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by bitwize 2mo ago
Going into this article my attitude was "don't tell me what to do!" but I kind of see his point. Back in the late 1980s, there was no question—the Mac changed everything, and everyone agreed that graphical was the superior in
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Skill issue. The fact is that with the right spec, agentic guardrails, and evals, frontier models can now one-shot secure, performant code. This is the job of software engineering now. Learn to properly use the tools for the job.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Good. Would rather have a strong basic phone without flaky gimmicks.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
It's telling that The Ghost in the Shell , the 2026 adaptation, is still set in 2029-2030.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Like the Great Automatic Grammatizator?
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Three-letter agencies often keep on life support the kind of cool niche computers thst don't benefit from economies of scale. There are clandestine government projects that required Lisp machines and Connection Machines years after you
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Easy notch on her belt.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
I thought this was going to be some anecdote about how a rival (or maybe a group of rabid fans) found a bowl of Oreos backstage at a Lady Gaga concert and ate them all just to spite her. One of the reasons why I knew the video game Mixtape
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Oreo Coke = Oreo-flavored Coca-Cola Coke Oreo = Coca-Cola-flavored Oreo cookies welcome to hell
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Bob Marley's original recording of "Jammin'" was used in a Budweiser commercial in 1996.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
How about no. If you want me to run a particular piece of software, send me a fucking computer. If you want me to be on call on a company-managed cellphone, send me a phone that you can own and manage all you want. Do not ask me to download
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by bitwize 2mo ago
So here's the thing about X11. Nobody wants to work on it. Keith Packard and Alan Coopersmith, maybe, but the younger devs—those knowledgeable about graphics and GPUs anyway—no. There's no path forward for X11. It's a dead en
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by bitwize 2mo ago
OK, mate, looks like I might be buying a Motorola when my Googlephone goes kaputski then. I meant that comment from a standpoint of "no graphene, no buy".
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by bitwize 2mo ago
> delve Butt-head: Huh huh huh. Hey Beavis, he said "delve". Huh huh huh. Beavis: Yeah, I bet he'll use an em-dash next. Heh heh heh.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
grapheneos when?
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Software patents may be what saves the field. Currently copyright as an IP protection for software has been rendered near meaningless by AI. If I can get one AI to reverse engineer Photoshop, and another to implement the produced spec, I ha
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by bitwize 2mo ago
This is straight up ghost-dubbing.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
A coworker at one of my former employers put it thus: People who can do engineering become engineers. People who get into engineering but can't do it become Six Sigma consultants. I haven't seen companies actually promote incompet
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by bitwize 2mo ago
> My coworkers continue to dump hundreds of lines of AI documentation in every PR and every other line of code has between one and ten lines of AI generated comments, talking about the real unlock and how things are byte for byte identic
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by bitwize 2mo ago
I get the feeling that in Asia following the law is secondary to obeisance to superiors. Of course, where these align you get the nicest Asian societies (e.g., Japan, Singapore).
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Indeed. LLMs resemble human intelligence in more or less the same way that the output of the TI-99/4A speech synthesizer resembles a human voice.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
No, it's not really. Presenting them as person-like, with the implied expectation that they understand morality and rules the same way a person does, is the sophistry. It's marketing on the model vendors' part. "Here&#x2
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by bitwize 2mo ago
System z machines come with special AI processor modules these days, so it's clear IBM wants a piece of that pie also.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
On the other hand, when modern archaeologists discover "Claudius has a small dick" graffiti on the side of some God-forsaken wall in Pompeii, they're fascinated. The presence of such graffiti adds color and texture to the civ
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Reminds me of a vaguely similar toy you used to be able to get at Radio Shack: the "electronics project kits". Typically, a given set of circuit components would be laid out on a board (typically thick cardboard) in a frame (wood)
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by bitwize 2mo ago
I always thought it was to the gods, spirits, kami, whatever "it" or "they" were that allowed you to eat. Though it could be either, or both at once; when members of Native American tribes would make a kill on the hunt,
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Propaganda for "Scrap your old car now and buy new—now with AI driver spying features as mandated by Congress, and personal data sales to insurance companies!"
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by bitwize 2mo ago
My games, and cleaning up my ext3/4 journalling code for the NetBSD kernel. I've got it opening, reading, and replaying the journal upon mount, now I need to move on to getting it to actually log disk transactions during use.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Betteridge's Law of Headlines
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Carmack didn't invent BSP trees. He read about them in a paper and produced an efficient implementation that could render a 2D map in 3D using integer math on 386-class CPUs. He has always envied the mathematicians who actually come up

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