gishh

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by gishh 10mo ago
> There are many valid critiques of AI, but “there’s not much there” isn’t one of them. I have solved more problems with tools like sed and awk, you know, actual tools, more than I’ve entered tokens into an LLM. Nobody seemed to give a f
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by gishh 10mo ago
Valve selling skins is just so trivial relative to dopamine-inducing doom-scrolling, social media in general, the toxicity of the news cycle, I can keep going. It would be super democrat-american to address valves loot boxes before, say, fu
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by gishh 10mo ago
More to the point, I think part of being a senior is being able to dig up code you wrote a few years ago and say “how awful”
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by gishh 10mo ago
You really think if they had the unchecked power of Stalin or mao they would be… better? Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It’s a no-kidding literary tool used throughout history.
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by gishh 10mo ago
> Jacobin is not a whole journal on literal communism. It’s a magazine with a professed socialist view point but it’s more aligned with left-of-center American politics. Think Sanders or Mamdani rather than Stalin or Mao. > Sanders or
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by gishh 10mo ago
I worked on a C codebase once, integrating an i2c sensor. The vendor only had example code in asm. I had to learn to inline asm. It still happens in 2025
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by gishh 10mo ago
Gamed tests?
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by gishh 10mo ago
Using US VC dollars. Where their desks are isn’t really important.
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by gishh 10mo ago
Oh, the bill was 12.3k
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by gishh 10mo ago
Does a computer understand how hot or cold it is outside? Does it understand that your offspring might be cranky because they’re hungry? Or not hungry, just tired? Can it divine the difference? Does a computer know if your boss is mad at yo
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by gishh 10mo ago
Discover, not invent
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by gishh 10mo ago
Which bits cost 100k? The $75 ibproufen? The $47 towel? The $19,563 bed charge? Oh, the $32,925 imaging that NFL players get instantly? Insurance in America is a fucking joke.
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by gishh 10mo ago
I am a male breast cancer survivor. I had a mammogram the other week. $620. No, nobody benefits from insurance in America. Well, nobody ill.
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by gishh 10mo ago
If i could understand what the brain scans actually meant, I would consider it a good representation. I don't think we know yet what they mean. I saw some headline the other day about a person with "low brain activity" and sa
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by gishh 10mo ago
> I expect to see responses like yours on Reddit, not HN. I suppose that says something about both of us.
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by gishh 10mo ago
> something fundamental has changed that enables a computer to pretty effectively understand natural language. You understand how the tech works right? It's statistics and tokens. The computer understands nothing. Creating "und
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by gishh 10mo ago
The conflict has essentially been going on since Jacob and Esau, if you view the Bible as a historical record.
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by gishh 10mo ago
Just get a ps5. I went through the same adventure.
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by gishh 10mo ago
People pay for this?
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by gishh 10mo ago
Umm. I guess not? > Six years ago, I wrote that it was a terrible idea for LEGO to acquire Bricklink and revisiting some of my thoughts I expressed then, it sure seems like there’s some dodgy stuff happening behind the scenes. > To be
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by gishh 10mo ago
“Statistical matrix math outperforms statistical matrix math!” More at 11
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by gishh 10mo ago
I graduated high school in 2005. I had been making and running websites and forums (phpbb anyone?) since 1998…ish? I went to a solid state college, started my degree in EE, bounced around a bit, landed on comp sci, almost failed out, and no
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by gishh 10mo ago
Don’t climb that ladder and eat that food! We will beat you!
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by gishh 10mo ago
Ah. I was responding to: > Your average web app can have security-critical issues but they probably won’t have safety-critical issues. How many air-gapped systems have you worked on?
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by gishh 10mo ago
I think you identified the problem. > subcommittee of the committee assigned to fix the process That bit, is the problem.
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by gishh 10mo ago
Safety-critical systems aren’t connected to a MAC address you can ping. I didn’t move the goalposts.
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by gishh 10mo ago
> Or getting something down now, as close as possible to what happened yesterday and the day before, to unblock the larger process—then refining it after the fires are out? In my experience, the refining never happens.
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by gishh 10mo ago
Yeesh. I’ve never worked with a smart group of people who came to that conclusion. That sounds toxic. :(
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by gishh 10mo ago
Most people around here are too busy evangelizing rust or some web framework. Most people around here don’t have any reason to have strong opinions about safety-critical code. Most people around here spend the majority of their time trying
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by gishh 10mo ago
> If that's what you inferred was being sold based on random HN commentary, then you probably want to revisit how you absorb information. Heard, chef.

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