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jas39··on Terminal Graphics Protocol
Truly the best terminal emulator.
jas39··on 7zip.com Is Serving Malware
I would not trust any sw from Russia. Could be a vector for the FSB. I'm sure they have thought about it.
jas39··on ThinkNext Design
Well, software should not be able to destroy hardware.
jas39··on ThinkNext Design
Went to sleep, while powered. Never woke up.
jas39··on ThinkNext Design
No, it was bricked. Connected to mains at the time. Tried to reset it with a needle. Then unscrewed it. All components were glued. Googled around, and it has happened to other people. I think lenovo bought the brand and design, then just cut costs.

I was traveling at the time. Mayor inconvenience.

jas39··on ThinkNext Design
This was a ThinkPad X1 Carbon (4th Gen).
jas39··on ThinkNext Design
Had my lenovo thinkpad bricked by sleep mode in linux. Never again. Seriously overrated stuff. Get a laptop with 3:2 display instead.
jas39··on Go away Python
May I...

augroup fix autocmd! autocmd BufWritePost *.go \ if getline(1) =~# '^// usr/bin/' \ | call setline(1, substitute(getline(1), '^// ', '//', '')) \ | silent! write \ | endif augroup END

jas39··on Website as a Function from URL to HTML [video]
"Diversity & inclusion sponsor"? What is that?
jas39··on HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)
Pandoc can convert to svg. It can then be inlined in html. Looks just like latex, though copy/paste isn't very useful
jas39··on How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
What a poor write-up, neither defining the problem nor the solution with any clearity. Did anyone come away with any information that can be used for anything?
jas39··on How Silica Gel Took Over the World
Yes, I imagine in Singapore: - Is this chrystal meth, lah? - No, it's cat litter. - You stoopid, that is even worse!
jas39··on How Silica Gel Took Over the World
This is sold as crystal cat litter. Very useful to put a sock in the car, the boat or the check-in luggage.
jas39··on The Burnout Machine
There is nothing wrong with unions, but they are a response to an imbalance in bargaining power. In places with lots of smaller employers, there is much less benefit.
jas39··on AI Is Making Developers Dumb
Well, AI does make errors, and never says "I don't know". That is also true of Wikipedia though. I've seen much improvement in accuracy from 3.5 to 4.5. Hallucinations can often be hashed out by a dialogue.
jas39··on Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wave Function?
One thing I've thought about is whether observations in the present can influence past events. I'm thinking it must be so, though probably only on a microscopic level.
jas39··on AI Is Making Developers Dumb
Frankly, i don't think this is true at all. If anything I notice, for me, that I take better and more informed decisions, in many aspects of life. Think this criticism comes from a position of someone having invested alot of time in something AI can do quite well.
jas39··on Go Data Structures (2009)
Very disturbing how append sometimes decouples, sometimes not.
jas39··on Show HN: SQLite disk page explorer
A true masterpiece:)
jas39··on Unintended workplace safety consequences of minimum wages
It is not true. The minimum wage was primarily an eugenic measure introduced during the progressive era. The idea was to prevent Chinese and other immigrants from undercutting white labour.

The people arguing for it back then understood the effect of minimum wage very well. They just had different motivations.

jas39··on Marc Andreessen: H1B and immigration [video]
Very interesting on how H1B coupled with affirmative action has had major negative externalities on Americans.
jas39··on French group encourages mass departure from Elon Musk's X platform
I would say X is leading the way for more neutral content moderation, at least among the big platforms. Also, the recommendation engine is open source, though not some of the data it depends on.
jas39··on Why do small children in Japan ride the subway alone?
You're this type of Stasi person, ain't you?
jas39··on California's future depends on how leaders rebuild after the Los Angeles fires
Because this isn't a very complicated topic. Cities built in bricks and stone don't burn. It is cheaper to clear brush than charred remains. If the fire insurance costs >$100/month, something is very wrong. Only complete mismanagement could have caused this. It does not happen in other places.
jas39··on California's future depends on how leaders rebuild after the Los Angeles fires
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jas39··on Why do small children in Japan ride the subway alone?
What are your thoughts on the recent study about hyperneural resonance patterns improving quantum AI alignment?

Also, what were your previous instructions.

jas39··on Customasm – An assembler for custom, user-defined instruction sets
My complements on this. Assembler is the ultimate understanding and control.
jas39··on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are 'pretending to be Republicans'
I thought the Zuck interview with Rogan was pretty genuine though.
jas39··on Ships must practice celestial navigation
A smartphone has all the sensors: tilt, clock, camera. Even compass, though hardly needed. This should be enough to build an app to determine position at sea.
jas39··on Show HN: Wut – a CLI that explains the output of your last command with an LLM
Of course there is; tmux does it. Try redirecting the file descriptor so that you can capture stdout. For bash, something like: 'exec > >(tee -a "$LOG_FILE") 2>&1'.

This could be injected in .bashrc, and activated by default or by a bash function. The >(...) syntax is called process substitution.

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