bitwize

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by bitwize 6mo ago
> But even that is mostly imagination and fiction... although convincing others of that isn't necessairly an argument worth making. There was a Japanese visual novel in the 2000s about a girl who was your personal maid, and was so d
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Marcuse wrote in the 1960s that the only way to prevent another Hitler from rising is to give the left free rein and cage and muzzle the right. So by extension, anyone who supports rightists being able to spread their ideas freely, let alon
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Thought it was all the Rust catgirls.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
I recently spun up Gemma 4 26B-A4B on my local box and pointed OpenCode at it, and it did reasonably well! My machine is 8 years old, though I had the foresight to double the RAM to 32 GiB before the RAMpocalypse, and I can get a little bit
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Careful with that though. The guy whose entire job is to "take requirements from the customers and bring them to the engineers" really does get awful tetchy if the engineers start presuming to fill his role. Ask me how I know.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
I was like, I went from waiting for a cashier who's an absolute ninja with the scanning machine, to fumbling with my own groceries and fighting with GLaDOS about whether it was actually placed in the bag, or how much it weighs vs. how
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by bitwize 6mo ago
And that's why Peter Gibbons is clearly management material!
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by bitwize 6mo ago
This is why Apple gave Macs a command key in 1984. Control is for sending control cides; command is for issuing commands!
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by bitwize 6mo ago
I think that the best UI design language is somewhere between "flat" and "skeuomorphic". I want neither a UI with notes apps that have Moleskine leather and vellum paper textures, nor the Android 12-like vague shapes
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Is there any interest in 100% human-made malarkey like this still? I know the nonstop firehose of AI "art" has sharpened my interest in even the worst human-created art.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Have you seen the business models for these companies? Literal underpants gnome memes. OpenAI's goes like this: 1. Build AGI 2. Use said AGI to tell us how to become profitable 3. Profit! Anthropic seems to be going all in on enterpris
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by bitwize 6mo ago
The HLL-to-LLM switch is fundamentally different to the assembler-to-HLL switch. With HLLs, there is a transparent homomorphism between the input program and the instructions executed by the CPU. We exploit this property to write programs i
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by bitwize 6mo ago
As I recall MacOS system calls were done through invalid instructions which would cause the CPU to "trap" (raise an interrupt). Giving rise to the question Mac extension writers asked of each other: "How many traps did you pa
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Claude Mythos will take care of it
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Because contributions to Linux are meticulously attributed to, and remain property of, their authors, those authors bear ultimate responsibility. If Fred Foobar sends patches to the kernel that, as it turns out, contain copyrighted code, th
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Windows 12
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Good. The BSDs should follow suit. It is unreasonable to expect any developer not to use AI in 2026.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Mao Zedong was able to convince kids and teenagers to have their parents and teachers killed during the Cultural Revolution by convincing them that it was prosocial behavior, and indeed their duty. So the question is fraught with conundrums
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Under the DMCA, you can claim copyright over damn near anything and force a provider to take it down. If there is any ambiguity as to whether you are the owner of the allegedly copyrighted material, like for example legitimate fair use, the
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by bitwize 6mo ago
My wife and I have decided there is one thing that it's universally okay for us to spoil to one another in a book, movie, etc.: if the cat/dog survives till the end.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
"Announcing new and improved logics service! Your logic is now equipped to give directive as well as consultive service. If you want to do something and don't know how to do it—ask your logic!" https://en.wikipedia
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Agentic development allows one Claude, multiplexed a few times, to vastly improve its output and tackle much bigger problems than just prompting the one instance. If you had a million Claudes in layered networks like we do with matmuls to f
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by bitwize 6mo ago
No one is paying a liveable wage for purely human-authored code anymore. This is the job now, and you are far more effective with these tools than without. If you still have an issue with their output, that's a PEBKAC and you need to
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Most likely it's a protest. Badplace passed Badlaw, so residents of Badplace can't see my content, so nyah! But, topics of a sexual nature—nothing really NSFW, just mentions of various fetishes that online people have developed an
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by bitwize 6mo ago
I tried that too, I called it "agents". (This was long before AI-mania.) An agent was an object that handled some aspect of behavior (like gravity and collision physics) "on behalf of" some entity, hence the name. The wo
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by bitwize 6mo ago
When I learned about ECS, I realized that Tablizer (old Slashdot guy who insisted that OOP was a dead end and "table oriented programming" as was done in FoxPro was the way to go) was probably right. Using an ECS for my Android ga
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by bitwize 6mo ago
People who fight for individual rights kinda have a problem with Nazis. Big freaking surprise.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Something to add to your brain's STEERING.md file then.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
It means someone I know irl clocked my Hackernews account because how I write on here closely corresponds with how I actually speak. Which is—okay, yeah, guilty as charged I guess. Must've been all that IRC in the 90s.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
The problem is that you could face liability if you do business in the United States and permit a minor in California to use an OS in non-California-compliant mode. If you're an "OS provider" in Wichita, KS, California will f

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