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Slow thinker, like molasses.
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sitkack··on Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Noem after criticism
Not fired, moved. This part of the plan of ratcheting open the Overton window.
sitkack··on AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time
The ECC in DDR5 is there just to make it work because of the errors caused by the density and the data rates. The ECC isn’t there for you, it is for the manufacturers.
sitkack··on zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32
It was only opaquely supported by GCC, no LLVM, so no Rust.

It is a cool design, but it was a major PITA for awhile. Xtensa is parametric so every instance of a cpu has a custom instruction set.

sitkack··on How did Joann Fabrics die while Best Buy survived? It wasn't Amazon
Joann Fabrics had decent foot traffic and the margins were good. My kid and I averaged probably 3 trips a month.

They sold a whole lot more than fabric.

sitkack··on Aqua: A CLI message tool for AI agents
It is a fun problem to play with, but it turns out you can use anything. I use a directory per recipient and throw anything I want in there. Works fine, LLMs are 1000x more flexible than any human mind.
sitkack··on Attention Media ≠ Social Networks
How long until Claude has noprocrast?
sitkack··on zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32
The ESP32 pre-RISCV ISA is from Tensilica, this IP they purchased.
sitkack··on Attention Media ≠ Social Networks
Does that include HN?
sitkack··on Attention Media ≠ Social Networks
What does that mean exactly, how do you see that manifesting itself? Would we even be aware of these networks, sounds like email
sitkack··on Your app subscription is now my weekend project
I now code for fun with AI because it can handle the boring parts. 80% of anything is mostly drudge. And while we can’t subsist on frosting alone, having assistant that can keep you in the zone is very rewarding.

Three major iterations from now this whole conversation will be quaint and everyone will have always thought this.

sitkack··on Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete
I am curious about how both of you think Jetbrains is dropping the ball so much that you are no longer buying the tool.

You are still using it but no longer getting updates?

sitkack··on Show HN: GlyphLang – An AI-first programming language
If context disambiguates, then you have to use attention which is even more resource intensive.

You want to be as state free as possible. Your tokenizer should match your vocab and be unambiguous. I think your goal is sound, but golfing for the wrong metric.

sitkack··on I have to give Fortnite my passport to use Bluesky
You can tell the kind of person by what they write.
sitkack··on MongoBleed Explained Simply
I’ll give you $1000 to run Mongo.
sitkack··on MongoBleed Explained Simply
Relying on implementation behavior is the perfect way to introduce a hidden in plain site vulnerability.
sitkack··on MongoBleed Explained Simply
The default case should be the safe correct one, even if it “breaks” backward compatibility. Without it, we will forever be saddled with the design mistakes of the past.
sitkack··on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
Exactly, or open the protocol and let the community write it.

Third option is to ensure the downloader runs under proton, which I think it does but haven’t tried.

sitkack··on I have to give Fortnite my passport to use Bluesky
They internalize title heuristics because of who they perceive is the author of the heuristics.
sitkack··on Roblox CEO interview about child safety didn't go well
The entire leadership team of Roblox is unserious. Consistent amateur hour behavior out of them.
sitkack··on Roblox CEO interview about child safety didn't go well
The article doesn't even directly mention Schlep https://www.youtube.com/@RealSchlep/videos whom Roblox kicked off the platform for catching pedophiles.

Roblox Is Threatening to Sue Me For Protecting Kids (Schlep) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMqAw_NjHK8

Roblox, Take a Seat (ft: Chris Hansen) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIcVPPOB8TQ

#freeschlep

It was awesome seeing the kids on Roblox revolt against Baszucki for doubling down on supporting pedophiles.

The leadership team at Roblox is so entirely tone deaf, if I were the the board, I'd remove them all. I watched Baszucki and

This is in addition to the money laundering and dystopian hellscape that is the whole game publishing platform that has been documented here on hn.

Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ

Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY

My own child says that no parent should allow their child on Roblox. Smart kid.

sitkack··on Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects
The literal translation of orangutan in Malay is "person of the forest".
sitkack··on Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects
Was it one of

https://web.archive.org/web/20100612184109/https://nelson.be...

Neural Circuit Recording from an Intact Cockroach Nervous System https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3969889/

Descending influences on escape behavior and motor pattern in the cockroach https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11536194/

Multisensory control of escape in the cockroach Periplaneta americana https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00192001

sitkack··on Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects
I am not a vegan, but many of my meals are vegan. Most of my meals are vegetarian, but I do eat meat. I do not eat pork, octopus or goat.

I also keep my dietary preferences very low key. In a social setting, if I accidentally eat something I try and avoid, I don't make a fuss.

sitkack··on FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices
And? Get an M1/M2 off of ebay or craigslist.
sitkack··on FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices
There are also RISC-V designs with TSO. If you are targeting x86 workloads, it makes sense to have a per thread TSO mode.
sitkack··on Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects
We are learning so many wonderful things about Bees!

They can count https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21222227

Bees play https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33369572 https://www.science.org/content/article/are-these-bumble-bee...

All of this reinforces my belief that nearly everything is conscious and aware, we differ in a capabilities and resolution but we are all more similar than we are different.

Spider Cognition: How Tiny Brains Do Mighty Things https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46003146

sitkack··on FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices
Too bad Arm doesn't allow architectural licenses, because this is exactly the kind of thing Valve and the FEX developers would want to extend the ISA to support. I bet we see a RISC-V backend to FEX in the next 6 months, it probably already exists in a private repo.

FEX is the shootstring, extra special discount budget (not maligning) version of Rosetta. Apple should sell Rosetta to Valve.

sitkack··on Steam Machine
Only x86 can make x86 irrelevant.
sitkack··on FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices
Not just used by, Valve is sponsoring FEX.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903610#:~:text=Valve%...

sitkack··on Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge
Your original comment comes of like excuse making and that nothing can possibly be done.

> > Between making money, perceived culpability and risks offloaded to insurance companies why would they?

> Because it is the right thing to do, and the NTSB thinks so too.

Doing great is much different than, "accidents waiting to happen".

I don't understand the goal of your changing rhetoric.

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