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jackdoe

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About jackdoe

https://punkx.org https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids

mail: jackdoe@fastmail.com

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    Most people never get to do their great work. Bob Dylan reflecting on his early work https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fh3pAJf-vdU I wish to live my life so I can say one day 'Nothing…

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    Comment #49226505

    > then hundreds of dollars to service when they break Can you explain what do you mean by that? It is quite rare to see broken trrs jack on a laptop, at least I have never experien…

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    Comment #49220953

    depends, I would say it is not safe for work as it makes you question what are you doing there :) its phenomenology porn

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    Comment #49203672

    Can you imagine in few years getting Fable level intelligence at 20k tokens per second? "You are not prepared" --Illidan Stormrage

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    Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]

    Full documentary: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074rxx

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    Comment #49196819

    In the next decade open hardware will win, any machine that exposes itself to be programmed by its user will be infinitely better than a machine that doesn't. From keyboards to pho…

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    Comment #48903829

    I am starting to seriously consider switching my pi-hole from blacklist to whitelist; block everything except few domains. I am convinced now most of the text I read is either ai g…

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    Comment #48845240

    > It's the same tech that's scalable to a certain limit of diminishing return. of course, my point was that gpt3->4o was smaller jump than opus 4.6->fable

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    Comment #48844201

    yes, I assume we will have the 'replicator' from Star Trek, and programs will just appear as you want them. experiencing the gpt3->4o->sonnet4->opus4.6->fable trajectory I am fairl…

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    Comment #48843399

    the elastic demand will be consumed by ai jevon's paradox just says people will consume more software as software gets cheaper, which is likely true, not that there will be more hi…

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    Comment #48822934

    I vibecoded https://punkx.org/apl/learn.html [1] its good slow entry into gnu-apl, at least it got me to be able to make tictactoe, vibecoded or not, it helped me to start. I am am…

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    Comment #48817058

    there is only so much attention/time human beings have games are competing with netflix competing with tiktok competing with sleep Johnny Mnemonic: Yeah, the Black Shakes. What cau…

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    Comment #48773154

    Its discounted on steam summer sale, I bought it and played all evening yesterday. Printed the zine. It took me to my happy place. Thank you.

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    Comment #48684714

    why would they compete with it when its open?

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    Comment #48660014

    > You always buy fossil fuels with an EV, "always" is just not true. "most of the time" is true, and it will get less and less as time goes by.

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    Comment #48628999

    https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

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    Comment #48603505

    there is a difference in a kid asking a LLM to explain 0! or 0^0 and to ask it to be its friend.

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    Comment #48547792

    we are closer to watering our farms with gatorade than mining landfills for lithium.

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    Comment #48538893

    > Social media is a HUGE shift to society Our teens are living through a changing time: peak unregulated social media, that I personally belive is approaching heroin level addictio…

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    Comment #48504103

    I have no idea if this is AI or not. I tried reading it, and was doubting every sentence. Damn. At this point I am not sure it matters. Few years ago I would've read it with joy. I…

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    Comment #48503254

    yes, that is my point, but at some point, better is unmeasurable, and both the better and the not-as-good produce similar result, and then you pick the one with 1/10th of the price…

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    I think there is some threshold after which "best" model doesn't matter, we are not that far from it. Fable now is really good, in a year or so, if Kimi catches up, even if Fable6 …