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by elcritch 3mo ago
Practically speaking there's not much difference since there's a large amount of violent or extreme pornography which also teaches boys that directly or indirectly. It also teaches girls that it's "ok" cause they se
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by elcritch 3mo ago
How is that different than pervasive pornography though? Many young boys now think it’s normal to ask girls for sexual acts before having ever kissed a girl.
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by elcritch 3mo ago
Not really, it was based on the belief of the ability and dignity of the individual. My mind goes more to the Cultural Revolution in China where millions were killed or starved because a bunch of college students decided that the enemies we
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by elcritch 3mo ago
It’s sad to me after reading stories like this how much Western societies have generally lost the pursuit of Bildung (wisdom, virtue) that shaped men like Wilhelm von Humboldt's. I’ve come to firmly believe that a society which looses
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by elcritch 4mo ago
It’s like a slice of the earlier web. Realized I haven’t seen a c|net logo around for a long time.
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Ask HN: Favorite aspects of Cocoa/NeXTSTEP for app dev?
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by elcritch 4mo ago
Unfortunately doesn’t answer the question “successful LLM project”. From what I’ve seen of GitHub and AWS this year the answer is no. That’s despite me being bullish on LLMs and finding them highly productive.
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by elcritch 4mo ago
It really doesn’t seem very hard to have a small invalidation list. Just a redis cache or a simple broadcaster, etc. Does anyone have an example of how they built a JWT revocation service?
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by elcritch 4mo ago
Yeah I’ve been using gpt-5.3-codex-spark in Codex lately and it can be surprisingly good and it’s super fast. However it needs more explicit instructions.
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by elcritch 4mo ago
The surrounding Arab states already ethnically cleansed the indigenous Jews from the majority of the Middle East.
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by elcritch 4mo ago
They have a unique design where only a turbine moves with very cheap electricity produced. AI inference gives them a great way to turn revenue from cheap electricity without solving the device-to-shore problem yet for that energy.
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by elcritch 4mo ago
A startup I worked at is building wave-powered data centers [1]. 1: https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalyst-building-inferen...
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by elcritch 4mo ago
Not to mention the “largest transfer of wealth” [1] to the ultra rich during covid times. 1: https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1746565358/d11org/oq...
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by elcritch 4mo ago
Well it was already ready in pi.
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by elcritch 4mo ago
Technically, yes. Obviously stretches the normal definition of a server, but it is a computer controlled system "serving" a mostly digital signal. https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/article/gps-iii-satellit
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by elcritch 4mo ago
GPS..
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by elcritch 4mo ago
Perhaps but the AI drone based WW3 might put nvidia in the black before that.
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by elcritch 4mo ago
> Globally, the poorest 50% emit roughly 4.4 billion tons to 4.7 billion tons equivalent annually, accounting for about 11% to 12% of total global greenhouse gas emissions. The “less-developed” bottom half of the world population still p
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by elcritch 4mo ago
I didn't say we're all equally culpable. We're not. Yet en masse we're all guilty to some degree. There's only what 10's of thousands Taylor Swifts in the world. Yet there's billions of everyone else. The
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by elcritch 4mo ago
See I could agree with the first part. But then you add We have broken our world for the greed of a few . After that I sort of understand why so many folks reject the former – they're rejecting the empty moralizing. If you truly belie
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by elcritch 4mo ago
Who cares about tokens? I'm wanting to build pieces of software that I've been wanting and often working on for years. These new models are making it possible for me to scale my work to build it.
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by elcritch 4mo ago
I don’t know, GPT-5.5 has been very effective for me. It’s not perfect but the quality of refactoring it can do is awesome. Previous models both GPT and Claude would struggle with the larger picture more. Pretty quickly they’d do one off ha
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by elcritch 4mo ago
These sorts of things did happen before the internet though. Think of the Cultural Revolution in China started by revolutionary university students. Mass printed pamphlets was the original meme. The more things change the more they stay the
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by elcritch 4mo ago
Araq the Nim creator is working on a rewrite of the Nim compiler called Nimony that'll become Nim 3. It's making fast progress and will provide the basis for a proper LSP! Nimony already supports incremental compilation and para
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by elcritch 4mo ago
Additionally running GPT-5.5 on medium sometimes gives me better results than high mode. On any of them I still have to push the models in the right direction.
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by elcritch 5mo ago
Exactly, Constantine generates assembly output and links that into normal Nim objects (e.g. C). That can then used in Nim or in Rust, Go, etc. From its "Why Nim" in the readme: - Assembly support either inline or a simple {.compil
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by elcritch 5mo ago
Nim also has top notch meta programming, probably more so than Zig. You can easily do loop unrolling, specialization, etc. For example Constantine, which is a constant time crypto library that outperforms C, etc. To me programming Rust feel
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by elcritch 5mo ago
Yesterday I did some testing on the cost to solve the same simple problem on openrouter with different models using cline. Simple problem but it had a few nuances to solve it properly and so required reasoning. After reading comments like t
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by elcritch 5mo ago
Trump has had how many assassination attempts now? The attempt in Pennsylvania killed an innocent bystander, a father, in the crowd. Charlie Kirk was called Nazi by many and eventually shot dead in front of his children. So yes, unfortunate
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by elcritch 5mo ago
Ugh FreeBSD is so much nicer than modern Linux. It's hard not to love.

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