Aerolfos

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by Aerolfos 5mo ago
> It would hinge on whether DirectInput can talk to games that expect Xinput. As far as I know, nope. Some games also get really confused if you have Xinput and DirectInput devices plugged in at the same time - for me, Silksong (and unit
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by Aerolfos 5mo ago
Especially if you use auto-complete AI, ironically. You type a few characters, the line fills out in less than a second, as opposed to a reasoning model that takes maybe a second per 2-3 lines it writes out.
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by Aerolfos 5mo ago
Microsoft has made such a mess of controller I/O that they were kind of forced to go with their jank translation layer made from scratch and running with their main product - it makes sense, especially built up piece by piece Of course
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by Aerolfos 5mo ago
> Changing the default behavior for all of your users with no notification is pretty unforgivable. I noticed that as soon as you make a bug report/feature request on VSCode's repo, you instantly get someone's OpenClaw agen
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by Aerolfos 5mo ago
For those who want a more pop-science approach, this video (despite the clickbait) is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTvr8L5v8u8 I believe it references that article, too
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by Aerolfos 6mo ago
> I wonder if Asimov considered multivac to be an ancestor to his positronic robots, or if the two exist in different universes. I don't recall the two ever appearing in the same story. I can't remember if the machines in &quot
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by Aerolfos 6mo ago
How is that to the contrary at all? 20% and not 100% with a ton of people just not playing the game at all, presumably For counter-evidence, GOG exists after all, the platform would not be viable if everyone just wanted free stuff. The re
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by Aerolfos 6mo ago
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ We know perfectly well who they are.
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by Aerolfos 6mo ago
> I don't think it's worth discussing until we can be honest and admit that a lot of people pirate because they want free stuff. Every HN piracy conversation has a lot of words written to try to avoid admitting that "free
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by Aerolfos 6mo ago
Not only that, his whole business model seems to be "profit off the AI bubble and get the big techs to indirectly subsidize you" Which obviously works, it's not like there aren't tons of multi-million startups ultimately
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by Aerolfos 6mo ago
> "Those are related issues, but this ‘who said what’ bug is categorically distinct." Is it? It seems to me like the model has been poisoned by being trained on user chats, such that when it sees a pattern (model talking to use
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by Aerolfos 6mo ago
> This got me thinking: what if LLMs are used to do the opposite? To condense a long prompt into a short article? That takes more work but might make the outcome more enjoyable as it contains more information. You're fighting an uph
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by Aerolfos 7mo ago
Scrolling on my firefox is smooth... with javascript blocked.
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by Aerolfos 7mo ago
You'd think that meant "window" since they consistently call the windows editors, but I guess not
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by Aerolfos 7mo ago
> Yeah, pressing Ctrl-W accidentially is a pain sometimes ... but Ctrl-Shift-T in Firefox is a godsend. Fun fact: despite having absolutely no menu entry for it, and I believe not even a command available with Ctrl+Shift+P, Vscode suppor
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by Aerolfos 7mo ago
And they hired a LinkedIn business idiot to run the new organization - so the aim is for an infinite growth tech startup in terms of governance, despite the technical legal status of non-profit. It shows in the language they use in the anno
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by Aerolfos 7mo ago
It is a style that AI (intentionally?) emulates for sure, though the "regression to the mean" and general vagueness seems to be what really separates the classic TED talk/puffy blog from AI. Humans like specific examples and
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by Aerolfos 7mo ago
Hey, if AI is allowed to make vibe-judgements based on seeing a large corpus of data, why shouldn't humans :P
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by Aerolfos 7mo ago
> "This is a new form of social science. It is qualitative research at a massive scale, and we’re in the early stages of learning how to do it. Surveys and usage analysis tell us what people are doing with AI, but the open-ended int
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by Aerolfos 7mo ago
> Or maybe construction of the physical DCs is behind schedule, so today's Blackwells are sitting around unused, waiting for power and networking tomorrow. Then they're in a bit of trouble. Other reporting says this is very muc
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by Aerolfos 7mo ago
Really? Because what TeX did was make it possible to write "proper" books or formal texts via a computer - that was the whole point A 16th-century formal book like this would be the gold standard to replicate if you want to make
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by Aerolfos 7mo ago
> and 99 of them send him to the battlefield by himself, saying "good luck buddy, let us know how it works out?" >The army was going to be reduced by a factor of 100, and two tiny armies were going to face off while the majo
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by Aerolfos 8mo ago
It's useful if your integration work takes some time - easy to run into with open source. Imagine you have multiple contributors with multiple new features, and you want to do a big release with all of them. You sit down a weekend and
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by Aerolfos 8mo ago
The entire internet is being inundated by slop, and HN is no different
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by Aerolfos 8mo ago
If anything, considering this + limited satellite lifetime, it almost looks like a ploy to deal with the current issue of warehouses full of GPUs and the questions about overbuild with just the currently actively installed GPUs (which is a
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by Aerolfos 9mo ago
Good leadership means getting the individuals to care. That's no different in software And yes, good leadership is very hard, and many managers aren't any good at it
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by Aerolfos 9mo ago
> But also, it means more people need to have the "big picture", and they need to be able to make good decisions (not just arbitrary ones). So the ideal goal is to prevent people from going off in random nonsensical directions
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by Aerolfos 9mo ago
I don't pay attention to em dashes, they're overused as a pithy saying for sure The actually useful tips are here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
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by Aerolfos 9mo ago
Apart from being all AI-written: > Reality: It’s not fear; it’s math. If 30% of the workforce is displaced, and the remaining 70% have to pay for the social safety net (or UBI) required to keep the displaced alive, the math breaks. The a
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by Aerolfos 9mo ago
Eh if anyone is all in on AI and it replacing human writing it would be an AI company But then that means if you're a PR or communications person working at this startup (or at Meta?) your job is not secure and that your days there a

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