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rightbyte··on Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
They take warnings in popular culture as instructions or inspiration.
rightbyte··on “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
Blacksmiths were petite bourgeois. We are not.
rightbyte··on US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide
How about that they do bad stuff and feel bad about it? You make it sound like they are taking a bullet or something. Desillusion is probably way worse.
rightbyte··on How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026
Don't forget NES, SNES and Genesis. 2d games are way easier for small kids like 3-4yo. I personally would recommend Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in World of Illusions as you do Coop and can save the kid a lot.

I was surprised that children that didn't grow up with the graphic revolution, does not seem to care about graphics. They don't seem to care they are playing 40-30 year old games.

rightbyte··on How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026
Zork comes to mind. I am pretty sure there are plenty more really early.
rightbyte··on Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
I guess customer lists might be the most valuable data in most Jira setups. Sales data ...
rightbyte··on Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
So they will harvest trade secrets from 10000s of companies and there have been no panic mass flight about this?

How companies entrust SaaSs with their data is beyond insane to me. Especially since FOSS alternatives are readily available.

rightbyte··on How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026
Does compatibility with M64 imply N64 compat?
rightbyte··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
> When I checked to see what 4K ultra looked like, the graphics latency caused a bunch of scripting to fall apart and the game glitched really bad.

That is ... interesting. The game use wall clock waits or something instead of "game logic tic" wait?

rightbyte··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
In "actual fighting" the losses are such that the units are weakened not like leveling up experience.

I don't think soldiers survive any meaningful amount of combat to get experience in combat. Pooping without WC is what they get good at which you can do in exerciss too.

Logistics and support staff might get experience maybe ...

rightbyte··on Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal
Enshitification is a problem when the power structures are not in the user's favour.
rightbyte··on Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal
Eyeing Wikipedia it seems like it sold for about raised capital. Probably very little product value but some b2b contracts to milk?
rightbyte··on Don't be a meat proxy
> No one argues against compilers, build tools, IDEs, task runners, deploy and orchestration tools.

Uhm ... I've heard quite alot arguing against IDEs. And I feel IDEs are too much of a lock in.

rightbyte··on Don't be a meat proxy
There is no way bicycling is not less effort unless it is very hilly or bad roads? Random people have no problem keeping up with marathon runners on bikes.
rightbyte··on The AI Productivity Gap
The hard part is that LLM code looks like there is some sort of flow. It is like a nice statistical smooth flow. It looks very convincing at a glance. No one would write code like that and not know what they are doing comments self assured and all.
rightbyte··on The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder
Another theory is that things has gotten worse as more and more petite bourgeois prospects for class travel lose faith in the invisible hand and turn to pure grift.

And when it comes to culture as festivals they are very much victims of getting hallowed out and sucked dry.

rightbyte··on What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
Yes but Elon is driving you. A remote controll to steer your car. He got it.

I would short the telephone antenna if I were you.

rightbyte··on Google has abandoned Google News?
UX is all power structures, not tech.

There was this Reddit api 3rd party app that was terrific before the rug pull. Don't remember the name. Pretty obvious when a solo dev can outclass Reddits engibeering departement.

rightbyte··on Google has abandoned Google News?
> golden opportunity for competitors

The invisible hand of the market is a make believe. There is too much moat in moat.

rightbyte··on The lost civic life of movie rental stores
And why operate a franchise yourself when you can just own stock.

I believe the social feedback is what have gotten so bad. Too much bog corps and remote landlords to care.

rightbyte··on The lost civic life of movie rental stores
I think it has to be a somewhat smaller sized shop with the same 3 staff on rotation for the social thing. Applied to both my video store and game store in the 90s early 00s.
rightbyte··on What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
> emotion-based politics

I would say Elon Musk is deep into emotion based politics. All edgelord. All vibes.

rightbyte··on Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition
As if giving users more time to accept bad terms before the rug pull is commendable.

"It needing to be done"?

I didn't accept any terms with MS and I haven't received any refund or whatever other compensation.

rightbyte··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
Does defamation laws apply to deceased too?
rightbyte··on Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction
People not into music does not seem to actually listen to the lyrics. Like, Springsteens Born in the USA etc. It is really strange. The lyrics doesn't even have to be subtle.
rightbyte··on French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
I don't think multispecies plantations with thinning (until the trees are big enough) requires serfs eating only porridge.

Like, there are motor saws nowadays.

rightbyte··on What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now
Sure from a philosophical standpoint I agree with you. But in practice you need to weight in trust. Bad faith retorics is just too expensive to engage.

The main problem with ad hominem is when ot is used as "Mr Y agree with you. Mr Y is bad. You are wrong". Like, 2nd order ad hominem attacks?

rightbyte··on What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now
Ad hominem attacks attacks is often missused as a way to slander stating conflict of interests.
rightbyte··on What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now
Ad hominem attacks are actually underrated. Like, why listen to bad people wanting you no good. It is a good shortcut.

The failure is when it is used in bad faith. But that would apply to all techniques. LLMs are masters of bad faith discussions hiding misconceptions in optimal regression maths.

rightbyte··on Claude Opus 5
> your phone is created so you don't have to run home and use the landline to make a phone call - it's making an already existing task easier.

There are externalities. In my experience it was way easier to call people in the 90s. People answered and if not their faimily members did.

It was impossible to ghost phone calls until the early 2000s with presentation screens.

Nowadays people hardly answer unknown numbers or might ignore inconvinient calls.

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