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It’s written in 10k lines of bash? Why?

I loved Pirates! and spend so many hours as a teenager playing it. Not mentioned in the article was the soundtrack- it did a great job of keeping you immersed and the sound chips of the day did a good job with the symthesized harpsichord.

I am actually building the exact same thing- encrypted vaults for files or folders, encrypted with a biometric gated key in the Secure Enclave!

I can’t stand the current trend in social media posting.

It’s not writing, it’s crap.

A few sentences.

Alone.

Incorrect grammar.

Not sentences, just phrases.

You’re supposed to think it has more impact.

It doesn’t.

If you can’t be bothered to write your own words on social media, then just don’t post.

“Applied the law equally” referred to politicians- did they allow something in some cases but not others, eg “selective enforcement”.

Your response was “I’d like to live in your world”, implying that you believe that it’s rarely the case that people can get government officials on the stand. That’s true for most people, but not true for people with deep pockets for lawyers.

I brought up Musk because Starlink was mentioned as the data center owner.

I do believe that you get more justice if you can afford to fight the government on its own terms in a courtroom. I don’t celebrate that.

I don’t have that kind of clout or money, but Elon does.

Of course that’s a silly turn of phrase but there is a grain of truth.

Most people believe that the law should mirror the ethics or morality of the society, and absent something clearly harmful, most people don’t understand why something with nobody clearly harmed should be illegal.

Prime with good marbling + sous-vide makes it easy for beginners to match steaks from the best steakhouses.

Of course the government has permission to punish crime. However government officials might find themselves in a courtroom having to demonstrate how they applied the law equally, and would be subject to discovery to see if they were being corruptly influenced (there is organization and international funding for the anti-data center movement in the US”; there is very little grassroots opposition other than typical NIMBYism you see in all development projects).

And the government would have to pay to fight and might be on the hook if they lost.

And “clearly breaking the law” isn’t always clear; I don’t k ow anything about this particular case but it sounds like zoning or applying utility laws to non-utility companies or environmental regulations being used to make construction financially untenable. I don’t have a lot of sympathy for opposition to off-grid natural gas turbines; you don’t get much cleaner off grid power that works 24x7.

Never seen anyone #E6FFF8 (bottom right corner).

An albino that consumed too much colloidal silver for years?

Well hopefully we will see the LLMs come up with some epic segues from responses into ads. I foresee a new Reddit channel.

Yes, using the API - I gave it an API key in an environment variable.

> Here is the method, the results, and an honest account of the limitations.

This paper was written using AI, to be honest

This is part of it but the models are REALLY good at reverse engineering. With the Bluetooth printer I was trying to get to work without a vendor app, it built a python app to handle protocol encode/decode and poking the device, and it reversed the driver provided by the vendor to figure out how the vendor was using the device, and so forth. Wi to the LoRa devices we set up an SDR to intercept the signal, did scanning until we found the device, but ultimately failed because we didn’t know the signal hopping algorithm. I have also reversed a Bluetooth peripheral with Claude to figure out how the vendor was setting the device settings, and was able to get the device to work without the vendor software. That was wild- Apple Developer has a profile you can download and install that will give you monitor access to the Bluetooth stack; it was amazing.

So I use AI for exactly what Simon’s post discusses, and am thrilled to be able to rid myself of crap software written by device vendors, and make the devices work without my stuff.

I was doing this the last few weekends with some LoRa smart home devices and a thermal shipping label printer.

Also this weekend I found out that Claude is better at writing Home Assistant automations than I am and I have been doing it for years.

A typical US user using a typical browser with typical settings gets an AI summary above search results.

If this doesn’t describe you, then ymmv. Talk to your government or turn down your content filtering or reset the default settings in your browser, if you want to see what we see.

I asked my wife once, how to tell whether a fashion accessory is a knock-off. She said: “look at the woman”.

The 90s called. They want their article back.

BREAKING NEWS: New study shows that plants consume carbon dioxide, emit oxygen. Implications for greenhouse gas reduction unknown but promising.

My typing speed is measured in tokens per second…

Nowadays reading HN comments I imagine what it was like watching a buggy whip manufacturers meeting around the time of Henry Ford. The world is changing and many previous assumptions are being exposed as not widely held.

Most people in the world don’t care how software comes into existence or what the source code looks like, and never did. Just like most people never cared how most anything else was made. We are seeing software turn from a handcrafted commodity to a mass produced product. The quality is getting better and the cost of production is getting cheaper and this is happening at an astonishing rate.

The world is changing. As much as you enjoyed lovingly crafting buggy whips; most people just want the car. It’s not cruelty; it’s that buggy whips were never the point.

I am not a musician but found this fascinating. Thank you for posting.

I’d still make the same argument- the remedy should be monetary damages, not enjoinder. Produce had a short shelf life; enjoinder has the same effect on the farmer as a loss in court, only before the trial. The other party to the contract can be made whole later, if victorious, via monetary damages.

Oh, and there is a special place in hell reserved for anyone involved in designing food crops that can’t reproduce.

Patents on food crops, even genetically engineered ones, are evil. ALL our staple food crops and most non staples are genetically engineered by millennia of cultivation and selective breeding; CRISPR is just a fancy mechanism for what we’ve always done to food.

Regulations that prevent farmers from selling food that is safe, are evil. It doesn’t matter how well intentioned the regulation is.

Any government functionary that tries to prevent a farmer from selling safe food, is doing evil. Any lawyer that tries to prevent a farmer from selling food, is doing evil. Any court that enjoins a farmer from selling safe food, is doing evil. If the farmer is found to have violated some IP claim, then the proper remedy is monetary damages after the fact, not enjoined before the fact.

What is the difference in functionality?

How are the MCP servers compared to Playwright?

“Anecdotally, X works better in another country than it does in the USA- the free market is a lie!”

A human glancing at an ID is not creating a log or transmitting every unique identity to the government.

If you handed over your id, and the person checking it made a photocopy and handed it to a police officer who put it in a file in a briefcase they carried, you might feel differently.

The author put it very well (with a little ai writing help :-)

I have come to the same conclusion; I saw my own journey in the author’s story.

At work, one of the statements I make to mentees, if asked, and to colleagues, if they lament people not listening to their advice, is this:

You’re only an expert if you’re invited to be one.

This is a way of saying that unsolicited advice is always unwelcome no matter how correct it is.