webdevver

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by webdevver 7mo ago
oh come on, who of us didn't go through a power-tripping edge lord phase? i too had a community game server once...
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by webdevver 7mo ago
i mean theres kind of no way around it. how else are you gonna get the training data you need? the only way to bootstrap ai is to tag the data with bio-ai first (humans). different companies 'launder' it differently: with voice, i
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by webdevver 7mo ago
in the ngspice user manual, they call circuit descriptions an "input deck" https://ngspice.sourceforge.io/docs/ngspice-manual.pdf
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by webdevver 7mo ago
he did a reddit (cringe) and now must be punished for it (the text becomes an absolutely fucking unreadable shade of light grey)
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by webdevver 7mo ago
actually, it really is not neccesarily a 'hardware company' thing. ive been in 'hardware companies' where the rtl was just as available for viewing as the rest of the firmware/software. in big hardware companies,
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by webdevver 7mo ago
wish oai was publicly traded so i could buy the dip on all this nonsense. the one for musk was super juicy.
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by webdevver 7mo ago
absolute truth nuke and the hysteria around it is yet more evidence that HN is a negative signal. anything HN countersignals, go long on.
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by webdevver 7mo ago
TOTAL ALTMAN VICTORY
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by webdevver 7mo ago
but doesn't the empirical evidence reject this premise? if the greatest minds of earth, in their wisdom, have all collectively concluded that the smartest thing for them to do is make as much money as humanly possible, then evidently t
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by webdevver 7mo ago
> It feels so much better to ask humans a question then the machine I could not disagree more! With pesky humans, you have all sorts of things to worry about: - is my question stupid? will they think badly of me if i ask it? - what if th
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by webdevver 7mo ago
maybe thats what made him so upset
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by webdevver 7mo ago
something i have always observed, is how considerate Ted Tso's writing always is, but more than that, how consistent this property has been for so many decades. its quite funny to me that ext4 very much mirrors him in that regard. its
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by webdevver 7mo ago
perhaps the suffering of the printer devs is karmically 'paid back' by the physical suffering of printers around the globe, thus keeping everything in balance.
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by webdevver 7mo ago
> dealing with an 8051 isn't something I'd inflict even on my worst enemy surely armed with a C compiler + LLM, this is a non problem nowadays?
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by webdevver 7mo ago
to be fair he bought it before chatgpt was released, and it has changed the landscape quite a bit.
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by webdevver 7mo ago
the zeitgeist hungers for loanwords
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by webdevver 7mo ago
8.3 naming scheme too
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by webdevver 7mo ago
some additional thoughts: i think that, for digital design to be interesting, the cost of entry must be lowered by probably orders upon orders of magnitude. the google skywaterpdk thing, whatever it is (or was?), did produce a great deal of
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by webdevver 7mo ago
digital circuit design strikes me as a risky gambit for a career, given that almost everyone who ive bumped into in that industry was invariable not actually doing any design, but rather was tasked with writing test cases and verifying the
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by webdevver 7mo ago
"Unalive GNU/Linux"
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by webdevver 7mo ago
I've never heard of it doing rm -rf, but apparnetly it did try to launch nethack under certain unknown preprocessor conditions: https://feross.org/gcc-ownage/?1?1 https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail&#x2F
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by webdevver 7mo ago
replacing phosphor tubes with lcds is a deep spiritual downgrade. probably one of the reasons why we haven't been able to go back to the moon, and why the concorde was decomissioned.
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by webdevver 7mo ago
unfortunately having always-on cameras pointing around the house is kind of an arms race. if you don't, someone else will, and their word will be the one that gets taken seriously. so you better have one too! its kind of like how in vi
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by webdevver 7mo ago
very strange spectacle. both sides know the other won't do anything. is this done for internal political purposes? someone inside ofcom grinding KPIs or something? ("this month we sent 50% more enforcement notices than last month,
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by webdevver 7mo ago
>I wish I could share this joy with the people who are fearful about the changes agents are bringing. The 'fear' is about losing ones livelihood and getting locked out of homeownership and financial security. its not complicate
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by webdevver 7mo ago
there is something to be said about old windows installation CDs being essentially modern-day equivalents of immutable docker layers - i don't think one could say that about modern windows, but then i'm not super clued in into ms
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by webdevver 7mo ago
love software archaeology like this. there was another article where someone bootstrapped the very first version of gcc that had the i386 backend added to it, and it turns out there was a bug in the codegen. I'll try to find it... EDIT
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by webdevver 7mo ago
its kind of fun now, in the 'post crypto' era. i used to think, well the 'serious' stuff is stocks, PMs, RE, etc., but crypto is a 'shitcoin', a 'gamble'. but infact, it recently dawned on me, its (al
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by webdevver 7mo ago
very broad extrapolation of the previous two 'cycles'. after a peak, it tends to crash to 20-30% of previous peak value, goes sideways for a year or two, then goes up to 2x its previous peak. the 'four year cycle' is per
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by webdevver 7mo ago
i reckon this time it will touch $30k before hitting new high of $200k

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