velcrovan

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by velcrovan 3mo ago
I have this site’s rss feed in my feed reader. I definitely don’t try to keep up with every post but once a week or so I click through a dozen or so recent posts.
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by velcrovan 3mo ago
No mention of using this with CarPlay...
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by velcrovan 3mo ago
And in assembler and machine code before that! I'm persuaded that just about every language is "homoiconic" and that _bicameral syntax_ is the actually-interesting thing about Lisps : https://parentheticallyspeakin
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by velcrovan 3mo ago
Anyone got any advice for a techy dad with no (zero) Minecraft experience who wants to set up a Minecraft server for the family in 2026? Kids right now are playing on their iPads, and (sometimes) old macbooks/windows PCs.
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by velcrovan 3mo ago
"he's rich therefore he has no incentive to scam anyone" is not a good heuristic, though it will help you get a degree from Trump University.
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by velcrovan 3mo ago
Moby Dick has a bad (high) ratio of “people who try to read it like a thriller novel” to “people who read it for what it is”.
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by velcrovan 3mo ago
Again, Codeberg isn’t obscure. Worrying about front page HN links “confusing” others because you haven’t heard of something is about the silliest thing I have read on this site.
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by velcrovan 4mo ago
Consider that maybe you haven’t heard of all the things that HN readers find interesting.
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by velcrovan 4mo ago
> When considering the reasons for a language, look at the negation. Nobody writes a language to be "unapproachable"… Nobody really wants to stick "non-extensible" on their language… And yet, unapproachable languages
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by velcrovan 4mo ago
This seems like a good set of ideas if you can guarantee that you'll never have false alarms. I've had too many birds in warehouses and employees forgetting their codes to feel comfortable going full-hell-interior on alarm.
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by velcrovan 4mo ago
Ah but what about ( dun dun dun ) “innovation”
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by velcrovan 4mo ago
I'm also on the $100 max plan. I let Fable rip on a complicated issue involving hot-reloading modules in a GUI app built with Racket, it's fixed a couple issues over the last hour, and I've used about 17% of my session (not w
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by velcrovan 4mo ago
But it doesn't, because none of those systems are presenting SQLite to the user as something they should be using; they don't even make SQLite available to the user at all. Those systems all use SQLite internally to manage data.
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by velcrovan 4mo ago
…and iOS, and Windows, and Mac OS, and Boeing, and Sony, and Firefox and Chrome and Safari…
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We should count reliability 9s starting at the decimal(rachelbythebay.com)
4 points by velcrovan 4mo ago|1 comments
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by velcrovan 5mo ago
> My technopolitics faction – the faction associated with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where I've worked for a quarter-century – has an answer: the role of encryption is to provide a measure of privacy and security that is be
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by velcrovan 5mo ago
David Gelernter describes a theory of consciousness and creativity that explains why this works in his book “The Muse in the Machine”. I recommend it to everyone.
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by velcrovan 5mo ago
This sounds like you don’t have much exposure to actual professional engineering disciplines. I’m sure civil, electrical, structural and mechanical PEs would be quite surprised to hear there are no guardrails on their professions.
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by velcrovan 5mo ago
It is definitely a thing in regulated industries like healthcare and finance.
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by velcrovan 5mo ago
OK, but we're talking about people who are "against AI". Are you saying that opposition to AI might help people lose interest in it? I'm not aware of an example of opposition to a useful application of math that caused p
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by velcrovan 5mo ago
This is funny and a pretty clever move, but not actually the argument I'm making. I'm specifically saying you can't make people un-learn math once it turns out to have interesting uses.
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by velcrovan 5mo ago
There are business uses of on-prem agentic AI happening right now all over the place, it's not just a hobbyist space.
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by velcrovan 5mo ago
It doesn't require obscene compute though. I can run a model on my macbook with 48GB of RAM that is roughly comparable to Sonnet 4.6. A year from now the same machine will be able to run much more capable models. I would agree there ar
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by velcrovan 5mo ago
To me this just muddies the waters further. If I run a model on my own hardware am I working with the "AI" political project? I would agree that there is a political project happening in the AI space (and that it predates modern A
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by velcrovan 5mo ago
I think you read the analogy too narrowly. I too doubt whether micropayments are worth fighting for, but there are other outcomes for which we could and should work together. For example, data center effects on water and power usage are wel
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by velcrovan 5mo ago
I like the example of the actors' unions in the 1960s, where instead of "fighting" television in the sense of demanding people stop using it, they fought by organizing to get ongoing residual payments whenever their work was
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by velcrovan 5mo ago
Hating "AI" in the abstract is like hating public-key encryption. Ultimately it's just math. Once the math is out there, there's no going back. Instead of futilely demanding technology to go away, it would be better to f
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by velcrovan 5mo ago
The song is Ebudae by Enya!
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by velcrovan 5mo ago
I would love to see if they can get boot times down to a couple seconds.
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by velcrovan 5mo ago
Eternally until they moved one of them

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