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msgodel

766 karma · joined May 27, 2025

If you need an ML engineer (pytorch or ggml) email hz4944554@gmail.com

I have side projects in Rust, Javascript, C and many other languages. I've worked back end, front end, embedded, built massive web-scale distributed systems and one off prototypes.

Yes I'm short apple (as of August 2025 $206 average price)

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msgodel··on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA
You probably could if Android weren't intentionally constrained by Google to prevent it. That's what fsflover is trying to point out: Android is more of a television firmware than an OS and counting it like a PC OS makes very little sense because you can't use it like one.

EDIT: I think you still don't understand. It doesn't matter what hardware Android runs on it's written to be appliance firmware. Even if you put it on a laptop it just turns the laptop into what is essentially a television.

msgodel··on Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts
What do you think the tariffs are? We've just about maxed out domestic tax. Already we're probably past the peak of the laffer curve.
msgodel··on Mostly dead influential programming languages (2020)
I'd argue Rust is modern ML in many ways, it just uses a c-like syntax. It's really the non-pure Haskell alternative.
msgodel··on Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts
The aggressive cutting meant we ran a budget surplus for June. This has to happen or everything gets cut. We're pretty much at the end of the road.

The Democrats had control of the white house and legislature at the beginning of Biden's presidency and could have chosen alternatives to cut but did not.

As I've said so often: if you don't like what Trump is doing you need to campaign for viable alternatives.

msgodel··on Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY
It's a different paradigm. I think just like they do sometimes we get lost in our own world. They had CUA and portable apps before malware became a big deal and got really used to that.

I think people should respect that try harder to meet users where they are.

msgodel··on Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY
It's a namespace problem. You can't just ban people from registering anything that might be confusing like that. If we followed your idea the internet wouldn't work.

EDIT: They're not deceiving users though? The first section on the index page links directly to the real putty site. They're very clear about all of it.

EDIT2: Nope. We really don't want DNS "moderators." All of us have seen what happens with forum moderators. Like I said if that were done the internet would not work. It's not about the cost it's about being unable to clearly define what should be banned.

If you want to see a great example of how moderation like that both stops legitimate use and fails to stop malware go look at smartphone app stores. The result is borderline unusable garbage.

msgodel··on Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts
It might be more optimal to run a small deficit but I don't think you can trust the legislature with it.
msgodel··on Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY
You can buy domain names with competitors names in them. People do this all the time. If you don't want people doing that you need to register the names yourself.
msgodel··on Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY
I don't think Bitvise is even doing anything wrong here? There's nothing wrong with running what is essentially a fan site and promoting your own things on it.
msgodel··on Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY
Putty isn't just ssh, it's also the VTE and serial terminal. Also it has its own keys/configs/shortcuts people are almost certainly used to. I don't think there's even an easy way to migrate putty shortcuts (I can't remember what they're called) to OpenSSH.
msgodel··on Ask HN: What is the best way to learn 3D modeling for 3D printing?
IME they're really not great at OpenSCAD or POVRay but some of them can at least produce syntactically correct SDL these days.
msgodel··on Where's Firefox going next?
It really seems to me like they've been intentionally adding friction to the configuration.
msgodel··on Track AIPAC
It's one of those weird situations where both the Left and Tucker Carlson actually agree on something.
msgodel··on What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?
Older generations need to be more comfortable with their kids getting married and having children before moving out.
msgodel··on Ask HN: Do you still build terminal tools for fun?
Unless you need actual bitmapped graphics the VTE is probably the best and most portable graphics API available currently.
msgodel··on The Collapse of the FDA
Yeah this is one of those situations where people freak out about their neighbor's behavior and try to change who they are with administrative policy. It's really just counter productive.

I think better would be for people to be more personally picky who they share spaces with.

msgodel··on The Collapse of the FDA
Not allowing self medication was probably a mistake.
msgodel··on Show HN: VS Code extension to edit the filesystem like a text buffer
IMO you should avoid installing editor extensions generally. It's better to try to get them merged into the editor itself.

I don't think it's good to constrain people in some way from doing that, you should just have a personal policy of avoiding extensions you're not involved in the development of.

msgodel··on LLM Inevitabilism
All LLMs can fail this way.

It's kind of weird to see people running into this kind of issue with modern large models with all the RL and getting confused. No one starting today seems to have good intuition for them. One person I knew insisted LLMs could do structural analysis for months until he saw some completely absurd output from one. This used to be super common with small GPTs from around 2022 and so everyone just intuitively knew to watch out for it.

msgodel··on Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance
I always disable reasoning when I can. It got over hyped because of deepseek when the short one sentence chain of thought most conversational models were trained to do seemed to be enough.
msgodel··on Grok Rolls Out Pornographic Anime Companion, Lands Dept. Of Defense Contract
The one I saw looks like a man in a dress to me. It's completely unappealing.
msgodel··on Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
I think if you're jewish it is healthy and acceptable to concern yourself with the well being of Israel the same way it's healthy for anglo Americans to concern themselves with the state of the UK.

The problem is when people drag the rest of the country into it. And that's mostly a problem because the US is this weird international country now so we have to make all these compromises.

msgodel··on Grok is making AI companions, including a goth anime girl
>Not sure what you mean about "pressure to keep to yourself" because I think a normal person shouldn't feel any pressure when going outside, whether to socialize or not.

Actually that's exactly what I'm talking about. If you don't want people to feel pressure to socialize then you need to create a social norm of keeping to yourself. It would be nice for that to go away.

msgodel··on Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE
The people most opposed to this IME have been the "fascists" who wanted bitcoin. It's another one of those horseshoe situations I guess.
msgodel··on Grok is making AI companions, including a goth anime girl
From the few of my friends who have talked about this the majority have actually been women. I think the image gen lagged behind the LLM companions because of the computational intensity plus VLMS are just more complex. Because of that it seems like it's been more interesting to women who prefer prose to visuals.
msgodel··on Grok is making AI companions, including a goth anime girl
Maybe it's not such a bad thing. People who go outside will be more intentionally looking to socialize and you'll feel less pressure to keep to yourself.
msgodel··on US ice cream makers say they'll stop using artificial dyes by 2028
I actually reflexively prefer mint ice cream that's slightly off white to dark green now and I think that's because some of the higher quality brands don't use dye so I associate it with them.
msgodel··on Immigration raids leave crops unharvested and California farms at risk
We have absolutely decided we're fine with it. We'd prefer a functioning domestic economy to cheap luxuries.
msgodel··on AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why
Most corporate software problems don't need AI at all. They're really coordination/communication/administration problems hiding as technical problems.
msgodel··on Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense
Maybe query UIs but RAGs like Deep Research depend on old fashion query systems.
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