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wrycoder

6,025 karma · joined April 8, 2017

Programming evolution: Fortran, Joss, PL1, HP Basic, APL, 6502, Z80, x86, Scheme, Logo, C, Python, JS, Zig
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wrycoder··on Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey
Instant, wide-range (mesh) private comms are rather different than a couple of people out in a field at night talking.
wrycoder··on Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey
That was Australia. In China, they welded the doors to their housing units shut.
wrycoder··on Retreating from EVs could be hazardous for Western carmakers
An EV with a degraded battery and miles per charge is still very useful for retired people who are tired of traveling long distance and can plug in at home. There should be a good market for them.

I tend to keep my cars over 200,000 miles. Today's cars last a long time. Still, looking back over the past three year's expenses between 150,000 and 200,000 miles, almost all of them relate to engine peripherals - like a new exhaust system, work on emission controls, and a new gas tank, which an EV doesn't have - or brakes, which on an EV last much longer.

wrycoder··on Agentic Design Patterns: A Hands on Guide to Building Intelligent Systems [pdf]
By Antonio Gulli, Google

Forward by Marco Argenti, CIO, Goldman Sachs

...explore a diverse range of design patterns, from foundational concepts like structuring sequential operations (Prompt Chaining) and external interaction (Tool Use) to more advanced topics like collaborative work (Multi-Agent Collaboration) and self-improvement (Self-Correction).

https://x.com/DBVolkov/status/2004598132076937248

wrycoder··on HiTeX Press: A spam factory for AI-generated books
The author of Starlark, a language covered by one of these books on software, discovers that the book is full of hallucinations and incorrect information. He remarks that a beginner might not be able to readily determine that. The other books from HiTeX seem to have the same issues.
wrycoder··on Altoids by the Fistful
It looked like it was going to be a real downer to the end, but.... and then it was.
wrycoder··on OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations and reporting content to police
Perhaps flag the account and switch out the AI instance for Boring-BobGPT and further monitoring?
wrycoder··on Librarians are dangerous
My town votes 50/50 Republican/Democrat, yet our newly rebuilt library is filled with lib/women oriented non-fiction and contemporary women’s pulp fiction. They no longer even have paper sets of encyclopedias. It’s not possible to learn much about science or technology there anymore - they weeded much of that out during the remodeling.
wrycoder··on Show HN: Physical Pomodoro Timer with ESP32 and e-paper screen
LOL, read the one star reviews [0]. The problem with the mechanical ones is they are shoddy these days and can't be depended on. It seems no one knows how to make a high quality mechanical timer any more.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B07H59ZL1L/ref=acr_se...

wrycoder··on Designing Electronics That Work
Yes. Think of it as a CAPTCHA. There’s a reason.
wrycoder··on Apple Exclaves
He did
wrycoder··on Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon
And yet the ranks of proofreaders and editors never blinked.
wrycoder··on Lynx Browser: The Land That Time Revived (2022)
IMO, a most useful thing is Lynx in DIRED mode. A great read-only directory browser - just enter a local url when you start it. For example, <lynx .> or <lynx /> .
wrycoder··on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
Constitution, yes - but following it, not so much. I would really like the Federal government to improve in that regard.
wrycoder··on How the strengths of Lisp facilitate complex and flexible applications (2016)
From TFA, ...the creator of the R programming language, Ross Ihaka, who provided benchmarks demonstrating that Lisp’s optional type declaration and machine-code compiler allow for code that is 380 times faster than R and 150 times faster than Python
wrycoder··on The Origins of Wokeness
Yeah, and who is doing the killing?
wrycoder··on Ships must practice celestial navigation
I have one I paid $150 for. But bubble sextants are usually only used on aircraft.
wrycoder··on TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English? (2023)
They didn’t wear lab coats. That’s for chemists and biologists.
wrycoder··on U.S. appeals court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules
This. The ISPs can go back to prioritizing and pricing traffic based on their own commercial preferences. Thankfully, I have Starlink as my ISP.
wrycoder··on Rite Aid's 'Zombie' stores take over America
29 mi for me, and I'm in a 10,000 person town in New England. I'm not sure your directory is complete - I thought there was one in Concord NH.
wrycoder··on Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again
When I look at the email addresses in the various communities I belong to, it’s at least 80% gmail, and the rest are mostly defunct services are just barely hanging on. Yes, I run my own email server, have for years.
wrycoder··on MIT largest open-source car design dataset, incl aerodynamics, to speed design
“He was speeding.” Love English!
wrycoder··on My second year without a job
In this context, “savings” includes all liquid assets.
wrycoder··on Why did clothing become boring?
Look up “bagging” a jacket. Many are constructed with the right sides of the lining and the outer cloth together, then turned inside out. It works if the jacket is fully lined.

Go ahead and remove the lining, but look carefully how the construction is done - you may well want to put it back in.

wrycoder··on The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky
You keep saying that. Just stop using the "For you" tab and stick to the "Following" tab. And if you don't want ads, pay up $15 or so a month and they stop, just like on Youtube. On the "For You", block the idiots - it works.
wrycoder··on The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky
They are all fake, but Bluesky hasn't figured out how to control them yet.
wrycoder··on The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky
Mute/Block works fine for me on X. I happen to like variety, not an echo chamber. I block the ignorant tails on either side.
wrycoder··on What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch
LOL, you should give it a try IRL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41970406
wrycoder··on What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch
The average electric car is a nightmare kludge.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41970406

wrycoder··on Show HN: Myphotos.site – Make a gallery website from Google Photos
The problem for me is not the SEO, but the vast AI blather, which is virtually content-free. You need a complete rewrite by an experienced human. After reading and reading, all I found was subjective comments about how great all the features are, without any information about the features themselves. What is your relation to Google? Can photos only come into your site from Google?
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