507 results for “david_chisnall”
RE: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/117438341700524123
I can’t help wondering if this is a deliberate attempt by someone in the FAA to get ‘AI’ banned for federal procurement. One plane full of legislators having a serious incident that can be directly blamed on ‘AI’ would do more to force a hard stop in ‘AI’ rollout in government than anything else I can think of.
Sikarugir Creator really brings the authentic Windows experience to macOS: every dialog box has 'Yes' and 'No' as the options, the order is completely random, and one of them is a destructive operation.
I just fixed a bug where someone had sent an LLM-generated fix. At first glance, the LLM fix was mostly right, except for a redundant atomic fence (LLMs seem to love __atomic_thread_fence in this codebase, no idea why).
But then I went to fix the bug. The problem was that a lock was initialised too late and so could end up being initialised twice. Ooops, locks are not meant to introduce concurrency problems!
And the LLM fix moved it earlier, so that's fine.
Except... there's another way that the object containing the lock might be reached via a global pointer and that didn't have any guards. I don't think it's possible to trigger the bug that way, but some of the future changes that I'd considered might introduce that as a path.
And there's no real reason for anyone to want the object without the initialised lock, so moving the initialisation to just before the point where any other thread might reach the object is a simple fix.
But that isn't what the LLM proposed. Instead, it fixed the immediate issue without any reference to the long-term impact and maintainability of the codebase.
My fix was a fairly simple change: one new line of code, four new lines of comment, and six deleted lines of code (so worth doing for code readability even if the bug hadn't been real). And even a change that small, if you accepted the LLM recommendation (three new lines of code, no new comments, and six deleted lines), would have made the code less maintainable and more subtly broken.
And that's why I refer to these things as Technical Debt as a Service.
If the only tool you have is a palm, every problem looks like a facepalm.
In other news that I missed:
Last year there was an #LLVM GSoC to add an ABI library! And it looks like pretty much the design that several of us proposed in a Cambridge LLVM social around 12 years ago but none of us had time to work on! Yay!
Wow, the bugginess of Dune Awakening is amazing. Finished the last (maybe? The story doesn’t conclude but the Internet suggests it’s the last?) story mission and I’m teleported back from Arrakeen to the main game map. Only the Ornithopter I used to fly to Arrakeen is gone. The one I had just collected everything I needed to build and had flown for the first time to start this quest.
When I search for this bug, I find a Steam thread reporting it from June. 2025. So it’s been a known bug for over a year and the developers still can’t be bothered to fix it.
Oh, and the most recent autosave was an hour ago, back before I started the long story mission. Apparently the work around is to hire someone else to fly you to the final bit of the mission. Ugh.
The game is full of things like this. Sometimes when you arrive at Arrakeen, you spawn below the floor and fall forever. There are a bunch of places you can fall through the map, including one that you will encounter every time that you try to go around the back of the cultist’s area.
If this were a game that had just been released, I might cut it some slack, but though the console port is new, all of these bugs appear to have been there since the start. They’ve had a year to fix them and just haven’t bothered.
Oh, and there’s no pause button, which is just rude. I guess it’s aimed mostly at multiplayer, but there’s just no attention to detail.
They also made a weird choice to base a load of plot elements on the awful prequel books. Casual Dune fans will know about Dune mostly from the films and so won’t know any of this nonsense. Almost everyone who read the books loathes the prequels. So the only people who will understand the context will hate it.
David Páramo prevé que México crezca apenas 1.8% en 2027. Durante el Congreso Querétaro Integra advirtió que el estado necesita garantizar agua, electricidad y seguridad para mantener su desarrollo industrial y atraer inversiones.
#DavidParamo #Queretaro #Economia #Inversiones
https://updateme.news/economia/david-paramo-preve-crecimiento-economico-de-apenas-1-8-para-2027/
David Bailey’s Week 5 dominance fueled historic Jets pass rush performance
The New York Jets picked up a much-needed win on Sunday afternoon in the rain at MetLife Stadium.…
#NFL #NewYorkJets #NewYork #NY #Jets #Football
https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/1026763/
David Bailey, Jets' 'flamethrower,' is the Defensive Rookie of the Year favorite after Sunday https://www.nfl.com/news/david-bailey-jets-flamethrower-is-the-defensive-rookie-of-the-year-favorite-after-sunday #NFL
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David “Dawg” Grisman Joins Billy Strings for Multiple Tunes including New Grisman Original “Billy of the Strings” https://jambands.com/news/2026/10/13/david-dawg-grisman-joins-billy-strings-for-multiple-tunes-including-new-grisman-original-billy-of-the-strings/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #music #jamband
DAVID THOMAS AND THE PEDESTRIANS
More Places Forever
1985 U.S. pressing
One of the strangest, bizarre, and charming #artrock records of the #80s .
David Thomas is better known as the vocalist and founder of one of the most distinctive and experimental rock bands ever, Pere Ubu.
On this (his third solo album), all the typical “rock” tools are gone, and they’re replaced by saxophones, oboes, bassoons, and tubas.
Thomas’ vocals are half sung/half spoken, and sound like they’re coming from some off-kilter dandy on an eccentric 18th century holiday.
It’s very #avantgarde and #theatrical , and sometimes wanders into completely absurd territory, but not in any off-putting way. It’s actually quite charming in all of its peculiarities & invention, which is better than CONvention any day of the week.
Highly recommended for those who appreciate imagination.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #records #vintage #retro #physicalmedia #analog #vinylcollection #art #music #artrock #1980s #80s
David Ortiz Predicts Dodgers’ Loss, Noting Los Angeles Is In ‘Deep Trouble’ https://www.rawchili.com/5122744/ #event_recap #LosAngelesDodgers #MajorLeagueBaseball #MilwaukeeBrewers #MLB #MLBLosAngelesDodgersVsMilwaukeeBrewers10/12/2026 #ShoheiOhtani #YoshinobuYamamoto
David Squires on … the endless growth of football vodcasts and banal digital banter
By David Squires
Our cartoonist looks at the battle for eyeball and earhole supremacy in the game’s rapidly changing media landscape
#Football #Sport #Podcasting #Digitalmedia #TheGuardian #DavidSquires
David Bednar’s free agency creates awkward dilemma for Pirates after Mason Montgomery breakout https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/828054/ #Baseball #MLB #pirates #Pittsburgh #PittsburghPirates #PittsburghPirates
David Ortiz Predicts Dodgers’ Loss, Noting Los Angeles Is In ‘Deep Trouble’ https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/828048/ #Baseball #Dodgers #event_recap #La #LADodgers #LADodgers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesDodgers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesDodgers #MajorLeagueBaseball #MilwaukeeBrewers #MLB #MLBLosAngelesDodgersVsMilwaukeeBrewers10/12/2026 #ShoheiOhtani #YoshinobuYamamoto
My latest #videogames #review: BURN WITH ME, a spooky little #roguelike #deckbuilder with great design sensibilities
David Pocock concerned senior Albanese adviser ‘vetted’ bipartisan AI letter that was sent to PM
By Krishani Dhanji and Josh Butler
Committee chair rejected criticism that letter was ‘pre-determined’ by the government
#AIartificialintelligence #AnthonyAlbanese #DavidPocock #Australianews #Australianpolitics #TheGuardian #KrishaniDhanji #JoshButler
David Bailey’s breakout was everything the Jets expected
The game ended a few minutes earlier and Aaron Glenn, after addressing his Jets players inside the home…
#NFL #NewYorkJets #NewYork #NY #Jets #DavidBailey #exclusive #Football #Sports #sportscolumnists #SportsPlus
https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/1025891/
David Bailey’s breakout was everything the Jets expected https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/1025891/ #DavidBailey #exclusive #Football #Jets #NewYork #NewYorkJets #NewYork #NewYorkJets #NFL #Sports #SportsColumnists #SportsPlus
David Oyelowo and Hayley Atwell made the best of bad weather conditions while shooting the "Treasure Island" miniseries.
David Garrett bei #WillkommenÖsterreich. Er ist und bleibt ein unangenehmer, eitler Fatzke.
New movie review! I watched THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (for the 6th time) and rated it ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (out of 4).
David Byrne Releases New Original From ‘Musk’ https://jambands.com/news/2026/10/12/david-byrne-releases-new-original-from-musk/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #music #jamband
David Gilbert exposes a troubling new tactic as far-right election groups target nursing homes with baseless voter fraud claims. With midterms approaching, organizations led by figures like Cleta Mitchell are recruiting supporters to question staff and sow distrust around vulnerable seniors in care facilities, a move that risks intimidating elderly voters and their caregivers while undermining faith in the process. This approach highlights how efforts to challenge legitimate participation can erode democratic norms and lead to disenfranchisement of those most in need of accessible voting. Safeguarding every citizen's rights, especially in assisted living, remains vital to a functioning system. Readers can explore the full article for more on this development. https://www.wired.com/story/republican-election-groups-are-now-targeting-nursing-homes/ #Elections #VotingRights #Democracy Great reporting by David Gilbert.
David Perron is still available, and the Canadiens suddenly have a compelling reason to call https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/684875/ #DavidPerron #FreeAgent #Hockey #IvanDemidov #KentHughes #KirbyDach #NHL #PierreLeBrun
King David Mowbray Launches Trail Network Amid Cape Town Redevelopment Threat
Source: Pexels. The trail will transform informal tracks into safe, landscaped pathways for walkers, runners and dog owners, with four route options catering to different abilities. The club hopes to complete most of the network within a…
https://pressportal.co.za/stream/story/abbcb4ba1f646258-20261014.html
#pressrelease #AfricaNewsroom #bizcommunity #publicrelations #africa #southafrica
Can David Bentley recreate THAT goal against Arsenal with a little help …
Made me smile! by graythegeek
#TottenhamHotspur #TottenhamHotspurFC #England #PremierLeague #EnglishPremierLeague #Football #tottenhamhotspur #TottenhamHotspurFootballClub
https://www.eucup.com/1797745/
