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Same here! TI-85, and then HP48G series after that!

I have a CLAUDE.md symlinked to AGENTS.md

Longtime backblaze user. Time to vibecode myself a replacement.

I wrote a clone of this game for the HP-48 as a teen in the 90s. you can still find it if you google hard enough. good times.

until you learn to trust the system and free mental capacity for more useful thinking. at some point compilers became better at assembly instructions than humans. seems inevitable …

https://chatgpt.com/share/699346d3-fcc0-8008-8348-07a423a526... interesting. if you probe it for its assumptions you get more clarity. I think this is much like those tricky “who i…

This article highlights how experts disagree on the meaning of (non-human) intelligence, but it dismisses the core problem a bit too quickly imo - “LLMs only predict what a human w…

Humans are social-emotional beings who assign “irrational” value to things for social signaling and emotional (self-)gratification.

Not a lawyer, but my understanding is civilian casualties are not unlawful (according to international law) when the target is legitimate (on the theory that it is otherwise imposs…

I noticed you interface with the native code via ctypes. I think cffi is generally preferred (eg, https://cffi.readthedocs.io/en/stable/overview.html#api-mode... ). Although you'd …

Nowadays, with more and more economic output coming from knowledge work (IP), this depreciation and amortization approach feels hopelessly out of date. I don't know what a good rep…

What is MCP?

Can’t wait for a better TSC Doom framerate.

TBH, I don’t really understand why this is a problem. An explanation is not an experience; it cannot provide to the human brain the same information. Suppose you neurologically ind…

Speaking as someone with a current viral respiratory infection of some kind that was just prescribed Benzonatate and Albuterol, there needs to be a much more effective treatment fo…

Right, you need a mechanism. (Ice cream makes you fat, fat people can't swim, ergo drownings). Haight clearly outlines the mechanisms by which social media and smartphones have det…

You are implying the author(s) are disingenuous or are drawing the wrong conclusions. What makes you think this?

Former MIT students indicted on $25 million ethereum heist

To pile on to what another commenter said above, therapy is for you. I know you dismissed it out of hand. You clearly have no faith that someone (specifically, a well-trained thera…

Ok I googled. I guess it makes sense as it helps to protect against pre-hashed rainbow tables or dictionary attacks by making them more computationally expensive.

“For example, another important default setting in LastPass is the number of “iterations,” or how many times your master password is run through the company’s encryption routines” …

I can’t tell if this Max Berger quote is a lament or just unintentionally ironic: “Whatever you want to call my faction—the Bernie wing, the Warren wing, democratic-socialist, soci…