bitwize

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by bitwize 2mo ago
> This industry is in _desperate_ need of strong technical help, but unfortunately the "higher ups" tend to be the same people who are "comfortable" with the way thing are and refuse to move. I literally tried for a d
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by bitwize 2mo ago
The problem is there exists a version of Quake Champions where everybody plays equally. It's called Quake 3: Arena. The thing is, Q3A was originally supposed to be a sort of primitive hero shooter, with the various characters falling i
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by bitwize 2mo ago
It'd be glib to say that Smalltalk is a Lisp, but Smalltalk's ideas are similar enough to Lisp's that I would put it squarely in the "Lisp camp". The same is true of things like Ruby, about which people have been
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Quake Champions was the Mortal Kombat to Overwatch's Street Fighter. I've only ever seen gameplay vids of it, but it looked a trip.
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Funny you should mention autism. I'm of the belief that if I really wanted to, my autism could help me become a very effective AI-assisted programmer, because autistic communication traits that actual humans find annoying (and which mo
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Appliances like the washing machine literally killed the market for "hired help" in the anglosphere. In-house servants used to be relatively common among the middle and upper classes; with the aid of electrical appliances, the tim
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As in the title character of Marshall Brain's story "Manna". Or the AI could threaten humans into compliance, as in the 2008 film Eagle Eye .
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by bitwize 2mo ago
And yet still in the standard "Jeep Grand Cherokee melted in the sun" shape. I wouldn't mind so much if the popular land yachts of decades past like the 1957 Cadillac Eldorado were revived, but today's most common passen
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Windows 2000 was peak. Windows XP was when they started putting the activation bullshit in, which was just a little too much for privacy-brained me. I had migrated to Linux pretty much exclusively by then.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
But is your solution scalable? Resilient against injection attacks? What about o11y? Is literally anyone besides you going to be running these searches? If so, you're going to want to put a UI around it and that means thinking about
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Questions like this, and things like Leetcode, etc., are a measure of not only your intelligence, but one of the most valuable skills you can have as an employee: the ability to "carry a message to García". https://en.w
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Interviewer's notes: anal_reactor is stubborn, difficult to work with, has little regard for others' opinions, not a team player. Do not recommend hiring.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
What I think you're referring to is, every process has its own view of the file system. So you can control what a process has access to simply by controlling what the file tree visible to it looks like. The upshot of this is that each
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by bitwize 2mo ago
The 9 in a circle was inspired by a meme about Cirno of Touhou fame; in the manual for Phantasmagoria of Flower Garden , she is labeled "⑨ バカ", hence the memes about her being kind of stupid and having the ⑨ as her personal sym
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Location: Gulfport, MS Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C, C++, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby, Python, Lisp (if I can get it), PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS, Docker, AI integration (esp. MCP) Résumé/CV: Availab
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by bitwize 2mo ago
See also: Windows XP. Upon release it was a security/stability CF. Today there are retrocomputing forums dedicated primarily to it. What they are gazing rose-coloredly back on is likely Windows XP SP3, not how the OS was upon its relea
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by bitwize 2mo ago
I'm reminded of the hacks for old ThinkPads that read the accelerometer used to detect drops and park the disk heads; by slapping the machine on either side, you could switch to the next or previous desktop.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
These days "cyber" undecorated usually implies "-security", muddying those waters further.
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Blit the iso to a usb stick and boot it. If your PC is recent (made in the past 15-20 years or so), it'll understand it just fine.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Mamdani should expropriate the building and do something charitable with it.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Present-day reality was only conceptualizable as sci-fi less than a decade ago. If you think it implausible that OpenAI and Anthropic could set their models to scrape the web, perform sentiment analysis on comments (looking for "AI slo
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by bitwize 2mo ago
It's not about em dashes. It's not about particular turns of phrase. It's about getting the whole picture. Seriously the biggest tell for AI writing is "eighth grade essay syndrome". You know how an eighth grader wr
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by bitwize 2mo ago
(in homer simpson voice) That's not how AI works... so far!
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No, he's still a pirate. If he doesn't like what the distributor releases, he shouldn't watch the movie or show at all. Paying for a legitimate copy does not grant you infinite legal or moral use of the work, only permission
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by bitwize 2mo ago
And that's the appropriate response to have. If you don't want to pay according to the copyright owner's terms, then you don't watch the show. Not liking the copyright owner's terms for watching the show does not gi
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Coffee is also slightly diuretic, so it's not a "drink to quench your thirst" drink, at least not to me. Water (plain or fizzy/flavored), milk, diet sodas, etc. fill that niche.
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Apple TV has a search function that allows you to find a film or series irrespectice of whatever service it's on, and launch the appropriate app to play it.
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To copyright owners, there really is no difference. In many countries, notably not the USA, copyright is bound up with the broader concept of authors' rights, including the right to control whether, where, when, and how a work is exhib
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by bitwize 2mo ago
DRM does the job it's supposed to which is prevent casual piracy and increase the amount of effort it takes to pirate something. A thief could rob your house if they bumped your lock or just smashed your window. But that doesn't m
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The future is you pay $1000 for a "cloud terminal" with 4 GiB of RAM and maybe 128 GiB of storage, and all of your apps live, metered, in the cloud. Arbitrary operating systems, and even arbitrary application binaries, are not all

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