bitwize

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by bitwize 5d ago
Well, it's literally the reason Omarchy exists so some people like it...
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by bitwize 5d ago
"Regime change" will have to be deeper than a switch of the usual parties—think what the DSA are proposing, a complete overhaul of the Constitution.
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by bitwize 5d ago
CRTs almost never show the entire frame at all . The phosphor decay on a typical television CRT is so rapid that by the time the beam hits the right-hand side of any given scanline, the left side is completely dark. And unfortunately that
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by bitwize 5d ago
Brand-new arcade CRTs are razor sharp, and certainly do not accept an RF signal (I don't think they accept composite either). With time the electron beam starts to diverge, and things can get a little blurry or color-fringey. What I&#x
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by bitwize 5d ago
CRTs are to video games what vinyl is to music and celluloid is to cinema. The flaws associated with the physical medium have become the defining aesthetic, such that a new medium which removes those flaws feels "sterile" and &q
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by bitwize 5d ago
The goal is "ticket in JIRA -> solution in production" without human intervention. Right now agentic frameworks are multiplying to bring us closer to that solution like JavaScript frameworks did ~10y ago. We still haven't
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by bitwize 5d ago
A correlation-causation link between AI use and these bugs has not been established. Until it has proven to come from the region of AI-pagne, it's just sparkling enshittification.
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by bitwize 5d ago
METR has admitted that that study was flawed, and when they tried to rerun it they hit a snag: nobody wants to not use AI to code anymore!
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by bitwize 5d ago
"Now let me read your mind... Ah, it seems you like Castlevania!"
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by bitwize 6d ago
"Hey, the beanstalks help you get to high places!" "There shouldn't be any goddamned high places!!!"
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by bitwize 6d ago
There used to be a meme on Slashdot: "In Soviet Russia, X Ys you!" It came from a joke by Russo-American comedian Yakov Smirnoff: "What a country! In LA, everybody is looking for a party; in Russia, the Party comes looking fo
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by bitwize 6d ago
Boy, it's a good thing IP as we know it is going the way of deodand laws! Otherwise the AI companies might be in real trouble!
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by bitwize 6d ago
> It was also very slow by contemporary standards. That 10 second camera wag before every fight gave them time to load assets etc., but it is very frustrating to watch every time. I used to call that the "Sony-mandated camera spin&q
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by bitwize 7d ago
"Deep fried" is the perfect analogy. LLMs have been trained on themselves so many times that their output is the linguistic equivalent of many rounds of JPEG compression.
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by bitwize 7d ago
That's 777 octal tho
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by bitwize 7d ago
I'm old enough to remember when IRC DCC fservs were a popular distribution channel.
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by bitwize 7d ago
I still refer to 1:37 pm (13:37) as "l33t o'clock" and 7:11 pm (19:11) as "Razor o'clock". They seem to come up remarkably often when I glance at the time, like 11:11 for normies, but I think all of these are s
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by bitwize 9d ago
so are you a time traveller from like, 2023 or something?
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by bitwize 9d ago
Programming? You mean that clever trick people do to make progress on a code base slowly while Claude is down?
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by bitwize 9d ago
"It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end."
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by bitwize 10d ago
> What about product vision? The taste, and the hundreds—if not thousands—of micro-decisions required to build something decent? That's what Steve Jobs brought to the table. Was Steve Jobs a software or hardware engineer? I would ar
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by bitwize 10d ago
Programming is like music in that the act of producing it is itself a medium for thought. Any but the lowest level languages are not just instructions for a computer, they're a formalism for abstract procedures rigorous enough to be ex
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by bitwize 10d ago
You're gonna have to learn to talk that LLM speak! Dabadooba, ba dabadooba! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egpWCC2svVo
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by bitwize 10d ago
It's lovely, but its flight physics model could use some updates. For example, there's no SkyMall, no Biscoff cookies, and no flight attendant (or on-screen video) giving a humorous, memeable explanation of the plane's rules
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by bitwize 10d ago
Says who? You? Because the Chinese have other ideas...
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by bitwize 10d ago
For some of us, writing code is a big part of how we think through a problem. It's like playing an instrument—or using a DAW—for a musician; the mundane mechanics, the part you dismiss as a mere means to an end, is the engine that gets
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by bitwize 10d ago
I don't like the guy, nor do I think of him as a role model, but he's not successful because he palled around with Epstein; he got the opportunity to pal around with Epstein because he was successful. And that success inspired o
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by bitwize 10d ago
> The lack of respect software developers have for their craft confounds me every day, to the point that I wonder if anyone in software actually writes code because they enjoy it, instead of making money. Pivoting from programming-braine
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by bitwize 11d ago
That's descended from its terminal escape-sequence optimizer, the bit of code that transforms one screen state into another screen state in the least number of terminal commands possible. (That display code was later updated to support
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by bitwize 11d ago
I can. I could've told you decades ago, that this was the late stage of not just Microsoft, but any software company whose bread and butter was vendor lock-in. Microsoft was just the worst at the time because they were the biggest. Eve

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