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by eschaton 4mo ago
You might want to take a look at the SwissMicros DM42 and DM42n, they’re a modern reimplementation of the 42S. https://www.swissmicros.com/product/model-dm42n
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by eschaton 4mo ago
This is an HP licensee, not HP itself. Still nice to see, though the SwissMicros calculators are also very good and will be tough to compete with.
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by eschaton 5mo ago
As a person, why should you not have a say in how things are governed where you live? The idea that you should be required to swear some loyalty to a government before you get a say in how the place you live is governed is the position th
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by eschaton 5mo ago
I’m glad to see someone else in these parts understands.
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by eschaton 5mo ago
Why would you expect the LLMs to work for PS3 development? How much PS3 code do you think there is in the training set? You do realize that’s actually how they work, right? They don’t understand or reason about anything, your prompt and oth
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by eschaton 5mo ago
If the submitter of a PR needs to take full responsibility for the code within, then the code within cannot be LLM-generated because—depending on whether you consider it an original work by the LLM or a resurrected copy of its training data
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by eschaton 5mo ago
Good. Doesn’t mean there aren’t others that make that argument though.
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by eschaton 5mo ago
Sounds like bounties are unnecessary then. The argument I’ve always seen for them is that if they don’t exist and aren’t substantial enough, the research will still happen but the results will go to the highest bidder.
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by eschaton 5mo ago
Glad to see you’re still doing great stuff, and also very glad to see your new employer supports such things, especially compared to our old employer! Part of why I retired around the same time you left was because I wanted to make and shar
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by eschaton 5mo ago
People who sell zero-day vulnerabilities currently sell to both good guys and bad guys, they’re a third thing (mercenaries). However, that third thing is also bad, just a different kind of bad than what you’re calling “bad guys.” The people
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by eschaton 5mo ago
There are more than just good guys and bad guys; in particular, there are also opportunists. Opportunists are the ones who will sell a 0day to bad guys. Or who will drop a 0day publicly to promote their services. And they’ll fight tooth and
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by eschaton 5mo ago
They should have a legal obligation to engage in coordinated/responsible disclosure, and it should be a crime to sell or disclose a 0day to anyone other than a state-designated security organization or the vendor/provider. If it w
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by eschaton 5mo ago
“The choice that maximizes potential damage isn’t irresponsible, because it means I can mitigate my own systems immediately.” That’s what you’re saying here.
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by eschaton 5mo ago
It requires the people contributing the work to have the integrity to actually follow the project’s rules. It’s not OK to violate the project’s rules just because you don’t think you’ll be found out as a filthy fucking liar.
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by eschaton 6mo ago
Crazy that someone would use this pseudonym while at the same time saying that all society's problems are caused by socialist and Communist conspiracy.
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by eschaton 6mo ago
Go to any Vintage Computer Festival and ask the people exhibiting how clever and witty they think questions about running Crysis are.
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by eschaton 6mo ago
You’re talking about the workstation world circa 1985 and later, but prior to then the victory of C and UNIX wasn’t a sure thing. Apollo was the big player, but they weren’t the only ones. In particular, many minicomputer vendors had some t
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by eschaton 6mo ago
Then don’t use AI to contribute.
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by eschaton 6mo ago
I didn’t encounter too many of those back in the day, I think because there was the VBL task mechanism for synchronizing with screen refresh that made it easy to avoid using instruction loops for timing. Much more common in my experience wa
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by eschaton 6mo ago
They mostly relied on OS/Toolbox implementation quirks though, not hardware implementation quirks, because applications that relied on the latter wouldn’t run on the Macintosh XL and that mattered to certain market segments. (Like some
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by eschaton 6mo ago
It was actually mostly written in assembly, but used Pascal calling conventions and structure layouts since that was expected to be the primary language for application developers. As it had been for Lisa, as it was for “large” applications
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by eschaton 6mo ago
This is exactly the sort of project that can serve as the basis for such a system.
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by eschaton 6mo ago
What happens when lobbying for a new deal fails? Do the people just shrug and accept the fate their feudal lords have determined for them?
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by eschaton 6mo ago
Many libraries or library systems actually have something like this. In the Bay Area, the large Santa Clara Library does and at least had regular drop-in hours.
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by eschaton 7mo ago
They do if they want me to use it.
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by eschaton 7mo ago
I started working in the industry when you were able to buy a Lisp Machine new and have been studying AI even longer, and I’ve been very successful in it. I not only know what I’m talking about, I have the experience to back it up. You soun
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by eschaton 7mo ago
“I looked up the topic on Wikipedia and I highlighted the text and I selected copy and I selected paste so I don’t see how this is plagiarism.” That’s what you sound like.
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by eschaton 7mo ago
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by eschaton 7mo ago
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by eschaton 7mo ago
If it’s the output of an LLM, it’s not their own work.

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