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lamp987··on Far Cry 1.34 source code (2006)
Falcon 4.0 (1998) had a source code leak after Microprose went bankrupt and just like Doom it also had many community forks.

Its still alive and kicking today as Falcon BMS.

lamp987··on 53% of parents say climate change affects their decision to have more kids
very good news

less competition for resources for my kids

lamp987··on Stackoverflow is investing into baking GenAI
that sounds like a scam
lamp987··on Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him (2016)
more liek /u/spaz hehe
lamp987··on Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him (2016)
the predator was this person's father, not the person
lamp987··on StackOverflow petition to allow removing AI generated content
dead internet will become real
lamp987··on How much would it have cost if GPT-4 had written your code
as a hobby osdever, this:

>I really don't see such a thing being far off. GPT-4 is already pretty good at writing small modules ("write a disk IO queue for my custom kernel in C").

is completely delusional.

lamp987··on AI will slightly drain the swamp of higher ed
They strongly predict various other things, therefore they are meaningful.

Them being imperfect does not imply them being meaningless. That would be a low-IQ leap in logic, so to speak.

lamp987··on Why I Left Rust
>Fully 25% of Gen Z identify as LGBTQ.

What does typing on a computer keyboard have to do with where you put your genitals? No one cares and most importantly, no one should care. Keep your sexual and romantic life to yourself in a programming community.

>There are going to be struggles and clashes as members of different classes assert their grievances and call each other out.

Thats a bad thing that must be nipped in the bud.

>In short, this kind of "drama" is a growing pain of open source becoming a real movement that invites and incorporates diverse voices.

More like its death convulsions.

lamp987··on Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused
this is the future of lawyers, doctors, engineers, school teachers...

dark times are ahead.

lamp987··on India official empties dam to retrieve lost phone
proof of his corruption perhaps
lamp987··on Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode
wow64 is just windows equivalent of linux /lib32/*
lamp987··on The hypergamy hypothesis: much more than you wanted to know
your personality doesnt matter if your looks arent good enough to open the door for the personality to be presented.
lamp987··on OpenAI's Sam Altman attends secretive annual meeting with the world’s elite
Its not "conspiracy theory bullshit" when its real. Scheming together for their collective benefit at the expense of the rest of the world's population is the completely publicly stated goal of that meeting.
lamp987··on Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
How? They will have the omnipotent robots.
lamp987··on The Erasmus Network
I liked Erasmus, it was the easiest way to get girls as a uni student by far.
lamp987··on Texas moves to create gold-backed digital currency
whats practical about your wealth being stolen from you?
lamp987··on Texas moves to create gold-backed digital currency
"fiat currency is a grand scheme to undermine our savings"

imagine writing this as ironic mockery during an ongoing inflation crisis.

lamp987··on 66% of renters say homeownership is ‘hopeless’
In the future, only investment firms will own homes and everybody will be renting their whole life. At the end of their lives, they will have no inheritance to pass on to their children.

You will own nothing.

lamp987··on Get a Tesla if you want to learn about AI trying to kill you, says Steve Wozniak
"isn’t Teslas autopilot something like ~10x as safe as the average driver? "

Bruh. 10x as dangerous would still be a low number.

lamp987··on Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 staff
they will harvest your data with "AI" (everything is called AI today) and sell it to insurance companies.

combined with the biden depression, this makes it a good idea to fire employees and gain this new source of income.

lamp987··on Squawk bots: Can generative AI lead us to understanding animals?
LLM-induced psychosis. The new health hazard in the town.
lamp987··on ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF
from an entirely new account too.

jannies should start deleting these ads. ever since gpt-4 dropped, this website has become unbearable.

lamp987··on Booting Modern Intel CPUs
DMA on x86 does update contents of CPU caches.
lamp987··on A Language Design Analysis of HolyC (2019)
yes

the whole os is one address space

lamp987··on A Language Design Analysis of HolyC (2019)
memory is identity mapped in templeos. so page faults are meaningless.

that statement is false though, because paging is mandatory in long mode. all memory accesses are virtual memory accesses.

lamp987··on Sam Altman: OpenAI is not training GPT-5 and "won't for some time"
dont worry, all this tech will eventually run locally on our pcs.
lamp987··on Auto-GPT Unmasked: The Hype and Hard Truths of Its Production Pitfalls
ChatGPT can also stop the war in ukraine

https://arktos.com/2023/04/12/chatgpts-diplomatic-gambit-mir...

lamp987··on The 'Insanely Broad' Restrict Act Could Ban Much More Than Just TikTok
not sure if satire...
lamp987··on At Stanford law school, the dean takes a stand for free speech. will it work?
and who will decide what is the "center" there? and isnt it unfair and not impartial to protect the center by censoring left and right?

no one should be moderated

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