billyjobob

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by billyjobob 2mo ago
Darling is written in a different language so I don't think the LLM would copy paste code from it directly. But it is the main (only?) prior art, so it could be argued that everything the LLM knows about how to do this came because it
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by billyjobob 3mo ago
I can tell when my CPU usage spikes because it causes a hum through my speakers, so this does not seem that far-fetched.
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by billyjobob 3mo ago
> can't be asked What you heard wasn't what they were saying.
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by billyjobob 3mo ago
This is great but sails far too close to Poe's Law that I predict downvotes.
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by billyjobob 6mo ago
Probably due to the movie "Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan". People missed the joke that it was poor English on purpose.
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by billyjobob 7mo ago
I recall a post recently that suggested rather than a fixed contact interval ("message this friend every 2 weeks") it was better to use a Fibonacci spiral (2 weeks, 3 weeks, 5 weeks, etc). Perhaps you could implement that?
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by billyjobob 7mo ago
The "hardware" section is really cool, and then you get to the "software" section and it's just webslop.
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by billyjobob 7mo ago
Sometimes it works if you install an old version of the cryptography package from before they introduced Rust.
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by billyjobob 8mo ago
My ISP added IPv6 support and my router began handing out IPv6 addresses. How did I know this? 1. My AppleTV began stuttering during playback. 2. My old iMac began crashing every time it connected to the wifi. At least the iMac has an opti
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by billyjobob 8mo ago
If you send the full 200k tokens on every request you will get very few requests before you hit the token limit. Caching reduces the number sent but I don't know how much they can cache?
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by billyjobob 8mo ago
Lookup "wake-on-lan".
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by billyjobob 10mo ago
Bruce Perens (creator of The Open Source Definition) is attempting to remedy this at https://postopen.org/
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by billyjobob 10mo ago
Why is Steam even operating in Russia? Isn’t Russia under sanction so rest of the world doesn’t do business there?
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by billyjobob 1y ago
The fact that the UK doesn’t allow “impromptu checks”, otherwise known as “Papers please!” is not a bug, it’s a feature that distinguishes our democracy from other states and we are pretty proud of it.
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by billyjobob 1y ago
He says the checksums are different but he doesn’t provide a diff to show how different. It could just be a single flipped bit or something. And that could happen in his own RAM/disk/CPU/router so seems premature to immediate
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by billyjobob 1y ago
Doesn’t sound like we have the full story from either side. This blog post from Nate reads like he is continuing to gaslight. But then Jonathan doesn’t explain why he didn’t just buy into the partnership like the other 2 did if he wanted to
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by billyjobob 1y ago
Both of those models have Anthropic API compatible endpoints, so you just set an environmental variable pointing to them before you run Claude Code.
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by billyjobob 1y ago
Please don’t use the adjective “free” when describing proprietary software. We know you mean “free as in beer” but those outside our community may not and it may cause confusion over the meaning of free software.
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by billyjobob 2y ago
> if Acorn had been based in the US, the world would be using Acorn machines Is not ARM (the Acorn Risc Machine) the most popular type of machine in the world currently?
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by billyjobob 2y ago
Like The Mirror? https://www.themirror.space/
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Ask HN: Is there any point teaching kids to code?
7 points by billyjobob 2y ago|9 comments
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by billyjobob 2y ago
https://github.com/irmen/prog8
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by billyjobob 2y ago
Turing's boyfriend was 19, therefore not an adult under UK law at the time.
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by billyjobob 2y ago
Of course you can have multiple apex A records that point to the same IP address. We are talking about CNAME records here. Are your sites using CNAME records or A records? Even if you are using CNAMEs, that's only been possible recen
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by billyjobob 2y ago
Like most kids in the 80s I would never “exclude gaming” from my evaluation. The PC was 15x as expensive as the C128 and still wasn’t any good for gaming. While C128 had the entire C64 games library available! It also had the CP/M soft
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by billyjobob 2y ago
Apparently a typical PC is 1985 cost upwards of $5000. The C128 was $299. So for rich people yes it may have made sense to pay a 15x premium to get hold of tech “from the future, today”. But you could have easily had both. And for a child,
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by billyjobob 2y ago
Your parents were wrong. Assuming you wanted to play games as well as run productivity software, the C128 was far superior to any PC in 1985. Yes the PC would eventually catch up in the 90s, but the C128 was discontinued by then.
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by billyjobob 3y ago
A lot of sites now don't even a "sign in" now. You only have a large "sign up" button, which you have to click, and then in very small text at the bottom of the sign up screen find the link for "already have
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by billyjobob 3y ago
Is this a fork of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_(software) ? (If not, pretty confusing to have two apps that do similar things with the same name.)
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by billyjobob 3y ago
They all read like they were bot-generated too.

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