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by bitwize 6mo ago
"Snooping as usual, I see!"
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by bitwize 6mo ago
"For Miss Granger's ingenuity and resourcefulness, finding and patching a zero-day vulnerability in the router firmware... I award fifty points to Gryffindor."
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by bitwize 6mo ago
When I was in university we had the "Honor System"—no proctors, but you had to sign a statement on every exam and assignment that you did not cheat. And if you did cheat, one of your fellow students could report you to the Honor B
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Aren't camels a Perl thing?
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Android "Linux terminal" is still jank compared to termux + proot distro.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
For my game (custom engine) I had a way to stop the game clock from advancing, while the input and draw loop kept running. It would also put the game into the "pause" input state during which only the resume button would be active
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by bitwize 6mo ago
You were probably seeing an interlaced video mode, which flickered HAM or no HAM. The signature of HAM was there would be odd color barf at the edges of objects if the colors changed too quickly going left to right because of the hold-and-m
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Not if it's s-expression-based! (laughs in smug lisp weenie)
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by bitwize 6mo ago
The next step, I think, will be a "cash for clunkers" program to permit people to trade in old computer hardware to the government—especially since operating systems that do not collect KYC data on their users will soon be illegal
580.
by bitwize 6mo ago
Cloud can pay more for RAM until all the RAM producers withdraw from the consumer market, then prices will go back down. End users will still get access to RAM. The cloud terminal they purchase from Apple, Google, Samsung, or HP will have a
581.
by bitwize 6mo ago
The fact that with AI development, your brain is no longer in a tight feedback loop with the codebase, leading to a significant drift between your model and reality, is still a sticking point with me and agentic development. It feels like t
582.
by bitwize 6mo ago
Intelligence for HN posters is like boobs for strippers: everyone knows that bigger is better when it comes to the attention they seek, so if they are lacking, or feel inadequate in that department, they seek augmentation which anyone can t
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by bitwize 6mo ago
> It’s not nostalgia. It’s something else: the distance left by an idea that no longer holds. sniff sniff... sniiiiiffffff... Yes, I can definitely smell AI. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbw5KX9TaXY I never experience
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by bitwize 6mo ago
"Passive income" as your only financial salvation is one of those memes that broke off from the MLM "tool scam" industry, that is, selling courses, seminars, and other training materials to people in MLMs on the pretext
585.
by bitwize 6mo ago
I think I found the leaked Claude Mythos version of the turtle benchmark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l82XWTKLZuk
586.
by bitwize 6mo ago
My first guess would be a MrBeast style stunt, in which (it is hoped) blowing a huge wad on something obviously stupid will attract enough attention and interest to be convertible into a net-positive ROI.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
I wasn't referring to place names that sound like dirty words (as Couch St. sounds like "Cooch"); an uncountable number of Gropecunt Lanes in England would certainly qualify. I was rather referring to place names with counter
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Or Chartres ("Charters") or Melpomene (/ˈmɛl.pə.ˌmiːn/), I get it. My wife has corrected me on quite possibly each and every one of the streets with a locally specific pronunciation. Ooh, thought of another good place na
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Local pronunciations of place names are often different from what's expected, and whether intended to be such or not, are often used as shibboleths to distinguish locals from outsiders. The examples of Couch Street (/ˈkutʃ/)
590.
by bitwize 6mo ago
Thought this was gonna be about CARDIAC, lol. Emacs, and technologies built on it, such as org-mode, come somewhat close to ideas expressed here by having plain text in a buffer be the unifying data format. You can organize stuff by just mo
591.
by bitwize 6mo ago
Y'all on Android should be using Unexpected Keyboard, where it's Compose - - -.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
I know I did. I don't want eloquent punctuation to fall exclusively to the clankers.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
I remember some of the malarkey done with the X11 SHAPE extension. There was a program called xmascot. You could give it an xpm of a character or use one of the presets—typically a cute animal of some sort or a chibi anime waifu. It would s
594.
by bitwize 6mo ago
That's clearly a human's job. The AI's job is to do the programming.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Hence "assault weapons" which are not a particular type of gun but a list of scary characteristics associated with military weapons—bayonet lugs, folding stocks, and the like—used by legislators to FUD their way into being seen as
596.
by bitwize 6mo ago
That's coming. The death knell is sounding for general purpose computing in the developed world. And nothing can be done about it.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
I've never seen kabuki live, but it looks fun as balls to attend in person. People shout and cheer at their favorite actors and characters, Rocky Horror style. I also perceive a cultural throughline from kabuki to the flashy costumes,
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Nothing much to tell. About 10 years ago on another job, I wanted more context in what I was building, so I suggested shadowing a user so I could see what they actually did, what value the software provided, and where the pain points were.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
The difference is that fibre is infrastructure, LLMs are an application. Who knows, maybe they will pass and leave behind that server infra, and that's where our digital consciousnesses will live once our bodies die.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
It was called Suigetsu

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