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eMPee584··on Cod Have Been Shrinking for Decades, Scientists Say They've Solved Mystery
Or, instead of wooly mammoths, bring back fishy ones.
eMPee584··on Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately
capitalism all the way down..
eMPee584··on Amiga Linux (1993)
ah the memories (studying engineering in Aachen two decades ago), that was the B subnet my dorm was on..
eMPee584··on Dyad: A New Language to Make Hardware Engineering as Fast as Software
modelica was what I was thinking.. why not integrate with that?
eMPee584··on ChatGPT: H1 2025 Strategy [pdf]
https://gwern.net/doc/reinforcement-learning/openai/2024-12-...
eMPee584··on Asterinas: A new Linux-compatible kernel project
Yeah, it's very easy. Real devices usually adhere to the specs.. only very few exceptions: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blame/master/drivers/hid/h... .. /s
eMPee584··on Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app
Telegram indeed does have excellent UX, speed and multi-device support.. as all clients are open source, there should be a (convoluted, rocky) way to port them to use the matrix protocol (an idea I've had a couple of months back).. or, instead of one-time porting, insert a protocol bridge running as sidecar in order to be able to keep in sync with upstream TG code (Pavel himself seems to be doing _immense_ amounts of coding on it)..

Anyone up to the challenge?

eMPee584··on Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser
Well his github profile says he's in France, so let's hope he's kinda safe.. But yeah, fuck wars in general. Also, fuck the generals.. and their commanders. Oh, and the whole military-industrial complex as well. We urgently need a transition towards a planetary non-commercial commons-based economy..
eMPee584··on Show HN: pshunt: Terminal app for easily killing processes
Uhm, `htop` with process filter (`F4`), then `k` for kill did the job just fine for me for two decades, but it's always good to have another option coded in Go, right xD
eMPee584··on Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser
Thanks, always appreciate ways of not using another blink engine for a brief research side quest! looking forward to test after school ; )

As it hasn't been brought up yet, a really great hack (esp. for us without sixel) is this terminal port of chromium: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl .. but the original creator hasn't had time to get back to it. So it is very bare bones & lacks a lot of features, like keyboard shortcuts, file saving.. but obviously it brings full web compatibility and is just very cool. Wishing for someone with rust skills to pick it up again, last time I looked (couple of months ago) none of the forks had any momentum.

eMPee584··on Chicken Eyeglasses
Low Protein intake => low neurotransmitter levels => lower emotional balance / control is a causal chain I've learned about a few years ago from a therapist named Julia Ross who treated thousands of patients with this insight and published three books about it, the most recent one (The craving cure) being a comprehensive practical resource about this phenomenon. It seems to be a major factor in depression, addiction, obesity, and dysfunctional social behaviour.. and little surprise it affects chicken, too.

In my view, we have massive problems (child brain development, social problems) in the world because of protein scarcity, as capitalism excels providing everyone with ample cheap carbs but cheap sustainable protein, not so much. I dream of open source bioreactors for algae (spirulina etc) too boost availability of Protein & Omega 3 (which is another hugely undersupplied nutrient, esp. in non-coastal regions and as appetite for sunflower-fried batter goes up, because Omega 6 cancels out 3).. here in Dresden, we have a small start-up https://algenwerk.de that is trying to commercialize it but the cost really has to be brought down a lot, rn one jar is about 8€ for some green goo that tastes like nothing, but it has potential and they are a talented team.

eMPee584··on The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf]
LLMs are not the only model type though? There's a plethora of architectures and combinations being researched.. And even transformers start to be able to do cool sh1t on knowledge graphs, also interesting is progress on autoregressive physics PDE (partial differential equations) models.. and can't be too long until some providers of actual biological neural nets show up on openrouter (probably a lot less energy and capital intense to scale up brain goo in tanks compared to gigawatt GPU clusters).. combine that zoo of "AI" specimen using M2M, MCP etc. and the line between mock and "true"intelligence will blur, escalating our feable species into ASI territory.. good luck to us.
eMPee584··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
> we can affect the trajectory of AI.

More meaningful, we can influence the context the intelligence explosion will play out in.

So how about we use the occasion to switch our global economic operating system from competition to cooperation in time for the singularity?

> Maybe if there are more of me, things will slow down

Precious little hope in slowing this rocket down when the boosters are just getting fired up..

eMPee584··on Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever
Apart from small UX nits, FF's screenshot feature is great - it's just that storing a 2-15MiB bitmap copy of a text medium still feels dirty to me every time.. would much prefer a PDF export, page size matching the scroll port, with embedded fonts and vectors and without print CSS..
eMPee584··on Gemini Diffusion
This. Git ( / tig!) blame and log -p --stat -S SEARCHSTR are extremely powerful for understanding the what why and when about code..
eMPee584··on A Survey of AI Agent Protocols
any experience with it? illuminate us lot if you will..
eMPee584··on Trust Me, I'm Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sandbox Escape
Don't you give THEM ideas!
eMPee584··on Sycophancy in GPT-4o
Well good luck then coming up with a winning elevator pitch for YC
eMPee584··on Sycophancy in GPT-4o
Square circles all the way down..
eMPee584··on OpenVSX, which VSCode forks rely on for extensions, down for 24 hours
codium (now windsurf?) has a vim plugin : )
eMPee584··on DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model
SEARCH TIP: As the default search prioritizes newer content, it's quite tedious to find older takes on youtube.. there's a workaround though: web search for site:youtube.com and set a custom date range (ddg: click on "Any time", g: "Tools" on the right side) to sidetrack the big tech attention economy brainrot algorithm.. : D
eMPee584··on Teaching LLMs how to solid model
Actually XR is great for this, with a good 3D interface two-handed manipulation of objects felt surprisingly useful when I last tried an app called GravitySketch on my pico4..
eMPee584··on Show HN: Attune - Build and publish APT repositories in seconds
.. for the repo github pages can be used as well, although the disgust when pushing huge .deb files up there is real.
eMPee584··on Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet
BFD in this context standing for "Big Fucking Deal" (Urban Dictionary), not "Binary File Descriptor" (V.E.R.A. - Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms) I guess?
eMPee584··on Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2
there's a blender mcp addon available for folks who already have a clue how to make use of that..
eMPee584··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
but letting > the SE and sales guy

never find out about their shared passion is kind of cruel, too?

eMPee584··on ICE Agents Realize They Arrested Wrong Teen, Say 'Take Him Anyway'
he might have meant Reich though
eMPee584··on Wasting Inferences with Aider
neither, probably
eMPee584··on The Bitter Prediction
thanks to git repositories stored away in arctic tunnels our common legacy code heritage might outlast most other human artifacts.. (unless ASI choses to erase that of course)
eMPee584··on WebTUI – A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the Browser
TUIs are memory-friendly tools for complex tasks and have a different UX feel (can be more comfortable, clear & informative, accessible) to pure CLI or native/web apps. I for one am extremely happy there's a thriving terminal ecosystem, nowadays with colors, icons (nerdfonts), emojis, mouse support, widget layouts.. even sixels and smooth scrolling..
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