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by andai 2mo ago
I forget where I read this (maybe PG's blog?) but I read some early 2000s startup had some kind of mechanical device that responded to website visitors, so everyone in the office could hear the traffic in realtime. I also heard stories
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I made my own binary visualizer when I was learning C. I had a for-loop which generated a texture by just setting the pixels based on the bytes in the file. I had two modes, monochrome (the bits) and grayscale (the bytes). Anyway funny thin
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by andai 2mo ago
It's funny I've even seen landing pages / product launches that violate this. Trending on HN: Blog post: Sneed now helps with your blargs Then I go to their homepage and it's like https://knowyourmeme.com&#x2F
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by andai 2mo ago
Just make the bond a % of the entity's revenue. Like that (apocryphal?) story about how Nokia CEO got speeding ticket of several million dollars in Finland, due to the ticket being a % of income. Although I suppose a fixed % would limi
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by andai 2mo ago
Well, I'd expect any person or organization in such a position, to be on the receiving end of the proverbial rubber hose, before too long.
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On the individual side of things, we see people that cross a red line getting all their cloud and social media accounts nuked on the same day. That's been the case for a long time.
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by andai 2mo ago
It's two, actually: https://minimal-agent.com/ This example has one, but if you add a second one around their example code, and take user input, and there's a basic harness already.
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by andai 2mo ago
You reminded me of this recent post, which I found very interesting: Why jet engines aren't made in China https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740971 That's a very interesting point of comparison though. I won
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by andai 2mo ago
A computer cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a decision. -IBM, 1979 (paraphrased)
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by andai 2mo ago
>I don’t know anymore whether the content was written by me or by an AI Seriously? If so, which model produces actually human sounding output?
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by andai 2mo ago
I find the Time per Task[0] metric more helpful, because models vary enormously in the tokens required to complete a task. On Time per Task, Gemini 3.7 Flash is Matched with GPT-5.6-Sol, as well as on price per task. GLM-5.3-Flash takes 7x
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Well they definitely nailed "neutral" — I kept scrolling, waiting for the font to show up!
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by andai 2mo ago
I've been very happy with Luna but my approach is "many bite sized edits" for which models basically hit saturation a year ago. (I also tried the "let a massive model make massive changes" approach and am still psyc
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by andai 2mo ago
Yeah, it's about, do you guide it, or does it guide you.
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What if there were some mistake and the progression went wrong, and something like an amoeba were given power like a human's? —AKIRA, 1988
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Re: the rube goldberg machine of diminishing returns https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/contextual-retrieval This is from two years ago, but I think it's still SotA?
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Father, I cannot scroll the website.
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by andai 2mo ago
Maiao is based on Gerrit What's a Gerrit? (Looks it up) Gerrit is based on Rietveld What's a Rietveld? (Looks it up) Rietvelt integrates with SVN https://xkcd.com/178/
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by andai 2mo ago
I heard all the RAM scheduled to be manufactured next year had already been sold out. Maybe that's a related phenomenon? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207236 e.g. Hetzner tripled prices recently. https:/
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by andai 2mo ago
> I thought Aaron’s credits would run out and that would be the end of it: he would finally get a job. Upon reading these words I experienced psychic damage from the blast of concentrated ambitionlessness.
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Does that mean that one screen pixel was multiple CRT pixels?
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Jonathan Blow – Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (2019) [video](youtube.com)
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Wasn't everyone making these arguments for the last 50 years with each wave of advances and convenience? "Real programmers use [current_tech - 1]." I mean, they were right, then, too. My meaning is that expertise already coll
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This is gonna sound a bit harsh, but from the outside it genuinely looks like Microsoft is actively looking for new ways to degrade and humiliate their users. (And having no trouble finding them!)
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My honest reaction: https://files.catbox.moe/4ylzsq.png
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by andai 2mo ago
Hmm, I wonder who could have predicted this. Maybe the corporations who pushed the laws? I have no info here, just thinking "what would I do if I was a wealthy corporation?" Dig a deeper moat!
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Kinda sounds like it would have been cheaper, more profitable, and less of a PITA for you (a European!) to sell in the US?
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by andai 2mo ago
This whole article is fantastic, but already at the start, the SQLite virtual tables thing is blowing my mind. https://www.sqlite.org/vtablist.html You can "mount" your filesystem (or anything else) as a SQL datab
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Why's it hard? I just tested it by applying 60ch width to TFA. It hardly changed, it was already not much wider than that. This website layout (tall brick surrounded by voids) was very popular in the 2000s.
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by andai 2mo ago
The article links to https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/the-myth-of-the-pixel-perfe... which confuses me, because I definitely remember pixels being visible when I was growing up. I remember the first time I go

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