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geon··on Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly
Inshallah
geon··on Pull request limits are cutting down the noise
Because it is vibecoded garbage.
geon··on AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost
Like a horoscope.

I suppose we humans are so good at reading between the lines, that we will see meaning where there is none.

geon··on Steam Machine launches today
Absolutely no one needs a steam machine.
geon··on I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M
That is already allowed.
geon··on Perlisisms (1982)
What does the quote mean?

As you point out, I would prefer to parse a text string as early as possible, so that I could pass around structured data instead of having to parse the same string over and over.

That seems so obvious that I can't imagine what the author meant.

geon··on Pac-Man, but you're the ghost
You should add inky and pinky so you can corner pacman. Their movement is dependent on blinky, so you would be in control of all 3.

https://pacman.fandom.com/wiki/Maze_Ghost_AI_Behaviors

geon··on Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter
I get kind of nostalgic when I see Verdana on 1024x768 in winxp/2k.
geon··on Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware
When I was in college, I drove my carless chemistry geek friend to an agriculture store. Apparently they had a reasonably chemically pure fertilizer.
geon··on Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware
When I was 12, I made a "smoke bomb" by placing a fire cracker in the bottom of a tube and topping it up with powdered clay. It shoot out a 4 m tall plume of dust, which was cool and all, but I thought it would look a lot more impressive with a black plume.

So I painstakingly ground down some charcoal to fine dust and redid the same experiment. That gave a much more impressive boom, but no dust plume, which puzzled me until I learned about dust explosions.

geon··on "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
"Could not connect to translation service" was apparently good enough for someone, so the bar must be extremely low.

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/3e786n/chinese_hair_...

On the other hand, a lot of people become extremely put off by the smallest sign of ai slop. And the llms have a tendency to impart their style to any text they touch.

geon··on "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
> I did compare a few individual chapters between the Ellsworth translation and the Fable translation.

I'm pretty sure the Ellsworth translation is in the corpus. You basically instructed claude to regurgitate it.

The llms all have the more famous books memorized. You can trick them to recite them more or less word for word.

geon··on German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews
> I don't know if you can "fix" hallucinations without changing the fundamental architecture.

Exactly. "hallucinations" are not some special case. They are the LLM working as designed.

geon··on Does anybody like React?
Is Vue still magic, or can you actually write normal typescript?
geon··on Ferrari Luce
What a garbage website. It feels like it was made for ferrari, not the visitor.
geon··on z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode
I think there are industrial pcs with a 486-compatible soc.

A ton of industrial equipment are still using win 3.1.

geon··on Google changes its search box
I’d expect the sentiment analysis to be better, yes.

If the bots take everything they read at face value, how useful are they really?

geon··on I’ve joined Anthropic
Him being a nazi, or at least enough of a sympathizer to make a salute is not related to him being an idiot.

He is both, but it’s irrelevant in this context.

geon··on Google changes its search box
And half the time, the sources turn out to be sarcastic jokes on reddit.
geon··on Local AI needs to be the norm
More likely it would force software advancements. Current models are horribly inefficient.
geon··on Show HN: Rust but Lisp
I’ve seen this done with C as well.

https://www.eriksvedang.com/carp

https://github.com/tomhrr/dale

geon··on Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux
> A blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of records (blocks) that are securely linked together via cryptographic hashes.[1][2][3][4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain

That’s exactly what git is.

geon··on Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
Wouldn’t thermal noise in a resistor make more practical sense?
geon··on Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux
Git?
geon··on Agents need control flow, not more prompts
How is this not obvious to everyone? It's like people forgot how to engineer.
geon··on Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
Doesn’t this mean the expert solved the problem while trying to devine the tea leaves provided by chatgpt?
geon··on DeepSeek v4
Who has been saved? The US has been doing much more harm than good.
geon··on Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes
Breaking changes don't require a rewrite.
geon··on Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers
Would it be practical to use high resolution spherical harmonics as a replacement for cube maps?
geon··on Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs
Every hardware key will be broken if there is enough incentive to do so. Their claims read like pure hubris.
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