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by bitwize 5mo ago
The scene has always been overrun with recreational substance use, dawg. Partake or not as suits your vibe and life goals, but get ready for it to be a prominent thing among others. "Influencer types" are new; social media has bee
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by bitwize 5mo ago
> General purpose commodity silicon with rapidly evolving software generally beats specialised hardware. All of the Amiga people are sighing right now, as they recall how their beautiful, elegant system synergistically designed with cust
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by bitwize 5mo ago
This is a nice demonstration of how AI enables people to build things that just wouldn't have existed before because the hassle was prohibitive. Negativity is still unwarranted here.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
On JIRA ticket discussion threads now involve the liaison for another team copypasta-ing LLM slop as a comment. Makes me feel like Will Hunting. What, is that it or do you have an original thought you'd like to contribute?
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by bitwize 5mo ago
It wouldn't surprise me to see some ML algorithm in silico somewhere to select faster matmul paths on favorable data. Yo dawg, I heard you like AI, so we put some AI in your AI so you can infer while you're inferring.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Great video for the month of "Mayframe"!
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Kumiko Yoshida should be brought before the war crimes tribunal or something. ClearType eyehurt is something that very much needs to stay in the past.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
My doctor makes me do one every year
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by bitwize 5mo ago
These days, in the USA, they're starting to give you an over-the-counter laxative rather than that nasty drink.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Just when you thought Juicero was the bottom of the silly valley barrel... a startup called Joi offers JOI by AI
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by bitwize 5mo ago
> Where does it show up in quarterly results? Standard answer is "companies that are not seeing significant gains from AI just aren't AI-ing hard enough, trust me bro".
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Generally speaking, if someone is not actively using/hacking software on a particular platform, support for that platform can fall in a hole. It's often not hard to add, however, if the code base is well written and keeps portabil
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Errbody seems to use AppImage anyway
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by bitwize 5mo ago
This is why I feel compelled to "um, ackshually" every time someone says "AI is a tool", because it's not used like one. A tool is an extension of you, it puts new capabilities within reach of your will but you move
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by bitwize 5mo ago
When the CIA representative says "I can neither confirm nor deny" it generally means the atrocities of which the agency has been accused did, in fact, take place.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
> I know it's "Evil AL", not "Evil AI" There's a TikTok going around with a guy telling us about how his daughter stumbled across a "Weird AI" online, which takes popular songs and makes them funny
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Rust is also the systems programming language of the future. They're pretty much doing everything right.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Apparently Sesame Workshop has approved of this nomenclature.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
SDL retains everything you've drawn to the screen in backing store. You need to do an SDL_Flip (1.2) or SDL_RenderPresent/SDL_UpdateWindowSurface (2.0) to commit what's in the back buffer to the screen.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
> If it works out, they plan to name it after another muppet, but Short wouldn't say which one. Solenostomus mahnamahna when?
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by bitwize 5mo ago
I was 4 when computing entered my life. My father was exploring some engine design ideas and used a succession of devices, each more powerful than the last but all proving futile. First it was a scientific calculator, then a programmable sc
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by bitwize 5mo ago
I still remember getting that Pentium as a graduation present, and my room was suffused with the "new computer smell" for a day or two afterward. Ah, glorious.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Historically these weren't "edge cases"; all windowed environments sent a "redraw yourself" event to a window when it needed to be shown after having been covered up, that was handled specially by the application. I
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Left arrow was replaced by _, which (in Squeak anyway) is actually an assignment operator, with := as an alias. Some computers going into the 80s, for example the Commodore 8-bit line starting with the PET and going through the Commodore 12
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Well, I'm sorry for not employing a Hackernews-approved data-driven, spaced-repetition learning technique utilizing Pomodoro, Zettelkasten, and balanced gut bacteria to optimize the time to proficiency. I was frickin' 18 when I di
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Enjoy your HP laptop subscription, it's all the computer you're going to get moving forward.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Atari 8-bits had a cut-down version of ALGOL called Action! which is now open source: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/217770-action-source-code/...
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Microsoft itself popularized BASIC on microcomputers with its 8080 BASIC, starting on the Altair and ported to everything with A, B, C, D, E, H, and L registers since. Before then, however, BASIC was already popular on minicomputers as bo
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Oh, kinda like how I learned Emacs: use it "wrong" for years, treating it as a sort of weird archaic Notepad++, then gradually discover features, master the keybindings, and learn to program Emacs Lisp over time until my proficien
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by bitwize 5mo ago
In terms of modern concurrent actors, in addition to Spritely Goblins there is also Termite, a restricted Scheme with Erlang-like concurrency semantics that now comes with the Gambit distribution.

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