barfiure

6 ms·

1.
by barfiure 7mo ago
The internet isn’t the same as it was when we were growing up, unfortunately. I miss the days of cruising DynamicHTML while playing on GameSpy but… yeah. It became an absolute clusterfuck and I’m not surprised they now want to enforce age r
2.
by barfiure 7mo ago
It’s a tough sell considering for many in the West the only idol of worship is money. And the Catholic Church has already rotted itself from the inside when it allowed the mentally unwell homosexuals to continuously abuse children and get a
3.
by barfiure 8mo ago
This person is confused. Trump was a well known pussy grabber for decades. Epstein was anything but a secret, it seems, given how many politicians and celebrities and moguls he rubbed elbows with. Jerry stopping by the island for a lemonade
4.
by barfiure 8mo ago
I imagine PIE chunks that you can kludge into other programs to Frankenstein implementations? Kind of like how mad max cars are made of bits and pieces bolted together
5.
by barfiure 8mo ago
Also I’m not sure if this is well known but Gemini has a nice quiz/test mode that you can use for learning. Ask it to quiz you on a subject and you can increase/decrease difficulty and keep going. I pair it up with textbooks as a
6.
by barfiure 8mo ago
Watch the PACE videos as well, they’re on YouTube and they also cover how to remove conformal coating and using different tools.
7.
by barfiure 8mo ago
Nope. Not good enough. Your approach won’t drive engagement. We need the same tired arguments across 1600 comments per thread.
8.
by barfiure 8mo ago
I’m a tad confused so maybe I’m not understanding the horror show. Tanenbaum explicitly mentions multiple times that the book is a subset of the code because it would be too long to print with the library. So he covers mostly the main areas
9.
by barfiure 8mo ago
I’m working through the third edition which I believe is also ACK based as far as I can tell. MINIX version 3.1.0?
10.
by barfiure 8mo ago
I’m still making my way through the MINIX book. Love it.
11.
by barfiure 8mo ago
Old enough is right. People forget the HN thread on the last day of Obama’s presidency and the bill he signed to expand the drone program. We should have given him another peace prize after that.
12.
by barfiure 8mo ago
In the coming months I suspect it’s highly likely that HN will fall. By which I mean, a good chunk of commentary (not just submissions, but upvotes too) will be decided and driven by LLM bots, and human interaction will be mixed until it’s
13.
by barfiure 8mo ago
Yeah… I’m not surprised. I stopped reading AT over a decade ago. Their “journalistic integrity” was suspicious even back then. The only surprising bit is hearing about them - I forgot they exist.