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lomase

323 karma · joined July 21, 2023

A grumpy normal guy.

C# & JS for work.

C & Lua for fun.

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lomase··on Our new SAM audio model transforms audio editing
Like everything AI you just have to lie a little and people whith 0 clue abot SOTA in audio will think this is amazing.
lomase··on NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
In most of the civilized world the goverment takes a big chunk of the GDP for health care so their citizens dont die.

Does your goverment just let people die?

lomase··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
Bait used to be credible.
lomase··on If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
But if you use managed laguages you can't feel superior like when coding in Rust.
lomase··on If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
Idiomatic Java too.
lomase··on If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
The people you write to don't want or just can't code.
lomase··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
As everybody knows not a single programming language was released between C++ and Rust.
lomase··on NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
How much respiratory disseases and deaths asociated with polution do to GDP? (Sincerely asking)
lomase··on Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
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lomase··on Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
Truth Has Died
lomase··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
That is why most of the world has not been using c/c++ for decades.
lomase··on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
Ilegal? Lol, nice joke.
lomase··on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
So you can hook up all those internal employee databases to your new created libpam-mysql and hook it up all to slack or just use what Microsoft sells you.
lomase··on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
Can we see any of this software created by this amazing LLMs?
lomase··on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
ActiveDirectory is million times better than any other solution on the market.
lomase··on Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
Imagine anthropomorphing this hard.
lomase··on Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
I don't know what kind of CRUD apps you work on. The kind of CRUD apps people pay me to work on are not simple.
lomase··on Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
I does not work buddy. Nobody gets paid to not buy AI.
lomase··on Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
Imagine you are a Perl programmer writing js...
lomase··on The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude
I can also make a port of Prince of Persia, and faster than a LLM:

https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP

lomase··on The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude
If it is so good at it where are all those decompilation projects?
lomase··on The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude
Downvoted by the clankers.
lomase··on Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters
Scammers do.
lomase··on Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters
Do you also remember when eveybody was waiting for cryto to cool off to buy a GPU?
lomase··on Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer
load ""
lomase··on Learning music with Strudel
Strudel is TidalCycles but in javascript.
lomase··on A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2
Fixed floating point has been a mistery to me, and to be fair floting point is too. I know digital synths like Virus or Waldorf all used 24 bit fixed point math DSP.

I remember this dps site with lost of c and delphi code, there is where I found what denormals are.

Nowdays I dont see DPS code dealing with denormals. Maybe the CPU does not have to do it in software anymore? I don't really know.

lomase··on A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2
Is funny because the only code I have read that flushed denormals was in synth code.
lomase··on A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2
Is Valve porting HL2 to VR? A 2013, sorry.
lomase··on AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
I am talking about real work. Who is going to pay me to build that?

I have not even seen a CRUD app with real users wrote using AI tools.

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