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sitkack

17,420 karma · joined May 31, 2010

Slow thinker, like molasses.
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sitkack··on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
Contrapositive in this usage is a fancy word for, "my logic is flawed"

No, if you are already making bad decisions, you are going to make more. I never argued that good engineering means the idea was good.

sitkack··on The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy
The ads show they are out of ideas and with everything enshitifying, and a duopoly, they don't need to serve customers. just be slightly less shitty than google.

This puts them at existential risk of disruption, because it will build huge unseen pressure for customers to flee.

We saw this with Opus 4.7 - 5, losing folks to Sol when it came out. But Anthropic delivered with 5.5

sitkack··on The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy
> Cocaine and pot are horrible

citation needed

sitkack··on Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons
You are doing it right now by naming the event after the victim, not the perpetrator. Call it the OpenAI attack on HF.
sitkack··on Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second
I don't even notice the LLM speed or latency. I think we are as far apart in technique as it gets.

What is your workflow?

sitkack··on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
Funny that so many people in this thread are arguing that a bad idea should also be engineered well. It was already a bad idea, so no it won't be. They are a package deal.
sitkack··on Spymarks, not Watermarks
When someone else controls distribution, they also control the spark, each request could serve up a different payload. So innocuous images could encode ids, tracking receivers as well as originators.
sitkack··on Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone
I would score this as an own goal.
sitkack··on Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees
You can't compare if you don't know the cost, if you can't compare it is hard for the invisible hand to price the market.

Price transparency makes more efficient markets.

sitkack··on I am often wrong
That isn't typically how abstraction is tallied. The ceo doesn't say they use 15k employees, or the programmer uses 30B transistors. Or the director uses 120 workers. You enumerate what you actually interact with.
sitkack··on I am often wrong
That isn't humanly possible, you will blow out your neurotransmitters and not be able to think. Only being semi serious, but we can't make that many decisions a day.
sitkack··on Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
Tics, tropes are worn out predictable plot devices
sitkack··on Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp
why do use ai to write your posts ?
sitkack··on Amiga clarifies Commodore rights and the future of AmigaOS
You come off bitter for no reason.
sitkack··on After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted
Which is why Taiwan is safe until china can produce domestically because their power comes from exports.

China is not going to sabotage themselves like that.

sitkack··on It's getting harder to focus every day
The number one goal in a functioning democracy should be to have the highest possible education rate.
sitkack··on New rental trend? A $200 'work-from-home fee' tacked on to Bay Area lease
what if you are retired? or unemployed? or sick?

what are the limits for all of those?

no the idea is stupid and greedy

sitkack··on Show HN: Clx – Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20
Neat, did you take any inspiration from Shedskin? It is a Python to C++ compiler.

The perf numbers look decent. What optimizations are you the most proud of?

Do you have plans for eval? what would stop you from supporting eval?

sitkack··on My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto
i remember when the TV station would shut down in the middle of the night.

Or businesses would close to do inventory.

We made do.

sitkack··on The git history command
That is like saying once the program is done, throw away the source.

Lemme guess all your for commit say "wip"

sitkack··on Why we're moving off Cloudflare Durable Objects
Worth calling out
sitkack··on Reading Is the Ultimate Cognitive Enhancer
Reading leads to maturity on every dimension.
sitkack··on Mel Brooks is 100 today
unshrunk
sitkack··on Did my old job only exist because of fraud?
What is your favorite western? Fist full of dollars or GBU ?
sitkack··on Architecting a Conversion Engine in Swift
Or how I can't prompt in Haskell to add our format to Pandoc.
sitkack··on Fossil Fuels Are 40% of Freight Shipping Tonnage, but Half Its Fuel Use
i was thinking used where you can get a Nissan Leaf which is a 75 kW, 20 kWh rolling battery pack.
sitkack··on Fossil Fuels Are 40% of Freight Shipping Tonnage, but Half Its Fuel Use
Seattle City Light owns a sizable chunk of its generating capacity.
sitkack··on Fossil Fuels Are 40% of Freight Shipping Tonnage, but Half Its Fuel Use
Two cars, much cheaper than a second battery pack. And you have a supply of rolling spare parts.
sitkack··on The Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone
That runs in north america? Maybe for $40
sitkack··on The Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone
if this ran graphene, i'd buy one today.
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