lynx97

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by lynx97 5d ago
I'm pretty much fine, thank you. And I am pretty sure that is true for most HN users. Most of us are not hungry. The rest is a bunch of first-world problems.
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by lynx97 5d ago
What is the problem?
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by lynx97 5d ago
Fun fact. You can see that W is kind of the oddball when looking at the Braille alphabet. XYZ used to align with MNO, until W was added as the 23th letter, which breaks the symmetry. ⠁⠃⠉⠙⠑⠋⠛⠓⠊⠚ (abcdefghij) ⠅⠇⠍⠝⠕⠏⠟⠗⠎⠞ (klmnopqrst) ⠥⠧⠺⠭⠽⠵
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by lynx97 9d ago
No, I haven't "seen the photos", literally, since I am blind. Which is also why "asking for forgiveness" wouldn't work with me, because, you know, I wouldn't even notice if you didn't ask for permiss
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by lynx97 9d ago
The entitlement of "I can photograph whatever I want"-people is unmatched, which is nicely demonstrated by this thread. Disrespectful, entitled and self-scentered.... individuals.
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by lynx97 10d ago
Whats creepy to me is people telling all sorts of sensitive information to a chatbot and NOT expecting weird consequences. The level of cope is massive.
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by lynx97 10d ago
Well, yes, PGN files have structure... But still, playing Chess with an LLM is so weird that I impulsively question the sanity of people attempting to do so. Do some people really believe training on TWIC PGNs would make an LLM a good ches
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by lynx97 10d ago
I would PAY Apple $500 if they'd dedicate a year of development only to fixing known issues. The number of sort-of-well-known bug grows from year to year, and it feels like they only accumulate, never go away. VoiceOver of my (touch-
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by lynx97 11d ago
True. However, if your child ends up developing a dependance on alcohol, do you seriously place the responsibility for that on the dealers who sold them the booze? I'd call that a lazy excuse for very bad parenting.
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by lynx97 11d ago
Last year, the "you need to upgrade to the recent iOS major version to use your brand new Apple Watch" caught me off-guard. This year, I am back to the usual routine of waiting AT LEAST 6 months until upgrading iOS. https:/
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by lynx97 11d ago
Do you believe the war on drugs is actually working? Very good example you brought up there. Question is: Can we make the world safe by just arresting every bad guy... Ooooor, maybe, just maybe... Individuals are responsible for their own
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by lynx97 11d ago
To stay in context and say at least something to the weird ad hominem: I deliberately didn't father any children. There is no respoinsibility you might be able to assign. Contrary to actual parents, who very well know that they have
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by lynx97 11d ago
Wow! Memory safety and such... Reminds me when a friend of mine wrote in IRC long time ago: "Hmm, tail just segfaulted." When I asked "Are you on Hurd?" he just replied "Yes."
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by lynx97 12d ago
This is soooo true. But unfortunately, whenever you confront a parent with their responsibilities, they immediately lash out with excuses. "How should I know." "There is already sooo much work to do." "In these
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by lynx97 12d ago
Instead of sueing the platforms, the parents should be subjected to CPS, on a daily basis.
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by lynx97 15d ago
I have no problem with not being on top of a hierarchy. But having no agency at all was a horrible way of existance.
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by lynx97 15d ago
This is plain wrong. For a browser, a11y doesn't just get handled by the OS automatically. In general, claiming a11y is easy or will be done by someone else is bordering on evil.
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by lynx97 16d ago
They basically replaced the static position evaluation function with a NN approach and kept the rest of the tree search mostly intact. I ran fishtest on an old cluster for a while. Was nice to watch the stockfish team methodically improvin
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by lynx97 16d ago
> ... because they know it is wrong No. They hide the things they do wrong because they learnt there are consequences and they dont want to get caught.
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by lynx97 16d ago
I doubt that. Across the street of our small organic shop around the corner is a bike parking spot. Still, I recently fall over a bike parked directly in front of the door of said shop. Bike people are lazy more often then not.
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by lynx97 16d ago
I take a 8 hour work day over being subjected to more or less random weirdness from "adults" every day. IOW, not everyone has this rose-tinted view of their childhood. I still remember adults saying "you will once look back
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by lynx97 16d ago
Don't forget the elderly. They are responsible for a crash in roughly $age% of the cases. So a 66 yo person is the reason for a crash in 2/3 of the cases... I hear Greece has a mandatory doctor visit after 65 of so every 2 year
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by lynx97 16d ago
As a blind pedestrian, 95% of the pain I have to endure while out and about is due to lazily parked bikes. IOW, bikes can even hurt people if they are NOT moving and their owner isn't even around.
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by lynx97 24d ago
I wasn't trying to imply there is anything wrong with these practice projects. I have written at least two chess engines maybe. And I am seriouly considering to write an editor, so, there you have it. I kind of got sidetracked by im
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by lynx97 24d ago
Depends. I take an AI generated voice over a french guy trying to talk english every day! Same for japanese. I really try, but I find these two speaker types really hard to follow and stay alert.
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by lynx97 24d ago
So apparently every half-serious coder will write at least one chess engine and a text editor. Any other program type which gets implemented over-and-over again?
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Sabine Hossenfelder: More Exposed Than Ever (Racism Edition) [video](youtube.com)
12 points by lynx97 26d ago|1 comments
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by lynx97 26d ago
Posting this here, because it always fascinatede me how soooo many HN readers are falling for Sabine.
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by lynx97 26d ago
"We removed the wheelchair ramp because it was used by rodents to enter our building." "Don't shoot the messenger!" Security can't be a reason for discrimination.
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by lynx97 26d ago
Sure, I am practicing understanding for the tyranny around me everyday when I wake up, as a meditation exercise. Answers like yours kill the little remaining faith I have in people. This same argument has been used to defend sloppily implem

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