Aransentin

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by Aransentin 6d ago
I suspect that the money they get from minors using their services is simply not worth the risk of the negative publicity from the not-unheard-of "Claude told this minor to do <bad thing>!!" articles in the media.
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by Aransentin 3mo ago
It's sorely missing a few figurative usages of "quietly", too. And not to forget the "honest caveats" and "smoke tests".
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by Aransentin 4mo ago
His large comment here is blatantly LLM slop as well. 100% on Pangram, but it's not like one need it to realize that. Just a bleak situation in general how few people here can tell.
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by Aransentin 4mo ago
I mean, the comment you are replying to is absolutely AI-generated; I wouldn't say being able to prompt that is any direct evidence of deep understanding of networking. The website is also vibecoded; at least partially - it has the e
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by Aransentin 4mo ago
Reminds me how people on 4chan/g/ back in the day (mid to late 2000s I think?) would start threads where one user put up a livestream of a movie on some IP address, and the participants would connect and watch it together (using m
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by Aransentin 5mo ago
The article about the Sun was quite fun; even though they didn't know about fusion, the article dismisses most theories about how it could generate such a large amount of energy (like chemical combustion or gravitational contraction).
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by Aransentin 5mo ago
Your project was very much something I looked into when designing this! Fun to see you commenting. But yes, different goals. I did look into using z3, but quickly found out that it's pretty slow compared to just checking if a test case
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by Aransentin 5mo ago
Having it only use operations that use a specific set of zero-page addresses is already supported, yep! 20-30 ops is probably impossible, unfortunately. The combinatorial explosion is just too enormous.
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by Aransentin 5mo ago
Sure. Note that I picked those examples to demonstrate the two fairly quirky classes of things the optimizer tends to find. If the programmer has different requirements they can specify that, and it'll spit out the examples you gave (o
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by Aransentin 5mo ago
Thank you! Demo coding is indeed the primary usecase for this, and the reason for why I started tinkering on it in the first place. That, and people who make homebrewed NES / C64 video games should find it fairly useful for optimizing
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DeiMOS – A Superoptimizer for the MOS 6502(aransentin.github.io)
78 points by Aransentin 5mo ago|17 comments
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by Aransentin 7mo ago
I skimmed the pdf; they show a model where having such an early "filter" is beneficial to the scammer, but doesn't provide any actual evidence that it applies in reality beyond restating the just-so story.
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by Aransentin 7mo ago
> authors don't want to invest time in people that are able to spot such mistakes This "just-so" story gets repeated constantly in threads about scams, but I've never seen anyone put up any actual proof. The more like
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by Aransentin 8mo ago
I'm a moderator for a decently large programming subreddit, and I'd estimate about half the project submissions now being obvious slop. You get a very good nose for sniffing that stuff out after a while, though it can be frustrati
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by Aransentin 10mo ago
I'm more unhappy than happy, as there are plenty of points about the very real bad side of AI that are hurt by such delusional and/or disingenuous arguments. That is, the topic is not one where I have already picked a side that I&
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by Aransentin 10mo ago
Growing almonds uses 1.3 trillion gallons of water annually in California alone. This is more than 4 times more than all data centers in the US combined, counting both cooling and the water used for generating their electricity. What has mo
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by Aransentin 11mo ago
I agree for sure, but that's a problem with the spec, not the website. If there are multiple ways of doing something you might as well do the minimal one. The parser will have always to be able to handle all the edge cases no matter wh
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by Aransentin 11mo ago
Note that <html> and <body> auto-close and don't need to be terminated. Also, wrapping the <head> tags in an actual <head></head> is optional. You also don't need the quotes as long the attribute
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by Aransentin 1y ago
If you're at that point, the logical step would be to just support replying to the HTTP request with a "content-type: application/wasm" and skip the initial html step entirely.
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by Aransentin 1y ago
The 4-paragraph business case was useful for creating friction, which meant that if you couldn't be bothered to write 4 paragraphs you very likely didn't need the computer upgrade in the first place. This might have been a genuine
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by Aransentin 1y ago
For X11, from the top of my head: The global variable that toggles a bunch of legacy cruft is called "party_like_its_1989": https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/blob/master/di...
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by Aransentin 1y ago
Wordpress is indeed a nice backdoor, it even has CMS functionality built in.
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by Aransentin 1y ago
Do you have any examples of sites that do that?
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by Aransentin 1y ago
Perhaps ideally we'd change English to count the "first" entry in a sequence as the "zeroth" item, but the path dependency and the effort required to do that is rather large to say the least. At least we're not
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by Aransentin 2y ago
Sure, but the structure seems quite ChatGPTish as well, with e.g. the bullet points and section choice. You wouldn't get that by just faithfully translating a french source text from English.
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by Aransentin 2y ago
This article has a strong ChatGPT smell. Things like "in the world of", "let's dive into", the bullet points, "conclusion" section, etc. Anyone else have the same feeling?
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by Aransentin 2y ago
> We try to hide some of the differences between arches when reasonably feasible. e.g. Newer architectures no longer provide an open syscall, but do provide openat. We will still expose a sys_open helper by default that calls into openat
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by Aransentin 2y ago
I found Gwern's review of that quite good: https://gwern.net/review/crumb
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by Aransentin 2y ago
No discussion in the article of how likely this is to be simply a coincidence? There's a ton of ancient artifacts depicting humans in fanciful and non-realistic ways, and a ton of diseases that affect the body. That two of these will h
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by Aransentin 2y ago
I live in Sweden and don't think I've touched physical money for about a decade. Cash is more or less on life support by now, with a small and dwindling list of places you can even use it anymore - basically grocery stores and e.g

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