mikestorrent

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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
Can't wait for pallets of paper to get shipped out to comply maliciously
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
I guess if one needs furry decals badly enough you could just cut them out by hand
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
Regen braking is pretty amazing, I love it. I wish it was more configurable, though. I test drove the weird Mazda MX-30 and while it was too gutless and low-range to buy, one thing that impressed the hell out of me was the use of flappy-pad
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
You might be a fan of kelvin versioning: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/kelvin_versioning.html
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
> It is the gradual end of general purpose computing you own, and the start of everything just being cloud compute that someone else owns and you rent. A few thoughts... (a) There've never been more general purpose computers than th
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
Place looks pretty nice, too.
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
Doesn't TPMS take care of that? Though, it seems like it's being done in software now to save costs...
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
Well, how do you drive? And in what climate?
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
Only Californians could dream up a stupid program like this and pretend that it's environmentally protective to send a ton more tire particles into the ecosystem, while costing consumers more, and probably increasing their carbon footp
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
I was 12 years old and had qcrack on a floppy from a buddy. Everyone had it. Didn't even have to have internet.
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
Hells yeah qcrack.zip
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
And here we are, almost all the complaints from a decade ago still have relevance
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
Then you'd have to focus on making a website someone gives a shit about, with content worth pursuing. Instead, one can just retreat into the engineering ivory tower, making an ever purer object that ever fewer people can understand or
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
> Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
The appeal is literally a "fuck you" to anyone that makes me have to run a build process for a web page, when I used to just be able to click reload and see the reality in front of me in seconds on a machine 1/500th the speed
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
The problem with the SPA is that the browser is a document platform being abused to run GUI applications. It's missing the core primitives that real UI platforms had in the 90s, like decent smart sortable tables and data bindings. So a
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
There are proxies to enable old computers with old browsers to render the modern web as an imagemap. And of course, 20 years ago I was doing everything you'd want to do with a modern webapp with PHP; fast enough for a thousand users on
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
Well, homomorphic encryption is becoming a thing, and secure enclave/TPM chips have been a thing for ages. What would it take to give some kind of AI hardware the ability to have "private thoughts", i.e. cryptographically imp
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
The only time I'm anti-3d-print is when $0.85 worth of filament shaped like a cat has an $15 price tag at the local tchotchke shop.
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
How could a person (of any ethnicity) be able to respond reliably enough and quickly enough to design nudges to be able to iterate back and forth on this kind of thing with any usable latency? I don't think it's possible.
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
Agreed. Getting to the Singularity requires that the AI be capable of improving its own iteration cycle time for doubling its processor performance, across the board - which means everything from physical design to fabrication to packaging
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
The goal behind these efforts, fundamentally, is to make it impossible to organize efforts to dissent against whatever comes next. We still have the tools for mass organization but we lack unifying charismatic leaders who could use them in
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by mikestorrent 2mo ago
Calling things "systemic" is unfortunately often just a way of offloading the problem into the pile of Things We Can't Fix. It removes individual accountability, in an era where we are increasingly able to assess the effect a
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by mikestorrent 3mo ago
Perhaps one needs to go a level up: if making the program is now semi-trivial, it remains to be proven if using the program to actually perform is. If I have a Star Trek replicator that can reproduce a perfect Stradivarius for me, is it any
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by mikestorrent 3mo ago
Always weirds me out to see an iMac running an OS older than OS X. The physical design language really ended up dictating the OS X look, didn't it? Still does, in a way, with Liquid Glass bringing back clear.
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by mikestorrent 3mo ago
Yes, and we haven't even really begun to nail down computer-use agents yet (can you believe they're still basically just OCR'ing screenshots?) Once we have something that experiences a desktop interface more like a human does
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by mikestorrent 3mo ago
Yes, this one. Look at our governance; look at our coordination-at-scale; look at our collective problem solving. It's abysmal, beyond hope. If we have global scale problems, we are not capable of solving them effectively. We are liter
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by mikestorrent 3mo ago
Yes, and RMS was correct in his Right to Read and so many other things - we're seeing the slow death of the never-enshrined-in-law right to compute. Luckily open-source is big enough to slow this down; we should all be pretty amazed an
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by mikestorrent 3mo ago
When you press the gas pedal in your car down (which used to just be a cable to the throttle body), does your car instantaneously increase in speed to match the pedal position? All you're doing is letting more air in - the RPM is a fun
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by mikestorrent 3mo ago
3000? Here I am wishing there was some Wankel Rotary representation and you're shifting at 3000? What are you driving, a Peterbilt?

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