naikrovek

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by naikrovek 3mo ago
it's all over the place. when you hold a pen or pencil in your right hand, any text is right-side up. put it in your left hand; the text is now upside down. there are millions of little things like that. millions. right-handed peop
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
there has not been $10B in profit solely or partially because of a lack of a right to repair. There's no way.
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
As a lefty, his tongue in cheek derision toward lefties still pisses me off genuinely. I’m old enough to have been smacked around by a teacher as a kid for writing with my left hand. Right-handed bias is EVERYWHERE. Everywhere. Right-han
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
AGI is a long way off. Unless you’re talking about some unknown-to-me LLM marketing BS which is called “AGI” or something, I guess. Artificial general purpose intelligence is so different to LLMs or image AI that they are completely incom
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
How in the heck can you plausibly correct someone else like that? You (almost certainly) don’t know that person, even in passing. People can learn from watching a documentary just as well as they can learn from reading, but reading teaches
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
the endless optimization of everything sure does strip out most enjoyable things, though. often it is these irreplaceable people who contribute the magic that makes their creations popular. George Fan created "Plants vs. Zombies"
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
>It's more art than engineering and they can barely manage the engineering with all the intervention from marketing and HR in their products. truth. far too many MBAs in that company. "Let's monetize Solitaire!!!!"
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
I appreciate your desire to shit on Microsoft for everything they’ve ever done, but they got BitLocker with PIN right. Explain how an exploit can decrypt the drive without the portion of the key that the user must enter. The computer doesn
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
BitLocker with pin is not vulnerable to that (or any other) attack. 10 points deducted. Try again.
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
No one uses a 4-digit pin for BitLocker. No one who knows what they are doing, anyway. My employer requires at least an 18-digit PIN, and not just numbers, either.
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
If you think for one single second that businesses and governments who rely on a lost disk being secure don’t trust bitlocker, I have oceanfront property in Missouri to sell you. Bitlocker + PIN is as secure as anything. A vulnerability can
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
definitely not really.
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
sure. let's make every word mean every concept. why not? that won't confuse anyone.
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
I did not know that, thank you. I should have known that probably, but I'm new to all of this.
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
again, this is something that Plan 9 made very easy and that other operating systems ignored. I'm honestly getting tired of typing that. Bell Labs thought ahead when they made Plan 9. It's definitely not perfect, but it's g
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
electron is better for the developer only . It is worse for everyone else, especially the users. it is an insult when an application is delivered to me as an Electron application. "your time is less important than ours, ha ha."
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
People don't understand how fast SQLite is, it seems. You have to know what you're doing, but that's the same requirement that Postgres has if you want to get the most out of it.
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
Available models aren’t really trending upward in size. Not like I thought they would, anyway. They’re trending to be the right size to be good. Qwen3.6-35B is not as good as Qwen3.6-27B. The larger model is faster, but a lot dumber; it g
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
The don’t let backwards compatibility stop them from doing anything, but I don’t think they go out of their way to target games. That doesn’t make any sense to me.
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
So why can’t Valve do it?
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
why the hell does that require a postgres database instance? has no one heard of sqlite? "It's just `docker compose up` dude." that's not excuse for unnecessary complexity. software for a single person should be a sin
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
"rapt" dammit. oh well. me and words are not on friendly terms. never have been.
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
How is it that this came to my Apple-Silicon Mac before Valve could do it natively? How could it possibly be easier to create a complete-enough virtual machine that runs in a browser and the compiler for it than it is to port the native a
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
“bapt” was my starting word. I was doomed to fail. “bapt” are you kidding?
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
Wow they made something free that I’ve used for 30+ years and have never paid for in my life. Amazing, what an accomplishment! What Herculean effort it must have taken! What the hell am I missing here?
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
the only thing that I noticed that changed in me was my sudden understanding of what "fear" really is. I had not experienced fear prior to becoming a father. The thought of one of my children being ... i'm not even going to
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
> You have dense models (qwen 27b, gemma 31b) who are pretty smart, but pretty slow slowness doesn't matter a lot to me, at home. I will type up a prompt and submit it and let it run while I do other things around the house. I hav
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
Political outrage is only pointless (in the cases when it is actually pointless), because not enough people get outraged. Politicians count on your apathy so they can get away with their horseshit. You paying attention is kryptonite to cro
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
the flickering on that image is probably going to be found to be a cause of epilepsy at some point in the future. instant headache.
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by naikrovek 3mo ago
Huge FPGAs don’t really exist, but you can couple many together with high-speed interconnects. They will never be as fast as an NPU designed to run large models, though. GPUs are extremely general purpose in comparison, and FPGAs are about

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