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by bitwize 1mo ago
I've worked on AUVs, and in discussions with my colleagues we would often describe the machine as "swimming" out to some setpoint location, for instance. Since hearing that, discussions of a machine "thinking" or &q
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by bitwize 1mo ago
I still appreciate the distinction the Mass Effect game series drew between AI, which was smart enough to be a person and think independently; and VI (Virtual Intelligence), which is a system smart enough to comprehend and respond to natu
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by bitwize 1mo ago
Recently I learned about Human Acceleration Regions (HARs), parts of our DNA that remained almost unchanged in our mammalian ancestors, and then diverged very rapidly in humans between 500-200kya. And it made me wonder, is this why the anci
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by bitwize 1mo ago
Username checks out. You might be right. I'm a better programmer than most, but I'm nowhere near as good as I could be, and there is still so much I could learn and improve upon. But back when I was saying that "AI is better
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by bitwize 1mo ago
I took calc at around the same time. The teacher had us learn to sketch function graphs by hand the old fashioned way, by finding the derivative and looking for critical points, etc. Then he brought the graphing calculators in and had us pl
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by bitwize 1mo ago
A number of other actors have already voiced Optimus in Transformers media, with varying quality. Jake Foushee, who has appeared in a few recent productions, does a competent impression of Cullen's performance. The neat thing about cha
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by bitwize 1mo ago
The third was Peter Cullen. Till all are one.
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by bitwize 1mo ago
Not even the weirdest thing IBM did to get compatibility between their mainframes and other CPU architectures. To build the XT/370 and AT/370 expansion cards, they custom-ordered modified 68000s that decoded System/370 instru
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by bitwize 1mo ago
A single mainframe can handle workloads that would take dozens of x86 cloud servers, with nine nines of uptime. If you can afford it it pays for itself in terms of reliability and scalability.
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by bitwize 1mo ago
Historically this was because each I/O "channel" was a separate computer that handled the actual communication with the device, be it a terminal, disk, tape drive, card reader, printer, etc. and exchange data with the CPU via
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by bitwize 1mo ago
I think they still sell the one from the previous owners that's an Atom-based PC in a beige breadbin. There are ways to use it to drive your workstation.
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by bitwize 1mo ago
Very fitting. The cyberdecks described in Neuromancer were very plain devices modelled after home computers, with the keyboard built in and everything. The Ono-Sendai Case carries around resembles a TI-99/4A in the graphic novel adap
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by bitwize 1mo ago
"Alternative medicine was either not proved to work, or proved not to work. Do you know what we call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? Medicine." —Tim Minchin
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by bitwize 1mo ago
Now make it talk in a Fuchikoma voice.
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by bitwize 1mo ago
AI has legitimately changed everything. It's not 2022 anymore. Try a recent LLM and set it to a coding task. For even moderate tasks, things you could burn a weekend or more on, the model will complete it in minutes, to a high degree
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by bitwize 1mo ago
Wait, how is Emacs AI-related aside from being written in Lisp?
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by bitwize 1mo ago
I'm sure Sam and Dario have a bottle of Cinco Comas sitting on that high shelf...
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by bitwize 1mo ago
The pdumper has been around for yonks, and afaik Zaretskii is still maintaining.
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by bitwize 1mo ago
Sounds like a topic for a ThePrimeagen reaction video.
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by bitwize 1mo ago
Needs a soundtrack. How about: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v91cvVqBwWg
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by bitwize 1mo ago
Legitimate. Legal. IPFS, Freenet, and experiments like that mainly serve as a place for people to store and distribute pirated copyrighted material, child porn, hit lists, terrorism manifestos and plans, and the like. Scratch a libertarian
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by bitwize 1mo ago
Maybe, but it will be a bitter laugh tempered by two aspects: 1) he was kinda right 2) he had no way of knowing how good we had it in 2026 by comparison with what was to come after
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by bitwize 1mo ago
> I’d say the job of software engineering is still firmly being able to stand by the work you present and being reasonably confident that it’s correct according to yours and others’ understanding of the problem you’re attempting to solve
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by bitwize 1mo ago
A harness is the thing that turns sloppotron spew into action. That's... pretty much it. LLMs are still "just" token prediction algorithms, but you can coax them into outputting things that look like commands. The harness fig
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by bitwize 1mo ago
It's easy as balls these days to spin up a VM with the OS of your choice provided it's not terribly taxing (which NetBSD isn't). Go ahead and just try it, man! Take an evening or a weekend.
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by bitwize 1mo ago
Linux was not quite that spare, but pretty spare when I first started using it (1995). I liked watching the text crawl while the kernel brought itself, init, and a few daemons up; and having to type "startx" to even get into a g
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by bitwize 1mo ago
The sloppotrons are getting confused about old hardware support in the Linux kernel, so the kernel maintainers are simply removing it. NetBSD's portability is at significantly lower risk of being compromised like this, not least becaus
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by bitwize 2mo ago
This wouldn't pass muster for the "age verification laws" that various governments are implementing or have planned. Even if the laws currently on the books or being proposed do not have the requirements, "KYC to touch a
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by bitwize 2mo ago
It's like the Ocean's movies.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
"Won't that be grand! Computers and programs will start thinking, and the people will stop!" —Walter Gibbs, Tron

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