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Seriously? The NSF?

Why would apple be subject to these guidelines?

Because they designed those guidelines for the best user experience.

The whole diophantine aspect of this seems contrived - where is the integer restriction coming from? Does that make the problem more tractable or more difficult?

Indeed, and to answer your question: more difficult

Unfortunately it has everything to do with politics because fixing it requires political action

Yeah, but if you’re a human that expects to live another 10-20 years, it’s strongly in your self interest to take action.

In that sense, it shouldn’t be political.


I think people use the word political to mean “partisan issue”

Well, the key thing is that many of them don't expect to live longer than 20 years, which means its strongly in their self interest to instead grab as much power, money and influence NOW no matter the cost.

It's not an understatement to say a lot of the ultra wealthy almost belong to a cult of nihilism either. We've ceded power to people who only care about things in the immediate future and the end result is disasterous.


if its not solvable via your own individual action then it's political

What is the age of the average politician?

Here in the US where I am, about 60 years old.

But even more worrying than their average age are things like the fact that a not-insignificant number of these people are literally Christian Zionist fanatics whose unwavering support for Israeli-involved conflict is fueled by their insane belief that this conflict will bring about the biblical return of Jesus and the Rapture.

Hard to get someone to care that climate change might make the Earth uninhabitable in a couple of decades when they believe they are helping to usher in the literal End Times in a couple of years.

Trump is an absolute disaster but he's ultimately just predictably transactional and driven by boring old garden variety greed. The shadow he casts now is in some ways obscuring the fact that even when he's gone, a lot of people with a lot of power in the US government are religious fundamentalist lunatics.


>uninhabitable in a couple of decades

This is hyperbole, the Earth will be habitable for a very long time no matter what humans do. Using fear like that is the type of thing that ultimately hurts your cause. For example people who grew up hearing about how the ice caps were going to melt by 2020 and that Los Angeles would be underwater become more skeptical when they grow up and see that none of those scary predictions came to pass.

If you want to be taken seriously it is probably a good idea to dial back the “end is nigh” language.

Also suggesting solutions like banning meat, forcing people to buy solar panels (like in California), or instating regressive taxes that hurt poor people the most (California just added yet another tax on gasoline) are just not going to work.

Normal people see WEF talks about eating bugs and banning meat and think your cause is insane and dangerous. Honestly, they are mostly correct.


It’s also an extremely useful political tool. You can convince people to do all kinds of things if you tell them that the world is ending.

I don't think they can legally prevent it

I don’t think this argument applies because AI workloads can be centralized

LLMs probably have bad awareness of line numbers

I suspect if OP highlighted line 71 and added it to chat and said fix the error, they’d get a much better response. I assume Cursor could create a tool to help it interpret line numbers, but that’s not how they expect you to use it really.

How is this better from just using a formal language again?

Who said it's better? It's a design choice. Someone can easily write an agent that takes instructions in any language you like.

The current batch of AI marketing.

That's the thing. We're expecting the tool to have a clear understanding of its own limitations by now and ask for better prompts (or say: I don't know, I can't etc). The fact it just does something wacky is not good at all to the consistency of these tools.

Not sure how tools like Cursor work under the hood, but this seems like an easy model context engineering problem to fix.

I do not code/program, but I do read thousands of fiction pages annually. LLMs (Perplexity, specifically) have been my lifetime favorite book club member — I can ask anything.

However, I can't just say "on page 123..." I've found it's better to either provide the quote, or describe the context, and then ask how it relates to [another concept]. Or I'll say "at the end of chapter 6, Bob does X, then why Y?" (perhaps this is similar to asking a coding LLM to fix a specific function instead of a specific line?).

My favorite examples of this have been sitting with living human authors and discussing their books — usually to jaw-dropped creators, particularly to Unknowns.

Works for non-fiction, too (of course). But for all those books you didn't read in HS English classes, you can somewhat recreate all that class discussion your teachers always attempted to foster — at your own discretion/direction.


CEOs are possibly the last person you should listen to on any given subject.

I'm just vibe-CEOing my new company. It's amazing how productive it is!

just wait til it starts virtue signalling and posting contrived anecdotes about b2b sales and the benefits of RTO on LinkedIn. the vibe-HR department is gonna have to rein things in fast!

So do we ignore the Github CEO or all the other ones?

How on earth would POSIX define performance of something like pipes?

I was addressing "it's all posix and given it's all in memory the performance will be more or less the same."

Not claiming that POSIX should or could attempt to address performance.


By using Big O notation, or deadlines like on RTOS APIs, as two possible examples on how to express performance on a standard.

Some standards do define performance requirements, e.g. operations on data structures, in BigO notation.

Trying to cross compile my own Linux distribution from scratch introduced me to a lot of these problems and my goodness it is an absolute mess

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