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wavemode··on I built the fastest PHP webserver in the world
over 100K lines of code materialized over the course of 3 weeks and is full of em dashes. I think we can reasonably assume here...
wavemode··on San Francisco Onion Futures Company
You can, since the contracts are transferrable. But SFOFC is not an exchange so you'd have to find a buyer yourself.
wavemode··on Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
well, I just emailed the project just to see if they're aware of it

part of me feels like this is most likely a defunct wallet and nobody involved with the project has the keys anymore

wavemode··on Can we stop with the uptime percentages?
Many commenters seem to think the author is saying that we should stop caring about uptime, when what he's really saying is that we should be reporting time (i.e. number of hours down in the last month) rather than just reporting an opaque percentage that hides the problem.
wavemode··on Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
Funny you mention this - a fast food restaurant in my town now has an LLM taking drive-thru orders.

Though I highly doubt it has taken anyone's job, since most of the work is still in making, packing and handing over the food. (In fact, given the area I live in, I partially feel like the advantage they saw in it was that the LLM can speak Spanish.)

wavemode··on Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
Hm? Drawing the next move's game state based on the current one is a very simple task. Chess academies are probably full of six-year-olds who could do this.

For adults getting into playing tournament chess, losing to some kid barely tall enough to reach the board is a rite of passage.

wavemode··on A rough guide for going back to the Moon
> "ever" and "effectively infinite" are obviously exaggerations

I see no exaggeration, obvious or otherwise. Scientific consensus is that mankind's population is going to peak in the next century.

> mankind already needs more land than Earth has

By what basis? There's no shortage of land. There's a shortage of land close to popular population centers, and that tends to be the land that people want to live on most. But that's an inherent geometric and social problem which outer space definitely doesn't solve, in fact it makes it worse.

> more energy than Earth can spare

Earth doesn't provide energy, the sun does. Even fossil fuels, biomass and wind power were all originally energy from the sun. The exception is nuclear - Earth does have an unusually high concentration of heavily elements like uranium and plutonium.

The bottleneck has always been development and delivery, not availability of energy itself. On just the land the US currently uses to grow corn for ethanol gasoline, we could build enough solar panels to power the entire US. And I certainly don't need to tell you about nuclear - the only reason entire civilizations aren't already powered by it is the time and expense and risk of building the plants.

What energy does outer space provide? You have solar, which we have here, and nuclear, which we have here. (You also have a variety of ideas that exist in science fiction but not the real world, like dyson spheres - I surely hope you aren't referring to such as the basis of your arguments.) None of this is new, and none of this solves the problems of development and delivery, in fact it makes both problems significantly worse.

wavemode··on Over 12% of links posted to Hacker News are Show HN projects now
I don't even feel the effect as much because my brain filters these posts out nowadays, like ads. I have essentially zero interest in clicking on Show HN posts anymore.
wavemode··on A rough guide for going back to the Moon
Feel free to disprove them completely since you're so confident
wavemode··on A rough guide for going back to the Moon
Population growth has been slowing for a long time, and is actually already below replacement level in most parts of the world outside Africa. It's unlikely that we will ever reach a global human population of even 11 billion. Some estimates put the peak at under 9 billion.
wavemode··on Java 27
You're drawing a distinction that doesn't matter in practice. If you encounter a NullPointerException incident then you either didn't annotate your code or you didn't run the tooling. (In fact before even running your CI suite, any serious IDE will tell you immediately that you've mishandled null somewhere.)

I get that some people feel like it ought to be built-in to the language rather than a separate tool... but people's personal feelings are irrelevant to the lived experience of my day-to-day work, where worrying about null is truly a thing of the past.

wavemode··on A rough guide for going back to the Moon
> space has practically infinite everything - land, resources, energy

The Earth has more land than mankind will ever need. The Earth has effectively infinite energy from the Sun. And most of the resources we need are derived from biological matter, which Space lacks.

wavemode··on Java 27
Nullability annotations + tooling makes this a non-issue in practice.
wavemode··on Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
So due to self-bias, people who shop absently with LLMs will mostly be the ones buying products from LLM-run businesses. Fitting.
wavemode··on Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
This seems like one of those ideas that is intentionally ahead of its time. All of the "Real-world" demos they have are deeply unprofitable, but have drummed up excitement and news coverage (and investor money, likely).
wavemode··on Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster
Why do people arguing about communism always assume that the person they're arguing against thinks that capitalism is perfect. The world isn't binary.
wavemode··on Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster
> Communism was considered more successful than capitalism for a large chunk of the 20th century (because it was), then that changed

The word you're looking for is "collapse". It's when something is stable at one point in time, but then later breaks down. That's what "changed". It wasn't random like weather or something. The economic systems collapsed.

> None of this is settled

The fact that it has happened numerous times in different parts of the world makes it pretty settled in my mind.

wavemode··on Why a dispute costs $229 on a $129 pair of shoes
> lost sale, reversed by the chargeback $129.00

> ... cost of the shoes, gone $70.00

Uhh, this logic is wrong. You lost the shoes either way. The chargeback didn't cost you the shoes.

From an opportunity cost perspective, the chargeback itself cost you $129. Since that's the refund you sent back to the buyer. But you still no longer possess the shoes, and still paid the associated fees, regardless of whether that refund had happened or not.

From a real net worth perspective, the entire process of shipping out shoes that get charged back costs you $70 plus payment and shipping fees. Since before the ordeal, you had shoes worth $70, and afterwards you no longer possessed them and have also paid fees.

wavemode··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
Oh, I must have missed that

In that case yeah, it certainly depends on what the local laws say. I think in the UK parody protection applies to copyright but not trademarks.

wavemode··on Compiler Can Undo Your Security Checks
there are a wide variety of ways to indirectly detect that someone opened devtools

the most common way is to set a breakpoint, which pause JS execution only if devtools are open. this pause can be detected with a timer.

wavemode··on Compiler Can Undo Your Security Checks
Definitely not only C compilers. Any optimizing compiler can remove code from your program which you might deem important but that the compiler thinks is irrelevant.
wavemode··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
No, tradmarks can be parodied too. It's a first amendment protection, and extremely common in movies, TV and video games.

If the developer worked with a lawyer they could've gotten any suit by IKEA (this wasn't a suit yet, just a cease and desist letter) quickly dismissed.

wavemode··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
Parent commenter didn't say anything about you personally. They disagreed with you, yes, but that's not an insult.
wavemode··on Room 641A
Mass surveillance has certainly gone too far, but comparing 3000 premeditated murders to car accidents is not really a logical way to argue that. We investigate murder for a reason, despite it being a much rarer cause of death than natural causes and accidents.
wavemode··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
> Should the state do nothing about children not being sent to school?

> Should they go hungry when not fed?

> Should the state do nothing about children not being sent to school?

Of course the government should do something. They should punish the neglectful parent, and take away the child if needed.

What I'm missing is the logical leap to "everyone must give their sensitive personal information to an overseas corporation".

wavemode··on NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami
> They commanded full power 15 seconds before the crash

Not 15 seconds before the crash, 15 seconds before the end of the recording. Then overran the runway 10 seconds before the end of the recording, then started crashing into objects 7 seconds before the end of the recording.

Thrust was reduced back to idle 11 seconds before the end of the recording, so just before departing the runway.

wavemode··on Stockfish 19
Real life is a game of risk/reward rather than a game of deep calculation. You can't "calculate" life because there are too many variables and unknowns. You have to simply pick a path and either accept the risks or mitigate them.
wavemode··on Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please
This is similar to (but much higher-level than) the Shakespeare programming language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Langua...
wavemode··on iPhone Duo
The Find N6 still has a noticeable crease, it's just much smaller than the average foldable (here's a video of it with the screen off: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ss31thoK7xM).

If someone truly can't tolerate their phone screen being in any way perceptibly different from a single flat pane of glass, then they shouldn't buy foldables. It's something you have to get used to or ignore, with any brand. Especially over time as you bend and unbend the phone repeatedly and the crease deepens.

wavemode··on iPhone Duo
But, the iPhone Duo has a different aspect ratio from a regular iPhone. So your app needs to be designed for multiple aspect ratios anyway.
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