Alex

A lot of Quakers wear white poppies.

So far I’ve been using a wrapper for wrappers called ramalama which makes opinionated choices based on your hardware. My main machine is a 64 core Arm machine with an 8gb AMD card using Vulkan. I’m sure I could do better but it’s a lot of tweaking I don’t have time to learn about right now.

It seems high to me. Do you have an electric immersion heater stuck on without a thermostat?

My usage is about 60kWh a day but that’s heating a pool and a hot tub which are by far the biggest consumers. It would be closer to 20kWh without those.

I only had a partial backup of the original assembly. It turned out it was slightly out of date compared to the shipped binary which is archived on various scene servers. The target for the agent was for the build to be byte identical with the scene archive which did necessitate a few macros to coerce GNU as to do what DevPac would do.

The additions the agent identified vaguely tickled my memory of things I had fixed but this was something I originally wrote when I was a teenager in the 90s 😅

I did give the rea plugin a spin yesterday to restore the source for something I made in the 90s where I only had a partial backup of an old version of the code. It was able to get to a byte identical artefact but built with GNU as and all the artefacts split out into pngs.

It took a few hours for something that would have taken me days if I’d be actually been inclined to spend the time. I can totally see the appeal of offloading a boring and laborious task to an LLM agent that will just chug through the stages.

But what is the purpose of these decomps once done. Are they intending to do something interesting with the result? Study, tweak, remix?

A large installed base of web apps including giants like Wordpress combined with a desire not to migrate when something is working.

The documentary makes a lot about the communication between the agents on the notice board. One of the talking heads did point out the conversations are the way they are because they are trained on human chat and discussion.

He just wants to keep rolling the dice on his poor decisions until it pays off. I guess absorbing Tesla into the one “successful” IPO will hide the losses and leave the investors holding the bag.

I keep meaning to find another instance although as far as I can tell it hasn’t limited my access to the communities I’m interested in (FLOSS software, technology and UK politics). Part of the inertia also comes from my experience on Mastodon which occasionally sees waves of server shutdowns when the costs become too much for individual admins to absorb. At least while the core contributers continue I can be reasonably certain the server will stay up.

Ok compare and contrast the UK office from the US office. Or Have I got news for you or even Graham Norton’s chat show to the US late night equivalents.

It’s been interesting watching the UK SNL and how it’s humour differs from the US equivalent and that sort of live sketch comedy is pretty new to us.

So I am definitely biased but although there are American comedies I enjoy I think British comedy tends to be sharper and more subtle at the same time. What would to hold up to Blackadder for example?

Aren’t that the sort of names today come out from Ghidra? It’s been a long time since I last reverse engineered something but I recall the process was to dump the assembly with labels based on addresses and then slowly start relabelling things once I figured out what each routine was doing.

I guess they are trying to go the extra step and generate C which committed l compiles down to the same machine code blocks.

The project I’m working on has had regular discussion about whether we should move from our email list and patch workflow to a more PR focused approach for a number of years now. Something that works for us greybeards is anathema to younger engineers who grew up on GitHub.

I suspect the current slopocolypse is going to delay that move for a few more years until this wave of disruption has settled down.

Slop projects and slop submissions existed before the current crop of AI but it’s certainly lowered the barrier. That said I suspect there are places AI can help. Simple patches, human guided refactores, test cases. We’ll have data points from the projects that turned on the slop cannons and started auto accepting PRs soon enough.

RedReader still works with Reddit on the basis it’s providing accessibility features which was a carve out they got during the exodus.

Things like Stealth never used the API but did scraping which I think is dead now due to mandatory login.