gblargg

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1. 271.▲
   by gblargg 6mo ago

   I always liked rlwimi on PowerPC. It rotates the source n bits, then writes any contiguous section of bits over the corresponding bits in the destination register. This allows copying any bitfield from any position in one register into anot
2. 272.▲
   by gblargg 6mo ago

   Maybe it has an "act like a 56k modem connection" directive in its internal prompt. /s
3. 273.▲
   by gblargg 6mo ago

   > XOR is just a particular case of subtraction, it is not a different kind of operation. It's different in that there's no carry propagation.
4. 274.▲
   by gblargg 6mo ago

   > Proudly written with zero AI. Unfortunately this is ambiguous, as there's an AI product called Zero AI.
5. 275.▲
   by gblargg 6mo ago

   I couldn't even get the X box to work to close a particular keyboard and then select another. One time it worked but I couldn't tap on any other keyboards and I had to reload the page to be able to select another one. EDIT: now it
6. 276.▲
   by gblargg 6mo ago

   Presumably the reason is to reduce memory overhead for nodes.
7. 277.▲
   by gblargg 11mo ago

   I realize you might have failed to comprehend the level of my argument. It wasn't even about LLMs in particular, rather having someone/something else do your work for you. I read it as the student criticizing the teacher for not w
8. 278.▲
   by gblargg 11mo ago

   Apologies to everyone I upset by this comment. It was just an innocent mis-reading of the joke. Lesson learned.
9. 279.▲
   by gblargg 11mo ago

   Yeah, I'm really sorry. I didn't realize it would upset so many people.
10. 280.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    Yes, I missed the student using the teacher's trust in those tools to make them even more angry and neuter their angry email that they (probably) actually wrote themselves. Well-played.
11. 281.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    I don't think I was arguing for LLMs. I wish nobody used them. But the argument against a student using it for assignments is significantly different than that against people in general using them. It's similar to using a calculat
12. 282.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    Same here, on a big screen, I don't see anything notable. I really hope this isn't a mass delusion because YouTube started applying a sharpness ("edge enhancement") filter to videos to make them look sharper. It sure loo
13. 283.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    > student responded by showing a response from ChatGPT claiming it wrote his email Which is actually fine. Students need to do their own homework. A teacher can delegate writing emails.
14. 284.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    So they changed the fee-free day from June 19 to June 14. Ok.
15. 285.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    https://archive.is/eTIsc
16. 286.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    That's a new name I hadn't heard that fits well: unintended opcodes. I also like unofficial. Undocumented isn't correct because these are quite well documented.
17. 287.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    Note that this is for the outage a few weeks ago, not the one today.
18. 288.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    More and more sites I can't even visit because of this "prove you're human" because it's not compatible with older web browsers, even though the website it's blocking is.
19. 289.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    Why would there be a centralized outage of decentralized services? The proper comparison seems to be attacked by a dog or a single wasp.
20. 290.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    I was thinking the same as parent while reading this. Mentally this activates the same thinking as on those medical tests with a high false positive rate and low incidence, so that most positives are false. I'd like to see in the artic
21. 291.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    Maybe some company could start up that had decentralized backups/mirrors/caches of websites in case cloudflare goes down...
22. 292.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    Is there a place to donate for the cause?
23. 293.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    Unless it drags on for years so that the parts are old by the time everything gets liquidated.
24. 294.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    No, you got it backwards. So I guess you need to update your idea of American sentiment, for one (since I'm American). Narrower, more winding roads, with proper highways separated, make everything safer. Safety standards bolted on to A
25. 295.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    My point was that the corresponding worse American performance might not be so much a difference in car safety regulations, but of basic road design. In other words, the same EU vehicle regulations could have a lesser benefit in the USA.
26. 296.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    Just require their stock allocations to be made public and anyone can follow their example.
27. 297.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    You can't really compare the two. Vehicle safety regulations might not be able to make up for the USA having stroads and in general bad design. For the same reasons trying to move safety standards over could make things even worse than
28. 298.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    Not to be confused with MemTest86, a similar program by PassMark.
29. 299.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    DO NOT PRELOAD! DO NOT PRELOAD!!!
30. 300.▲
    by gblargg 11mo ago

    I do this to embed shell commands at the beginning of short one-file C/C++ programs to execute when hitting an F key in my text editor. I usually put very basic compile-and-run commands. It's wrapped in #if and #endif which are co