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bigmattystyles··on Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video]
Are the two middle initials necessary? Any other notable Paul Dirac's?
bigmattystyles··on OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability
From an infosec/networking stand point, aren’t still actively loading the site? Whether it’s in a preview window or not?
bigmattystyles··on IBM Bob
I'm convinced they do and they're trolling us.How many 100s of 1000s in consulting do you think it took to come up with Bob?
bigmattystyles··on Ex-Crips leader found guilty in 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur
I mean Suge was driving the car and Tupac in the passenger seat. Seems risky.
bigmattystyles··on Infrastructure as Raclette
I'm trying to find a good analogy for what it would be called when they have the cheese melting by the fireplace in restaurants.
bigmattystyles··on OpenLogi
Seems nuts that you would go through the trouble of air gapping a system then use a Bluetooth keyboard.
bigmattystyles··on Beware Management Consultants
"What would you say you do here?" - The Bobs
bigmattystyles··on Site removes all the clutter from recipe videos and gives just the recipe
I swear someone tried to do this pre-llms and they got harangued out of existence by the content creators.
bigmattystyles··on Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts
It's so popular to think this is a bubble. Some aspects likely are, but the zeal for this to be a bubble is disturbing to me. I get that there will be winners and if you're not one of them, you might be more likely to want this thing to pop. In my mind, that's not the right disposition, you should want the gains to be spread as equitably as possible.
bigmattystyles··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
To be fair, everything is Chinese made. I would be even the Apple TV and NVIDIA Shield are made in China and if a state actor is determined to get a malicious payload in....
bigmattystyles··on I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore
Except mental health conditions in these plans seem limited to 2 years. For all the talk of mental health is health, this seems to run directly counter to that.
bigmattystyles··on BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman
See https://www.reddit.com/r/BMW/s/VQjw472u3t
bigmattystyles··on BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman
My 99 manual A4 is looking better all the time. Turns out more reliable too.
bigmattystyles··on Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI
Don't look at how people submit code in industry then.
bigmattystyles··on Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine?
It should be encouraged but even accounting for side-effects, taking a pill is easy. From personal experience, when I'm heavily depressed, I can barely get out of bed or eat. Forget exercise.
bigmattystyles··on Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site
Weird, on my iPhone it loaded instantly.
bigmattystyles··on Punch yourself in the face with reality
3 pages of reply or overly verbose code, often without abstractions - I read all the posters here and in other forums say that programming has shifted towards reviewing AI output rather than coding said output manually; I agree, however, I just don't buy that everyone is actually reviewing the code as intensely as one would expect - there is a tendency that arrived rather quickly to assume that the AI is correct and efficient. I guess the ultimate reviewer is another AI agent I guess.
bigmattystyles··on What will be left for us to work on?
Yes, AI code generation is the same.
bigmattystyles··on What will be left for us to work on?
Are you the one who wrote it though or just the one who wrote prompts? Not that it matters in the end…
bigmattystyles··on Why write code in 2026
That’s why even though 99% of my work is C#, llms have made it so I can finally call myself a low-level programmer, which I’ve always aspired to. I didn’t even have to do anything.
bigmattystyles··on How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI
You need Jean Claude for that.
bigmattystyles··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
But they used LateX
bigmattystyles··on Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray
I thought the url said temu at first.
bigmattystyles··on Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things
> > Elon Musk says there will be no need for compilers as AI will write the binary directly

Wouldn’t that make the AI the compiler?

bigmattystyles··on Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
That’s why most doors come prehung in a jamb. Just add shims and then cover them with trim.
bigmattystyles··on Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art
One time my wife and I were watching a documentary on Florence and I was convinced we’d been there, was asking my wife when we went. Turns out I’d played too much AC.
bigmattystyles··on CachyOS June 2026 Release
Same, games aside, it’s just so snappy. I knew windows was slow at a lot of things but I hadn’t quite realized how slow things as banal as locking/unlocking had become. The first week with cachyos was mind blowing on just that front.
bigmattystyles··on Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies
Seems pretty good but you need to be a health care pro, it locks you out rather fast. Makes sense though, can’t be given unlimited free tokens.
bigmattystyles··on Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies
I’m currently facing a severe health condition and I can’t help but ask various LLMs about it. They all will eventually offer solutions or avenues that sound promising or ‘easy’ when I know better, that the path ahead of me is hard, however they will non-chalantly offer a path forward they insist will work. The best part is when it cites commercial websites promotional statements as facts, though it will also misinterpret medical journals if I say to restrict itself to that.

In closing, my Redfin escapism has shifted to LLM medical escapism, I know better but if you don’t or you are in even more dire straits, it provides such an illusion of hope and that’s dangerous.

bigmattystyles··on There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days
No, I fully agree with you.
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