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ykonstant··on VTuber agency VShojo shuts down after talent exodus
I hope Melody is not intentionally involved :( What a clusterfuck.
ykonstant··on [dead]
You will be missed Ozzy :(
ykonstant··on Jujutsu for busy devs
Bisect is a wonderful feature. Git is full of tedium and frustration, bisect is not part of that.
ykonstant··on What will become of the CIA?
Yup, as they say, get divided and prosper. Hmm...
ykonstant··on AI is killing the web – can anything save it?
I admire your optimism.
ykonstant··on [dead]
I am more familiar with the term "barbarism", but apparently "barbarity" is a word, too.

I prefer the former, but I can see the latter having use, for instance, in a future Mortal Kombat game: the referee goes "FINISH HIM", and the fighter launches a missile strike on a nearby hospital. "BARBARITY"

[I am making a joke now, but this is a personal issue: two dear friends of my best friend, a couple of medical assistants employed by Caritas, were killed in 2023 from a missile strike "next to"(i.e. on) the Gaza Catholic church; it made the news: https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/48288 . My best friend was devastated.]

ykonstant··on Will the Fear of Being Confused for AI Mean That We Will Now Write Differently?
An excellent question! First of all...
ykonstant··on Ask HN: Is HN Pro-Fascist?
...really?? He who smelt it dealt it level of discourse?
ykonstant··on Retro gaming YouTuber Once Were Nerd sued and raided by the Italian government
>Natural Law is fair by definition. It is merely a reflection of ancient ethical norms.

There is no such thing.

ykonstant··on The Hunt for the Most Dangerous Hackers [video]
I clicked on the youtube video, then clicked on a random time. It was a snapshot of Trump talking. Ugh. I clicked on another random time. It was a snapshot of H.Clinton talking. Ugh. At that point I abandoned the video.
ykonstant··on Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival
Please don't say "thought leader" unironically.
ykonstant··on Nobody Wants to Hear Good News About Psychiatric Medicine
>a peak daily dose of 375 mg.

...what in the tar of nation! Such concentrations are not even available here, with 150 being the max dosage for Effexor. I would probably just collapse and die if I tried to wean off of 375 mg of venlafaxine.

ykonstant··on [dead]
I am shocked, shocked, that someone like reads notes Marc And... ok never mind.
ykonstant··on Potential backdoor in Intel's AES hardware implementation [video]
"I am just about to compare the results of my own AES software code, to the hardware version found in intel CPUs."

ok

"If they differ in any way, it means the NSA has put a backdoor into the CPUs during production time."

...what? I mean, perhaps, but that is far from the only possible cause of deviation.

ykonstant··on Nobody Wants to Hear Good News About Psychiatric Medicine
Nice, but in my case at least, withdrawal from venlafaxine is extreme. To the point where I simply cannot get off of it.
ykonstant··on Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)
From the profile picture I thought that was junferno for a second.
ykonstant··on Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)
I think the schizophrenic notation 12(%ebp) is much worse than the dest/src switch.
ykonstant··on Finding a Job: Build Something Real
I cannot build a project that earns money, even pennies, because that would have very complicated tax implications in my country.

I also cannot pay for backend DB because I don't have any money.

Finally, whatever I build would be CLI based or have a native GUI, not web style; I wouldn't want to (nor can I) build a website related to the software.

I guess I cannot build something real. Darn.

ykonstant··on The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods (2018)
It is?!
ykonstant··on The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods (2018)
Even the word "cathedral" doesn't do justice to that structure.
ykonstant··on Parse, Don’t Validate – Some C Safety Tips
I don't understand; what is your suggested solution?
ykonstant··on Faking a JPEG
We have investigated nobody and found no evidence of malpractice!
ykonstant··on Faking a JPEG
Next we do it with red and blue :D
ykonstant··on FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors
This reads like an exaggerated parody. It is unfathomably depressing that it is the actual state of affairs :(
ykonstant··on Pure Rust cryptography is better than raw performance
I don't know about C, but how do you replace the "pure assembly" the author mentions and maintain a reasonable degree of constant time guarantees? Even with assembly these are fickle, can you really write the core computational kernels in Rust and achieve similar guarantees?
ykonstant··on Chat with 19 Years of HN Data
Infinite Cloudflare loop. No VPN or weird browser.
ykonstant··on I switched to a flip phone, and I'm never going back
> The option I use is to get rid of all social media on my phone. ALL.

This seems to be the way to go.

ykonstant··on Pipes May Be All You Need
Nice; this also has the advantage that it can be modified quickly to add or change functionality. The pattern is also clearly usable in other contexts. Just be careful with those pesky filenames with newlines!
ykonstant··on Ask HN: What types of posts do you most enjoy on Hacker News?
Gizmo tinkering, personal engineering projects of all kinds, bug hunt recounts and some scientific stuff. Also lighter fluff of all kinds.

Just yesterday I compiled a gigantic ublock filter for HN that hides political posts, everything related to artificial intelligence, "founder culture" as you call it, tech business stuff, legal matters, everything webdev related, certain topics that young tech bros seem to be obsessed with (psychedelics, self improvement, note taking apps, hanki panki or whatever etc) and posts about scientific topics that tend to attract habitual incorrectorrists.

So far it has worked wonders and made HN pleasant to browse again.

ykonstant··on Scrap the asylum system–and build something better
Extremely dangerous idea: it will generate enthusiastic support from certain groups eager to implement the first half of the sentence, and content to delegate the latter to...some unspecified point in the future.
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