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bongodongobob··on Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening
I don't know if the term console even makes sense any more. It's a computer without a keyboard and mouse. And as soon as you do that, it's a PC. So I don't see how this makes any sense or will ever happen.
bongodongobob··on Self-hosting a NAT Gateway
Because it's never once inconvenienced the average network admin, probably. I still don't get what problem it's supposed to solve for me.
bongodongobob··on We should all be using dependency cooldowns
This is just completely wrong. If you are talking about a sizeable number of devices, you're not getting anything updated immediately even if you wanted to. You roll out to groups over a period of time because you don't want to break everything if there are unintended consequences. Your personal device? Sure whatever, but any fleet of devices absolutely does not get immediate updates across the board.
bongodongobob··on Gemini 3
It's not an ethics thing. It's a guardrails thing.
bongodongobob··on The surprising benefits of giving up
People also waste entire decades because they didn't quit.
bongodongobob··on The surprising benefits of giving up
Similar boat, but I'm finally at the point where I think I can just walk out. Just stay on the job hunt and you can get there. I went from musician living on the cash in my pocket with 4 roommates to $110k in 10 years. You'll have to job hop, you'll have to grind some self-learning, but you can do it.
bongodongobob··on The surprising benefits of giving up
$1000/mo? Pff, that is luxury. Live on the streets, dumpster dive, forage and hunt for food, eat every other day, and you can get that down to $0. If you really need income you can take up sex work. $1000/mo, imagine!
bongodongobob··on The surprising benefits of giving up
With the energy you're putting out sounds like you might need a new job. It's always the people in shitty jobs saying things like this. Figure out where the pain points in your life are that are making you so bitter and try to fix them.
bongodongobob··on Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit
A quick google will show you that it was. I remember because I was in college at the time and that's how I learned what a Beowulf cluster was. Maybe PS3 was more successful or more popular, but there were definitely PS2 clusters.
bongodongobob··on I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure
They are lucky they just got a bill and not a terminated contract. Consulting companies I have worked for would have dropped them immediately because we don't want clients with that kind of risk. Massive red flag that signals management is non-existent, incompetent, or checked out. That is egregious negligence.
bongodongobob··on Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
Idk, I get weird refusals sometimes when I'm trying to mock something up quick. "I don't need all these system variables and config files, just let me hardcode my password for now, I'm still in the testing phase" "Sorry, I cannot help you to write insecure code". Doesn't happen all the time, but I run into dumb stuff like this quite a bit. GPT is particularly stupid about it. Claude less so.
bongodongobob··on Iran begins cloud seeding operations as drought bites
??? 20 gallons get reused, 100% of it goes back into the system. If somehow 5% was destroyed from showering we wouldn't have any water left.
bongodongobob··on Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit
But it was that good for the price point. And you could run Linux on it. That was the Beowulf cluster era. Lots of universities were doing that.
bongodongobob··on Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11
I don't need one. Look into how this stuff works. It's a pile of scripts and registry edits. It's very sloppy. Windows isn't Linux. The OS does not expect the user to do stuff like this and it's not built for it. This is how you get the "windows sucks it's always weird and broken" type people. Sure, you can do it, but you WILL have goofy unexplained problems if you mod your system with this stuff. If you want windows to be stable, stop fucking with it.
bongodongobob··on Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11
I've tried these things before. Use with caution, and definitely not on a work device. They never fully uninstall and you might be left with incorrect registry keys and other weirdness. May break updates as well.
bongodongobob··on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
Far less have jobs that AI can't help with.
bongodongobob··on AI World Clocks
Weird. Sonnet 4.5 one shotted it with:

Create an interactive artifact of an analog clock face that keeps time properly.

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/75daae76-3621-4c47-a684-d...

bongodongobob··on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
I know I'm personally just tired of trying to converse with people with heads in the sand. AI saves me shit tons of time daily. If they can't figure it out, so be it. The level of absolute denial in HN AI threads is bizarre. One guess is that hacker nerds have their entire personality tied to being a smart haxor. That is being commoditized and they are getting defensive about it. It's telling that the image/video AI threads are nothing like that because it's not their profession being talked about.
bongodongobob··on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
That's just how context works. If you're going to backpedal, go back in the conversation and edit your prompt or start a new session. I'll frequently ask for options, get them, then edit that prompt and just tell it to do whatever I decided on.
bongodongobob··on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
The other day I wanted a little script to check the status of NumLock to keep it on. I frequently remote into a lot of different devices and depending on the system, NumLock would get toggled. GPT refused and said it would not write something that would mess with user expectations and said that it could potentially be used maliciously. Fuckin num lock viruses will get ya. Claude had no problem with it.
bongodongobob··on Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation
Couldn't care less. I don't need to know how to do literally everything. AI fills in my gaps and I'm a ton more productive.
bongodongobob··on Steam Machine
Long time veteran Linux user. I was not able to get anything to run on Steam. It's some sort of display driver issue/conflict, but if it takes me longer than an hour, I'm over it.
bongodongobob··on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia
It doesn't cost anyone anything. They can just raise prices 3 cents or whatever.
bongodongobob··on Laptops with Stickers
Or a policy forbidding stickers.
bongodongobob··on The 'Toy Story' You Remember
No, they just didn't put much time into stereo because it was new and most listeners didn't have that format. So they'd hard pan things for the novelty effect. This paradigm was over by the early 70s and they gave stereo mixes a more intentional treatment.
bongodongobob··on Unexpected things that are people
You absolutely do not need a bank account for an LLC. It makes accounting easier, but it's not a requirement.
bongodongobob··on Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law
Maybe you've forgotten that the US at one time tried to ban encryption. They will try again too, I'm sure.
bongodongobob··on What Hallucinogens Will Make You See (2023)
If you don't think an acid trip can be a difficult experience you really don't know what you're taking about. I guess you would think therapy isn't difficult either because you're just sitting on a couch.
bongodongobob··on What Hallucinogens Will Make You See (2023)
The type of person who is arrogant enough to read some trip reports on the internet and look at a couple gifs and thinks "yeah I totally get this" is exactly the type of person a trip will benefit the most.
bongodongobob··on Always be ready to leave (even if you never do)
Absolutely. I had a stretch of consulting gigs for a couple years and I recently was denied an interview because they "didn't like the short periods of employment" even though they were specifically indicated as short term contract jobs!
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