throwaway_2494

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by throwaway_2494 15d ago
The problem with AI writing is that it can't add produce the texture of lived experience. This would mean the specificity of details, thoughts and sensations as filtered through a specific individual. There is a theory that what we per
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by throwaway_2494 3mo ago
Rapid development of a cycle accurate Intellivision emulator, much of it unsupervised. (four part series) https://keanw.com/2026/03/a-diary-of-an-agentic-retro-gamer-... https://keanw.com/2026&#x2F
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Using an AI coding agent with oracle-based testing to build a game emulator(keanw.com)
2 points by throwaway_2494 3mo ago|1 comments
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by throwaway_2494 4mo ago
Ok if you say so he's not racist, but you can keep him nonetheless.
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by throwaway_2494 4mo ago
It's a myth that US income tax is always lower than in Canada. I worked in the US for a bit when I started out. I paid more income tax in CT than in Toronto on the same salary. I just wanted to come back home. Even in small town CT,
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by throwaway_2494 4mo ago
Ok, but how does your hypothetical scenario apply to Canada though?
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by throwaway_2494 4mo ago
And anytime programmers start to discuss anything in detail, you know just when it's getting interesting: "Can we take this 'offline'..." See also this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMVuRGw_a
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by throwaway_2494 4mo ago
I remember when computer magazines were aimed at programmers and had code listings in them. Then there seemed to come a time when all they talked about was the IBM vs. Microsoft lawsuit. From then on they must have felt that they had disco
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A diary of an agentic retro-gamer – Part 1(keanw.com)
3 points by throwaway_2494 6mo ago|0 comments
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by throwaway_2494 6mo ago
Back in the day when it came out, I gotta admit, Docker sort of got my my nerves as yet another thing coming to 'disrupt' how things are done. (Half assed NOSQL 'databases' with poorly thought out storage models, everyth
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by throwaway_2494 7mo ago
> "hey, why do mathematicians keep changing rules on the fly, they just told me square of minus one doesn't exist Mathematicians aren’t chasing numerical solutions, they’re chasing structure. ℂ isn’t just about solving cubics,
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by throwaway_2494 8mo ago
I like to hang around at my local skate park. I'm not very good on a skateboard, better on a BMX. In any case the vibes are usually good. Sometimes you think people aren't even noticing you, till you finally land the trick you&#x
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by throwaway_2494 8mo ago
[...] send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.
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by throwaway_2494 8mo ago
You know this part of the problem! Politics is now consumed as entertainment, and ask any writer of books or screenplays and they will tell you _conflict_ makes for good entertainment. Politics should be _boring_. The fact that we demand t
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by throwaway_2494 9mo ago
It also looks hopelessly Gen Z to want all communication to be asynchronous and ignorable. If you guys have your way, we’ll all be connecting via API like 1U machines in a rack somewhere. Seriously—if you’re going to go overboard, so can I.
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by throwaway_2494 9mo ago
I disagree. I feel there is a genuine insight at the core of it.
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by throwaway_2494 9mo ago
I still don’t buy the “slasher movie” framing of nature at all, and the only function 'pleasant lies' serves here is just low effort dismissal. :shrug: Alas, I'm ceding ground by even arguing within your chosen framing. It&
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by throwaway_2494 9mo ago
Come on you can't come up with a single five minute period when observing animals where they seem to be calm? That does not fit the evidence. And besides you can read thousands of articles on HN about anxiety in humans, a mostly useles
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by throwaway_2494 9mo ago
>then flee at maximum speed because a well-fed 200+lb apex predator is passing by, it sure looks like work and effort. I think the 'effort' being described in the article—despite using analogies of overgripping and physical str
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by throwaway_2494 10mo ago
> it was the worst debugging experience one could have. Hard disagree. I'm not going to argue that Java debugging was the best, however: 1. You could remote debug your code as it ran on the server. 2. You could debug code which
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by throwaway_2494 11mo ago
Prediction: Non-determinism will become acceptable in areas we used to expect accuracy. For example we will accept 'probabilistic bookkeeping' because it's cheaper than requiring ledgers to balance to the penny. But this leew
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The Vanishing White Male Writer(compactmag.com)
3 points by throwaway_2494 1y ago|0 comments
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
> elections be damned. Isn't the current administration more culpable on this point? (viz. the last time Trump lost an election) And in terms of norms I mean that there isn't a strict law or constitutional clause written to pro
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
>Don't you see? They would give the exact same speech about the other side and absolutely believe it, and in fact so would many other people. Of course I see, and like in a chess match I looked past it cos I thought it was too obvio
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
This is false equivalence. There is such a thing as true and false, and there is such a thing as right and wrong. I know which side's views and plans are almost always on the side of the false and the wrong. One side wants to divide, o
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
One thing I first started noticing in the 2000s on sites like kuro5hin were young conservatives. Like I mean 20 year old's using conservative talking points, mostly in an absolutist aggressive sort of way. Many I guess were coming at
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
>There's no theory of government in which this is supposed to play a part. This is resistance. It is justified. Expect more of it.
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
> I'm a Trump voter (2016, 2020, and 2024) so I obviously find all this a good thing, just for transparency. Burning the system down because of hurt pride doesn't sound like a good thing to me. Your agent of retribution is now
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
This is the bit I don't get. Why are there so many people ready to line up to defend the powerful against the weak, the rich against the poor? What a brave and noble purpose! I'm real proud of people like that... The richest man
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
I share the author's frustration with this trend that _everything_ be a JSON object. Just recently I had some colleagues create a 200Mb JSON blob representing data records with the goal of querying the data in various ways. I instead l

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