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by bitwize 8mo ago
Ah, Doohoeek, a time-honored, trusted brand.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
All open source projects should withdraw immediately from the United States, IP-block all USA downloads, and headquarter themselves in sensible countries without such laws. Any state having these laws means they can drag you into their cour
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by bitwize 8mo ago
> by just telling LLMs to make an app or to make money or something. Again, that is literally OpenAI's business model: burn money building ChatGPT until it's smart enough to tell them how to be profitable. "That's a b
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by bitwize 8mo ago
The general consensus on HN appears to be that that's because Americans are just shitty.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
I heard somewhere that OpenAI's business model is literally to burn investorbux evolving ChatGPT until it becomes sentient, and then ask it how to make a profit. That's how on the crazy train the whole AI endeavor is. Of course
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by bitwize 8mo ago
AI has really sharpened the line between the Master Builders of the world and the Lord Businesses along this question: What, exactly, is the "fun part" of programming? Is it simply having something that works? Or is it the process
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Also AI.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Ooooh, that's fun to make topple. I kind of want to launch an Angry Bird at it.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Whenever Steam's web site asked me for my date of birth before allowing me to view a game trailer, I would punch in January 1, over 10 years after my actual date of birth (still well within grown-ass man territory because I'm geri
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Absent the Satanists who run California and the nation conducting a dark ritual to summon Steve Jobs back from the abyss, the chances of him saving Apple from total enshittification collapse again the way he did the first time are slim to
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Everybody who matters is using Ghostty nowadays! Why bother having the God-damned common decency to call isatty(), let alone use terminfo to look up the actual escape codes used by the user's terminal as reported by $TERM?
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Sci-fi mumbo jumbo that Dario, Sam, and the rest have read and were profoundly influenced by. Yudkowskianism is marked by a strong apocalyptic "evil AI will kill us all" streak, and a big part of the AI industry is a race to build
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by bitwize 8mo ago
What it generally means is that the lower court ruling stands and serves as precedent nationwide. Binding precedent in the circuit that handed down the ruling. But another circuit may make a different ruling sometime, and then the Supremes
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by bitwize 8mo ago
The ensloppification of Linux conspiracy started in 1999 not with Lennart but with Miguel de Icaza—another Microslop double agent. His seminal (because it's a giant cumstain) essay "Let's Make Unix Not Suck" is to GNOME
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by bitwize 8mo ago
It was "Outhouse Express" and "GruntPage" for me in the late 90s. I still use these for software I find particularly irksome, for example Conscrewence from AtlASSian.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
My favorite nickname for MS-DOS is "Domestos" (pronounced /də ˈmɛs ˌtɒs/) which is a brand of bathroom cleanee from the UK.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
FuCKinG Windows
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by bitwize 8mo ago
They're not. Operating systems will be legally required to ask for such samples in some jurisdictions by 2028. Linus has fecal_sample.ko lined up for merge in 7.3 or so. /s but we jumped to the Black Mirror timeline so who knows?
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Creating a game with an engine is like designing a character with a pixel dollbase. You can get something out quickly, skipping a few steps because they're done for you, but you have to live with whatever choices were made by the creat
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by bitwize 8mo ago
My wife loves these, and tries to donate a book to them when she can.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
[R_Init] Init DOOM refresh daemon.....done.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
"Vibe coding" with a single agent is really only a thing for small-scale projects. Really you want to be orchestrating many agents: some generating code, some reviewing, and some testing, feeding back into the generators. Cloudfla
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by bitwize 8mo ago
The robots in the book were called Artificial Friends, or AFs.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Oh but it is. If you are an operating system provider and you make available an OS that does not have age verification, the State of California can sue you for $7500 for each instance where a resident of California who is a minor uses that
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by bitwize 8mo ago
When Microsoft first established a web presence, 1994 was probably the year if not 1993, www.microsoft.com showed "Welcome to Microsoft's web site. Where do you want to go today?" followed by a list of destinations throughout
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by bitwize 8mo ago
That joke's been around since Microsoft tried locking people into Internet Explorer, so ~30 years. Microsoft's been Microsofting for at least that long, Satya hasn't changed that.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
The Apple II was more stylish than any other personal computer in 1977. In the mid-1980s, the Apple IIc and IIGS were built to Apple's "Snow White" design language and looked slicker than most contemporaries.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
There are companies building entire applications, indeed replicating the functionality of existing SaaS applications to test their original applications,with no humans in the development loop. We're looking at the twilight of programmi
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Old versions of Android do not comply with OS age-checking regulations in California, Brazil, and elsewhere. Samsung face legal repercussions including fines if residents of such jurisdictions are allowed to run an old OS. Yes, the laws app
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by bitwize 8mo ago
> Basically, the extensions are written by claude code on the fly. Every install of nanoclaw is custom written code. "Every copy of Nanoclaw is personalized." So if I use it long enough will I see the Wario apparition?

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