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Torvalds had spent 18 months running a broken version of his own fix for the page-cache reference-counting bottleneck, while other developers had encountered problems with their approaches.

The article mentions he had been working on solving the issue for 18 months already… so at least that long.

Is it an understanding failure, an unexpected interaction, or just an existing issue now exposed? A 23x performance increase could very well expose an existing race condition that systems weren’t fast enough to run into.

People make mistakes. Software bugs existing at all is proof of this. This is certainly not the first time a change Torvalds approved has an issue, and it won’t be the last.

There’s a reason code is reviewed, and there’s a reason people still go through after it is approved and verify. The process is working exactly as designed, the way it has for decades before AI coding.

Expecting absolute perfection is ridiculous, the anti-AI circlejerk acting like only AI fucks up just makes them look ridiculous. Any developer could have developed this fix, and there would be no article. Nothing in this issue is specific to AI usage and treating it like it is somehow special just undermines arguments against AI slop and vibe coding in general.

That requires the person to know what they’re doing, and using the AI as the tool it is. That’s a proper use of generative AI in coding, to speed up a human-driven process with oversight.

That’s not what AI slop is, AI slop is what vibe coders do. They don’t know how any of the shit actually works, they just tell the AI to do something, and modify prompting until it gives them something that works. They can’t fix the issues because they don’t know what was done in the first place.

The problem is that both use types look identical to anyone not directly involved in the project. Things like Claude don’t tell you whether it was used by a vibe coder or a responsible developer, it looks exactly the same.

This certainly seems like Steam already had a bug open for startup performance, but it was always a lower priority than other things (because it wasn’t a breaking issue, and startup was still generally fine) so it was just never addressed. It may even have had a partial fix that hadn’t been shipped yet, waiting for another pass at it.

Once Epic tried to use that as an attack, they just fixed it as the low hanging fruit it was.

Even then, some municipalities in California (and a handful of other States and DC) specifically allow non-citizens to vote in local elections.

Even ignoring the insecure drive…

While being a US Citizen is a requirement for National and State level elections, it is not a requirement for some local elections. The District of Columbia and certain municipalities in California, Maryland, and Vermont allow non-citizens to vote in some or all local elections.

So some non-citizens being registered in California isn’t unexpected, and is completely legal.

You say this, but I can tell you that there are real people that follow that line of thought. Not a lot in the grand scheme, but they can vote just like anyone else. And that type of reasoning permeates everything they do.

And the paint, don’t forget the leaded paint. And the ceramic tile. And cosmetics. And costume jewelry. And pipes/plumbing. And pottery. And older vinyl, like blinds. And almost all older strained glass uses lead to hold the panels together. And even older plastics often contained lead to soften the material, and we all know how badly old plastic often deteriorates.

There’s a shit ton of lead in products made before the turn of the century.

The Boomers grew up with EVERYTHING having lead in it, including the air thanks to leaded gasoline. Prolonged lead poisoning is almost surely a factor there.

There are of course exceptions since there’s over a dozen Android manufacturers trying to differentiate themselves. But the default Android behavior used by most of them was changed to match Apple back in 2021 with Android 12.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/05/19/long-pressing-the-power-button-will-activate-google-assistant-in-android-12/

That is necessary for the Rapture they so clearly want to happen.

For the likes of Donnie and his donors, it makes the military industrial complex a lot of money.

Ah yes, the sophistication of Cat Fudge.

There’s zero benefit, and neither existed before 9/11

And nothing they do now would have stopped 9/11.

So what are the chances she has an abortion in her past?

Everything any Republican talks about ends up being projection, why would this be an exception? They only ever talk about things they have direct experience with. The most vocal anti-gay ones are the most closeted. The anti-drag ones are the ones cross-dressing at home.

Pretty sure that’s copying a change Apple made first, turning the power button into an assistant button. Because adding another button for that, is obviously out of the question.

They also don’t have to do any product development on the design team, they can outsource all of that to the tech team instead.

The Internet is a net positive.

Social Media is a net negative. A scourge on humanity.

The entire right wing press system has had that type for decades. Just look at basically every woman they put in front of a camera at Fox News.

Similar position… Definitely accurate from my experience as well. There’s a couple that clearly know, but a lot that don’t even though they are deep in tech fields.

Sometimes the brain just needs a big button. Other times the button is confusing even though it says exactly what it does.