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Darling is written in a different language so I don't think the LLM would copy paste code from it directly. But it is the main (only?) prior art, so it could be argued that everyth…

I can tell when my CPU usage spikes because it causes a hum through my speakers, so this does not seem that far-fetched.

> can't be asked What you heard wasn't what they were saying.

This is great but sails far too close to Poe's Law that I predict downvotes.

Probably due to the movie "Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan". People missed the joke that it was poor English on purpose.

I recall a post recently that suggested rather than a fixed contact interval ("message this friend every 2 weeks") it was better to use a Fibonacci spiral (2 weeks, 3 weeks, 5 week…

The "hardware" section is really cool, and then you get to the "software" section and it's just webslop.

Sometimes it works if you install an old version of the cryptography package from before they introduced Rust.

My ISP added IPv6 support and my router began handing out IPv6 addresses. How did I know this? 1. My AppleTV began stuttering during playback. 2. My old iMac began crashing every t…

If you send the full 200k tokens on every request you will get very few requests before you hit the token limit. Caching reduces the number sent but I don't know how much they can …

Lookup "wake-on-lan".

Bruce Perens (creator of The Open Source Definition) is attempting to remedy this at https://postopen.org/

Why is Steam even operating in Russia? Isn’t Russia under sanction so rest of the world doesn’t do business there?

The fact that the UK doesn’t allow “impromptu checks”, otherwise known as “Papers please!” is not a bug, it’s a feature that distinguishes our democracy from other states and we ar…

He says the checksums are different but he doesn’t provide a diff to show how different. It could just be a single flipped bit or something. And that could happen in his own RAM/di…

Doesn’t sound like we have the full story from either side. This blog post from Nate reads like he is continuing to gaslight. But then Jonathan doesn’t explain why he didn’t just b…

Both of those models have Anthropic API compatible endpoints, so you just set an environmental variable pointing to them before you run Claude Code.

Please don’t use the adjective “free” when describing proprietary software. We know you mean “free as in beer” but those outside our community may not and it may cause confusion ov…

> if Acorn had been based in the US, the world would be using Acorn machines Is not ARM (the Acorn Risc Machine) the most popular type of machine in the world currently?

Like The Mirror? https://www.themirror.space/

Back in the 90s, I had to teach myself to code solely using books. It wasn't easy, because I never had access to an actual adult coder. So in 2018 I setup a group to teach coding t…

https://github.com/irmen/prog8

Turing's boyfriend was 19, therefore not an adult under UK law at the time.

Of course you can have multiple apex A records that point to the same IP address. We are talking about CNAME records here. Are your sites using CNAME records or A records? Even if …

Like most kids in the 80s I would never “exclude gaming” from my evaluation. The PC was 15x as expensive as the C128 and still wasn’t any good for gaming. While C128 had the entire…