tomku

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by tomku 2mo ago
Calling something "vibe-coded" nowadays is a permission slip to unload on it with hyperbole and insults because you can presume there's no human in the line of fire. I really don't think the people engaging in that kind
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by tomku 2mo ago
No, it's part of the Machine. Direct quote from the Steam Machine page: "Steam Controller's wireless adapter is built right into Steam Machine for direct pairing. " It has dedicated hardware for pairing with Steam Contro
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by tomku 4mo ago
There's a section of his pay package that says: The Performance Hurdles will be adjusted by the Committee equitably and proportionately as determined by the Committee in a manner designed to preserve the economic opportunity provid
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by tomku 4mo ago
HN has a "second chance queue" that sometimes revives posts and gives them another shot. Not entirely sure how it works, but it sounds like what happened here.
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by tomku 5mo ago
Click on the home page and look at their other headlines, read the "About" description. It's just an endless stream of clickbait AI slop. Their "archive" goes back two weeks and has over a hundred articles with the
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by tomku 6mo ago
It's absolutely shocking how many people think that inverting all the quality metrics that we've traditionally used "because LLMs" will lead to good things. Nothing about this will end well.
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by tomku 7mo ago
I went down a bit of a rabbit-hole trying to figure out exactly who Matt Shumer is and why anyone should care what he thinks. The best information I found came from this article, which was from before he pivoted to being an AI startup bro:
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by tomku 7mo ago
Thought this name sounded familiar... Matt Shumer was one of the people responsible for the "Reflection 70b" hoax a few years ago. There is no reason to take anything he writes seriously, he has a history of flat-out lying to go v
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by tomku 8mo ago
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/ Note that nothing about that depends on it being a local or remote model, it was just less of a concern for local models in the past because mos
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by tomku 9mo ago
It's using "Fortnite" as a synecdoche for Epic Games, because "I have to give an age verification company owned by Epic Games my passport to use Bluesky" isn't quite as effective at revving the outrage engines,
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by tomku 9mo ago
Two years ago there were also hundreds of people constantly panic-posting here about how our jobs would be gone in a month, that learning anything about programming was now a waste of time and the entire profession was already dead, with al
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by tomku 11mo ago
Believe Andrew Ng's new course is all Python now, yeah. Amusingly enough another class that I took (Linear Algebra: Foundations to Frontiers) kinda did the opposite move - when I took it, it was all Python, but shortly after they trans
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by tomku 11mo ago
I was in one of those early cohorts that used Octave, one of the things the course had to deal with was that at the time (I don't know about now) Octave did not ship with an optimization function suitable for the coursework so we ended
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by tomku 11mo ago
Durov is also, relevantly, a naturalized French citizen in addition to his various other passports. It's not just "some jurisdiction", it's one he opted into!
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by tomku 1y ago
Top-level players regularly are in the 90-95% range aggregated over many games, with spikes up to 98-99%. If you have 98 or 99% accuracy over the course of an entire game (which happens sometimes!), it's either very short or you had si
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by tomku 1y ago
The vast, overwhelming majority of chess games are not played in front of cameras or even in-person. The accusation in the article was about online play, and specifically blitz which is played online even more commonly than slower formats o
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by tomku 1y ago
I actually like Helix a lot too, but it is different than (neo)vim in a lot of significant ways. It feels like alternate-universe vim more than just better defaults. It also doesn't just not require scripting, it doesn't support
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by tomku 1y ago
Lists like these are almost always more accurately titled "How I wish I'd been taught X" and are aimed squarely at a student who has never really existed, one who simply learns whatever is put in front of them and can therefo
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by tomku 1y ago
It has never been anywhere close to certain, we just had 20 years of wild, unsustainable growth that encouraged people to cover their eyes and pretend the ride would go on forever. 20 years of telling everyone under the age of 30 that of c
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by tomku 1y ago
The feature the person you're replying to is talking about is not arrow functions (`=>`), but what are called "threading macros" in other languages. In Clojure[1], the main one is named `->` and used as a way to thread
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by tomku 1y ago
The same trend is noticeable here on HN. Many threads are full of top-level posts that are just someone pattern-matching on a word they don't like in the headline and using it as an excuse to vent about whatever their pet issue is. Usu
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by tomku 1y ago
Those choices and Certbot strongly encouraging snap installation was enough to get me to switch to https://go-acme.github.io/lego/ , which I've been very happy with since. It's very stable and feels like it wa
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by tomku 1y ago
"AI slop" is following the same path as "Dunning-Kruger effect," "enshittification," and so many other terms. Someone introduces a term that's useful to describe an actual phenomenon, it rapidly spreads to
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by tomku 1y ago
If you use Make as a task runner like in the article, please make sure that you're also declaring your tasks as .PHONY targets: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Phony-Tar... Otherw
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by tomku 1y ago
2.50.1 is available on Homebrew now, for anyone seeing this.
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by tomku 1y ago
It's not quite a subset of Chess960 positions, because Chess324 allows different piece layouts between white and black and Chess960 does not. Edit: A comment further down points out that only 18 of the 324 positions are symmetrical, so
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by tomku 2y ago
I don't think it's even source-available? The repo has docs, a bunch of Lua scripts (for what software?), a small PHP module and a compiled "geo-ip firewall" binary. Most of the features mentioned on the Github page appe
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by tomku 2y ago
That thread also has the benefit of using the original source article from Kaspersky, which is worth a read. This blog post notably disagrees with Kaspersky's own conclusions about whether it's an intentional backdoor, instead cit
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by tomku 2y ago
The iPhone 16 shipped with iOS 18. The vulnerability in question (CVE 2023-38606) was patched with iOS 16.6 released in July 2023, months before Kaspersky's write-up that prompted this blog post. There, now you don't have to wonde
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by tomku 2y ago
There's several ways to look at the differences. The one that will jump out at most programmers who are familiar with mainstream languages is that J, k, q and Nial use ASCII characters while APL, BQN and Uiua prefer glyphs. q and Nial

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