hackyhacky

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by hackyhacky 6mo ago
> That kid will be much better off with a used laptop and Linux or BSD. True, and suffering through the limitations of the Apple platform will show the kid why Linux is better.
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by hackyhacky 6mo ago
> Turbotax has the latest 2026 tax changes coded into the app. How does TurboTax implement the latest tax changes? My guess is that before the decade is over, the answer is "an LLM does it."
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by hackyhacky 6mo ago
> I don’t think a paying customer would accept that - they want a direct line to a person. What the customer wants only matters insofar as they are willing to pay for it. Sure, I'd rather talk to a person... But I'm not willin
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by hackyhacky 6mo ago
> It will never ever be as cheap as as cron job and a shell script. Yes. That's precisely why my company runs dBase 7 on a fleet of old 286DX machine from Compaq. /s Running obsolete software will be cheaper, but the value prov
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by hackyhacky 6mo ago
These exact arguments could have been made 50 years ago about why laptops are impossible. But now, we not only have laptops, we run horribly inefficient GUIs in horribly inefficient VMs on them. The dollar-per-compute trend goes ever downwa
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by hackyhacky 6mo ago
> Speed, cost, security, job/task management All of that will inevitably be solved. 50 years ago, using a personal computer was an extravagant luxury. Until it wasn't. 30 years ago, carrying a powerful computer in your pocket w
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by hackyhacky 6mo ago
> It's better than the "Food Pyramid" and "MyPlate" which were the gov standards when I was growing up. Correct. The root of the problem is that corporate interests influence government regulation. [1] That hasn&
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by hackyhacky 6mo ago
> Someone still needs to review and test the code, and if the code is for embedded systems I find it unlikely. I feel like you didn't understand my comment. I am predicting that there is no code to review. You simply ask the AI to
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by hackyhacky 6mo ago
Let's keep in mind that this is the recommendation from the same government that recently declined to regulate dangerous pesticides [1] and relaxed regulations on additives [2]. The current US administration is not at all interesting i
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by hackyhacky 6mo ago
> We're already seeing large software companies figure out that they don't need 5,000 developers. They probably only need 1,000 or maybe even fewer. Long-term, they will need none. I believe that software will be made obsolete
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by hackyhacky 6mo ago
The key, as history teaches us, is guillotines.
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by hackyhacky 6mo ago
Spoiler: they are all identical hardware, but marketed differently.
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by hackyhacky 6mo ago
> I get it, other than price, the Neo and Air are a bit confusing product wise. Have they looked at how Asus, Lenovo, and Dell are doing their products though? It's absolutely wild the disparity between PC and Apple for laptops. Yep
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by hackyhacky 6mo ago
Let's all spare a tear for the billionaires like Sergey, who may suffer grievous financial harm from a wealth tax. He might even have to own fewer private jets! The horror.
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by hackyhacky 6mo ago
> On the other hand, detecting integer overflow in software is extremely expensive, increasing both the program size and the execution time considerably, Most languages don't care about integer overflow. Your typical C program will
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by hackyhacky 6mo ago
> One of the best parts about RiscV is that you can teach a freshman level architecture class or a senior level chip building project with an ISA that is actually used. Same could be said of MIPS. My understanding is the RISC-V raison d&
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by hackyhacky 6mo ago
> But Mac has always been a platform for freedom and control. My impress has always been the opposite: MacOS is "opinionated", and the user can either accept the Apple way of doing UI or can take a hike. MacOS has offered token
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by hackyhacky 7mo ago
> Regulation will follow. I would hope so, but it won't happen as long as the billionaire AI bros keep on paying politicians for favorable treatment.
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by hackyhacky 7mo ago
Make maps of distant relatives' locations for a genealogy project
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by hackyhacky 7mo ago
> The death toll from Hiroshima and Nagasaki is estimated at about 200,000. Nice of you to omit the 50 million other civilian casualties in WW2, plus around 20 million military casualties a 5 million prisoners. Nothing in the classical
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by hackyhacky 7mo ago
> Like we have prehistoric skeletons with obvious signs of traumatic injury inflicted by tools. No one is arguing that modern technology is the sole or even principal cause of military deaths. The argument is simply that technology has
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by hackyhacky 7mo ago
tldr: many great scientific advancement were created by well-intentioned researchers who were subsequently shocked to find their work applied to military, often to the great detriment of mankind. The unwritten implication is that this appli
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by hackyhacky 7mo ago
I TOTALLY AGREE
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by hackyhacky 7mo ago
> the world would end the day Trump became president Have you been reading the news lately? Things are not going well.
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by hackyhacky 7mo ago
> addressing it locally is futile. Imagine what could be accomplished if Americans used their global influence to affect global change on climate issues with the same zeal that they pursue manipulative trade deals.
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by hackyhacky 7mo ago
Yes, everyone is a gullible NPC, except you.
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by hackyhacky 7mo ago
Polls say otherwise. 63 percent of Americans are worried you about the environment. Attempts to minimize the danger of climate change, as you have just done, are usually politically motivated. https://climatecommunication.yale.ed
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by hackyhacky 7mo ago
Nothing like fascism and war to take your mind off the environment.
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by hackyhacky 7mo ago
> What happens when real-world inputs drift from what you tested against? The whole point of formal verification is that you don't test. You prove the program correct mathematically for any input. > an agent that's technic
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by hackyhacky 7mo ago
So in your mind there is no difference between Frosted Flakes and grass? Okay.

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