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stylepoints··on My $500M Mars rover mistake
#metoo
stylepoints··on Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort?
So it's like the principia mathematica equivalent for computer programming
stylepoints··on Mic Test
Does it matter for a site like this?
stylepoints··on OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns
It could be both. And in many situations malice and stupidity are the same thing.
stylepoints··on Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
It's the nerd version of keeping up with the kardashians.
stylepoints··on Cosmopolitan v3.1
If I am correct in my understanding of how it works, Linux versions should work on Android as well.
stylepoints··on A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons
Just get a cat/dog.
stylepoints··on I think I need to go lie down
> We're not quite at the level (yet) of feeding a whole codebase to an LLM and making it add features or make changes while understanding the big picture of the problem being solved

We are one step away from that. All we need is a more advanced form of fine tuning.

stylepoints··on Reasons to Prefer Blake3 over Sha256
Until it starts coming installed by default on Linux and other mojor OS's, it won't be mainstream.
stylepoints··on GitHub Actions Are a Problem
I searched for "github actions random exit codes" and didn't find anything.
stylepoints··on Quake Brutalist Jam II
eSports are going through a slump right now. Psyonix also cancelled upcoming RLCS. Instead it's going to sponsor a bunch of smaller tournaments like salt mine with 10-20% of the budget of last year's RLCS.
stylepoints··on Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
And for very good reasons. A huge fraction of players buy the game based on how it looks.
stylepoints··on Bubble sort in pure CSS
Could've used flex weights instead of hardcoding the heights.
stylepoints··on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers
> Because our time is valuable

Buy youtube premium

stylepoints··on Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves performance
> When we tell AI that we're relying heavily on its answers, it "doubles down" to provide us with more precise, thoughtful, and thorough responses. The AI isn't actually feeling the pressure

If it quacks like a duck...

stylepoints··on Cosmopolitan Third Edition
what do you mean by a fork?
stylepoints··on Cosmopolitan Third Edition
What is the most complicates program in cosmos distro that can boot on bare metal?
stylepoints··on The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
I asked chatgpt to fix it:

``` Intwoduction

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big bwained devewopews awe many, and some not expected to wike this, make souw face

THINK they awe big bwained devewopews many, many mowe, and mowe even definitewy pwobabwy maybe not wike this, many souw face (such is intewnet) ```

stylepoints··on Making CRDTs More Efficient
> Integer compression is so good these days you can compress integers such that they basically end up taking up ~1/2 a byte instead of 8

This needs an explanation.

stylepoints··on Tech giants Meta, Amazon lay off more workers as cuts continue
Okay jigsaw