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smallpipe··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
No one wants your hobby db
smallpipe··on What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
Sounds great! Can I subscribe to an RSS feed/mailing list?
smallpipe··on 'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction'
delay the project, bring attention to the problem, feel better about themselves by doing “something”.

“That achieves nothing” sounds like what a Microsoft PR person would want you to think.

smallpipe··on Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you)
Casting from the web doesn’t work (on iOS at least) but that’s all I can think of.
smallpipe··on Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
Now if only OP talked to humans once in a while and not LLMs they’d stop writing “it’s not X, it’s Y”
smallpipe··on Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2019)
So how many Joules can you safely sustain in say, a month, or a lifetime ?
smallpipe··on CrankGPT
A fairly untrained cyclist is usually able to maintain 200W, so yes this is definitely possible
smallpipe··on What happened to nerds?
That's incredibly disappointing from Moxie
smallpipe··on Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops
I’m surprised you bothered writing software instead of writing some G code by hand for testing
smallpipe··on "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
Do you have examples?
smallpipe··on Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation
What is it with the AI bros that seemingly can’t write two pages without their precious LLM doing it for them. It could be a genuinely cool story, but I’m just put off by the LLMism everywhere
smallpipe··on Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
OP is suggesting that a supply chain attack would be bad now, and to reduce that risk by not installing/updating NPM packages.
smallpipe··on Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
It's so bad, I know no one reads the original post on here, but this one was painful
smallpipe··on Visualizing CPU Pipelining (2024)
CPUs haven't worked like that in anything but a microcontroller for half a century
smallpipe··on Git commands I run before reading any code
I do not approve PRs from junior devs until the commit message is useful.
smallpipe··on The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat Before Dinner
Having a bad day eh, let’s be mean to the disabled o the internet
smallpipe··on Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars
Cars are moving towards something like that, mostly because copper is expensive and there are miles and miles of it in even a basic car these days
smallpipe··on Astral to Join OpenAI
If Codex’s core quality is anything to go by, it’s time to create a community fork of UV
smallpipe··on Don't trust AI agents
Docker is not a security boundary. You’re one prompt injection away from handing over your gmail cookie.
smallpipe··on I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”
> This has completely replaced human code review for anything that isn't functional correctness

Isn’t functional correctness pretty much the only thing that matters though?

smallpipe··on GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
Could you run a similar analysis for pre-2020 papers? It'd be interesting to know how prevalent making up sources was before LLMs.
smallpipe··on cURL removes bug bounties
Hopefully the malware authors have the same issue of filtering through garbage AI submission
smallpipe··on The highest quality codebase
The viewport of this website is quite infuriating. I have to scroll horizontally to see the `cloc` output, but there's 3x the empty space on either side.
smallpipe··on Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”
Science has no problem admitting something works without knowing why. Making stuff up to sell a book is preying on vulnerable people.
smallpipe··on PlayStation 3 Architecture (2021)
Doubt it. Avoiding jailbreak sure to keep selling games, but no one cares about emulators.
smallpipe··on You did no fact checking, and I must scream
The average journalist has to churn enough stories that they don't have time to be looking up anything.

There must be a corollary somewhere about how much you should read the average newspaper.

smallpipe··on Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows?
That’s a lot of words for “I suck at my job”
smallpipe··on If you are reading this obituary, it looks like I'm dead
Yeah there's no way it's worth it for an obituary. You need it out in good time, so you can't have a delay longer than a few days. But it's definitely possible to be knocked out (or in a no-signal zone) for a few days and survive.
smallpipe··on Hashed sorting is typically faster than hash tables
Could you reduce the BW requirement of the hash table by using an atomic increment instruction instead of read-modify-write ? It still performs a read modify write, but further down in the hierarchy, where more parallelism is available.
smallpipe··on I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
x86 hasn't been CISC in 3 decades anywhere but in the frontend. An architecture doesn't consume power, a design does. I'm all for shitting on intel, but getting the facts right wouldn't hurt.
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