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71bw

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meet.hn/city/51.1089776,17.0326689/Wrocław

Interests: Blockchain, Books, Cybersecurity, Fintech, Gaming, Healthcare, Investment, Open Source, Remote Work, Startups

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Trying to read something actually valuable while procrastinating at work.

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71bw··on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Ported to the Browser
Running on an i5-7500T in Firefox with a lot of stuff going on in the background (work PC running Win11) the game maintains a completely stable 60 FPS. Its insane, given the native build of the game sometimes hitched on my 7600x+6900xt combo at home when loading assets. None of that here!
71bw··on Super Mario Bros. Any% in 4:54.415 (New world record, 9 frames from perfect) [video]
Wondering how much more until we reach perfection.
71bw··on AI will make formal verification go mainstream
LLMs can handle a lot of these issues already, without having the user think about such issues.

Problem is - while these will be resolved (in one way or another) - or left unresolved, as the user will only test the app on his device and that LLM "roll" will not have optimizations for the broad range of others - the user is still pretty much left clueless as to what has really happened.

Models theoretically inform you about what they did, why they did it (albeit, largely by using blanket terms and/or phrases unintelligible to the average 'vibe coder') but I feel like most people ignore that completely, and those who don't wouldn't need to use a LLM to code an entirety of an app regardless.

Still, for very simple projects I use at work just chucking something into Gemini and letting it work on it is oftentimes faster and more productive than doing it manually. Plus, if the user is interested in it, it can be used as a relatively good learning tool.

71bw··on Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away
Stray anywhere off the main roads and suddenly your 'just fine' turns back into an ordeal.

And God forbid you come across inclines!

71bw··on Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies
They only do because the Arabs and Chinese weaponized social media quicker.
71bw··on 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
17 Sep 2017, 93,463 scrobbles. Quite late to the party, eh?
71bw··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
In Poland it's SMS OTPs, bank app (heavily recommended and in some cases enforced by the bank) or additionally paid physical TOTP token devices. And almost all banks throw a hissy fit once you have some sort of vector of root detection left open.
71bw··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
"you can just switch" and yet then you have to contact X people and change Y contracts that are related to your prior bank account. It is not that simple.

Plus nothing ensures the bank you switch to won't up their "defenses" in a week.

71bw··on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora
And I said that I do not have this issue and my current account is relatively fresh, having been made in May of this year.
71bw··on 4 billion if statements (2023)
Look at Mr. Rocket Scientist over here...
71bw··on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora
...have you ever thought about the way you're using the app, then? Because I, personally, get nothing else other than dumb memes and posts from people I follow.
71bw··on EFF launches Age Verification Hub
Discord. Twitter. YouTube and other google services.
71bw··on EFF launches Age Verification Hub
For instance [1]. I am speaking out of experience, as a GenZ person who has been first introduced to the entire world of sex and porn at EIGHT years old. I myself feel it has harmed my brain in ways which I'll likely never fully understand.

[1] https://eprints.qut.edu.au/217360/1/__qut.edu.au_Documents_S...

71bw··on Nokia N900 Necromancy
The last paragraph definitely sums up how much of a bureaucratic and dystopian joke Australia is. Should have kept 2G up!
71bw··on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
Blocked by FortiGate as pornography of all things... submitted for review, but got a chuckle out of me lol
71bw··on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
Issue is, the WPS office suite is more bloated with ads than even Microsoft's offerings are, and, overall, is quite a doozy to navigate.

If you want a true and good alternative, I'd recommend ONLYOFFICE[1].

[1] https://www.onlyoffice.com/

71bw··on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
It's not an issue with Dell it's an issue with how the chips themselves are designed. There are buggy microcodes in the Haswell-EP series which can be exploited to unlock FULL Turbo Boost on ALL cores of the CPUs. This is NOT possible on Broawdwell-EP.
71bw··on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung

    >and a lot of blink codes when you encounter bad sticks
Which sadly happens quite a lot with ECC DDR4 for whatever reason.

    >If you're feeling cheap and are okay with the previous generation, the Haswell/Broadwell-based T7910 is also serviceable
The T5810 is a known machine, very tinkerable, just works with NVMe adapters (they show up as a normal NVMe boot option in UEFI) and even have TPM 2.0 (!!!) after a BIOS update. Overall, they are the 2nd best affordable Haswell-EP workstations after the HP Z440 in my opinion.

    >E5 v4 revision CPU
They are less efficient than V3 CPUs due to the lockdown of Turbo Boost, but then again on a Precision you'd have to flash the BIOS with an external flasher regardless to get TB back.
71bw··on Why WinQuake exists and how it works

  More than 30 years later, you can still run winquake.exe on Windows 11. Fullscreen does not support widescreen but the windowed mode still works flawlessly. As much as Microsoft has been questionable lately, their commitment to backward compatibility is impressive.
I love this about Windows so much it's hard to explain to somebody who doesn't understand why it matters. :-)
71bw··on Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
Please provide source if you manage to find it as I'm deeply interested in said article.
71bw··on Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail
Mind sharing a bit more insight?
71bw··on EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance
The far-right Reform party[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_UK

71bw··on After my dad died, we found the love letters
Already explained this a bit further in a reply below in the chain, hope this explains a bit more.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46033816

71bw··on After my dad died, we found the love letters
I'm only mentioning this as a potential future divorce topic.

It's not up to debate whether or not I accept cheating because I've already set it as an immovable barrier multiple times: come into sexual contact with anybody else during the marriage and she's going to be thrown out of the window with all of her belongings.

But if she comes to me with honesty and hasn't done anything yet - why would I want to be on bad terms with her as she leaves? I can only be sad at her decision.

71bw··on After my dad died, we found the love letters
If we mean the game - then me. I never got over the lack of automatically moving camera, I prefer league simply because of that.
71bw··on After my dad died, we found the love letters
I can relate to this probably the most out of everything I've seen on HN so far. My fiancee is pansexual and overall seems to prefer women, so I surely am quite a bit of a surprise in her life (to the point where her family laughed at the fact that I 'fixed her' the first time I met them...) as a straight man. I know she loves me, I love her with all my heart but I am aware that at some point she may want to change me for someone of the opposite sex. I have therefore decided that as long as this does not happen behind my back I will support her, even if that means I have to endure a lot of pain.
71bw··on Mr TIFF
42 even shows up in the late mr. Carlsen's obituary. [1]

[1]https://www.mountainviewtacoma.com/obituaries/stephen-carlse...

71bw··on The MP3.com Rescue Barge Barge
There's direct links to the .mp3 files in the .xlsx of the data set available on the author's website.
71bw··on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
...and yet they play ROBLOX, which is undoubtedly 100x worse.
71bw··on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
It works fine under Arch and its derivatives. Everything aside from kernel anticheat games runs fine.
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