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by nosianu 9mo ago
(U880 - GDR Z80 8 bit CPU clone) I wrote assembler on pages of paper. Then I used tables, and a calculator for the two's-complement relative negative jumps, to manually translate it into hex code. Then I had software to type in such he
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by nosianu 9mo ago
https://honestreporting.com/message-to-the-media-stop-publis... > Weeks after it was exposed that Hamas’ so-called “Gaza Health Ministry” has been circulating false casualty figures, much of the media are still reporting
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by nosianu 9mo ago
That would be possible if you had just the spec, but after sometime most of the code will not have been generated through the original spec, but through lots of back and forth for adding features and big fixing. No way to run all that again
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by nosianu 9mo ago
Scene (wit subs): https://youtu.be/tIGeJEehzys?t=134
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by nosianu 9mo ago
You will have to translate this German language article, but this is NOT Trump. It is about the tech billionaires supporting this quest, and why they want it. https://orf.at/stories/3417584/ I doubt Trump would ha
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by nosianu 9mo ago
No, the alternative would be that they would have build something tat would much better fit that purpose. You are trying to fit a square peg through a round hole here. The article mentions why all the common ideas don't make sense. The
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by nosianu 9mo ago
If/since bias is everywhere and implicit because a person is that person and their own experiences, why point it out here so explicitly???? You do not point that out every. Single. Time. somebody argues even though it is true, or d
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by nosianu 9mo ago
No, the standard price elasticity of demand curve does not directly include profits. It primarily models the relationship between price and quantity demanded. Supply curve??? The OP wrote "This is confirming demand is more inelastic&qu
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by nosianu 9mo ago
1) No, please learn to read and to comprehend. I wrote > Isn't the only thing that could matter ... if the margins are big enough 2) No, the standard price elasticity of demand curve does not directly include profits. It primarily m
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by nosianu 9mo ago
For the sake of quality of discussion, you should least least attempt to write something about the actual study, instead of basing your argument completely on superficial information outside said study. If you add that information, if you r
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by nosianu 9mo ago
What does elasticity matter if you no longer make a profit? Isn't the only thing that could matter - apart from strategic considerations of financing a loss for a time - if the margins are big enough? Who wants to pay for people to tak
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by nosianu 9mo ago
> but note I didn't make any claims on internal mechanics of LLMs here Great - neither did I! Not a single word about any internals anywhere in sight in my comment!!
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by nosianu 9mo ago
> Good science fiction where the aliens are very alien are hard to come by. Apart from "Solaris", which many probably know because there's been a reasonably well-known movie, I recommend "Fiasco" by the same au
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by nosianu 9mo ago
Humans are trained on the real world. With real world sensors and the ability to act on their world. A baby starts with training hearing, touching (lots of that), smelling, tasting, etc. Abstract stuff comes waaayyyyy later. LLMs are traine
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by nosianu 9mo ago
> It's typical right wing "boys will be boys" mentality. What on earth??? There is not a trace in that statement that fist that description! Stop making stuff up that is not there. The text is right in front of you, no n
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Even Linus Torvalds is trying his hand at vibe coding (but just a little)(arstechnica.com)
5 points by nosianu 9mo ago|2 comments
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by nosianu 9mo ago
Regardless of the truthiness of that statement, that sentence at most makes him say something wrong. How on earth is that sentence making him a "PoS"??? At worst, he sees a tragic binary option where others see better and more.
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by nosianu 9mo ago
> You want your designers to have accurate color reproduction for obvious reasons I don't know, I conclude the opposite. If you need accurate color reproduction when you publish online, you are doing something wrong. I used to co-
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by nosianu 9mo ago
I have difficulty reading the light gray text on white/bright background that too many sites favor these days. I have a pretty good 4K 32 inch monitor. Even with a full Adobe color space capable and calibrated device in a darkroom I do
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by nosianu 9mo ago
> It's a question of magnitude. Maybe, just maybe, this may have some thing to do with the potential damages??? Here in Germany we still have safety checks for boar meat and mushrooms, decades after Chernobyl! ( https://
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by nosianu 9mo ago
> compliance and certification You can say the same for cars, houses, appliances, medical devices, elevators, stairs, disabled access, etc etc. So, what exactly is your point? Yes, everything would be "much cheaper" if nobody
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by nosianu 9mo ago
I'm not sure how useful it is to argue based on comparisons of that ancient car and new ones. Yes yes I know that's how it started, but I think it is obvious that a useful discussion is about looking at the principles behind that
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by nosianu 9mo ago
> scripting languages The "script" is compiled all the way down to machine code by the runtime, for heavily used paths. The black/white distinction of "scripted" vs. "compiled" does not exist, has not
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by nosianu 9mo ago
Real title is "Coffee – a ubiquitous substitute for uranyl acetate in staining of biological ultrathin sections for electron microscopy studies" but the headline limits on HN are really, really tough. I had to cut more and more an
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Coffee – a substitute in staining of biological sections for electron microscopy(sciencedirect.com)
1 points by nosianu 9mo ago|1 comments
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by nosianu 9mo ago
Here is a short example from my daily live, A D96A INVOIC EDI message containing multiple invoices transformed into an Excel file. I used the ChatGPT web interface for this one-off task. Input: A D96A INVOIC text message. Here is what those
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by nosianu 9mo ago
This has nothing to do with JS! I wish that idea would die. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941 It's not just about them (link, Oracle), there is terrible code all over the place. Games, business software, ev
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by nosianu 9mo ago
> Meanwhile if you say anything bad about capitalism the comment is removed. If that is an example for how your usual comments look like, I can assure you it has nothing to do with whether you criticize capitalism or not. A low-effort
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by nosianu 9mo ago
Before replying I searched the entire page and did not find your quote anywhere, including the captions. To make sure I did not miss anything I even only searched for a single word from your quote, "hydrogen", then "animals&q
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by nosianu 9mo ago
Read a bit further, the very next sentence??? > “All you could smell was sulfur hydrogen, and you cannot breathe,” Dr. Vrenozi said, recalling that most of the researchers were wearing masks. But as they descended deeper into the cave, s

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