vdupras

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   Ask HN: Can current AI models grok "Elon is Snowball"?

   1 points by vdupras 1y ago|16 comments
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   by vdupras 1y ago

   All of a sudden, a nuclear war that destroys our global capability to produce advanced microchips doesn't sound so bad, does it?
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   by vdupras 1y ago

   Articles like this makes this uneasy though resurface: something is wrong with this path. It's not really about AI itself, but about the efficiency of the path. AI proponents tell us that this tool enable them to be purely creative by
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   by vdupras 1y ago

   If Linus is correct in his assumption that malicious work has to be involved to produce this tree (rather than being the result of merges and rebases gone wrong), it would indicate that Kees' development machines are compromised.
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   by vdupras 1y ago

   I don't remember my exact source, and I admit that the situation might have changed in the last year, but here's what a quick "global energy usage over time by type" google search yielded: https://ourworldinda
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   by vdupras 1y ago

   And yet, despite all these pushes, fossil fuel consumption has yet to show signs of ever going down . In relative terms? sure, but in absolute, we're still burning more dead dinosaurs than ever. EDIT: but I've got to say, I didn&
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   by vdupras 1y ago

   I'm still waiting for the solar-powered lithium mining trucks... Until then, solar panels are just stored fossil fuels.
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   by vdupras 1y ago

   Seriously? And nobody told me? This is so cool on so many levels, foremost, the fact that it seems to have an integrated supply chain for it. Does it mean they produce the Z80, VDP and friends or do they have big stocks of it? The SMS is a
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   by vdupras 1y ago

   And, also famously, Hitler's playbook with Czechia.
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    by vdupras 1y ago

    How can we tell if a populace is unified or not? If Canada and the US merged, would it be more "unified"? Would the world population be more "unified" under a world government? If not, what makes the existing governments
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    by vdupras 1y ago

    Yes, I agree that we can observe that phenomenon, but it's more a "public emotion" kind of movement. America's loss of its world police status means balkanization of many states and that's an undercurrent that is st
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    by vdupras 1y ago

    Quebec separatism isn't popular right now, but I also think the the balkanization of the West is coming. The separatist party in Quebec has pretty good support right now, not because separatism is popular, but because of the lack of op
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    by vdupras 1y ago

    Sourcehut provides targz bundles for tags: https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/refs
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    by vdupras 1y ago

    I'm not of the academic type and this type of vocabulary quickly loses me. Lots of words to describe something that, at its core, is pretty simple. Mind twisting, but simple. Infix notation parsing happens in ast.fs[1]. It parses token
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    by vdupras 1y ago

    My taste for minimalism are a bit on the extreme side. Dusk OS isn't really about having a GUI, but graphical applications such as a PDF viewer are part of its design goals. I was planning on not having a Desktop Environment at all and
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    by vdupras 1y ago

    To port Oberon itself to Dusk. The effort is already well underway[1]. I'm of the opinion that the architecture of Oberon, w.r.t. to its graphical user interface, is sound. Dusk so far only has a console-based interface, Oberon is goin
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    by vdupras 1y ago

    I'm guessing we call it Oberon-07? The one from "The Programming Language Oberon", written in 2007, revised in 2016. As the documentation states, it's not 100% on specs, for a better fit with Dusk interoperability, but i
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    by vdupras 1y ago

    Not to brag -- hum, ok, YES, to brag --, but Dusk's Oberon compiler[1][2] is less than 1500 lines of Forth code and it compiles directly to native code (no transpiling to C). Yes, Oberon is simple. [1]: https://git.sr.ht&#x2
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    by vdupras 1y ago

    100kb binary . I'm talking about source code size. TinyCC's source is 1400kb in size.
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    by vdupras 1y ago

    Yes, this is it. A C compiler in 50 kilobytes of code is pretty innovative. It's also doesn't lie about the "almost". It's really almost C. It's just that C's stdlib is POSIX centric and doesn't fit F
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    by vdupras 1y ago

    See https://collapseos.org/why.html , under "Aren't there more important things to do than an operating system?"
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    by vdupras 1y ago

    Yes, every time Dusk boots, it boots from a kernel ranging from 2.5 to 4 kilobytes in size, depending on the CPU. The rest is all compiled (very quickly) from source on the fly.
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    by vdupras 2y ago

    Before I began the m68k port, I was eyeing the rosco_m68k[1] as an initial m68k port, which would have been easier than going straight for the Powerbook 520. But after a vintage buying spree a few years ago, I told myself that I wouldn&#x27
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    by vdupras 2y ago

    I'm curious as to why you chose Napoleon III. The context under which he rose to power seem quite different from Trump's. America isn't in the middle of a 60-years long revolution/counter-revolution cycle. What are the s
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    by vdupras 2y ago

    While we're at it, China might as well impose a 145% export tax on phones, computers and chips, just to taunt.
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    by vdupras 2y ago

    Nothing means anything anymore. This of course will change completely on monday, then again on tuesday. Of course in the spirit of insider plundering. This circus will go on until we hear the magic words "the chocolate rations have bee
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    by vdupras 2y ago

    m68k is nice to work with. I've never tried Dusk OS m68k port in emulation because of the "dogfooding doctrine" I began enforcing with that port: no other tools than Dusk's. So it only ever ran on a Powerbook 520 (unless
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    by vdupras 2y ago

    Let me know when you find the matching hardware! I'll make it my official "canonical Dusk machine" :) Most modern hardware is way too complex. Dusk uses a fraction of it, but still has to deal with spurious complexity. Person
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    by vdupras 2y ago

    Interesting, I didn't know about that! I wonder why the Project Oberon website doesn't link to those ports.
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    by vdupras 2y ago

    Thanks. While I'm fully self-motivated (when you feel you're in uncharted waters, it's hard to stop exploring), I still appreciate some sort of external validation that I'm not delusional. But this stuff (well, Forth in