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meindnochon Gemini 4 Argon

Please don't summon that guy.

meindnochon I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records

They did verify the signature, and it was correct according to the "none" algorithm.

meindnochon America.gov

America is a continent, not a country.

meindnochon RSS Feeds for Last.fm

This.

My best friend cold-messaged me on last.fm 18 years ago: "wanna exchange music? add me on MSN: ..."

meindnochon macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

Yes, but it's not like this is some hidden legacy stuff, that you're not supposed to encounter. This is part of the public macOS API: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nstext

Every AppKit and Foundation type uses the NS prefix, and will keep doing so for any foreseeable future. New NS types are added to these frameworks each macOS release.

meindnochon macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

NeXTSTEP.

Objective-C doesn't have namespaces (like C), so people use two-letter prefixes on their types to prevent name clashes. The NS prefix is used by Apple's Foundation and AppKit frameworks, that originated from NeXTSTEP, hence NS.

meindnochon US Forces Exit Iraq

The European balloon popped in 1914-18.

meindnochon US Forces Exit Iraq

The American balloon is popping.

meindnochon We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

Ok, but what if the AI figures out a new thermodynamics? A completely new thermodynamics, that's vastly more powerful than human thermodynamics, but of course humans won't be able to comprehend it, because it's so much more powerful, that you need the superintelligence to handle it. With a thermodynamics like that, anything could be possible, and remember: what we have now is the worst it will ever be.

meindnochon Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story

Perceived loudness can be quantified with a psychoacoustic model, and louder songs can be played at reduced volume. That's how ReplayGain works.

meindnochon We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

Yeah, maybe AI will figure out that thermodynamics is actually not real!

meindnochon We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

Frying our dopamine receptors as fast as possible.

meindnochon Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story

>CD distortion

Ah yes, that notorious -96dB noise.

meindnochon Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI

Feel free to read it then.

meindnochon Show HN: Ive Sent It – online courier for files, with signed proof of delivery

That's load-bearing, and it's worth stating why:

meindnochon Show HN: Ive Sent It – online courier for files, with signed proof of delivery

I thought it was going to be about Jony Ive.

meindnochon Can gzip be a language model?

>I've been pondering on something related: can an LLM be a chat?

A chat?

>I am not talking about an "AI agent", but really a model that we call in a reproducible manner.

An LLM is just as deterministic as any other computer program. For identical inputs (which includes the PRNG seed) it produces identical outputs.

>compressed version of the git kernel

The git kernel, got it.

>But would this count as "compression" at all?

Yes. The decompressor is several tens of gigabytes though.

meindnochon AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

All trash, in my opinion. Different flavors of trash.

meindnochon GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher

"Astra's hypothesis for why this particular message was previously unsolved is that “TRUPPENVERSCHIEBUNG” was used as the key starting on December 9, 1918 - whereas, as noted above, this message was transmitted earlier, on November 27, 1918. The reason for this discrepancy is unknown."

So it used a known key. It didn't come up with a key from thin air. The only gotcha is that apparently this key was used two weeks earlier than it was documented (maybe the operator was using the wrong page from the codebook?).

meindnochon Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain

Fun fact: 80% of the brain's neurons are in the cerebellum, not the cortex.

In other words: only <20% of pur neuron budget goes to higher cognition (thinking, language, seeing, hearing). 80% is spent on motor skills.

meindnochon A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos

>Sadly we cannot remove it from standard-C yet AFAI Know.

The C standard definitively removed this function in 2011 from its specification.

meindnochon EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

Good! My dream is an alliance with Canada and Australia, a truce with China, the dismantling of Russia (Siberia goes to China), and the isolation of USA.

meindnochon Chopping up books when they're physically too big

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multisided_record

meindnochon Chopping up books when they're physically too big

Next up: cutting your vinyl records into concentric circles, so you won't have to carry the weight of the songs you don't like!

meindnochon iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

That's because it used to be a simple Markov model back then.

Today's implementation is using more advanced ML techniques ;)

meindnochon Claude is a Contrarian

Anthropic jumped the shark.

meindnochon Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables

Forwarding this to my wife.

meindnochon Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

Tier 1 is the summit of summits - the summum bonum of languages, the highest order to which a language can aspire. Very few ever attain it. Non multa, sed multum: not many, but only those of extraordinary quality. Most languages remain forever in Tier 3, never passing beyond its gates. Of these, scarcely 1% ascend to Tier 2. And from that already distinguished company, a mere 0.1% possess the refinement, depth, and excellence required to cross the final threshold into Tier 1.

Consider what that means: Tier 1 represents roughly the top 0.001% of languages. Pauci sed electi - few, but chosen. The crème de la crème. The aristocracy of languages. Primus inter pares, yet standing at the very edge of what programming language greatness can be.

Ad astra per aspera. Through hardship, to the stars. Tier 1 is not merely another rank: it is the ultima Thule, the farthest frontier, the crown, the apotheosis.

meindnochon AirPods 5

Always do when this happens. I blow into it, and there's no visible dirt on the metal contacts either. Also, a friend of mine also reported the same for their AirPods Pro 2.

meindnochon AirPods 5

I hope they've made the metal contacts inside the case a bit sturdier, because I'm often getting one or both of my AirPods drained to 0% when I take them out of the case, due to contact issues (I assume).