mikrl

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by mikrl 18d ago
Dwarf fortress is the “reading a book” of vidya for sure. But sometimes I personally forget that it’s allowed and enjoyable to just read 20 mins here and there…
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by mikrl 21d ago
> we can find other sources or just do with less That kind of rhetoric is typically only employed when you’re in some great struggle, and the sacrifices made are supposed to be offset by a greater good. In this trade war the struggle was
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by mikrl 1mo ago
> cyberpunk is NOW a playable game I never had problems with cyberpunk but I think I know why: I built a new PC right around its release and it was good enough to play it smoothly on 4K medium or HD ultra. When I checked to see what 4K u
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by mikrl 2mo ago
Ah yes, American Psycho was shot in Toronto wasn’t it?
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by mikrl 3mo ago
One Linux kernel please, the 87320be9f0d24fce67631b7eef919f0b79c3e45c vintage
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by mikrl 3mo ago
The death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy is bleak, humane and fairly short. I enjoyed it like a good Charles Dickens
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by mikrl 3mo ago
On the other hand, after reading Ovid's Metamorphoses, you realize that as far as narratives go there’s nothing new. It’s all been done to death, remixed and rehashed for millennia. The great Ovid probably lifted ideas and tropes from
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by mikrl 4mo ago
>So one way to keep it from getting enshittified, again is to make the barrier to entry just a touch higher, or add friction. We already had that, it was called crypto mining. Profit motive has taken care of that already
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by mikrl 4mo ago
One of my hobbyist workflows involved transcribing ETF prospecti into yaml for an optimizer to optimize over. Used to take me maybe 10-20 minutes per sheet. Then I got codex to whip up a script that sends each sheet to a fairly low paramete
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by mikrl 4mo ago
How long until LLMs are prompting LLMs to write a response to their user query? Actually, this happens already in a modular way AFAIK…
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by mikrl 4mo ago
Rockwell Automation has a facility in Katowice, Silesia which was/is a major centre of coal mining and locomotive manufacturing since the 1800s when it was part of Prussia, and continuing through the Polish Republic, WW2 era and beyond
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by mikrl 4mo ago
A family member told me they knew of someone who once visited Poland from Yugoslavia and found, in their opinion, that Polish was a Slavic language perfectly suited to the Latin script. But yes, transliterated Russian doesn’t look quite rig
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by mikrl 5mo ago
Argh… I still can’t wrap my head around the esoteric humour. What is a feeduck and seeduck anyway?
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by mikrl 5mo ago
Superscaler sounds too much like superscalar…
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by mikrl 5mo ago
Pretty sure Duff was a heavily filtered macro beer. Not saying engineered beer is necessarily bad- Sapporo and Asahi never disappoint- but I imagine you would want to stick to unfiltered and unpasteurized to retain some of the more… alive c
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by mikrl 6mo ago
Posted previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47626116
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by mikrl 6mo ago
Bet your shirt AND the farm from the comfort of your phone
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by mikrl 6mo ago
I started dressing nice at work, reasoning that looking sharp would buy me a few seconds or minutes of grace to allow my social deficiencies to catch up - just in case an executive decided to ask me a question. Of course, that never happene
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by mikrl 6mo ago
And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist Y’all MFs unable to address the replication crisis, and getting me pissed
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by mikrl 6mo ago
Great article. Personally I have been learning more about the mathematics of beyond-CLT scenarios (fat tails, infinite variance etc) The great philosophical question is why CLT applies so universally. The article explains it well as a conse
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by mikrl 6mo ago
I think my i9 was released right after the Spectre and Meltdown mitigations in 2019, but I seem to remember even more recent vulns in that family… so that could also be a factor.
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by mikrl 6mo ago
I replied to the sibling comment: I was making simplifying assumptions for two specific use cases and naively treated physical cores and clock rate as my variables.
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by mikrl 6mo ago
From the newegg listing: >8 Cores and 16 processing threads, based on AMD "Zen 5" architecture which is the same thread geometry as my 9900K. My main concerns at the time were: 1. More cores for running large workloads on k8s s
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by mikrl 6mo ago
>are not competitive in the consumer space AFAIK they still dominate on clock rate, which I was surprised to see when doing some back of the envelope calculations regarding core counts. I felt my 8 core i9 9900K was inadequate, so shoppe
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by mikrl 6mo ago
I was doing similar by capturing XHR requests while clicking through manually, then asking codex to reverse engineer the API from the export. Never tried that level of autonomy though. How long is your iteration cycle? If I had to guess, mi
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by mikrl 6mo ago
>The movie did have an unfortunate eugenic implication You’re thinking of dysgenic, not eugenic. Gattaca is a movie about eugenics.
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by mikrl 6mo ago
Hey I’m all grown up now, just don’t have the time to meticulously touch pixels in MS Paint like back in the day
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by mikrl 6mo ago
Making funny memes of my friends mainly. ChatGPT won’t touch that, I haven’t tried with Claude yet, but grok keeps the group chat flush with laughing emojis. That’s all I use it for really- things out of alignment with the other platforms-
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by mikrl 6mo ago
As a Canadian I strongly felt it was GG to the Democrats when they didn’t run a second, competitive, knives-out primary for VP Harris. For the second time, the party apparatus coalesced around a candidate who was ultimately trounced by some
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by mikrl 6mo ago
>so much of what software engineers do all day isn't in that space Seems to me that critical infra that supports a lot of modern computing is in that space though. If you want to develop that depth of knowledge you need to go into H

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