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by userbinator 29d ago
Almost 13 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6759426
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by userbinator 29d ago
How much does he even care about the details of X these days? I suspect the original C&Ds were just their legal team wanting to "do something" upon hearing about Nitter somehow, and not Elon personally commanding them. ...and
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by userbinator 29d ago
You spent --- what I'd assume would be several k$ from prices found online --- to buy a self-playing piano, and are now asking if you can release the tools to have it play the music of your choosing? IMHO the fact that you even had to
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by userbinator 29d ago
Soon enough you will realise that everything is a derivative work, and the sooner that happens to everyone, the faster the delusion of Imaginary Property will disappear and lead to actual competition and progress.
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by userbinator 29d ago
Two letters is luxury, when most BASIC interpreters in those days only recognised 1-letter variables.
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by userbinator 29d ago
Just ask your preferred AI tool if it can shrink the OP's code while keeping the same functionality; I suspect it could. At this point, LLMs are probably no worse than an average human at sizecoding or targeting resource-constrained pl
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by userbinator 29d ago
but using the source itself as the target of function calls and loops is new to me This was standard practice on interpreters for 8-bit microcomputers; with only a 64K total address space, creating an AST first seems immensely wasteful, s
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by userbinator 29d ago
To be precise this is 1024 bytes of C, which compiles to a binary many times larger, and implements a very tiny subset of Python. loops work by jumping backwards and reparsing the source each iteration This is how the DOS .bat processing
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by userbinator 29d ago
Computer files are very unintuitive concept for humans. That's just an excuse they give to justify the cycle of learned helplessness and control by Big Tech.
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by userbinator 29d ago
A file system, especially a local one, invites interoperability and control over one's data. Hiding this from users makes it more difficult for them to have that control, and now they have to rely on the application vendor to do in a p
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by userbinator 29d ago
That's not a UI issue.
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by userbinator 29d ago
They certainly design --- to look good at first glance, but not necessarily be practical.
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by userbinator 29d ago
because the original Macintosh didn't have arrow keys on the keyboard. However, the very next keyboard they designed did have them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Macintosh_Plus_Exte... I can't im
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by userbinator 29d ago
Thinly veiled marketing post. I've had to use Finder, and it's definitely frustrating in a "Think Different" sort of way, but this article doesn't actually mention why beyond vague statements. Here's a concrete
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by userbinator 1mo ago
You don't even need a CT to identify the cores; they are already quite obvious in regular die photos as repeated areas. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intel_Core_i9-13900K...
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by userbinator 1mo ago
I wonder if lobsters give you the same feeling?
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by userbinator 1mo ago
This is why envy is a sin.
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by userbinator 1mo ago
I'm probably not exaggerating if I say that the majority of people on the planet who have the knowledge and skills to easily do this, and are doing it for a living, are in the Far East.
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by userbinator 1mo ago
I misread that as "people getting reincarnated" and was momentarily very confused.
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by userbinator 1mo ago
Anything other than .com, .net, .org, and well-known ccTLDs I see in search results subconsciously get skipped over as "probably SEO spam or other useless content". These new weird TLDs are like the .tk and .us of old.
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by userbinator 1mo ago
typically means wading through Gemini or talking to (non-technical) support who just read GCP documentation back to you These days, those two might be the same thing.
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by userbinator 1mo ago
Meanwhile, Flock cameras are getting cut down, shot at, spray painted, or stolen with regularity in the US. For better or worse, there's a sizeable chunk of the US population who still have that "rebel" trait; that and the
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by userbinator 1mo ago
They are not governments but have properties of them. Additionally, they are unelected .
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by userbinator 1mo ago
We're not talking about food.
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by userbinator 1mo ago
That's disturbing. Ironically, the article in question was published July 4th last year. Note that the bar for defamation is a lot higher in the US than many other countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamatio
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by userbinator 1mo ago
The counterbore accommodates a filter element. Maybe they were worried it could change the interference fit if they drilled them before installation, or wanted the swaging effect.
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by userbinator 1mo ago
Plane engines are extremely highly optimised, and the design margins are basically at the limit of what regulations allow, which is IMHO why the tiniest of errors can have huge consequences. However, in this case it sounds like the manufact
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by userbinator 1mo ago
The older the system/the more changes it's had, especially if it's "enterprise software", the more insane things tend to be; in one memorable case, it was a .zip containing JSON, which then contained base64-encoded
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by userbinator 1mo ago
If my experience with image generation is any indication, unless AWS keys are somehow extremely prevalent in the training data, you may get something that looks like one, but it definitely won't be valid.
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by userbinator 1mo ago
I think Grok's Unhinged Mode (what a name) might've been the first to do that.

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