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by jcalx 6d ago
> 230 GB of RAM "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which my memory is too small to contain..."
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by jcalx 6d ago
This is good! Taste still remains a differentiator so far in our tokenmaxxing era.
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by jcalx 13d ago
Note that's a US definition — Europe is stricter and draws the line at non-public information [0], aside from certain carveouts and safe harbors. Matt Levine describes this as "theft" (misappropriating nonpublic information
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by jcalx 13d ago
Going to plug her Patreon ( https://www.patreon.com/Admiral_Cloudberg ) here because her articles are extensively researched and consistently well-written, and I enjoy reading them, and hope to continue reading new ones in th
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by jcalx 14d ago
Despite my other comment in this thread I strongly agree with this! I have "stupid" schemes and do "useless" side projects purely for their own sake and for my own enjoyment, and I am very happy with them. Those things a
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by jcalx 14d ago
Reminds me of a couple things: Nils van der Poel (Olympic speed skater record holder) and his How to Skate a 10k [0]: > It is not the one who suffers the most during preseason who prospers when the winter comes, but he who gets the most
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by jcalx 15d ago
Thank you for making it! This is an incredible project so I hope to see (and contribute!) more scans. Also just a really well-crafted website in general, functionally and aesthetically. You mentioned looking at "standard design convent
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Restroom Archive(restroomarchive.com)
384 points by jcalx 16d ago|86 comments
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by jcalx 16d ago
Any recommendations on a good path to learn this — curious if you have any personal, opinionated thoughts on this.
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by jcalx 16d ago
Excellent work with the tiny cafe! I'm enamored of miniatures like these. Very different vibe but Alan Wolfson [0] makes gritty, grimy urban environments that I have a soft spot for, being from NYC. [0] https://www.alanwolfs
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by jcalx 1mo ago
Not the only known trebuchet casualty in history, unfortunately: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/oct/31/highereduc...
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by jcalx 1mo ago
Read [0] and wonder no longer — with the very important caveat that I too have not read Infinite Jest, so I cannot vouch for its accuracy. (I plan on reading it someday, and this has made me more interested in doing so.) [0] https:/&#
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by jcalx 1mo ago
Cloned horses are becoming really common in polo — the best polo player in the world won the Argentine Open back in 2016 with six clones of his favorite horse [0][1]! [0] https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article&#x2
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by jcalx 2mo ago
These are all genre fiction books from the 1960s-80s and I imagine they are very stylistically different from the majority of AI-generated text today, in an easily distinguishable way. I'm curious if Pangram would flag LLMs explicitly
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by jcalx 3mo ago
Combining this article and discovery of an unwinnable seed in the original Slay the Spire [0] — I've always pondered the existence of some kind of "RNG hell", where a game uses the time as its random seed and, due to some qui
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by jcalx 3mo ago
Maybe turn-based roguelike deckbuilders aren't the best for this, but I actually like some correlated randomness in some games, as it adds a new hidden mechanic to explore. In Hades 1 there are some (presumably unintentional) RNG manip
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by jcalx 4mo ago
To be very clear — I was specifically responding to "social engineering won't work on a human security expert". It can, and has. People are not infallible, and a "that would never happen to me" mindset (1) gets peop
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by jcalx 4mo ago
> Social engineering won't work on a human security expert who knows and understands the implications of the information they are giving away Social engineering, like prompt injection, is a context attack — easy to spot if you'
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by jcalx 4mo ago
Someone responded to a previous comment of mine [0] positing a Peter principle [1] of slopcoding — it will always be easier to tack on a new feature than to understand a whole system and clean it up. The equilibrium will remain at the point
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by jcalx 4mo ago
I wish cultural norms around documentation would shift to "pull" rather than "push" — generating "views" of organized knowledge on the fly instead of making endless rearrangements of the same information. It&#x
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by jcalx 4mo ago
There is definitely going to be some Wirth's law-like [0] effect about the asymmetry of software complexity outpacing LLMs' abilities to untangle said software. Claude 9.2 Optimus Prime might be able to wrangle 1M LoC, but somehow
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by jcalx 5mo ago
> This would be like an NFL team drafting a quarterback based on how many instagram followers they have rather than a relevant metric like pass completion, or god forbid, doing some work and actually scouting candidates. Maybe the Clevel
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by jcalx 5mo ago
If you like space toilets you may be interested in this [0] HN submission where you can track how full the ISS urine tank is from the comfort of your menu bar. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42505454
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by jcalx 5mo ago
Quite good, per Bellingcat [0] — Google Lens and ChatGPT could localize the majority of their test photos pretty specifically. [0] https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2025/08/14/llms-vs-geol...
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by jcalx 5mo ago
Computers Don't Argue [0] by Gordon R. Dickson! A horrifying read in how a simple misunderstanding can spiral out of control. [0] https://nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/classes/ecs153-2019-04/readings/c...
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by jcalx 6mo ago
Reminds me of turquoise cockpits [0], another workspace where visual fatigue considerations are important. [0] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/16434/why-are-r...
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by jcalx 6mo ago
I would have thought so too but Naval Gazing has a short series [0] on why it's not as dire as one might think. An aircraft carrier's location being "secret" in this case is just one layer of the survivability onion [1]
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by jcalx 6mo ago
> Cortex, by default, can set a flag to trigger unsandboxed command execution Easy fix: extend the proposal in RFC 3514 [0] to cover prompt injection, and then disallow command execution when the evil bit is 1. [0] https://www
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by jcalx 6mo ago
I didn't want to nitpick terminology, but yes, the tile-placement algorithm here is just a way of solving constraint satisfaction problems with DFS using a "minimum remaining values" heuristic [0]. The original use case for g
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by jcalx 6mo ago
Reminds me of Jasper Flick's Unity tutorial on hex terrain [0] which is similarly wonderfully detailed. Interesting contrast: this project uses premade tiles and constraint solving to match tile boundaries, while that one dynamically g

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