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A fun pun on steam machine from s french computer retailer

In my last session had the claude agent generated code, then tests, then the fixtures from passing the tests to the code. and gloated that all passed immediatly. once i saw that, i…

it somehow reminds me of stunnel, which if done over unix socket can be a very interesting proposition.

in a nutshell: clear defined helper functions are much better for comprehension than bigger functions. and they usually cost nothing ar runtime sine the compiler inlines them anywa…

exactly my thought. and here thr reader view of FF is a godsend. having 'accessible' content is not only for people with disabilities, it also help with bad color taste. well, at l…

I'm actually loving HN because it hasn't such a system. While it looks like a very good idea at first, it will evolve in echo chambers. Which are the bane of current society, as no…

bladeenc... now that brings some memories! svardos comes with a nice package assortment indeed

I actually don't like to play with random people on the internet. I prefer the comfort of knowing them, and usually do it in the old basement LAN party way. In my young time we did…

I'm now even using wine & proton for it. Thanks to Valve only very few games don't work. And it's not that i don't like windows, it is just too damn slow for me. And no. I do not w…

I'm wondering if we'll see some riscv extensions specifically designed to improve x86/amd64 emulation, such as what the M1 and other did.

to be fair, it fits my exact needs. and without common javacript bloat. so kudos to its authors

i'd say that wine has much less dev effort and the specs they re up against aren't as public as the web ones, so huge kudos to the wine team.

i'm starting to wonder what if those rust rewrites might be covert attempt to introduce back doors in plain sight?

for such security devices, there is OTP. I prefer to have my auth device bricked than compromised. for anything else, i want to be able to reprogram. so for vendors, a simple choic…

> more choice and greater value for me That will exactly follow Netflix's price hikes. As in "value for money", they silenced the latter part :D

indeed. and the fact that it can be resold at will makes it much worse as you just created an gambling ecosystem

lsw :)

Video tech is driven by pr0n and OS tech is driven by games.

it is usually the result of https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/04/brains-prefer-adding...

that's an excellent approach to ancient binaries!

it unfortunately died with Steve.

to me genAI feels like a neural implanted exoskeleton. it does awesome in demos. it has a real use. but it gets a long training period when one makes mistakes with it, it is big mi…