Columnists who presented Huang as the AI hype industry’s sanity backstop have reverse-ferreted into pontificating about systemic governance failures.

Yeah, remember the asshole who was gloating that "LLMs have slashed the time investment to near zero"? Finally found time to investigate the test regressions. Of course, they are *all* the results of the slop machine reinventing the test infrastructure for every test case separately, and all the new tests not respecting MEMCACHED_PORT.

https://github.com/lericson/pylibmc/issues/376

#NoAI #slop

RE: https://mastodon.social/@deech/117611881381601791

C programmers understand the truth: it's all just bytes.

@mavu they seem to have enough institutional investors lined up to launch in confidence

but ahh that paperword needs to be in order

El particular “Black Friday” de #Microsoft encara dura.

@AugierLe42e
C'est pratique ça ! En cas de violence policière, ils sont plus faciles à viser...
@Troupier @bakaniko

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@davidgerard is it that big a difference, given that AI and nonsense tech management come from the same culture? but: yes, it's a frustrating wait for the SuperFail.

So how do you allocate with only mechanism functions? Well that's where something I call a "page allocator" comes into play, and per Nic's video at the top, this can be a simple wrapper over `mmap` (in POSIX contexts). What does a page allocator do?

1. You ask it for an integer multiple of the system page size.
2. It is always a system call.
3. It uses mutexes or other mechanisms to be threadsafe.

This always works the same way: a bit slow, operating on a bulk scale. That isn't a bad thing, though! It means you can schedule your life around the predictable behavior, and you are incentivized to not use this thing a lot.

Once you get a region of memory from the OS, that's when you can use some sort of _special-purpose allocator_ and tell it "manage this range of bytes from start pointer to end pointer", and it will, with a specific algorithm. Your choice of algorithm.

trouble with both the Microsoft and FAA fuckups is that both are fully explicable by normal idiot management decision making around IT

so before we can state in an article/episode that either was caused more or less directly by the AI, and not standard pre-AI incompetence, we need more direct evidence

it's most frustrating

Greater Feast of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, died November 14, 1831 at Berlin, Prussia https://hermetic.com/hermeneuticon/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel #calendar #historic #OTD #OnThisDay

@TheBreadmonkey An American, a Russian and a Chinese man walk into a bar.

The Russian says: "Three shots of..."

The bartender is the quickest gun in the east.

Bang, bang, bang.

"Three shots. On the house," says the bartender.

@MaddieM4 One of the things that I discovered when digging into the internals of shader compilers is that they all (well, glslang and Mesa at least) use custom allocators because they have specific object lifecycles, so you really want the ability to slowly build up a complicated tangle of objects that all point to each other and then when you're done compiling just discard all of them in one go.

I fear what will come out once the focus shifts from Jensen Huang's affairs to Jensen Huang's business practices at Nvidia. AT this moment it is mostly hearsay and rumours, but latest in two quarters the numbers will be on the table. And numbers tells stories.

@spla @Caelumtangi l'altre dia vaig trobar un vídeo d'un noi que tenia un joc de Zelda de fa 20 anys i la pila 🪫 interna de "cartutxo" es va quedar seca. No permetent gravar.
Canvi de pila i a jugar Zelda.

Suposo que les maquinetes tenen una pila interna per no dependre d'una hora universal, no? (que després sincronitzen)

Si gestiones carregador en diferents zones horàries era un problema a considerar

@grishka Advent calendars won't sell themselves

@jwildeboer heh.

I used to have a very small web site. The hosting provider at the time provided not only the space for my handful of html files that made up my "site" but it also came with "your own mail server" so you could have yourname@yourowndomain.whatever email addresses. I'm SO long out of that game that I have no idea what goes on under the hood or whether it might be a good idea for the less tech savvy amongst us. What say you?

@ColinTheMathmo XD