trentnix

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by trentnix 17d ago
https://github.com/trentnix/misterfin-crt
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by trentnix 18d ago
I have a MiSTer FPGA connected to a Sony CRT and installed the MiSTerFin project, which is a Jellyfin client for MiSTer. It's got a lot of things that need fixing, so I contributed a few PRs to fix some of the problems I encountered. M
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by trentnix 1mo ago
The Docker configuration issue was reported and changes were made quickly to address it. Sounds like this is a great example of the system working well. Omarchy looks like a simple way for a developer like me to test drive hyprland and writ
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by trentnix 1mo ago
The one thing they will all agree on is that you need pills of one sort or another.
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by trentnix 2mo ago
It's a combination of Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy and the emergence of WokeWare over the past decade. For too many, building and celebrating things just because they are cool isn't enough.
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by trentnix 3mo ago
For companies that supposedly are worth trillions, Anthropic and their competitors sure have awfully weak moats.
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by trentnix 3mo ago
> The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be _hard to maintain_. In some organizations, maintainability may be the biggest risk being mitigated in a code review. But for me, that's selling code reviews short.
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by trentnix 4mo ago
Genesis 2:7 (NIV) Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
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by trentnix 4mo ago
The more machines there are to replace men, the more men there will be in society who are nothing but machines. - Louis de Bonald
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by trentnix 4mo ago
> Now back in the 80s? Back in the 80s, despite being aligned with the West, they were perceived a lot like China is today. Everyone was scared that they were going to start eating the West's lunch and various negative stereotypes
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by trentnix 7mo ago
That's not been my experience at all. I only view the "Follow" list because I don't care about the "algorithm". I keep my follow list pretty tight and am pretty aggressive about removing people that post too fr
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by trentnix 7mo ago
Another example of "everything before the word but is horse ****".
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by trentnix 7mo ago
I've also played both roles myself at times. I've been the wise consultant. And I've been the Cassandra that nobody would listen to. My wisdom was never as good as presumed when I was the consultant. And my wisdom was far bet
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by trentnix 7mo ago
“Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown." - Luke 4:24 It's why people often trust consultants over the people inside the organization. It's why people often want to elect new leaders even i
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by trentnix 8mo ago
I've become quite comfortable with being boring. Fact is, it's a great life. When I see "interesting" people doing "interesting" things they look fake, exhausting, or both.
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by trentnix 8mo ago
The speed of the chatbot's response is startling when you're used to the simulated fast typing of ChatGPT and others. But the Llama 3.1 8B model Taalas uses predictably results in incorrect answers, hallucinations, poor reliabilit
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by trentnix 8mo ago
Most execs I've worked with couldn't tell their engineering team what they wanted with any specificity. That won't magically get any better when they talk to an LLM. If you can't write requirements an engineering team ca
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by trentnix 8mo ago
Midwits love this kind of stuff. Movie critics heap praise on forgettable movies to get their names and quotes on the movie poster. Robert Scoble made an entire career in tech bloviation hyping the current thing and got invited to the coo
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by trentnix 8mo ago
It's the guy in the tank that breaks it. Pretty sure it's just a dummy.
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by trentnix 8mo ago
That's true on there being lots of terrible practical effects out there. The parent lauded Raiders of the Lost Ark for its practical effects. In contrast, Last Crusade was a great movie that had a few practical effects that were terrib
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by trentnix 8mo ago
Yep that's Explorers! I was a bit too young for Stand By Me. The subject matter was just too serious for me at that age. But I also grew up in a small town in the country where exploring was a normal thing. I would meet kids from colle
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by trentnix 8mo ago
The animation is cool, but I just wanted to note for Hackers fans and movie nerds that the scenes inside the "Gibson" that this animates were actually done via practical effects.
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by trentnix 8mo ago
It's my favorite movie of all time, even though it's one of those movies that I don't expect anyone else to like. It's just a shot of joyful nostalgia right into my veins every time I watch it. Explorers, the Ethan Hawke
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by trentnix 8mo ago
> What was this person thinking? He was thinking he wasn't going to get caught.
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by trentnix 8mo ago
Reduce the power of government if you want to reduce the power certain individuals have over society. Because government is such a single, extremely powerful lever it becomes a singular target of influence and corruption by the rich and inf
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by trentnix 8mo ago
Thanks for this. It is timely.
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by trentnix 8mo ago
"permitted" What exactly do you think their response to attempted forcible disarmament would be?
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by trentnix 8mo ago
Is this a precursor to Tesla offering autopilot in vehicles from other manufacturers? Sure, other manufactuers would have to adopt the hardware and integrate with the autopilot interface, but self-driving is inevitable and Tesla autopilot i
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by trentnix 8mo ago
Citations aren’t necessary when the incentives for fraud are so great and the means of executing fraud so easy. It’s not demonstrably problematic , it’s inevitably problematic.
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by trentnix 9mo ago
Now that they’ve effectively destroyed their competition through predatory pricing and services, the ensh*ttification can accelerate.

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