Martin_Silenus

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by Martin_Silenus 4d ago
I once ate a peanut too.
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by Martin_Silenus 5d ago
What in this world prevents you to code?
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by Martin_Silenus 5d ago
> I will miss it When honesty goes out the window...
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by Martin_Silenus 6d ago
Brute force being the antithesis of hacking spirit, I too wish brute force would end up in Lamer News instead.
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by Martin_Silenus 10d ago
It didn't click, did it? You're a kind person, you know, but I'm not. I'm a misanthropic megalomaniac guy. > I think you’re letting your pride get the best of you. Writing software should not be about ego. It’s about
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by Martin_Silenus 10d ago
Well, my way of thinking about it is basically that I did not spend my life shiting on over-engineered-bloated-Golberg-machine source code written by so-called programmers to finish my life asking agents to generate these same stuff 10x fas
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by Martin_Silenus 3mo ago
Reverse-engineering is fun.
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by Martin_Silenus 3mo ago
Nothing surprising here. People who view C++ as just a better C always outnumbered those who view it as another language. That's exactly how democratic governments make their decisions… you might think it's stupid, and you'd
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by Martin_Silenus 3mo ago
It's not fundamentaly an anti-AI stance (though I think agentic stuff is the worst usage of LLMs for code, I won't even try to debate about it with people completely sold to it). The issue is what HN is all about now. Brute-forcin
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by Martin_Silenus 4mo ago
Girl, give them ELIZA, they won't even notice.
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by Martin_Silenus 4mo ago
Passion for code, dedication to the art of it... is what always defined me since 1980 on my Magnavox Odyssey. So I perfectly understand what he is talking about, and I share most of it. Still, he makes me smile sometimes with condescension
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by Martin_Silenus 4mo ago
The Internet I grew up on was not the web. It was mail, newsgroups, IRC… maybe the article talks about that, but I don’t care as this is nothing the web can kill in any way.
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by Martin_Silenus 7mo ago
Well, we're talking about something that makes all other mail readers draw J for smileys since decades because M$ doesn't give a shit about even de-facto standards, after all...
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by Martin_Silenus 7mo ago
Maybe God was so angry seeing His fellows embrassing LLMs. So He asked vaguely one of those lame things, for the first time: 0. "Make something cool out of this insane amount of energy." (temp: 10^42 Kelvin) 1. He slept for
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by Martin_Silenus 7mo ago
I wonder what the hell is that damn thing I select sometimes on my Vulkan engine with --gpu-select=Intel :)
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by Martin_Silenus 11mo ago
Asimov describes networks of moving walkways on Earth. There are several adjacent ones with different speeds, and the central one is the fastest. People optimize their journeys by entering the network from the outside and gradually moving t
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by Martin_Silenus 11mo ago
Did this on my Atari ST 68000 back in the 90s... I did not even heard about the word "preemptive" at the time (guys, I did not even know the Amiga OS did this natively), it was just an idea. Task switching every 10 or 20 HBL or so
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by Martin_Silenus 11mo ago
> I'm skeptical the majority of tech experts are struggling to find the utility of them. Looks like we did not read the same article.
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by Martin_Silenus 11mo ago
No wonder they did everything they could to hide RSS from the masses: it's such a shame that users control their own feeds rather than their obscure algorithms.
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by Martin_Silenus 1y ago
I know for sure that HN stands for Hacker News.
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by Martin_Silenus 1y ago
Sorry, but I did not find any "Aaaaaarrrrrrrggggghhhhhhh" to purchase. Could you give me more details?
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by Martin_Silenus 1y ago
Forget it, you won't be able to be funnier than the 1991 TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA. This is unbeatable.
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by Martin_Silenus 1y ago
People's stupidity will always surprise me. I mean... it's such a basic irony trick given the subject matter that it doesn't even deserve to be mentioned, let alone questioned.
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by Martin_Silenus 1y ago
Above all, we mustn't torment the sacrosanct biological neuron center too much (they already have a hard time accepting that they're monkeys, so give them a little dignity, damn it). “A man doesn't think. It's just proba
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by Martin_Silenus 1y ago
That's exactly why I'm here today, after 40 years of passion, penniless, or with very little money, not rich. Disenchanted by the professional aspect of what was initially just a simple obsession with “how it works,” right down to
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by Martin_Silenus 1y ago
> Their right handed writing was an artifact of that culture. Sure. But that does not define a person as a right-handed writer. That's precisely why I wrote "individual's ABILITY to write with their right hand".
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by Martin_Silenus 1y ago
There is nothing cultural about an individual's ability to write with their right hand. Studies have been conducted on this subject: it is a physiological/neurological factor (which also applies to other parts of the human body).
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by Martin_Silenus 1y ago
> I mean several languages are right to left? So? Anyway, handedness bias is a humanity thing. You're not interested to see if they don't care about majority, are you? But let's be honest: it's just other cultures to
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by Martin_Silenus 1y ago
Yeah, sure, I've heard that before... master/slave, black/white lists... and now, north/south. I wonder what they'll come up with now to explain reading from left to right (don't even think about the majority o
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by Martin_Silenus 1y ago
Much like this: https://i2.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/...

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