spacedcowboy

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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
This blog seems all wrapped up in faux patriotism to me. As someone actually going through [1] the compliance requirements of the Online Safety Law (OSA), it is not as draconian as it is being painted here. 1. The act only applies if you ha
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
I'm a Mac guy, so no Androids or PC's around. I did try it on the Mac, and got "This browser doesn't support WebTransport, so the UDP side of this demo can't run here." Didn't see that on the iPad, though.
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
I’ve written about this before … I have no mind's eye, and I definitely consider it an advantage. I genuinely thought it was a euphemism until I was about 20, drunk, and surrounded by friends at college, playing a game in the student b
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
I was thinking more "dickhead", or "tosser", or ... well the choice is legion
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
Maybe my router, but the UDP version doesn’t work on my iPad…
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
One of the advantages of LLM's is that you can set up a task list and tell it to burn through those tasks overnight. It's a rare night that Claude isn't busy for me, and I do burn through my 20x subscription, sufficiently t
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
And marketing it with "turd brown" ass (oops!) an option
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
i sold my m3 ultra /512 for £14000, or about $18000. The difference is what is important to me for a new one, and assuming $6k or so for the 256->512 boost, my cost will be about $16k, so i’ll save $2k by upgrading to the top-of-t
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
I’m about to release a cross compiler for a new language as open source, works on mac, win, linux. Produces binaries for mac, win, linux, wasm32 and a few others more of interest to me than anyone else (6502, m68k, arm A9 on zynq) next up i
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
Hmm. Those that don’t understand binary, those that do, and those who extend the Bool class ?
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
I would argue that NATO under Trump is a paper tiger. There is a reason no-one wants to buy US weapons any more, though the intricacies of where they are, having assumed the US would be a reliable ally, mean the current flood of US weaponry
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
Last I knew, ASML was a Dutch company with a Veldhoven HQ. With the amount of shit that Trump's been pulling in Europe, The EU might be more willing to side with China and ban exports to the US.
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
Honestly, if you're going to build a compiler today, an LLM is a pretty good way to go about it. Just make sure you actually design the language and let the LLM do the implementation and testing. xc[1] started off as a modern compile
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
I agree with this. I think current social-network websites highlight the most extreme "news", posts and articles - which they benefit from, and therefore encourage, it's a vicious circle. It doesn't end well for the user
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
"The revolutionary RISC architecture" here is referring to "the ARM architecture", which is a RISC architecture. I wasn't claiming that Acorn invented RISC.
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
I dunno. How rich are you ? And do you happen to play college football ? That would help.
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
> wonders how ARM did that Acorn co-founder Hermann Hauser famously joked that he gave the original ARM microchip design team two distinct advantages: no time and no resources. With no money for a large crew or complex hardware, the tiny
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
Thanks :) There's a whole lot of help out there for getting things started, in fact the technology part isn't the difficult part - its the legalities and hoops you have to jump through to stay legal (which are mainly aimed at <
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
I’m about halfway done writing a replacement to Reddit, with no adverts, no tracking, no data harvesting, no selling of your data, no algorithm-driven presentation, no tracking pixels, basically none of the things that annoyed me about redd
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
Shouldn’t this count as ‘edited headline’ ? At least when I click on the link it says “ Some Claude users…”
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
I have a robot vacuum cleaner. I am struggling to figure out how it could possibly be a national security hazard... It can't even manage stairs, so the Dalek Solution is pretty much a hard stop...
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
I mean, that video said the number/postcode combo actually worked, but arrived a day later after manual sorting. I might just try this :)
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
By all means, the variety in addressing is a constant software-developer trap. The above will cover the 99% case though. There are even buildings with multiple postcodes (DVLA is one such, I believe)
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
My house has a name, not a number, not that uncommon in the UK, especially for a 200-year-old building. I think there’s a bit of false equivalence going on here as well regarding zip codes (several thousand addresses, or thereabouts) and a
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
Not that this has much to do with Wails, but taking issue with the author's point about Apple not allowing cross-compilation... I don't think Apple gets a say in how cross-compilation should work, really. I have a language[1] I (a
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
Another, possibly easier, way is to ask an LLM to give you a quiz on a topic, and then discuss your answers with it. Surprisingly effective.
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
It's an easy "out" for those without the self-respect to admit when they do wrong. It's like "The computer did it" from the 80's and 90's. Blame the tool for the operator usage. It's pathetic.
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
Yep, I’m generally not an advert person, but even I remember the cow adverts in the otherwise staid PCW mag. I think the only test of advertising is if it works. This seems to have worked on me…
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by spacedcowboy 2mo ago
I suspect the author of this piece has a bias so extreme it would be visible from the moon, unlike the Great Wall of China. Statements like: “as in the cases of the U.K. —which kept its spending out of line with its wealth by making health
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
Hasn't this been obvious for a while ? The US is about 1/5 of the way down an ever-more-slippery slope towards a fascist state. Its much-vaunted "checks and balances" have been shown to be paper tigers, and the constitut

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