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by bitwize 11d ago
The OpenBSD maintainers are heroes for keeping hardware like this running. This is about the time Greg KH might say "yeah, there are like five of these left, zero in actual production, and the code to support them is gumming up the LLM
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by bitwize 11d ago
This. Time is money, and if you're not using an LLM you're wasting your employer's.
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by bitwize 11d ago
Past being a millionaire or so, making money is a clicker game. It's something you do just for the fun of seeing number go up. And just like a clicker game, past a certain point you're no longer making the money through your own e
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by bitwize 11d ago
You mean the people who hate Nazis? Yes, they're not on X.
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by bitwize 12d ago
It's not a generational thing, at least not anymore. People older than you were eating sushi back when Western businesses started intensely transacting with the Japanese in the late 20th century (60s, 70s, 80s).
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by bitwize 13d ago
Complexity in itself is not an interesting measure but it's a proxy for an interesting measure: time and cost to build/maintain. A more complicated program that is built and maintained with LLM assistance is cheaper and faster to
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by bitwize 13d ago
Lower visceral fat as a percentage of body weight may bring benefits that are greater than proportional to total body mass lost.
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by bitwize 13d ago
Mech eng dad here. He guessed something like this would probably happen, but wasn't betting on it happening so soon.
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by bitwize 13d ago
My father, a mechanical engineer, was a tireless advocate of the hypocycloid crankshaft mechanism. In the 90s, hybrid vehicles with a hypocycloid-based generator feeding the batteries that make the electric motors go was the application he
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by bitwize 13d ago
Interesting. It rolls a few dice and presents a snapshot of someone who might plausibly have lived at a random place and time. Mine was a girl who lived on the Deccan Plateau in India, and died at six of tuberculosis.
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by bitwize 13d ago
Now you guys are just adding no-op fuel to the fire.
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by bitwize 14d ago
A company of any size wasn't archiving stuff on freaking floppies. In the 70s and 80s most video games were developed on big iron—PDPs or VAXen, usually, and data from those was archived on paper or mag tape. If you were renting (or st
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by bitwize 14d ago
I was a bit surprised by WALL-E and its premise; here was a space movie with a large corporation at the center, but it wasn't "evil" in the mold of Weyland-Yutani. BnL's CEO, Shelby Forthright, lived up to his name and
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by bitwize 14d ago
Back when I first heard of it, the HuggingFace hack reminded me about how you don't have to be particularly smart to find vulns, just aggressive in looking for them. AFL on its own "learned" how to construct well-formed JPEGs
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by bitwize 14d ago
The source code (and original assets) to many video games from as late as the 90s has been lost. The publishing company often deleted it after the game shipped, thinking it just took up space. This is one reason why, for example, there hasn
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by bitwize 14d ago
I just tried it and it does that thing where because it makes nearly, and then more than, one revolution per frame, the pistons and crankshaft appear to slow down and stop, then go in the other direction.
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by bitwize 15d ago
Yes, but... On one otherwise tranquil morning Master Foo's meditations were disturbed by cries of distress. Finding that they came from one of the novices, he inquired "What is the difficulty here?" The novice replied, "
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by bitwize 15d ago
Location: Gulfport, MS Remote: Yes, please Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Lisp, C, C++, some Rust, front end, back end, Docker, cloud, AI, etc. Résumé/CV: upon request Ema
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by bitwize 15d ago
Written before LLMs made Big Rewrites an absolute doddle.
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by bitwize 15d ago
Reminds me of one of the first video games to get FDA approval as a medical device. EndeavorRx I believe it's called. You have to keep the character moving down the path while not paying attention to all the shit the game produces to d
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by bitwize 16d ago
Well, no, he was not a pleasant person. Back in the day he was a management consultant, best known for an essay which rustled many programmer jimmies at the time: "Theory P: The Philosophy of Managing Programmers" (2005): https:&
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by bitwize 16d ago
There is no alternative to deadlines because time is money, and those downstream of you can ill afford to wait on your deliverables. Part of management's job is to determine how much time it should take so a reasonable timetable that s
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by bitwize 16d ago
Tired Searlian arguments about whether an LLM truly "knows" or "understands" anything. Ultimately it doesn't matter; it observably behaves as if it does, and for small to medium programming tasks can outperform an a
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by bitwize 16d ago
I've always liked to see power pylons receding in the distance on a grassy plain, or over a forest. It makes me flash back to my youth. There was an abandoned railway a short distance from my house, that had become overgrown with veget
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by bitwize 16d ago
> For the foreseeable future. Left to their own devices current LLMs kinda wander off into outsider art territory. They aren’t grounded in the real world and they need that feedback loop to stay within the category of relevant ideas. I h
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by bitwize 16d ago
This is why I still like solving software problems on my own. Because those solutions now live in my head, rather than being spit out by some agent and then disappearing from the Dixie Flatline's memory once the session shuts down. And
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by bitwize 17d ago
Indeed. The world has moved on to the Kitty graphics protocol.
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by bitwize 17d ago
When I started Linux in the 90s, I remember looking for defrag utilities and finding none, but reading that defragging wasn't really necessary under ext2, because the page cache smoothed things out and/or the fs was to some degree
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by bitwize 17d ago
We have created Project 2501. Edit: Reading the report I think we might be a bit beyond that; we're nearing the point where we hear the thundering drums and the chorus of: THIS CANNOT CONTINUE THIS CANNOT CONTINUE THIS CA
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by bitwize 18d ago
This is the most useless thing I've seen on here lately. It's not necessary on hard drives, as the page cache did a decent job of improving disk access even in the 90s, let alone with today's fast HDDs. And if you're on

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