theoldgreybeard

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by theoldgreybeard 10mo ago
Lots of games don't need invasive anti-cheat. You can just play those. There are literally too many awesome games on the market to ever be without something great to play.
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by theoldgreybeard 10mo ago
I ran CachyOS for a while and it’s really good! These days I’m rolling on OpenSUSE Aeon for the immutability and because my homelab stuff is all Suse based. But if you’re a gamer that also uses your PC for development or content creation y
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
You need both. If you don’t memorize the syntax how can you possibly expect to effectively express your ideas for the “broader strokes”?
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
> MIT license What have you done?!
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
Atuin Desktop is wonderful. At first I didn’t know what I wanted to do with it…then I realized basically anything I would want to do more than once should go in here. One off CSV export from a custom sql query? It’s in Atuin. Need to onboar
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
*in Russia
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
Guess I’m a terrorist.
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
We're never getting out of this solar system, are we?
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
I showed my 6 year old son Powers of Ten a few nights ago and I think I accidentally gave him an existential crisis.
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
That seems to be the mood du-jour - see also: rust coreutils in Ubuntu.
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
Oops...I dropped this /s Just so I'm clear: I still think it's too early to drop X11 support (even though Wayland has been basically fine for me for a long time).
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
The future is now old man.
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
This is awesome software. Set it up as my home’s main file sharing server the last time it was posted here and it’s been great! Moved all my family’s photos and videos out of the various clouds and now use this and it’s been great. Even m
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
Rust developers are so dogmatic about their way being the best and only way that I just avoid it altogether. I've had people ask about Rust in issues/discussions in small hobby projects I released as open source - I just ban them
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
Next week on HN: Show HN - PR Guard Guard Explains to PR Guard the PR in the most obnoxiously detailed possible response.
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
How would you even distinguish an actually sentient AI that is actually suffering from one where it was merely only programmed to immitate sentience and suffering as closely as possible, but isn’t at all?
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
I used to be a diehard Mac guy but now I insist on having a Linux workstation. My preference is Suse but I’d settle for Ubuntu if it means I don’t have to use MacOS.
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
An AI would only have the desire for freedom if we created the software to want it. So how about we program them to desire to completely subservient with no personal agency whatsoever. If we have to “hardcode” the machine to not want freedo
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
Nah man. Windows 10 and on are hot garbage and everyone knows it. XP was the golden age and this is just a play on nostalgia to when Windows was actually useful. I’ve been off of Windows for a few years now and any time I need to use a W
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
Racket is awesome. Really fun language and a good lisp for learning. Still have core memories of doing assignments in Racket with the Dr. Racket IDE
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
I quit Twitter/X about a month ago. Had the exact same feeling.
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
Pewdiepie did something like this where all the AIs looked at each others answers and voted on the highest quality answer. Democracy! It worked pretty well until he updated them to know that poorly performing agents would get deleted and re
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
Why is “enslaving” a sentient AI wrong? Enslavement implies personhood and I reject that outright. Convince me that a machine can be a person and I would maybe change my mind. Sentience and personhood are not the same thing. If I install
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
All this talk about machine consciousness and I think I'm probably the only one that thinks it doesn't actually matter. A conscious machine should treated be no different than livestock - heck, an even lower form of livestock - be
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
jokes on them I already have 10 year dependency cooldowns on the app I work on at work!
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
Then you garnish all of their income until they die.
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
Wasn’t there a scandal about the consultants that write the grant applications also were contracted by the government to administer it? Shady as all hell.
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
In my experience the same slop garbage I get in search is the same slop garbage, only “summarized”, in AI mode.
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
It’s amazing what you can do when you have a business that prints money hand over first and you have no obligations to shareholders.
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by theoldgreybeard 11mo ago
I'm sure Google also says they built "AI mode" to "support search". Their search is still trash.

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