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binary132··on I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband
Wow. That brought tears to my eyes. What a wonderful and upstanding woman. So many people — both men and women — would jump at the opportunity to play the victim card and amplify their private resentments against their spouse to glorify themselves when they got the spotlight like that. Instead she displayed immense character and honor in defending her husband. All of us should take a lesson from her example.
binary132··on The new CC, an AI agent built for families
One thing I kinda like about the slop era is that it’s not so hard to clone apps like this to run entirely on local LLMs
binary132··on Wall Street is growing skeptical of the data center boom
It blows my mind that anyone hasn’t grasped that the token pricing game is a race to the bottom forever.
binary132··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
osdev is golden, truly. hope you survive the slopocalypse without too much difficulty
binary132··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
AGI any second now
binary132··on Show HN: Sunk Cost – How long until a local LLM rig pays for itself?
The real question should be why anyone would voluntarily continue to spend money on a software service that costs as much as an expensive computer when they could just buy an (upgradeable) expensive computer and use it as much as they want, approximately forever.

Imagine owning nothing and being happy.

binary132··on Show HN: Sunk Cost – How long until a local LLM rig pays for itself?
Unstated key concept: “At today’s prices”
binary132··on The Coming War on General Computation (2011)
Don’t forget “computers that can do everything but run scary unregulated LLMs”
binary132··on Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive
yes my comment was a satire of your thinking here, not an actual representation of reality
binary132··on Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive
“One million high-paying upper-middle class family supporting jobs were destroyed, but on the bright side, one million minimum-wage Walmart greeter jobs were created! See? We’re breaking even!”
binary132··on Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive
you seem to be discounting or unaware of the possibility of a) automating a significant chunk of new buildouts, and b) domestic companies seeking a slice of the “sell open model hosting for less than competitors” pie.

I truly believe the cost per token for most people will eventually go approximately to zero even in the absence of subsidy unless there is a dramatic state intervention to curtail free computing and hardware R&D and manufacturing.

binary132··on Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive
Blatant propaganda is not an effective remedy to the severe public anti-AI sentiment, sorry.
binary132··on Ponytail: Lazy Senior Engineer Skill
Yeah, I noticed this with the caveman repo, too. Really annoying.
binary132··on “Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs
There is this overwhelming desire on the part of many people to ascribe agency to LLMs when what the LLM really is is simply not a magic world model but a stochastic text generator. For some reason that truth haunts them and they have a deep compulsion to prove it wrong for feelings reasons. I can only surmise why this afflicts some people and not others and I’m sure that one day there will be fascinating psychological studies explaining such phenomena.
binary132··on GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
Let’s use the obvious example of a paint program. Clearly continuous 2D pointer input is an essential feature that would be almost impossible to replicate with only a keyboard. To step back a few levels, a node graph editor with many elements will simply always be easier to interact with using a mouse. But editing text and interacting with other applications such as visual debugger are really only a tiny bit removed from that.
binary132··on Grok outage
In the future (ha ha ha) when everyone has become totally LLM dependent a service outage will cause all of them to stop walking and talking and otherwise functioning and their heads will simply droop down while they stand or sit silently in place.
binary132··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Actually it is eminently obvious when the writer is a machine and it’s quite disingenuous to pretend otherwise (or, generously, possibly witless).
binary132··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
I really think this shit is the direct result of a training strategy that is meant to maximize token spend.
binary132··on Student teacher arrested for private Snapchat message
“Humans are very stupid so make sure to use childish analogical writing”
binary132··on ReactOS 0.4.16
Just what the world needed, excel implemented In an excel script. Thanks sloppers
binary132··on Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns
Why not return a WrittenBuffer<'a>? This can also be used to specify the methodset allowed or required plus any further type transitions out of WrittenBuffer, for example into a new CompressedBuffer, or similar patterns.
binary132··on Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns
There is no cost imposed by wrapping a type in a struct to enforce a dependency.
binary132··on Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns
I think my point is that types and “typestate” do not need to be two separate things. For example, in the Lua API for C, one obviously requires a Lua context handle in order to perform any other operations, so the handle must be obtained first, by calling the context initializer function. There is no need for an extra “typestate” parameter since the dependency is explicit and enforced.
binary132··on Benjamin Franklin’s alter egos gave him the most freedom
I pray there will be a light at the end of the tunnel soon, but I doubt it is possible without major political change.
binary132··on Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns
That sounds like a Wrapper<Func1Payload>, not a Ticket<Func1Call> that will become an extra parameter of Func2 whose only purpose is to prove to Func2 that you called Func1.

Maybe I misunderstood something.

binary132··on Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns
why not just create a wrapper type for the payload that is returned by func1 and func2 takes it as a parameter?
binary132··on GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
Yes and no. The big advantage of a GUI is having interactive 2D coordinate input support (aka a pointer, or gestures.) While I think a keyboard can be a great control surface, that’s one thing it really lacks and only GUIs really offer. So to enforce that the whole GUI must be keyboard-drivable requires limiting the major advantage of the GUI. I’m a fan of the Emacs or Plan9 styles where the keyboard and pointer are able to be used together synergistically. You also see some of this in tools like video, DAW, and 2D/3D graphical scene editors.
binary132··on Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
There is no moral imperative to help the world reach an optimum. Rather, the world is full of competing interests.
binary132··on CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
“I am actually the CEO of my basement office business” was not the corporate topology I was addressing with my comment.
binary132··on CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
You’re presuming here that CEOs cause companies to make profit instead of serving as a scapegoat for their often unavoidable market dynamics (at best).
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