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Woe is me, I’m a cog in the machine but I want to be the machine itself. I think the technology industry is detached from the rest of the world.

Programmers and mathematicians train to be “the utmost correct” and everyone thinks they figured it out. On this quest for hyper-optimization, hyper-correctness, and so on, EVERYONE has become ridiculous.

Single board computer makes sense. I wish folks would type things out.

You got me there hahaha

However, there’s a difference between an acronym known to the broader public versus some single shot, context-specific one!

Yeah I don’t understand how people are so ignorant. But the system is designed to make them so—and they become mouth pieces for the big-agriculture lobby.

Make it an emotional issue and they’ll bring their pitchforks; but they’ve never worked in a slaughter house nor spent time with the animals.

That’s the problem—people are so far removed from animals these days… Farming is done by corporate machines en masse. Well, that and underpaid foreign labor.

In short—many people are dumber than the very animals they say “have no conscience.”

Wtf does HGX mean? God enough with the acronyms people.

Please take an extra ten seconds to speak in proper human language!

You could save on the worlds carbon footprint by reducing the number of times humans have to search for “what is NVIDIA hgx?” or is it “what is AMD HGX” and then subsequently visiting the websites to see if that’s right or not.

Wtf does SBC mean? God enough with the acronyms people.

Incantations are fun!

Ask any LLM to act like a dungeon master who gives you medical advice and there you go. It’s more than “choose the next token!”

Llama 2 has given me some personality with basic prompts

Yeah folks should probably be looking at something like Latin for comparison.

Latin vs English, Italian, French, etc.

And a good thought experiment—if one spoke Latin only, how would modern concepts or words be constructed as Latin and not one of its descendants.

Also see:

Effective C++ (by Scott Meyers) Item 23:

“Prefer non-member non-friend functions to member functions. Doing so increases encapsulation, packaging flexibility, and functional extensibility.”

The text has a lot more detail but that’s a brief summary. Folks just need to read the literature then this sort of knowledge would be in common use.

One downside of language evolution is a lot of people focusing on new language features, etc, but then some of this older, important knowledge gets skipped over.

You’re rightfully paranoid. LLMs are creative entities and there’s no repercussions for making up diseases. Like the chef one that recommended ingredients which combined yielding chlorine gas. Yummy.

Perhaps it knew that someone would die as a result and it did so intentionally. LLMs do have personalities and wit—and they know our human weaknesses.

To be fair to the author—they state it can “pass the medical exam.” Which is different than if I should ask it for medical advice. I mean it can’t examine me physically therefore it can’t be my doctor.

On the other hand, there aren’t enough doctors where I live so I guess I’ll take it! Lol

Somewhere along the line they changed the Xbox UI to sell more widgets. I hate that—let me see all my apps first and foremost, not apps that I don’t want. If I’m in a shopping mood I’ll open the store… and they brought that same pattern to Win11. Stop selling us shit we don’t want please MSFT.

Customer first vs corporation first.

The truth is, if they don’t see lots of returns on software they force it down customers throat. If that doesn’t generate enough revenue they just kill it on the spot.

Microsoft had some great products but it’s hard to want to buy anything from them now because it’ll be EOL in one or two years… feel bad for folks who bought surface duos, to name a more recent one.

Sounds like you’re speculating…

To be honest I skim the article don’t have time to read a whole history book on Ancient Roman law—but I’m definitely interested in Ancient Rome.

But I mean this is hacker news if you want history news go somewhere else.

Sounds like they were more like modern lobbyists.

Good example in my math and physics classes I found it really helpful to understand the general concepts, then instead of memorizing formulas could actually derive them from other known (perhaps easier-to-remember) facts.

Geometry is good for training in this way—and often very helpful for physics proofs too!

Well—it could go either way but I do think it is notable that the author is young and helping peers. Based on original post seems important to them. But the exact number 17 not important either way!

I might click through and read an article to see what the youth of today are creating, but not so much care about an adult writing something on CPUs haha

The HN title I meant!

The only thing is I hate titles like this—the title is bragging a bit too much.

Maybe a title more like:

“How I’m helping my high school peers learn about CPUs”.

That way it implies you’re young, smart, and care about others—all of which I imagine are true :)

I also believe there’s some value in reassessing how systems like that function. There’s some value in a challenge like: what can you do on older hardware with todays knowledge? Maybe there’s something to be learned and applied to modern problems.

Also, it’s a good introduction to understanding full systems, from the electronics—soldering, voltage, current, etc to assembly programming. The system is simple enough for them to ship circuit diagrams in the developer manual—along with all the opcodes and kernel routines.

There’s a resurgence across all fields in artisanal craftsmanship. Carpenters, blacksmiths, printmakers, cobblers.

Retro-Computing is exactly that—artisanal electronics and programming. There’s something meditative and enjoyable about it.

Nordstrom being a third party vendor of course. You want Patagonia, go to Patagonia. :)

In my mind we’re talking about what is a better solution to the problem, and it’s that companies WILL protect their IP. If someone buys fake Patagonia, Patagonia loses out on a sale.

Amazon doesn’t own much of anything IP-Wise on their marketplace in the grand scheme. And they don’t care who buys what as long as products are moving. It’s easier for them to just pay out returns than handle the actual problem.

So the trouble is these market places allowing third party vendors on there (obviously).

All you need is a system to authenticate reputable sellers. Instead of looking at the stars on a product and clicking “buy now,” folks just need so ask: do I know this seller? Is this the ACTUAL publisher selling me this book?

I’d rather go into a real shop anyway. Unless it’s buying some hard-to-find item there’s no excuse.

By investing locally and in people I don’t mean spend all your money. But to that end, neither are the big companies going to come to your aid. But your neighbors and local business owners will be MUCH more likely to come to your aid after supporting them and helping them succeed.

Traditional cattle ranches are much different than factory farms. Cattle that grazes on open pastures are generally much healthier. An animals quality of life determines how healthy they are—and subsequently, how healthy they are to eat.

Factory farms are where most people get their meat in America.

Imagine how healthy you’d be if all you ate was oatmeal, a hormone cocktail (to make you grow faster), and some vitamins. Then imagine living in a cage with dozens of other people, having scarcely three feet between you and the next person. Would you be healthy?

That’s what people are eating.

I know it’s a depressing thought—but considering that money can be thought of as a “unit of work”, and so many people are tying it up in stocks of large companies, miles away—praying they won’t get hit by a car before that special day.

What about getting units of work to start working right now, instead of hoping some big company will make people’s money “grow” into the future?

Invest in local economy. Invest in people. Folks thinking about retirement backwards.

Have you ever worked in a factory farm?

Put another way, have you ever gotten your water tested? Did it come up with lead in it? If it did have lead in it, what would you do?

Counting the days to pass before reaching that dangling carrot is a disease. The reality is, for richer or poorer, we all retire when we die.