Comments by "k98killer" (@k98killer) on "The Lunduke Journal" channel.

  1. The final solution to the "The Undefined Behavior Question" Question was to terminate the membership. Lovely.
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  2. You fork what you love, not what you hate. I would never stick my code in something I hate, that's for sure.
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  3. If the IA hackers were just script kiddies, one could make sense of the situation by positing that they lazily contrived a random explanation to justify their chaotic neutral alignment. (For background, I was in an IRC chat with the script kiddies who perpetrated the BART hack while it was going down. I observed as they debated what to say to journalists and what to do with the personal user data they had exfiltrated. I argued that they shouldn't dox the users of BART since it made no sense given their alleged gripes against BART for victimizing their passengers, and they had agreed not to by the time I logged off. In the morning, they had doxxed everyone with the same lame excuse for their actions. Chaos is not rational.)
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  4. Professional geoguessers are cooked. Once again, the AI took er jerbs.
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  5. Zig is the language of the future
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  6. Sleeper agents activated over the weekend. It might be that the Godot Foundation is unable to regain control of the project.
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  7. Criminalizing drawings, however disturbing or disgusting they may be, does not make any sense if the purpose of the law is to minimize harm rather than to cause harm. There is no way in which somebody drawing something fictional causes any harm to a child. The criminalization of drawings is based in emotion and not reason.
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  8. This is the era of the Code of Conduct Committees, or CoCCs, and they crow loudly.
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  9. There is obviously no "genocide" against trans people. That phrase doesn't make any sense -- trans people are not an ethnicity or race, and there is no attempt to purge them from the land. That verbiage applies to Israel's war in Gaza and Trump's explicit plan to ethnically cleanse the region, but it does not apply to trans people in the US.
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  10. If they made a meager 2% yield on their assets, they could host Wikipedia in perpetuity with some leftover for side projects.
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  11. Based
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  12. This is why good governance involves balancing interests against each other to check their power. If they had split the board into a bicameral body with one group elected by ordinary contributors and the other group appointed by big corporate donors, they could probably have avoided this spiral into madness.
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  13. The bit about the concept of "being kind" somehow being "transphobic" sounds like weirdo fascism to me. Heil they/themler.
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  14. No mention of TempleOS, the OS of God Almighty? The only OS that lets you speak with the Divine? How absurd.
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  15. Nb4 Zig replaces Crablang.
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  16. Last year, I developed a simple genetic algorithm library in pure Python called bluegenes largely as an exercise. I then spent a couple of days translating it to Go and got a 100x increase in performance. I then did some Go-specific memory optimization and got a further 100x increase in performance. It blew my mind.
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  17. I interviewed with Walmart a few years ago as a software engineer for a security team support role (i.e. a tool maker). I noticed that about a quarter of the people working there were H-1B workers from India. The Americans there mentioned that they were proliferating somewhat quickly but held their tongues on whether or not they thought it was a good thing -- I could tell that they had mixed sentiments, but they did not express them verbally.
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  18. Tbh it would be funny if the Lunduke discussion forum was temporarily locked down with the message "Read only mode due to Mozilla's overdue hosting payments".
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  19. Gender is not biologically determined. Sex is biologically determined. Gender is a linguistic construct. There are no pronouns in nature.
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  20. "Keep Lunduke's name out your f***ing mouth!" * LGBTQIA2S+ ally uses Clapback * * It's not very effective *
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  21. But you can still trade USA tokens for a Lamborghini, right?
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  22. Sounds like Xananax found his position in the circular firing squad, and another he/him holding a rifle saw he/him as a target.
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  23. Someone needs to ensure that the brainrot team at Apple gets to experience a "trusted driving module" installation in their vehicles that prevents them from driving non-notarized routes, aka side-navigating, because doing so is a threat.
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  24. BDFL founder seems like the best strategy at the moment.
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  25. To be fair, while there are only two normal sexes within apes (like us humans), there are intersex phenotypes caused by chimerism, genetic anomaly, and/or the ongoing shortening of the Y chromosome and degradation of the SRY genes. And with gender, since gender is a linguistic concept that maps to social categories, there are at least four: male (he), female (she), neuter (it), and unspecified (they).
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  26. In Estonia, they use asymmetric cryptography and smart cards for electronic voting and interacting with digitized government services. They have public healthcare, secure elections, all the same government stuff we have here but without the bureaucracy, a balanced budget, and a top marginal tax rate of 20%. Competence is possible, but we need a cultural movement to get there.
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  27. Math is racist. That's why it's always some skinny white guy in a trailer doing it and not sleeping for several days while getting increasingly paranoid about the lizard people living in the wallpaper cracks.
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  28. I tried some of these names. It was able to say "David Mayer", but it stroked out with the other ones.
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  29. The example of fiction in which AI turned out well for everyone is the Jetsons. That being said, trying to prognosticate on the outcome of a technology by surveying literal fiction is an unscientific methodology. Anyone can write a fiction that tickles one's fears about any topic, and stories that involve struggle are more engaging than fictions in which there is no struggle -- if the fictional narrative involves nothing to be overcome, then there is no reason to read it. This incentive undermines entirely the notion that fiction can be used as a reliable, unbiased source of information about the future in reality.
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  30. Ngl, the italicized text in MacOS 9.2 is pretty egregious.
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  31. I think that the same can be said about the automobile and just about any other technology that was revolutionary when it was first created: all improvements post-revolution are incremental. It is just how it goes.
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  32. Not the first time I noticed something funky going on at the EFF, but this is quite sketchy.
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  33. Last comment I'll make is that I previously believed that pure Lua was faster and more efficient than pure Python based upon previous benchmark results. This was unexpected.
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  34. If I was going to fork Fire Fox, I would name it "Water Catdog"
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  35. If they can eliminate mistakes with this technology, it could be a decent cost-saving measure. The problem is that government agencies never want to shrink -- when they take advantage of some new efficiency, they just reallocate the resources to expand in other directions. AI should only be adopted for this if the cost savings are used to reduce the funding requirements of police forces or to improve training in police functions that are objectively more important than filing paperwork, e.g. de-escalation, situational awareness during rapid responses, life-saving medical actions, competent and apporpriate use of force, etc.
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  36. Maybe try fighting fire with fire: accuse them of being antisemitic for banning a Jewish man.
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  37. AI is just a tool. Using AI to file paperwork could very easily lead to a reduction in mistakes. The problem is not the tool; the problem is that the people who want to use the tool are generally not trusted by the public.
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  38. @JackeryThompson-lq8zk  do you suspect that a sufficient proportion of the population will be susceptible to this for it to be a major concern? Why?
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  39.  @JackeryThompson-lq8zk  So then the concern is abuse of process more than actual jury convictions. Got it.
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  40. @JackeryThompson-lq8zk  I recommend watching the Rittenhouse trial footage sometime. It will be an informative counterpoint to your bleak perspective.
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  41.  @JackeryThompson-lq8zk  Yep. Prosecutors pulled a ton of shenanigans, and the jury eventually acquitted Rittenhouse of all charges despite not being privy to the judge's admonitions of the prosecution for their behavior.
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  42.  @JackeryThompson-lq8zk  Tragic case, but tragedy is the nature of human existence. Are you concerned that an AI will extract false confessions out of teenagers at a higher rate than human interrogators?
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  43. Interpreter languages (and a few new compiled languages) make development and deployment faster. With C, you have to compile for every ISA you want to run on, and often there are platform-specific issues that take a lot of code to resolve and must be figured out at compile time. With Python, I can use a single code base, and the platform-specific things can be resolved in very few lines of code (really just file locations). Consider also how much hassle it is to develop mobile apps in their native platform languages, then compare that to using Dart and Flutter. It takes a significant amount of additional time to implement things in C than it does in newer languages at the expense of runtime performance, and I think every programmer knows that he/she is making a Faustian bargain. That being said, it would be nice for these newer languages to get some meaningful optimizations.
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  44. Technically, they can't stop you from posting if you wanted to set up your own RSS feed, but they can prevent it from showing up on their app. Edit: and if you host your RSS feed with their infrastructure, they can definitely take that down.
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  45. ​ @awsomebot1  Drawings of this sort are still technically illegal according to statutes in many jurisdictions, and there have been plenty of convictions. A particularly egregious case that comes to mind was a mentally handicapped man in Canada who bought something silicone to control his impulses privately so that he wouldn't ever cause harm to anyone. Like anything else the government does, the law often stands in opposition to its stated purpose.
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  46. "Rewiring the brain" is quite a stretch since anime girls do not exist and cannot be victimized, so it does not matter if someone somehow rewires their brain to be attracted to anime girls. It's a shoddy argument for using the organs of the state to victimize people with aberrant mental conditioning for the sake of sparing imaginary future victims -- you may as well prosecute pre-crime.
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  47.  @awsomebot1  yeah, Lunduke is not up to snuff on current US case law on this subject. I am unfamiliar with the laws in Finland, but my guess is that Lunduke probably isn't either.
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  48.  @Exeonz  ...and the lack of evidence that victims are inevitable. Maybe we should ban GTA because it's so violent, eh? Ban everything fictional because our feefees are hurt.
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  49. The H-1B program is not only bad for American workers, but it is also pretty predatory for the foreign workers. The employer basically has ultimate control over the lives of the employees because they can have their lives entirely uprooted if the employer does not continue filing the paperwork year after year; the employee cannot leave to take another job without returning to their home country; and if the employee wants a path to citizenship, only the employer can grant that, and only after many years of employment. It also has quotas that disproportionately favor Nordic countries for some reason, so it is not even remotely fair in any sense.
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  50.  @RustIsWinning  I haven't even attempted to use Zig yet. This is just wild speculation because Zig language development looks like it is heading in the direction of easy interoperability with Linux kernel C code faster than Rust (TM).
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