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by dusted 11mo ago
I think we need to stop this madness. The disaster that is "modern UX" is serving no one. Infantilizing computer users needs to stop. Computer users hate it - everything changes all the time for the worse, everything gets hidden b
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by dusted 1y ago
I don't understand how the "proof" part works, like, what part of the input to the "proof generation" algorithm is so inherently tied to the real world that one cannot feed it "fake" data ?
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by dusted 1y ago
My music listening speakers have two built in power amplifiers (one for the tweeter, one for the woofer) and have a DSP feeding right into a DAC, feeding right into those amplifiers. There's a control box that comes with them, and when
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by dusted 1y ago
yeh, I remember it being the darkest red too, maybe depended on bith depth ?
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by dusted 1y ago
The issues mentioned in the article is generally applicable. While modern software does manage to make life marginally easier and simpler in some very specific ways, they generally manage to do so while also looking like absolute garbage, c
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by dusted 1y ago
> This is quite the reduction, ... Thank you, that spawned this notion in my head, I wonder why. It’s funny, I think, how quickly people dismiss the subjective experience of a crackhead having an ecstatic conversation with God or the uni
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by dusted 1y ago
That article made as much sense as its subject matter.
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by dusted 1y ago
In my opinion, you don't get to ask "why is X done by Y" before you've done X yourself by something not Y and not Y by proxy either.
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by dusted 1y ago
I did a slideshow for presenting some details about my home built C64 (MaxFake64), I drew all the "slides" in petscii and saved them as binary data at the end of an assembly program, which then copies each slide into the right pla
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by dusted 1y ago
I did this, I wrote a VGA slideshow for my "NUxT" 8088, and at its 9 mhz, it manages to switch from one full screen color image to another with about 3 fps. I did some optimization to get there, like turning the image upside down
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by dusted 1y ago
problem with simple software in enterprise environment is lack of integration, good sso and policy control
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by dusted 1y ago
The article is written in an extremely manipulating way, the following phrase will trigger the intended knee-jerk reaction in anyone reading this who is not already pretty familiar with the actual content of the proposal and its implication
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by dusted 1y ago
Because I value predictability more than convenience, I'm too stupid to figure out the set of rules deemed "the right way of sorting", I can't even.. the possible ways it can be implemented is nearly infinite, it makes m
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by dusted 1y ago
> No-one really likes engineering war stories, I love engineering war stories
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The Only Famous Motherboard [video](youtube.com)
1 points by dusted 1y ago|0 comments
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by dusted 1y ago
This got me riled up to the point where I blew a gasket and just can't.. I agree with the article. I liked computers better when everyone hated them, and for the reasons they hated them..
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by dusted 1y ago
> That argument flies in the face of basic economics. The first think any economist will tell you about the foundational rationale of basic economics is it's inability to explain the discrepancy between behavior as predicted by basi
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by dusted 1y ago
They used to be really popular, back in the ancient times when I was young and full of excitement for all things compute, almost all software was local-first, and.. only :) But since the entire world economy has turned to purely optimizing
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by dusted 1y ago
I played the original a lot, and lots of modding, but I prefer Luanti these days. There are lots of great games in it, and many of them are very much Minecraft, others explore entirely different approaches which can be very interesting as w
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by dusted 1y ago
Honestly, 4o was lame.. Its positivity was toxic and misleading, causing you to spiral into engagement about ideas that were crap. I often stopped after a few messages and asked o3 to review to conversation, almost every time it'd basi
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The Ethical Imperative of Efficient Computing [pdf](dusted.dk)
3 points by dusted 1y ago|0 comments
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by dusted 1y ago
Perfect little text, that article is. Same site has this article about "bedrock platforms" which resonate deeply with me https://permacomputing.net/bedrock_platform/ Software does not rot, the environment aro
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by dusted 1y ago
probably.. I was at a range and took a quick snap of my target, because I wanted to review it in a bit calmer environment.. I remember standing there, seeing the bullet holes in the paper, and I distinctly recall two holes that had multiple
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by dusted 1y ago
I'm generally annoyed with the amount of processing going on in modern phone cameras, they often take pictures that "look fine" on the screen, until you zoom in to native resolution and discovered most of it is some fever-dre
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by dusted 1y ago
If it's for 2D I like librecad.. I can't get my mind wrapped around freecad.. If it's 3D, you can get surprisingly far with just sweet home 3D, or even blender (you can do accurate enough things with blender if you decide wha
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by dusted 1y ago
Looks great, I like the clean syntax and in particular the defn is pretty. I lost interest before I got to implementing proper functions, so mine only has variables that can be executed, if you're interested, it's here http:&#x2F
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by dusted 1y ago
Nothing really at the moment, job and family takes most my time and energy. Last thing I made was this semi-vibe-coded a local-storage-only site for helping myself plan stuff, I made so it works offline as a progressive web app too if you i
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by dusted 1y ago
of course I would have the variable name saved, but and I'd probably require the to be somewhat unique too, but I'd save them as metadata, and I'd let people decide how they want them presented, for exampled with regard to ca
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by dusted 1y ago
but is it ever going to be time to kill the CSS ?
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by dusted 1y ago
It's slightly insane that computer programs are still mostly derived from plaintext files.. but what's absolutely insane is that we, the people creating those programs, do so by modifying individual characters in those very same p

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