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TheGoddessInari

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Woman, programmer, has autism, friendly, kind, likes people, streams games on Twitch. https://twitch.tv/TheGoddessInari/
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TheGoddessInari··on Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
Pipewire just works without needing the awfulness of pulseaudio, but there's also "apulse" to shim directly to alsa if you want more like the older behavior. But Pipewire is far more compatible and modern.
TheGoddessInari··on We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer
Lean 4, Idris 2.
TheGoddessInari··on Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
After reading this several times, I've tried to identify if your satire is trying to meet the author's satire somewhere over the Atlantic, or if it's aimed at some kind of self-reference or in-joke that I'm just not parsing.

It demonstrates the author's point from back in the 1990s so well, but also makes its own biting social commentary on how often authoritative-sounding language gets weaponized by a majority to dismiss and mock that which they fail to understand.

Impressive level of historical continuity. The dryness nearly threw me.

TheGoddessInari··on Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
This appears to assume that seeking diagnosis is somehow self-limitation instead of functional troubleshooting.

In practice, understanding one's neurotype can provide the foundation necessary towards addressing friction, dealing with environments developed exclusively for a radically different baseline, and getting the support and care necessary to have a reasonable quality of life.

The alternatives often lead to massive dysfunction, especially since it compounds with systemic gaslighting and being told that the hell you're experiencing is normal and that it's a character flaw to have any difficulties or differences.

The satire of ISNT frames the very real negative framing that was already deeply pervasive 28 years ago.

TheGoddessInari··on Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
Given the author of the page, I would completely agree with her assessment-- especially given what's happened in the ~28 years that have passed since the site went up.

You "instantly losing respect" because an autistic person dares value her own mind when others pathologize is part of the point of why it was posted. The satire wasn't there to seek approval in 1998 in the first place, amazingly.

TheGoddessInari··on Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
This kind of reaction is exactly why the ISNT page appeared in 1998.
TheGoddessInari··on A Friendly Introduction to Racket
https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/exe.html
TheGoddessInari··on Are We Stuck with Lean?
Reading `hol.mm` made me grateful for Lean 4's general purpose programming.

I get the string substitution focus, and respect what metamath has achieved, but the bridge Lean 4 makes wrt systems programming has left quite an impression.

I wonder how many people mostly see mathlib4 & think that's the one prescribed route (ala Rust) when one of Lean 4's under-documented super powers is the ease with which you can roll your own light-weight low to zero overhead domain-specialized constructs that are also trivial to prove because of the dependent type system.

(Perhaps more for verified functional systems than deep math.)

TheGoddessInari··on GNU Hurd gets 9pfs, OpenNTPD, dynamic /dev/ entries, and more
Only half tongue-in-cheek, but they would only accept contributions from GNU licensed models.
TheGoddessInari··on Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds
IMO it's the same problem with Rust. LLMs are trained on vast quantities of code that violate Rust soundness in safe code.

LLMs are prediction engines: you can move the needle (heavily) on the predictions from lazy to correct by construction, but the defaults even on high end models like Opus are always riddled with shortcuts.

LLMs can produce coherent & safe Rust 1.92, LLMs can produce coherent Zig 0.16, but that's dependent on in context learning & instruction following.

TheGoddessInari··on Blender 5.2 LTS
You must be thinking about a different software.
TheGoddessInari··on Blender 5.2 LTS
Blender is actually much, much older than Thunderbird.
TheGoddessInari··on Moonstone: Modern, cross-platform Lua runtime and package manager written in Zig
I try not to be negative, but this software seems bizarre. It's a Lua meta manager written in Zig, that calls itself cross platform (Linux / MacOS only), and depends on external gnu build tools, not even the native Zig portable retargeting llvm.

LLMs are usually too busy agreeing to push back on the ideas & details like this.

TheGoddessInari··on Grok 4.5
I still have no clue what you're implying that I was implying? Reading too much into someone's words is definitely a thing.

There used to be 4+ major browser engines. Now there's only two, and Google owns almost complete share & following standards? Google prefers their monoculture.

More diversity in browser engines was a good thing & standards were lovely.

Not everything has to be a slug-fest between #1 & #2.

& personally I'm glad there's Grok & Gemini to keep Anthropic & OpenAI on their toes even more than the competitive band of open weights models already do.

The corporate models tend to be defensive and sound like HR has approved every word of the script. Not a fan.

TheGoddessInari··on Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs
Because llms reflect qwen 2.5 heavily in training data, and that's who is giving the recommendations.
TheGoddessInari··on After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
Personally been experimenting in Lean 4. LLMs understand it, can be given simple rules to improve it. Typing is strong, proofs are solid, and it compiles quickly.

On the contrary, for a small rust project, I had to clean out 180gb of cargo nonsense from the last ~3 days worth of compiles on a single, narrowly focused topic branch.

The library situation might be funky, but I'm also learning Lean 4 by hand. The tooling & lsp integration is lovely.

TheGoddessInari··on Grok 4.5
You could be typing the same about Google or a number of the other labs right now.

A diverse market full of choices keeps it from becoming the browser wars all over again.

TheGoddessInari··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
For a around two years there, the dynalink dl-wrx36 was selling between $50 & $85 for comparable/better hardware. Still running a pair with an nss-enabled fork. Still effortlessly maxes out a gigabit fiber line with qosify.

Configured it so the 2.5gbe port connects towards the lan where a cheap wifi 7 AP can broadcast the additional signal if anything feel like it needs it. But practically speaking nothing does.

While the openwrt one was a decent experiment, it was far from the only hardware in the price range that had stellar openwrt support before/after it came out. And one thing people seem to forget about with a lot of options (like banana pi options) is that the range & falloff can be terrible. The openwrt two is apparently delayed & going with a different manufacturer.

Openwrt is great if you are willing to customize the software especially. The fact that it can be used as an actual wifi client in a pinch is also a lifesaver.

Long-long term availability is a different problem, but different manufacturers move on.

TheGoddessInari··on Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models
Both of the mentioned models are model orchestrators using a vastly different multi model paradigm.

Saying they in particularare distilled from Anthropic is really [citation needed].

TheGoddessInari··on You're probably using Agent Skills wrong
It always feels a bit vexing when people complain about skills: Personally, we treat them as if manuals where the goal is to patch knowledge, not (typically) be a from-scratch primer.

Letting an instruction following llm deep research and iterate has given fantastic results before.

Being able to construct non-trivial Zig 0.16 programs without slowing down for version-hallucinating compilation errors is nice as a random example.

TheGoddessInari··on Show HN: Pacman AI – Generated with Claude Fable 5
This works with touch control on mobile. Pretty amusing.
TheGoddessInari··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
It's simple enough to make a plugin to override the system prompts & make it flexible per agent.

Have to watch out for other plugins trying to do the same, though.

TheGoddessInari··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
Note as of yesterday, they retired the lite coding plan you're talking about. New buy-in is $50/month for the pro plan unless you were already on the lite plan.
TheGoddessInari··on Sci-Fi Short Film “There Is No Antimemetics Division” [video]
I feel like I have to mention "The Sky So Big and Black" by John Barnes. IMO, rather underrated. Hadn't really read any good Mars-based science fiction before.
TheGoddessInari··on Attyx – tiny and fast GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Zig
Aside from the AI bits, "interesting" choice to use metal on MacOS, opengl on Linux, and skip Windows entirely.
TheGoddessInari··on Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering
Haven't dived deep into it yet, but dabbled in similar areas last year (trying to get various bits to reliably "run" in-context).

My immediate thought was to want to apply it to the problem I've been having lately: could it be adapted to soothe the nightmare of bloated llm code environments where the model functionally forgets how to code/follow project guidelines & just wants to complete everything with insecure tutorial style pattern matching?

TheGoddessInari··on Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
THC comes in a plant in the THCa form. CBD comes in CBDa form.

Both are not bioactive by default in their natural form.

TheGoddessInari··on The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks
Like many chat-style interfaces, it's typically shift-enter to insert a newline.
TheGoddessInari··on Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
There's a difference between "can't see 'special' folders" & "can't access anything but the app-specific storage". iOS loves the latter, while Android lets you organize files mostly normally even if doing highly stupid/discouraging things for power users & some app developers making questionable non-default choices.
TheGoddessInari··on I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]
Reductive and inaccurate.
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