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AI Slop Is Caused by Humans, Not AI's(rodyne.com)
5 points by boznz 8mo ago|2 comments
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by boznz 8mo ago
I'm not sure this is the case, I got my ISBN range through my government national library service, I could be wrong but when you let them know what the book is you are publishing they ask for the Publisher name, though I am guessing as
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by boznz 8mo ago
Happy birthday Delphi, you made me a lot of money :-) I am guessing most Delphi developers like me, have either retired or have moved to Linux. I have done both recently and I unfortunately do not see a new generation following in behind me
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by boznz 8mo ago
Often wondered what would happen if you infected random bit flips into the AI's binary, probably would be similar to drugs, including to the point of killing the model.
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by boznz 9mo ago
Correct, I have thousands of tank temperature controllers still out there, still working fine where the End Of Life was 3 years ago. EOL just means support for spares and software updates cannot be guaranteed past that point, and is mainly
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by boznz 9mo ago
On one particular project from 1995 where the hardware was very cost optimised, the C program compiled to 1800 bytes which meant we could save nearly a dollar by buying micro-controllers with 2KB flash rather than 4KB flash. We manufactured
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by boznz 9mo ago
Many of us authors are still trying to write optimistic Sci-Fi, we are just getting lost in the noise, and the algorithm. Look harder :-)
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Don't Look Behind the Curtains(rodyne.com)
1 points by boznz 9mo ago|0 comments
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by boznz 9mo ago
The right to repair, and being able to re-use the electronics we already have would slash the environmental impact more..
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by boznz 9mo ago
My crappy old 2018 Chromebook is still just about usable with 2GB but has gone from a snappy system to a lethargic snail.. and getting slower every update.. Yeah for progress!
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by boznz 9mo ago
"In the Past", Now, and in the future.
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by boznz 9mo ago
I wrote a relevant article on this last year "On-Time and Under-Budget. Where some IT projects are Probably Going Wrong." [ https://rodyne.com/?p=2074 ]
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by boznz 9mo ago
Wait until they see the annual bill to maintain it..
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by boznz 9mo ago
The title of the site "Hacker News" should be a dead giveaway why this law is mocked here
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by boznz 9mo ago
As far as I am aware AI wont write/do anything without an input prompt.. or has something changed ?
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by boznz 9mo ago
Just Finished => https://rodyne.com/?p=3524 - I guess I'm still in the honeymoon phase, as another poster so eloquently put it.
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by boznz 9mo ago
>it'll be friendlier for the average person than Linux itself. I think the myth that Windows is easier needs to die. The builds targeted at Windows users are very easy to use; You would likely go into the Command Prompt as much as y
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by boznz 9mo ago
This. LLM's are still not good enough to trust for Vibe-Circuit building - a circuit re-design is a lot more cost and time than a code change - But they can get you over so many hurdles getting you to the right references in forums and
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by boznz 9mo ago
Windows user and developer for nearly 30 years and migrated my thinkpad from windows 11 to Kubuntu a few days ago with almost zero friction and got my desktop exactly as I had it on windows, did a lazy write up here => https:/&#x2F
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by boznz 9mo ago
Thank you for spending 22 years debugging Linux. I migrated Windows 11 to it yesterday and it was absolutely painless :=)
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Vibe-Migrating. The Easy-Peasy Way from Windows 11 to Linux(rodyne.com)
4 points by boznz 9mo ago|0 comments
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by boznz 9mo ago
https://rodyne.com/ Was my business website, and rapidly moving to my personal website now I'm retired. Just a place I document my thoughts, projects and the latest novel I have written
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by boznz 9mo ago
Perfect timing, I'm just looking for a new book to read. Good luck with your writing journey.
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by boznz 10mo ago
AI is just another tool that allows me to go deeper into the accuracy of the story I am writing. In my last book I used AI notably to tell me how long a current state of the art (2024) computer would take to decode a cypher encrypted in a o
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by boznz 10mo ago
Great work. What is your timeline to AGI ?
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by boznz 10mo ago
Cool, always refreshing to see different approaches to the same problem, and you learn so much by doing, this is more the kind of tinkering I will be doing in retirement.
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by boznz 10mo ago
As a percentage of theoretical physicists it is probably significant though. A Better question is how much love/money/attention is going into rival theories ?
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by boznz 10mo ago
As an independent author you can do what you wish. The only restriction is if you are in the Amazon KDP select program then you have promised Amazon exclusive use for a cut of the Kindle Select pie. I also distribute my books on all the oth
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Why Do We Still Pay for International Calls in 2025?(rodyne.com)
5 points by boznz 10mo ago|1 comments
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by boznz 10mo ago
What a fantastic idea, I have about 30 years of writing, mostly chapters and plots for novels that did not coalesce. Love to know how it turns out too.

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