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Anthony Williams
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meetingcppBook of the Day: Beautiful C++ by J. Guy Davidson and Kate Gregory
https://meetingcpp.com/mcpp/books/book.php?hash=31cb5a25223ac4bf79b3ff7c57c65609989f9d81
#cplusplus
#cpp
https://meetingcpp.com/mcpp/books/book.php?hash=31cb5a25223ac4bf79b3ff7c57c65609989f9d81
#cplusplus
#cpp
Oto ŠťávaIt's been prophesized a long time ago. Chrome is current day's Internet Explorer. Sad.
https://denodell.com/blog/browsers-treat-big-sites-differently
Ana RodriguesIt's often uneasy for me to share my experiences as a woman in tech, but this job market has me worried for everyone stuck somewhere harmful. I admire everyone who takes on "women in tech" speaking gigs but I am also angry for them and us.
Daisy LeighUnlike the culture war bullshit playing out in US and UK courts, there is now a fairly solid legal precedent in Australia that sex can be changed according to the law and gender identity discrimination is recognised as such.
However the case establishing this precedent is “Giggle v Tickle” and I don’t know how I feel about that.
I'm excited to announce that the library my team is working on has been released as #opensource this week. It is a base level C++ library intended for use in Safety Critical software, including Automotive software, so complies woth AUTOSAR guidelines. It includes fixed-capacity containers without dynamic allocation, as well as backports of recent library features like span and mdspan. See https://github.com/woven-by-toyota/arene-base docs https://woven-by-toyota.github.io/arene-base/ #cplusplus #cpp #safetycritical
Koen Hufkens, PhDSteven Langbroek shredding AI
"... She is every piece of institutional knowledge your transformation just deleted, walking around in a fifty-five-year-old body. She came up through the apprenticeship you abolished: Ben, 1998, the USB stick. She is the pipeline. When she dies, the thing that produces people like her is already gone. You killed it three years ago. You will not be able to hire her replacement, because you broke the machine that makes her. ... "
Programming Still Sucks. — Writing
Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.
tante"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship. A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. We shot them. Nobody will remember."
Programming Still Sucks. — Writing
Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.
devsimsekResearchers just mathematically proved that AI can't recursively self-improve its way to superintelligence.
Not "we think it's unlikely." Not "it seems hard." Formally proved.
The model doesn't climb toward AGI — it slowly forgets what reality looks like. They call it model collapse. The math calls it inevitable.
I wrote about it 👇
https://smsk.dev/2026/04/26/ai-cannot-self-improve-and-math-behind-proves-it/
AI Cannot Self Improve and Math behind PROVES IT! - devsimsek's Blog
A new arXiv paper formally proves that recursive self-improvement in LLMs is mathematically impossible - the mechanism everyone believed would lead to superintelligence is actually a one-way ticket to model collapse. Let's unpack it.