entire era
Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling
The BOE TV070WXM-TV0 LCD used in the original Steam Deck can be had for around $30. It's a serviceable 7" touchscreen with 400 nits of brightness and a resolution of 1280x800 (for a sharp 216 ppi).
The specs are a lot nicer than the Pi 7" Touch Display, which costs twice as much, with giant bezels and half the resolution!
Until today, the Steam Deck LCD didn't work with a Raspberry Pi. But the folks at Scandent were trying to standardize on a mass-market touchscreen for one of their own devices, and built a Linux kernel driver for it which they intend to upstream.
John D. Cook
• John
I like AI-generated ASCII diagrams. Because nobody would ask AI to generate ASCII diagrams, and so, it’s congruous. I like incongruity [1]. Aside from the incongruity of using a gazillion-parameter neural network to make 1970’s style ASCII art, ASCII diagrams have some uses. They’re absolutely tiny compared to image files. But more importantly they can […]
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Andrew Nesbitt
• Andrew Nesbitt
refs/bugs, refs/notes, refs/heads/ticgit, or a directory full of YAML.
The Silicon Underground
• Dave Farquhar
On August 20, 1986, Adobe Systems held its initial public offering. Priced at around $11 per share, Adobe has split its stock six times since. Adobe: The sleeper tech stock of 1986 1986 was a good year for tech stocks.
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Why the post-scarcity utopia is unlikely.
Marcus on AI
• Gary Marcus
And panicking with good reason
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Just use the callable directly.
The post On wrapping a callable in a lambda that just calls it with the same parameters appeared first on The Old New Thing.
My hypothesis is that there is a new opportunity for Extensible Software on the web. LLMs radically lower the cost of authoring extensions, and modern sandbox primitives lower the deployment cost and provide good security boundaries. We can build our app as a solid, accountable core, and allow users to safely extend it in many directions by having LLMs fill in the missing pieces. We can give our users super powers.
— Jeremy Morrell, Extensible Software in the age of LLMs
Tags: sandboxing, llms, ai, generative-ai
TL;DR: if admins turn off browser features, those features won't work in confusing ways that are annoying to debug
Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
• Armin Ronacher
