aj_hackman

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by aj_hackman 24d ago
If you were able to determine in 5 seconds whether or not a person was a violent jerk, it would take you ~28 years of around-the-clock meetings to assess >= 50% of the current U.S. population, thereby rendering this comment meaningful an
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by aj_hackman 24d ago
A friend worked on Skype for many years. It's been a massive ball of spaghetti from day 1.
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by aj_hackman 1mo ago
I'd hate to talk to you or be looked at by you.
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by aj_hackman 1mo ago
I enjoyed the 2001 forum post style of this.
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by aj_hackman 1mo ago
Here's another one of my favorites: pulling a huge weed out of soft, loose soil and hearing the crackle of the roots as they come up out of the earth.
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by aj_hackman 2mo ago
Who would pay you? OpenAI has between $600 billion and $1.4 trillion in debt, and no hope for profitability. Anthropic, who have a much more modest $35 billion in debt (by using Sam Altman as a human shield), also has no chance of ever bein
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by aj_hackman 3mo ago
I'm glad I'm not the only weirdo like this. I dropped an unfathomable $800 on a Jetson AGX Xavier in early 2020 simply because I was obsessed with SBCs at the time and couldn't stop thinking about it. This was before the Rasp
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by aj_hackman 3mo ago
"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass, God is waiting for you."
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by aj_hackman 4mo ago
I have offered you a theological counterpoint to your claim, and you may take it or leave it, but you may not call me names and continue in any kind of meaningful dialogue here. It is beneath us both. "For I tell you that unless your r
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by aj_hackman 4mo ago
Allow me to restate my point: human beings and AI both create via synthesis, but we are the only ones capable of what we could categorize as true original thought or creativity. It could be argued that nothing we do as humans is truly origi
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by aj_hackman 4mo ago
I could make a robotic picture coloring machine with truly superhuman capabilities - picking only the most beautiful color combinations and staying 100% in the lines while finishing entire murals in < 1 second. However, if you need a com
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by aj_hackman 4mo ago
You forget that these models are still only interpolating between human-generated datapoints fed to them. They cannot reason beyond the data they've been given, so unless everything you want to create with AI is a synthesis of prior ar
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by aj_hackman 4mo ago
As outlined in John 1:1, Jesus is in fact God himself, and God is something far greater and more magnificent than a humanist. The message of the Bible is a total inversion of humanism, teaching us to believe in God alone rather than ourselv
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by aj_hackman 4mo ago
Might be an interesting read for you: https://www.gregorygaines.com/blog/emulating-ps2-floating-po...
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by aj_hackman 5mo ago
This doesn't account for the potential instability of modern technology. If you have an efficient electric range and your neighbors are still burning wood when the power goes out, you're in dutch. This is relevant to the AI discus
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by aj_hackman 5mo ago
I daily drove my Raspberry Pi 5 for all of 2024. It primarily compiled tons of C++ and served 1080p video via Jellyfin, and it did so flawlessly.
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by aj_hackman 5mo ago
The anti-master position also willfully disregards synonymy. Just because I have mastered the English language does not mean it belongs to me. Master Splinter does not own the Ninja Turtles.
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by aj_hackman 6mo ago
Is the market so bad that non-exec-level new hires are making the news?
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by aj_hackman 7mo ago
`sudo cpupower frequency-set -g conservative` might help a bit with battery life.
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by aj_hackman 8mo ago
> I've recently heard that using Linux is an excuse to spend the day tinkering and ricing and do no productive work. This is why, despite 20 years of using Linux with many successful Arch and Gentoo installs behind me, I just use Fe
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by aj_hackman 9mo ago
It was a dream relative to anything else on the market (until 2001, when the Xbox and GameCube were released), made even easier for some titles due to the optional Windows CE SDK. You still needed to do a fair bit of SuperH assembly program
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by aj_hackman 9mo ago
It's almost as if we desire each other.
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by aj_hackman 9mo ago
What happens when you want to do something very new, or very specific?
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by aj_hackman 9mo ago
As bearish as I am on AI, outside of the agent deciding it only wants to play "Semi Charmed Life" and nothing else, I fail to see how this is a nightmarish hellscape in and of itself.
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by aj_hackman 9mo ago
What motivated you to move from Mercurial? I'm still using HG for personal projects because it's so easy to self-host on a Raspberry Pi. Just `hg serve -p 8001` or whatever and I'm able to use TortoiseHG from any machine to e
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by aj_hackman 10mo ago
Who allocates the allocator?
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by aj_hackman 10mo ago
Python has been massive since the 2000s. When AI rolled around, it was already there, a bunch of people knew it, and it was Good Enough (tm).
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by aj_hackman 10mo ago
In times of old, people wrote COBOL and BASIC.
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by aj_hackman 10mo ago
They make CrossOver, which is a productized version of Wine that lets you run Windows software on MacOS. They also work closely with Valve, who have just announced Steam Frame (a device that runs SteamOS on ARM).
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by aj_hackman 10mo ago
I bought the Geekom Air12 Lite, and the build quality has impressed me.

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