lightedman

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by lightedman 6d ago
I'm hearing in other chats that this is actually a rehash of a nonsensical recycling attempt done a couple of years ago. So I want to ask a question. What in this study would throw the HN people off as incorrect or raising a flag? Is t
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by lightedman 8d ago
"It's not reasonable to expect thousands of existing games to port to ARM" Realistically it is possible and not actually that difficult. The hardest part would be ensuring that specific code changes from older x86 code to mod
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by lightedman 10d ago
Let's just use Flock cameras to track all top-level YC people, publish everything we possibly can. Absolutely and utterly eliminate their privacy until they learn to respect ours.
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by lightedman 10d ago
"Sounds like he is salty that somebody found an exploit using LLM that he found manually" No, he's salty that this last remaining hypervisor exploit is going to get patched, causing his PS5 Linux project to get wholly-fucked
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by lightedman 10d ago
The amount of "Do not put hands here" labels I've seen on lawnmowers would suggest that, yes, someone did sue and win (or at the least got a settlement) and thus the lawyers forced the companies to put disclaimers and warning
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by lightedman 11d ago
"What animal species often offers males only one chance of mating ?!" "Fighting to the death and mating are not the same!" Your original question and your current statement are in confliction. Pick one.
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by lightedman 12d ago
Underpowered where it really counts. The GPU is barely better than that in a Quest 3 (Adreno 750 in Steam Frame vs Adreno 740 in Quest 3,) and while the CPU is almost 250% better overall than what is in the Quest 3, CPU power hasn't re
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by lightedman 12d ago
Windows 95 had a beta build for 286 systems, which is what this system 'ran.' Bet you don't even know about Windows 97.
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by lightedman 12d ago
The ToS lines up with specific laws that will very quickly make your point moot. the Computer Misuse Act of 1990 (since the place in question is in the UK) works alongside that ToS - accessing computer systems, networks, or data without per
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by lightedman 12d ago
"Like I said, it will delay the Chinese labs for a couple years." Not even that long. China can simply order its industries to stop supplying externally and go full-domestic. It has happened before in others parts of Chinese indus
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by lightedman 12d ago
Sounds like Discord also has a case against RockStar because their ToS expressly forbids sharing login credentials. You wanted your IPO money, Discord? Suing the shit out of RockStar and winning is the way to go here.
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by lightedman 12d ago
We had Win95 running on a 25MHz 4MB FPRAM 286 back in high school. Poor teacher, half of first period was roughly how long it took to boot up, only for them to exit into DOS mode because the grading software and report card software was DOS
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by lightedman 13d ago
US Person is not a tax definition, it is a security definition. holds up access badge with US Person written on it Taxes do not care if you're an American or not, you're still paying them.
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by lightedman 14d ago
"How would you force the judge to do that?" You read my wording wrong - you wouldn't force the judge, the judge forces Google.
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by lightedman 14d ago
"I advocate for right-sizing your hardware to predicable workloads and not using swap at all." You do realize in the current semiconductor-short code-bloat-heavy economy we're in right now that your advocation would be prohib
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by lightedman 14d ago
Then you sue them again in small claims court for the damages of not having access to your accounts (to which other online services require/are tied to which are not Google-owned properties) and have the judge force your reinstatement
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by lightedman 14d ago
The moment Google removed 'Do No Evil' from their values the only explanation left is pure malice.
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by lightedman 15d ago
Or be a proper computer user and have a full drive on its own dedicated bus for swap. There is literally no point in time where a full swap drive is less performant or useful than swap directories or swap files (and swap files are a relic o
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by lightedman 15d ago
"No child would ever play with this ball. Have still seen this idea at least three times now despite the fact that if the reporter spent 15 seconds with the actual ball they'd realize it's a complete non-starter." No chi
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by lightedman 15d ago
Of course HN isn't going to stop advertising the very thing it's probably sunk a ton of money into. If you want actual technical discussion of other subjects, maybe slashdot is still around.
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by lightedman 16d ago
Simple. Change the gravitational constant of the universe.
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by lightedman 16d ago
Which process, though? Every human alive easily went from millions of cells to billions of cells to trillions of cells.
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by lightedman 16d ago
I am on IPv6 and I cannot access your site.
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by lightedman 16d ago
For an example of this that most anyone can find in nature, look up the humble agate (banded ones, most seam agates do not display the phenomena to as great of an extent.)
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by lightedman 17d ago
I was about to come in and say - orange groves are ALWAYS topped. I worked at the California Citrus State Historic Park, topping was done frequently. Same thing for most any orange grove from Cali to Florida. In fact, they're basically
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by lightedman 18d ago
If only it were not dog slow in performance metrics. Still not as slow as Open Office but man it's close. And that's on a newer Dell Pro Max with an Ultra 7 processor, 96GB RAM, and dual GPUs (Arc and RTX Blackwell.)
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by lightedman 20d ago
Probably the same reason it was written with explicit DOS support.
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by lightedman 20d ago
I'll provide a citation since I'm in this industry and watch it closely. De Beers currently has about 2 billion worth of diamond stock in its holds. This equates to about... 5-6 months of sales volume. It used to be worth more but
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by lightedman 24d ago
If you're in the USA you file in small claims where most lawyers are not allowed and you win there. bonus: You set precedent for other people to sue and beat Verisign down cut by cut.
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by lightedman 24d ago
"I think when people use NPC as an insult (it is a dumb insult in my opinion)" It's a great insult, because it is usually used to describe someone whose viewpoint is basically a brainwashed and braindead pre-programmed one (e

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