Tuesday, May 12
Daily News Stuff 12 May 2026
Stewed Mice Edition
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Top Story
- Digg is back - again - this time as an AI news aggregator. (Tech Crunch)
That is, the content is about AI, but it seems to be ranked by human readers.
I'm not sure why just AI - though that is a hot topic at the moment - but Digg was originally a news aggregator just like this.
Tech News
- Sales data from Korea indicates that SSD prices are up 63% and memory prices up 29%. (WCCFTech)
Compared with last month.
- The SINKER brand under the POWEV division within Jiahe Jinwei has announced it is shipping DDR5 modules for domestic, server, and industrial use. (WCCFTech)
Yes, it's a Chinese company. How could you tell?
- Who is the Palantir chore coat for, asks the Verge? (The Verge)
Well...
- The third season of The Rings of Power airs November 11. (The Verge)
I think there's some overlap there.
- Anthropic's bug-hunting Mythos AI is just a marketing stunt. (The Register)
Accoridng to the creator of the library and utility cURL, who knows a thing or two about AI bug hunting having been inundated with AI-generated bug reports for years.
- If AI writes your code, why use Python? (Medium)
Actually a very good question.
Python is a great programming language for humans to use, because it makes it easy to get something up and running - at the cost of becoming slow and burdensome for large systems.
But the same properties that make it easy for humans to write make it hard for AI models to reason about, and languages like Rust and Go that favour strict, static typing are easier for AI models to generate correctly and also compile to code that runs faster.
The remaining win for Python is its massive ecosystem with modules like Numpy and PyTorch for numerical processing and AI respectively, but if you don't need to use those directly, why not go straight to Rust?
- AMD looks like it's gearing up to release the Radeon RX 9050. (Notebook Check)
It's basically a slightly slower version of the 8GB 9060 XT, drawing slightly less power. The recommended power supply has dropped from 500W to 450W, so we may be seeing a card that draws 120W or less.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Sixty days of siege, outnumbered and weak... Oops, wrong battle.
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"why not go straight to Rust?"
At the risk of annoying Rust fans, my answer is "because every Rust dev I've run into sounds like they're trying to recruit me into a cult." It's not quite "Mongodb is web scale" but it's kind of creepy.
At the risk of annoying Rust fans, my answer is "because every Rust dev I've run into sounds like they're trying to recruit me into a cult." It's not quite "Mongodb is web scale" but it's kind of creepy.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, May 12 2026 10:42 PM (6Fjsh)
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My answer is that I am more interested in frankencode abominations, as long as I am not actually responsible for maintenance.
I have a wishlist of languages I want to study, and also I think I might learn some key lessons eventually if I write one or more modules in several different languages.
I don't know enough to understand what languages I actually want to use, and will not learn that for a while. Assuming that I don't find out that I want to quit having anything to do with programming languages.
Anyway, if you build a software ecosystem around the assumption that every system must have modules running on a super computer, the cloud, a smartphone, and an MCU, then you will have a mess and a headache no matter what languages that you select. Which means that I have a cool idea for a start up, I think there is money for 'hitting-myself-in-the-nuts-with-a-hammer-as-a-service'. People want to use their smartphones to do a bad job of getting a super computer to try to figure out how to configure their industrial controls.
I have a wishlist of languages I want to study, and also I think I might learn some key lessons eventually if I write one or more modules in several different languages.
I don't know enough to understand what languages I actually want to use, and will not learn that for a while. Assuming that I don't find out that I want to quit having anything to do with programming languages.
Anyway, if you build a software ecosystem around the assumption that every system must have modules running on a super computer, the cloud, a smartphone, and an MCU, then you will have a mess and a headache no matter what languages that you select. Which means that I have a cool idea for a start up, I think there is money for 'hitting-myself-in-the-nuts-with-a-hammer-as-a-service'. People want to use their smartphones to do a bad job of getting a super computer to try to figure out how to configure their industrial controls.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, May 13 2026 05:46 AM (s6adZ)
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"Which means that I have a cool idea for a start up, I think there is money for 'hitting-myself-in-the-nuts-with-a-hammer-as-a-service'."
I would like to subscribe to whatever the opposite of this is.
I would like to subscribe to whatever the opposite of this is.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, May 13 2026 05:56 AM (6Fjsh)
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OT:
I've been griping in the comments at Instapundit for years about how Glenn's cobs have a really really annoying habit of overusing certain phrases, and the one that possibly grinds my gears the most is Ed and Stephen's DONT GET COCKY, that they use all the time in election season, and every election season they start doing it earlier.
So today I installed Violentmonkey and let AI write me a "replace some text with other text" userscript, and now any time one of them puts DONT GET COCKY in a post, it gets replaced with "Ed is a drip". I may just change the replacement text to blanks or even changing the text color in Ed posts to white on white.
If that's wrong, I don't want to be right.
Thanks for letting me vent.
I've been griping in the comments at Instapundit for years about how Glenn's cobs have a really really annoying habit of overusing certain phrases, and the one that possibly grinds my gears the most is Ed and Stephen's DONT GET COCKY, that they use all the time in election season, and every election season they start doing it earlier.
So today I installed Violentmonkey and let AI write me a "replace some text with other text" userscript, and now any time one of them puts DONT GET COCKY in a post, it gets replaced with "Ed is a drip". I may just change the replacement text to blanks or even changing the text color in Ed posts to white on white.
If that's wrong, I don't want to be right.
Thanks for letting me vent.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, May 13 2026 05:59 AM (6Fjsh)
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"Ed is a drip."
Not to speak ill of the "lesserly mentally abled", but you're not wrong. But, I've always seen the "DON'T GET COCKY" as meaning: still keep fighting until the election is actually over and counted, and don't get complacent just because you're ahead in the polls. I guess I don't see it as a useless reminder.
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, May 13 2026 07:37 AM (LDKo5)
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If you drew a fishbone diagram of the causes for the current distress that the Democrats are experiencing, you would find somewhere that with Obama they thought they had a permanent victory, and could just have people automatically vote for them forever.
Politics now is also a problem of unknowns in who thinks that they can walk away without going to jail, and who is ride or die.
A mistake in a limited information game with this sort of freedom of action, is assuming that you have all the angles figured out in deterministic ways. Committing to perfect information plans in a non-chaotic environment causes failure in chaotic environments.
The Democrats are upset now, because they were cocky, because they were especially deluded into thinking that confidence creates success, and because they are very invested in the importance of their team sport.
There are things not wrong in "Don't get cocky" and it can still be rote words with no new useful content.
Politics now is also a problem of unknowns in who thinks that they can walk away without going to jail, and who is ride or die.
A mistake in a limited information game with this sort of freedom of action, is assuming that you have all the angles figured out in deterministic ways. Committing to perfect information plans in a non-chaotic environment causes failure in chaotic environments.
The Democrats are upset now, because they were cocky, because they were especially deluded into thinking that confidence creates success, and because they are very invested in the importance of their team sport.
There are things not wrong in "Don't get cocky" and it can still be rote words with no new useful content.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, May 13 2026 08:40 AM (s6adZ)
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"I guess I don't see it as a useless reminder."
What bothers me is when, between Ed and Stephen, they get to the point where they say it 6 times a day, which happens earlier and earlier every election season. Glenn used to fairly rarely say it as a caution, and the other two just endlessly spam it.
What bothers me is when, between Ed and Stephen, they get to the point where they say it 6 times a day, which happens earlier and earlier every election season. Glenn used to fairly rarely say it as a caution, and the other two just endlessly spam it.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, May 13 2026 11:47 PM (21d6y)
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