WoodenChair

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by WoodenChair 7d ago
One of the researchers was using the product. They train on your private interactions unless you explicitly opt out in the settings.
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by WoodenChair 7d ago
> Absolutely not. There were plenty already on the market. Was it the first one to have a name, rather than some crappy codename? Maybe. But mostly it was the polished version of an existing product. Please tell us about the mass market,
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by WoodenChair 7d ago
> the iMac was a refined workstation, the AirPort was a refined WiFi router, the Time Machine was a refined NAS, the iPod was a refined MP3 player... The word "refined" is doing a lot of work here. Just a few examples: - The iM
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by WoodenChair 2mo ago
Yes I stopped reading there after checking the source myself and seeing the same discrepancy. I had also noticed earlier in the article she wrote, "This finding was great news for Napoleon. The French were losing money, and perhaps mor
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by WoodenChair 2mo ago
> Read the Tape gives players the same 5 S&P500 stock charts per day to predict. You select low, medium or high confidence and then call the chart UP or DOWN. It's a 1d chart which then resolves over 5 days. Alpha is scored agai
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by WoodenChair 2mo ago
> These debts mean nothing if the US government actually views AI technology as being on par with the Manhattan project. They'll just bail them out or nationalise them. According to Wikipedia, the Manhattan project only cost $28 bil
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by WoodenChair 3mo ago
Thanks, much appreciated.
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by WoodenChair 3mo ago
> You can get a 1.67Ghz G4 Mac Mini on eBay with OS 9 preinstalled. It's wicked fast (especially with an IDE SSD adapter) The fastest Mac mini G4 topped out at 1.5 GHz, not 1.67. I'm the guy selling many of those Mac mini G4s u
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by WoodenChair 3mo ago
Self promotion but relevant: I have a hobby business doing something very similar, except I focus on a specific model—pretty much the most power efficient PowerPC desktop Mac you can get that can still run Mac OS 9, the Mac mini G4. It&#x27
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by WoodenChair 3mo ago
> What's stopping anyone else from using AI and eat into Oracle's market? Open source databases have already been doing this for decades. You can’t just clone its products and expect to eliminate it. Oracle is driven by a stron
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by WoodenChair 3mo ago
Apple very rarely admits mistakes. The fact they're rolling back some of the extremeness in Liquid Glass and actively mentioned in the keynote that they very seriously took the user feedback shows just how bad it was, at least initiall
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by WoodenChair 4mo ago
“ It is a tough market that has cut off the consumer end because all the big players have their own deeply integrated solutions…” Sounds like a natural fit as a feature, not a product.
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by WoodenChair 5mo ago
Yes, CHIP-8 is kind of the standard "I want to get into emulators" first project. In my latest book Computer Science from Scratch we go CHIP-8 -> NES in chapters 5 to 6. GBA is quite a step up from CHIP-8. I would suggest doing
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by WoodenChair 5mo ago
Syntax is not the focus of your testing, but it’s often a pre-requisite to be clearly and accurately speaking the same language. Think not of taking off points for missing a semicolon but instead understanding the difference between the syn
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by WoodenChair 5mo ago
I agree with your premise about why accurate evaluation matters, but your post comes across as pretty bitter. Unless you’re at the job with him, you really don’t know that it’s a “I just need to show up” job he has at Booz Allen. Perhaps he
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by WoodenChair 5mo ago
He definitely didn't have the book ghostwritten. It does have advice on issues that go beyond faith. But I think it's much more useful as a guide to the faithful than the non-faithful. We interviewed him last year about the book:
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by WoodenChair 7mo ago
I understand this if you’re not a native speaker. But if you are, I think this will generally make you sound wooden.
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by WoodenChair 7mo ago
Their Mac UI is a thin layer of AppKit. Even there they're currently using Objective-C++ it looks like, not Swift: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/tree/master/UI/A...
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by WoodenChair 7mo ago
No, I don't think you're missing anything. He never answered the title of the post ("Faster Than Dijkstra?"). Instead he went on a huge tangent about his experience writing software for routers and is dismissive of the a
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by WoodenChair 7mo ago
> (based on the table of contents) So your opinion is based on just reading the table of contents? I always find it disconcerting when someone writes a multi-paragraph commentary on a work they didn't actually read or see. I underst
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by WoodenChair 7mo ago
Ironically this post comes across to me as written by an LLM. The em-dashes, the prepositions, the "not this, that" lines. As a college instructor, I can usually tell. I put it through GPTZero and it said it's 96% LLM written
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by WoodenChair 7mo ago
PureScript is a programming language. English is not. A better analogy would be what would you say about someone who uses a No Code solution that behind the scenes writes Java. I would say that's a much better analogy. NoCode -> Jav
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by WoodenChair 7mo ago
The article starts with a philosophically bad analogy in my opinion. C-> Java != Java -> LLM because the intermediate product (the code) changed its form with previous transitions. LLMs still produce the same intermediate product. I e
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by WoodenChair 8mo ago
"Earlier this month, top executives at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting said while jobs would disappear, new ones would spring up, with two of them telling Reuters that AI would be used as an excuse by companies planni
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Tiny BASIC: An Early Free Software Project(youtube.com)
3 points by WoodenChair 8mo ago|0 comments
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Intel makes sharp reversal, is 'going big time into 14A,' says CEO Lip-Bu Tan(tomshardware.com)
31 points by WoodenChair 8mo ago|6 comments
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by WoodenChair 8mo ago
Yes, there are degrees of everything. There is cool, kinda cold, cold, very cold. I'm not exactly sure your point? Seems like you are arguing with a straw man. Who said there are not different degrees of flatness or degrees of hierarch
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by WoodenChair 8mo ago
I don't know but $7 million seems high for a non-profit that's in the midst of layoffs, dramatically losing marketshare, seems to have no direction, and has all of the other failures I mentioned above as Mozilla did in 2023. But p
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by WoodenChair 8mo ago
See the sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46550083
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by WoodenChair 8mo ago
> you've written more than 20 paragraphs of comments but I stopped here, because if you think this way about Mozilla, a very successful company and philanthropy, you probably are not making generalizable judgements about others I me

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