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sitkack

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Slow thinker, like molasses.
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sitkack··on John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
The VMM on GCP has only really been tested with Linux. You are kinda wasting your time, the only way to make it work is to make the hobby OS Linux.
sitkack··on F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash
You need to leave!
sitkack··on How to slow down a program and why it can be useful
Afaik it was to interface with bit banged hardware that couldn't communicate at the faster rates. One would turn off turbo to print.
sitkack··on How to slow down a program and why it can be useful
Instead of arguing about it, you people could have run an experiment and written a paper.
sitkack··on How to slow down a program and why it can be useful
On FreeBSD I have used https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?dummynet for this exact thing.
sitkack··on GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyWelvEP_CQ
sitkack··on Reverse Engineered Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5
The original mission was to get kids into computing with a low cost board, something akin to the C64 back in the 80s. But apparently that is only as user and not as a creator. I'd argue that getting kids into computing at the hardware level is even more important now.

But I think in some small part the RPi Foundation has captured itself and turned into a for profit company where the original mission takes a back seat.

sitkack··on Claude for Chrome
It's not just an ad; it is a fundamental paradigm shift.
sitkack··on US Intel
Letting them have their own thunderdome is regulation. It means they don't get to pee in our pool. I am all for a freemarket, but it needs to be kept in a cage match.
sitkack··on Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
Chaos manor was <uncharitable>. Readers were being both talked at and down to. BYTE would have been better without it.
sitkack··on We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA
Blue collar jobs are going to evaporate as the supply chain gets wedged. This like trying to lose weight by burning down the farms with napalm.
sitkack··on We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA
Jokes are only for L80 and above citizens.
sitkack··on We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA
Idealists in the sense of a simplistic worldview.

It is worth a watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf-bSAnW_E0 but it itself is a somewhat simplistic take.

sitkack··on US Intel
We need regulation around how VCs work. They are in a house flipping game and nothing more, slapping on a bad kitchen remodel and then handing the hot potato onto the next sucker.
sitkack··on We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA
Congress should be setting tariff rules. Regardless of your political philosophy, these tariffs will crash the economy and move innovation out of the US.
sitkack··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
This is crazy, this means 10 years from now only terrorists will distribute software. Unacceptable! How many platforms now allow one to build and distribute a binary?
sitkack··on OS Yamato lets your data fade away
I agree as an art project of some sort.

My version of this would have agents that would categorize, collate and clean. Keeping the the habital spaces clean, perhaps showing things I should see. It might find things that are important (like tax documents, receipts, etc) and make sure that they are findable and archived properly.

I do find it very self centered in a way. Artists produce a lot of work, but to keep it from disappearing they are required to groom it with their attention? It leaves nothing for the future.

Yamato is a nihilistic aesthetic.

sitkack··on OS Yamato lets your data fade away
We externalize so much of our cognition, why would you want to give yourself digital Alzheimer's to gain space? Why is void space valuable over memories?

Notes, photos, emails from loved ones, legal documents are less important than unused hd capacity?

sitkack··on SSD-IQ: Uncovering the Hidden Side of SSD Performance [pdf]
Could be garbage collection pauses. You could try wiping them again with zeros or doing a drive specific reset and see if the performance is normative.
sitkack··on Seed: Interactive software environment based on Common Lisp
Active as of yesterday https://github.com/phantomics/seed/branches
sitkack··on We put a coding agent in a while loop
repoMirror is the wrong name, aiCodeLaundering would be more accurate. This is bulk machine translation from one language to another, but in this case, it is code.
sitkack··on It is worth it to buy the fast CPU
Right, optimize for horrible tools so the result satisfies the bottom 20%. Counterpoint, id Software produced amazingly performant programs using top of the line gear. What are you trying to do is enforce a cultural norm by hobbling the programmer's hardware. If you want fast programs, you need to make that a criteria, slow hardware isn't going to get you there.
sitkack··on Debdelta
It could have really nice observability properties if the delta is transparent and you can see what is flowing by. In this regard, the space savings would be a nice side effect.
sitkack··on How to build a coding agent
You are wasting your time and everyone elses with Gemini, it is the worst.
sitkack··on Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022)
Every minor release of Python is a breaking change. They deprecate stuff all the time, and remember the stdlib and the wider ecosystem has to also move in concert so the breaking changes cascade.

By major version I meant minor version, 3.13 -> 3.14 is a minor version in Python, but a major source of breaking changes, that is what I meant. There will be no Python 4

sitkack··on Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022)
There is a way to make it work. Python has no problem breaking things across major versions.
sitkack··on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
You just did.
sitkack··on Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
They are also firing as many senior folks as possible. You should revisit what ever argument you are trying to make.
sitkack··on Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
This is how it always is with Firefox, you hit some bug and then find that it was entered YEARS ago, while they burn focus on things like Pocket.
sitkack··on Show HN: Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler
Do you learn the capabilities of the underlying hardware relative to the kernel src? You should be able to start predicting perf using learned static profiling.
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