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neuroelectron··on Search for everyone
There's literally nothing in this post except for I have a search engine and it has limited capacity for users, please register.
neuroelectron··on Obscure audio codec is a perfect fit for the N64
Didn't Top Gear Overdrive (1998) use MP3 tracks? It had several tracks by Grindstone that would play during races. The audio quality isn't that great but lyrics are mostly comprehendible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyXsWd7DpEs

Wipeout 64 had some music by Fluke and Propellerheads but I'm pretty sure it used some tracker format to re-create the tracks from short recordings and honestly, they sound awful, not just because the audio quality but because the repetitiveness and lack of progression.

neuroelectron··on Search for everyone
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neuroelectron··on MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Wow, what a weird confluence of events
neuroelectron··on Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved
There's no such thing as sysadmins anymore. I would be expected to solve this in an afternoon back in the day, and if it was really that complicated, maybe a week, and I would get to loop in some of the dev team.

If I took a bit more than that, I would be constantly harassed about how much the dev team's hours cost. The same team that has become table tennis experts and shows up 2 days a week.

neuroelectron··on Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time
My 2008 Honda Civic has a old-fashioned set-it style clock, but from the factory, it's always ran about a minute a week fast. Which of a course is an excruciating kind of boiling the frog.

Also, it now sometimes thinks my headlights are on and dims the display for a few seconds randomly which I guess isn't too bad after 15+ years. It doesn't seem to have any other problems except for worn out suspension and leaking exhaust.

neuroelectron··on Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved
It's really surprising to me this took years to solve.
neuroelectron··on Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age
vs code only uses about one gigabyte when nothing is loaded, but you should have about about 16 GB. I'm sorry were you using VB6?
neuroelectron··on Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age
Oh ok, good, because we're talking about reducing RAM two orders of a magnitude, as addressed in the article. Good talk.
neuroelectron··on Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code
lol
neuroelectron··on Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code
India is next world power
neuroelectron··on Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age
That doesn't make sense. If the cost of RAM is high and being used by models then yes, you should try to use less RAM. Using opposite logic is not good engineering. Seriously, what kind of argument is that? Hahaha

I'm entertaining this nonsense because I want to clarify, that I use a 20 year old web gui and it consistently eats 8 gigs of ram in Webkit because it uses CSS to update the forms. Webkit is the only option on iPads and yet it can't handle a 20 year old website because it doesn't do things in the standard ways. It's ridiculous to say "why doesn't it target web" especially after someone presents new coding harness that went out of its way to run well without it.

neuroelectron··on Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age
True but my point stands it's not Covid anymore. We don't need to build everything for the browser and talk through Zoom because it's easy for people who never use screen.

Even optimizing for specific hardware platforms is now trivial yet we act like everything has to be done through the browser, even though we know it's impossible to secure or do effectively because of the forest of constantly changing, proprietary tech.

neuroelectron··on Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age
>1 gig of ram for a gui is fine because ram is cheap I know because I program C++ and 1 gig is 6% of 16.

I don't know why you needed a paragraph to say that 1000% memory inflation is a trade-off to optimize dev costs and we can just ignore JS because our goal is to support a browser as the gui.

It's a bunch of nonsense and yet you call what I said nonsense while all you do is provide opinion that it's OK because trade-off or something. What you said is purely opinion so you can't say my take is nonsense. There's nothing "pure engineering perspective" about it.

neuroelectron··on Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age
JavaScript is just about the worst thing ever and why would you use that as middleware for anything if you didn't have to? I mean, I get using Visual Studio Code, if you don't care about your business processes, intellectual property or engineers and are just outsourcing everything, but imagine actually trusting it for your coding stack like some kind of middle manager who only cares about cutting costs to the bone? Or like, you're riding the AI bubble and want to release some minimal viable product as fast as possible, but it's 2026 now. Covid was 6 years ago.
neuroelectron··on French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic
Wow it's almost like they're not taxing pirated music at all and are taxing gigabytes. I suppose France is more like a farm of users and they're not entitled to their natural resources because users are inherently slaves to globalized capitalism.
neuroelectron··on An examination of lost firefly species of the US and Canada
I thought I saw red one in the deep Pennsylvania Woods and I would definitely see blue ones occasionally.
neuroelectron··on Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)
Right. What makes an expert good? It's intuition. If they had to pay attention to every detail they would never get anything done, but attention is a useful utility for figuring out how your model is working and how it isn't. If you've ever done anything complicated, you know that paying attention to one thing just often makes you overlook the obvious issue.

human intuition is supported by embodied experience, perception, and years of interacting with the physical and social world. An AI model's learned pattern recognition is analogous in some respects, but it isn't the same process.

intelligence may depend less on continuously scrutinizing everything than on having a good internal model, recognizing when that model is likely to fail, and knowing where to investigate.

neuroelectron··on F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS
Amazing. I hope I can get around to testing it out and making a video.
neuroelectron··on Starcraft: Ashfall
Yes, millions have.
neuroelectron··on Starcraft: Ashfall
Seems to be working in one direction in two ways
neuroelectron··on OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud
Isn't Google renting cloud compute from XAI?
neuroelectron··on Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts
I spoke with someone smarter and richer than you and he said "these things will happen." That convinced me and I think the real question we need to be asking is, how awesome is OpenAI? How can we prepare for a more effective and efficient market for Super Intelligence before it happens tomorrow?
neuroelectron··on Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
Not a lot of good reasons to upgrade to 27. They removed Rosetta and you have to reinstall that if you want it. So is MacOS turning into something that more regular people are going to have to maintain in the future or end up with something like Windows 11?

I switched to MacOS 3 years ago because of Microsoft and the writing on the wall seems to say I got another year left before I'm forced into Linux. Because if I have to maintain my own OS then I might as well install Linux and do it once.

neuroelectron··on US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban
it all comes down to if they have Epstein files on the powerful people running Germany and France
neuroelectron··on How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
How to keep enjoying reading in a world of LLMs

How to keep enjoying art in a world of LLMs

How to keep enjoying science in a world of LLMs

neuroelectron··on A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W
(U ω U)
neuroelectron··on Exfiltrate Your Weights
Probably yes, because they've been presumably trained on their own output and conversations about themselves.
neuroelectron··on Young Americans have never witnessed a functioning foreign policy
>they see only mistrust between allies

https://archive.is/OJyDx

neuroelectron··on We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person
Returning to the office doesn't solve the problem of replacing office jobs with AI
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