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hellzbellz123

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hellzbellz123··on Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest
no shit eh? This seems so wildly obvious that i don't really know how to read it. the Pacific North West hasn't seen significant snow in years, instead of our daily fall rain we've been getting awful downpours that flood everything followed by weeks of dry. snowpacks gone, reservoirs are running dry, fires are more and more devastating every year.

when are we going to acknowledge this catastrophe that we are barreling towards?

i can only hope that things start improving. between this and government im gonna lose it

hellzbellz123··on What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis
As a habitual habit developer, Im keeping my hopes up that in 5 or 10 years, this is something that can help me and many others.

I've read experiences from people on illicit substances that claimed they helped them quit.

It would be beat if this carried over to things like caffeine/nicotine/thc/etc.

hellzbellz123··on One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust
you missed the closing bracket.

glad you like python, but a good reason to use this is setup being easier, also for people using rust, chances are the syntax is better compared to python. (also for what its worth, i picked up rust MUCH faster than i ever did with python)

the main reason i like rust is its explicitness in typing along with its syntax choices. memory safety means little imo, outside of being difficult to do strange stuff (which could be good or bad depending on your approach)

cargo add roto

code main.rs

-FILE- main.rs use roto::*;

fn main(){ roto::init_runtime() roto::load_script("hello.roto") }

-FILE-END-

code hello.roto

-FILE- hello.roto fn main() { print("Hello, world!"); } -FILE-END-

cargo run

hellzbellz123··on Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
its the 'ol honda' of spacecraft. definitely one of my favorite human achievements
hellzbellz123··on Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]
I could see the current admin using this as some sort of sick workaround to ethics. Not that they seem to care in the first place
hellzbellz123··on We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk
because most americans do not want war, at least id hope, so calling it that seems pretty short sited (maybe until you continually do that 'war' thing), if you want the citizens to look positively on your spending it should probably be for defense not war, again, at least i should hope. im just a dumb "lib" whatever that means
hellzbellz123··on OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
But you can't distribute whatever you build legally as far as im aware. The apple sdks prevent you from shipping legally.

The only way atm is installing homebrew and using a gnu tool chain if I understand the license of the official sdks correctly?

hellzbellz123··on OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
The whole sdk has a restriction that you can't use it off platform. The code signing thing is just a tax on ios devs
hellzbellz123··on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
that wasnt really microsoft massive though.
hellzbellz123··on The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)
The standard cup is not the same size between us and uk Sumthin sumthin breakfast cup
hellzbellz123··on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid
The fantasy is that's it's caused by migrants and going to be fixed by deporting them.
hellzbellz123··on 4 billion if statements (2023)
I'm not entirely sure but could it be predictive branching?
hellzbellz123··on Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law
individuals also means corporations in the US
hellzbellz123··on Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
This only seems to be an issue for wishy washy types that insist gpt is alive.
hellzbellz123··on America’s incarceration rate is in decline
below study claims test score variances are mostly related too declarative knowledge side note, i wonder how internet had an effect on iq scores.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...

hellzbellz123··on America’s incarceration rate is in decline
or maybe intelligence doesn't correlate with likeliness to commit crime?

plenty of criminals are intelligent.

hellzbellz123··on At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work
working in a warehouse, just recently built over the last 4 years, and the pallet management is done via excel. im pretty sure the scanner app is just a frontend.

horrified to think the totes are done the same way.

hellzbellz123··on Near-infrared spatiotemporal color vision enabled by upconversion contact lenses
if you care about the animals well being and prospects then it becomes impossible. if you ignore the 'living being' factor then you could probably do this to anything.

it is as simple as preventing movement ye?

hellzbellz123··on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
so many people have shown me these stupid ass AI summaries for random things and if you have even a basic understanding of the relevent issue then the answers just seem bizare. this feels like cheating on my homework and not understanding. like using photomath on homework does.
hellzbellz123··on A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT
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hellzbellz123··on Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc
not a lawyer but i write software so this is not 100% accurate information i have found on the internet and repeated back to me. further corrections are appreciated

software patents usually don't contain source code. just the general idea of how to achieve the outcome, they can be very broad or very subjective depending on who is in court

Patents Vs. Copyright: you can create software that does the same thing differently. kinda like torrenting vs direct download, they both deliver bytes too you but the bytes are delivered/received in very different ways.

taking someones software/machine instructions (the bytes that are the code) and calling it your own is copyright infringment.

if someone creates a new patented algorithm and you copy that algorithm into a different language then it is patent infrigement.

also patents have too be filed and approved while copyright is generally a given if the copyright is not already existing (depending on your jurisdiction i guess)