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by bitwize 7mo ago
And this is why it will soon be a felony to possess hollow cylinder CAD or CNC files in the state of Washington.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
University news sources often cite alums of the university with their year of graduation.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
If you aren't taking advantage of it, you are not a competent software engineer in 2026.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
It depends on the task. There are certain tasks which are too tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone to be valuable for humans to perform, and couldn't be automated effectively until LLMs came along. Eric Raymond has cited a shorteni
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by bitwize 7mo ago
You show a jury a picture of the minor and a reproduction of the image in question. It may not matter too much if the creator intended the image to resemble the actual minor; only that they intended to create a sexually explicit image of a
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Agentic AI-assisted coding is an intrinsic part of the job now. Companies would be leaving lots of money on the table if they didn't take advantage of the 10x/50x/100x productivity gains. If you don't have the skills, le
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Before we even get there, within 5-7 years new PCs will be Xbox-like, locked down devices. Only approved OS and apps may be installed, as it is a felony to run an OS that doesn't meet federal and state KYC ID requirements or even own a
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by bitwize 7mo ago
When progressives become the status quo, they turn into conservatives. There's a meme going around about a 1950s Soviet communist vs. a 2020s American communist, and their diametrically opposed views on things like LGBTQ and immigratio
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Because Meta's got the government breathing down their neck to confirm that everyone who interacts with their site is of appropriate age due to COPPA. They don't want to do that kind of verification themselves so they're back
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by bitwize 7mo ago
"Communism can never work," says leader of country that routinely sabotages or outright overthrows communist governments.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Funny you should mention hello world. Kernighan and Ritchie presented it in TCPL as a little anatomical diagram of close to the smallest possible functional C program with the different parts labelled. The first line is labelled "inclu
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Well it just so happens that the best hardware in the world for desktop use—literally years ahead of any competition—is made by the makers of macOS and is totally supported by macOS.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Unfortunately I know how THC works on me and it's not very desirable.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Now THIS is a cyberdeck. Its janky, cobbled-together nature and Forth "OS" give it that postapocalyptic feel.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Get stupid now to avoid cognitive decline later? Not sure I like that tradeoff...
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by bitwize 7mo ago
The United States already considers artwork that resembles a real minor to be outside the First Amendment and hence illegal. Even like, cartoon artwork. If you're fapping to naked Bart Simpson that's one thing, but if it's a
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Code that does not take a pre-existent unit test from failing to passing is by definition broken.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
This is kinda like that thing about how psychic mediums supposedly can't medium if there's a skeptic in the room. Goes to show that AI really is a modern-day ouija board.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
I've found that AI "art" makes human-created art—even if bad—look more refreshing.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
How sad. "Creative coding" was supposed to be one of the last respites we programmers had from the sloppotron.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
This is one of those things I'd think geeks would geek out about, as nondestructive edits mean the steps to construct an image are stored, not just the final image—kinda like a monad in FP.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
1) Right now, as things stand, the Democrats are our only alternative to something far more evil. Until we ratify a new constitution which implements a proportional, parliamentary government, the two-party system means you have to pick the
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by bitwize 7mo ago
This was literally part of the premise of The Jetsons . George's job was to press a single button while the computer RUDI did all the work. The difference is, Jetsons wasn't a dystopia (unlike the current timeline), so when Mr.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
I ran a Windows 7 system with 3GiB as a gaming machine and it was just fine. Windows 7... the last Windows release that was acceptable-ish. Memories...
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by bitwize 7mo ago
2015 laptop, spinning rust. Nevertheless, it was at least somewhat acceptable at purchase, but crapware installed with successive system updates brought it to a standstill. An SSD might've helped, but not by much. I wiped it and put Ku
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by bitwize 7mo ago
gVisor's architecture is fascinating. Years ago I wrote an essay that was kind of a response to all the cracks about "systemd-kerneld" that have been made over the years. Written in character as "Fake Lennart Poettering&
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Kinda like how back in the day, the best Mac you could buy was an Amiga. :)
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Windows doesn't run "just fine" on 4 GiB of RAM. I had a laptop with 6; Windows 10 became barely usable. If you want to run one, small, program at a time I think you'll be ok. Forget about web browsing; you'll get o
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by bitwize 7mo ago
It's also because U.S. carriers don't like people hooking up arbitrary devices that can run arbitrary software to their network. In the civilized world, you have a device that talks GSM/LTE, you're golden as long as you
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by bitwize 7mo ago
I gotta hand it to the toy, it was prepping the kid for today's social world. > What kind of person is giving an AI toy to a toddler? Grimes. When I read she's involved, I thought "that tracks". She's... a charac

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