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by bitwize 8mo ago
"Minsky, why did you close your eyes?" "So that the room will be empty."
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Claude Code isn't smart in its own right. LLM "intelligence" is really just other people's intelligence ground up into a thought-slurry and piped through your PC. The irony is, things like emulators for popular systems a
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Y'all are like Dilbert with the shock collar on, "It's not so bad." It's requiring all operating systems, apps, and online services to add age checks. It adds friction to the process of developing stuff. If there&#x
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by bitwize 8mo ago
IBM prepared some light-gray ThinkPad prototypes but were really committed to the black design. They negotiated with the German workplace ergonomics agency who allowed them to sell black ThinkPads but with a "not for office use" l
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by bitwize 8mo ago
I'm sure Xers and millennials are totally going to be okay with a visit from the school cop when their little one is caught with an illegal operating system and looking at charges that could ruin their college and job prospects.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Beige PCs. Made to comply with German workplace-equipment laws. Yes, the Bundestag legislated the color of office equipment. That has always been the way of fhe world.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
In the Choose Your Own Adventure novel Supercomputer , you receive as the grand prize in a contest an AGI-capable computer and go on various adventures with its advanced thinking capabilities. One of its features is said to be a "smil
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by bitwize 8mo ago
It's "effective" for purposes if the DMCA, which means circumventing it is a crime.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
No, it is over. Compare today to even two years ago.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Vibe coding is pretty much the total opposite of the maker movement. Vibe coding's appeal is in getting something for little or no effort by outsourcing the thinking bits to the cloud. The appeal of the maker movement is in getting som
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by bitwize 8mo ago
I remember GameTap. American McGee launched his game, American McGee's Grimm on that, for free afaik (or free for a limited time).
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by bitwize 8mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1skbgEGEn80 Why were old PCs beige? It turns out, Germany had workplace standards laws that mandated light, unobtrusive colors on office equipment. Because it was expensive to offer different
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by bitwize 8mo ago
But it might produce the Blight from Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep . "Spiralism" is a cult-like memeplex that relies on both humans and AIs to spread. Not doing much to weaken my growing conviction that AI is a potential cogn
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Got a new one. In California—the only place that matters in tech—all operating systems must implement age verification by Jan 1, 2027. Which means this is coming to a computer near you, worldwide.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Looks like it's playing the special stages from Knuckles' Chaotix?
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Somebody I know irl has figured out I'm me here on Hackernews, based on the fact that my writing style here matches my verbal style. Fingerprinting people based on their words is one of the things I actually expect LLMs to be really ab
887.
by bitwize 8mo ago
How many of those are bots and how many of those are "fuck you, clankers" humans—like me?
888.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Quick, how do I get it to play tic-tac-toe against itself?
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Pepperidge Farm remembers when reasoning systems could actually reason, instead of backing out the part of the context they're told is erroneous, appending "Wait..." and then continuing to predict tokens as before.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
The laws of scale are stone cold bitches, and so you really don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind is blowing. By 2030 writing code by hand in an IDE will almost certainly be a curiosity for retro enthusiasts, like progra
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by bitwize 8mo ago
AI will soon be an intrinsic part of the job. Now what? "Get your thumb out of your ass and learn [how to use AI]." —Eric S. Raymond
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by bitwize 8mo ago
> This includes ones that would never be allowed in an official store because they're DRM-free alternatives to big streaming services but still offer all the same content. Do you know anyone who works in a professional creative fi
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Illegal in Brazil per the Digital Child and Adolescent Statute. Operating systems are legally required to provide age verification functionality in a manner approved by the government.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Indeed, and since Brazil now has mandatory age checking in the OS, it's illegal to own or operate such phones in the country, thus they will never be certified by ANATEL.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Show HN: O'Brien (YC S29), new AI-powered Boot as a Service provider
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Of course it extends to PCs. It'd suck for us, but end users, software vendors, content providers, and service providers all benefit from a more restricted platform that can provide certain guarantees against malware, fraud, piracy, an
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by bitwize 8mo ago
It turns out that the fact that mantis shrimp have 12 different color receptors in their eyes means they can see... 12 colors. They can't combine the input from the different color receptors into a spectrum like we and other vertebrate
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Maybe it goes to show that animals just have some of the same brain structures associated with language that we do. Parrots are capable of rather sophisticated language use, and the informal word-button experiments suggest that non-avian an
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Remember, folks, you can't spell "Elsevier" without E, V, I, and L.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
What's gonna bake your noodle is, Viking raids were the VC-funded startups of medieval northern Europe. Norse kings were very generous with their kingdom's treasure, to the raiders with the most fearsome reputations.

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