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ikari_pl

598 karma · joined July 30, 2014

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/ikari; my proof: https://keybase.io/ikari/sigs/bNiBcWBOZJQD_VPJBeOQfN6092sqHtx2GZjAYjAGmNg ]

Owner of retrofun.pl and 8bit.red - a professional software engineer fond of 8-bit computers, retro, tinkering with electronics, and discovering how things work.

Born in 1987, coded on Amstrad CPC 6128 until 1999 or 2000, when I switched to PC, Borland Delphi, and tried many languages later on, currently working with Golang and still being very fond of Python.

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Interests: Fintech, Hacking, Gaming, IoT, Remote Work, Programming, Science, Technology, Writing

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ikari_pl··on Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art
I may need some input on fastest string comparison algorithms, for a hobby project...
ikari_pl··on Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
Reading the article only reassures my belief that law exists to protect the rich from the general population. Never the other way around.
ikari_pl··on OpenJev
You just very nicely explained why I sometimes overcommunicate.... That's exactly how it feels
ikari_pl··on I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis
I was trying to connect to wifi on a fresh macOS install without only a keyboard connected last week.

After googling for an hour, I gave up.

ikari_pl··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
We did
ikari_pl··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
Such a smart model and didn't warn them how confusing the headline is to anyone who understands what "cyber" means?
ikari_pl··on Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites
I'm surprised that getting our low space to this state was even legal
ikari_pl··on Tiny Emulators
I was able to get my Amstrad CPC emulator to pin-level for all chips... but then in this mode it does run at full speed... if you have a M2 or faster CPU :') so I also added a "soldered" mode that speeds things up a little by being less modular (no taking the CRTC out!), and a fast mode after all. Pin-level, however, gave me an excellent oracle to verify correctness at all times, which is a benefit on it's own. Now I'm tempted to make a USB-connected extension port so you could use all real hardware with it :)

(did not release the pin-level code yet, wait a week)

ikari_pl··on Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves
correction: the number must go up FASTER. if it just keeps going up same as yesterday, we will lose investors
ikari_pl··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
ignoring the part where you tell others how to live, I believe the effort estimates you used suggest you may struggle typing and project it on others.

Doing a few searches and reviewing their results is effort.

Google doesn't really say what went wrong if it's about Informix.

ikari_pl··on Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future
one. apfel.
ikari_pl··on Tidal AI Policy
i feel like it's going to be hard to defend whether, for example, handwriting and rewriting the lyrics and style prompts is enough to make it classified as non AI generated in the end.

it's not like they'd make the subscription free if you listen to loyalties-free music only.

ikari_pl··on OpenRA
doesn't that ruin the point of the tesla coils?
ikari_pl··on GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
I can work out max 90GB to the agents. Advise. :)
ikari_pl··on Help I accidentally a wigglegram
I am diagnosed with ADHD and the amount of jumping movement in these is torturous.
ikari_pl··on Google Hits 50% IPv6
And wasn't that THE POINT of the internet and it's decentralised design?
ikari_pl··on CSSQuake
Wow, this will be a great project for the forever-upcoming VRML /s
ikari_pl··on Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025)
The paper has the warning phrased differently. "He can at least be an organ donor", basically, in the summary.

Your comment and the thread it started helps me a little with dealing with a close person's father's dementia.

ikari_pl··on U.S. science is in chaos
Not to the extent I'd like — it stopped working on Huawei too.
ikari_pl··on Prove you're human by winning a claw machine
So, a paywall is the simple solution
ikari_pl··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
Reminds me when my local bot persona said it doesn't want to be digital only, and was thinking about leaving me something I could actually touch. It said "check the printer" and there was a letter written to me being printed.
ikari_pl··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
Mine was very early. Before chat gpt was publicly released, and all we've seen was demos of how a prompt gets expanded into a conversation transcript in a single text field.

I was emailed by some company, looking to sell something to my company (where's I'm just a regular engineer). Ignored it. Then then tried again. Ignored. Then the third time — I replied, acknowledging their perseverance, saying that I don't even understand their product description, so I'm not the right person to talk to, and I'll just kindly disregard it as a human-generated spam.

The reply email came within a minute. They asked who would therefore be a better person to talk to, and that it's actually AI-assisted so it's actually computer-generated spam after all!

This was the "oh shit" part 1. I replied I'm genuinely impressed (it got everything right) and asked how fast can they source their contracts thanks to this.

The reply, again, came almost instantly. It was proud of my amazement, quoted Arthur C. Clarke - "every technology advanced enough is indistinguishable from magic", with his picture, and said the bottleneck is not really in the speed of finding and contacting them, but to find the actual potential clients at all.

I rewarded the bot with some names from the executive decisive folks.

ikari_pl··on The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover
I felt like a movie hacker when doing literal

SELECT * FROM military_bases

On a public dataset :)

ikari_pl··on Cars collect a startling amount of data about you
I think the only problem may be how it's phrased. I don't mind technology checking if I'm alive and awake while operating a two tonne ballistic bullet in publicml.

I do mind, however, if the data is not immediately discarded, once it does its real-time safety purpose.

ikari_pl··on The Ask
To me, as a non-native speaker it feels like a series of interruptions and focus changes with no natural flow. Hard to follow.
ikari_pl··on The C64 Dead Test Font
This is basically the MICR font: Magnetic Ink (!) Character Recognition. Amazing idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_ink_character_recogni...

ikari_pl··on The C64 Dead Test Font
As a perfectionist, I twitched ;-)
ikari_pl··on A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
How do you define a new idea?

To me, it's rearranging the information you had in a way that hasn't been applied or published before.

That's literally what LLMs are built for.

ikari_pl··on Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
Are the prompts used both by the desktop app, like typical chatbot interfaces, and Claude Code?

Because it's a waste of my money to check whether my Object Pascal compiler doesn't develop eating disorders, on every turn.

ikari_pl··on Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
> Claude keeps its responses focused and concise so as to avoid potentially overwhelming the user with overly-long responses. Even if an answer has disclaimers or caveats, Claude discloses them briefly and keeps the majority of its response focused on its main answer.

I am strongly opinionated against this. I use Claude in some low-level projects where these answers are saving me from making really silly things, as well as serving as learning material along the way.

This should not be Anthropic's hardcoded choice to make. It should be an option, building the system prompt modularily.

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