Max

Obsessed with computer science: databases, distributed systems.
🇺🇦 🇨🇦

[Max @3demax]

@rsnous > tries to add to calendar

I see you sir have been properly traumatized by the reliability of the modern software 😄

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@jonathoda @MaineFrameworks @struktoai Wait until they reinvent Plan9 from the first priciples

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@nickcammarata His job was to give us a dream and a direction, now it's our turn.

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@prathyvsh @DefenderOfBasic Hear me out: "Xerox effect"

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@robertskmiles Your advice would have worked for Plan9, but Berkeley sockets won and modern Linux doesn't make it easy.
Have you tried using a dedicated user yourself? Mind sharing your setup?

[River Marchand @Riyvir]

https://t.co/63dYWSOWBC

[Pliny the Belter @Plinythebelter]

@Dexerto People think communism would be free health care. But actually it would be more like having reddit moderators run your life.

[Max @3demax]

@NotNordgaren @jxwalker The question would be trickier if it would be `int arr[SIZE] = { 1 };`

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@raysan5 @_remblanc That's exactly what I love about it! Simple reproducible examples, simple docs. Please keep the spirit!

[Max @3demax]

@XorDev So you know the numbers, but do you *really know* them personally?

[Max @3demax]

Highest bidder economy in a nutshell. Pretending Ukraine can win the bidding war against the Russian economy is plain evil.

[Nother Alex Fergusson Fella (again; v3) 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇦 @nother_fella2]

Well… fuck. I’m no longer CEO of FAC Technology, the company I founded in April 2011. My mission was clear: keep our drones laser-focused on 🇺🇦; a proverbial hill I’d be ready to die on in any boardroom battle. Unfortunately, I lost, and now our latest drones are headed to India, not 🇺🇦.

FYI: I’m down but not out. Come hell or high water, I’ll do whatever I can to ensure 🇺🇦 gets the best nanocomposite drone technology to help them win this war and the peace that follows. I will do my best to help build the high-value composite and nanotechnology manufacturing and research jobs 🇺🇦 deserves.

I stand with Ukraine.

[Max @3demax]

@nicbarkeragain If it's part of a C library, bindings to such a function would be a headache.

[Victoria @victoriaslog]

Conversation with a little girl from Mariupol:

— Why are you sad?
— Because I lost my best friend.
— She stayed in Mariupol?
— Yes, and a bomb fell on her. She died.

Today, Russians are proudly celebrating the occupation, while the US administration is preparing to reward the bloody criminals responsible for the mass slaughter of children.

Never forget what Russia did to occupy Ukrainian cities!

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

Airbus A320’s primary fly-by-wire computers still use Motorola 68k CPUs.

Fresh off the assembly line in 2025; it’s the same hardware as the original Macintosh.

The *lack* of speculative execution, with a simple in-order core makes it than modern chips! Here's why.

[Kat Spartz ⏸️ 🔶 @KatSpartz]

The All-or-Nothing Pause Assumption: people assume that if we can't pause AI perfectly and forever, it's uselesss.

Do you see how silly this is?

Imagine we applied this to biological weapons treaties.

1. If even just one weaponized superebola virus escapes a secret lab, humanity gets sent back to the dark ages.
2. At least one government will eventually defect and mess up.
3. Therefore, we shouldn't bother with any biological weapons treaties. We should let any corporation work full speed on developing and selling biological weapons to whoever they want.

This is preposterous.

Yes, treaties are impossible to enforce 100%

Yes, in certain industries, one mess up can lead to global catastrophes.

No, that doesn't mean all treaties are therefore useless.

Biological weapons development has been slown down massively by treaties making it so that private companies can't make them and that any government who wishes to do so must break their own ethical codes and do so in secret, under threat of extreme international sanctions if discovered.

Can you imagine what would have happened in some alternate timeline where we didn't ban biological weapons?

Imagine the Bay Area developing all sorts of innovative new biological weapons and selling them on Amazon.

How long do you think humanity would have lasted?

We don't need a permanent and 100% effective AI pause for it to help humanity.

It will give safety researchers time to figure out how to build superintelligent AI safely.

It will give humanity time to figure out whether we want to create a new intelligent species, and if so, what values we would like to give them.

It will give us more time to live our terrible, wonderful, complicated monkey lives before the singularity changes everything.

So next time you see debates about pausing or slowing down AI, watch out for the All-or-Nothing Pause Assumption. Call it out when you see it.

Because something can be good without being perfect.

[Max @3demax]

@boney_robin @JoyceCarolOates MAID is strictly voluntary. You to read it all on the official Canada website https://t.co/bk5JOFDiDR

[TED Talks @TEDTalks]

Here’s how poker champion and science communicator @Liv_Boeree says we can ensure increased competition doesn’t derail the AI industry:

[Max @3demax]

@x_rxi This is great! How come it's not visible in your profile on soundcloud?

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@VillageKit Oh wow, that looks lovely!

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@NancyRPearcey As a person living through 90s to 20s in Ukraine, I can confirm that this was a general sentiment in the time you mentioned. However it was dramatically overturned starting 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea and was recognized as an enemy it has become.