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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 this will happen here. caring about the details and knowing the details are two different things.

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 is buried in grants tomb” phrasings that are not good faith interactions

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 would say, rather than predicting the actual consequences of an action or engaging with the real world. This is the core deficiency: intelligence requires not just mimicking patterns, but acting, observing real outcomes, and adjusting behavior based on those outcomes — a cycle Sutton sees as central to reinforcement learning.” [1]

An LLM itself is a form of crystallized intelligence, but it does not learn and adapt without a human driver, and that to me is a key component of intelligent behavior.

[1] https://medium.com/@sulbha.jindal/richard-suttons-challenge-...

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 impossible to legally fight a war with an enemy that hides behind its citizens). To be clear this is not to say war crimes are not also happening.

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 have more flexibility if you build your own python extension module (eg using pybind), which will free you from a simple/strict ABI. Curious if this strict separation of C & Python was a deliberate design choice.

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 replacement is, but I know software and IP more generally shouldn't be treated at all like a material good.

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 induced an experience of seeing that new color without “really” seeing it - surely this would be sufficient to communicate qualia? (And if not, surely it’s just a matter of adjusting the inducement to some degree).

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 for a bad dry cough. It’s pure misery.

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 detrimental effects on mental health, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l2TdinWoM8

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 therapist) might have something valuable to contribute.

However, while your powers of observation might border on superhuman, they are still very much just yours. A therapist can help you build an emotional toolset you will not otherwise provide yourself, and which will make you a more complete person, not least of all in the area of building and maintaining meaningful interpersonal relationships.

Think of it like this: you can read music theory and memorize the entire western classical canon by heart and still be a terrible piano player, never improving if you don’t show up to practice at the keys with a talented teacher.

One simply cannot reason ones way around the emotional core that drives us as humans.

CBT will help you change your behavior and how things feel, but, imho, psychodynamic psychotherapy can go much deeper and truly improve your emotional IQ.

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”

How does this help?

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, social democrat—we would have way less power if Leah didn’t exist.”

Imagine paying for a Harvard education and getting taught by a chat bot. Not sure they thought the optics of this one through.

Maybe they just need a vaccination… uh I mean a vacation

It wasn’t that they won; the article explains that plenty of people walk out with designer bags full of money. It’s that these folks won in a statistically hugely unlikely way, and that alone is pretty damning evidence that something is off. It’s usually just a matter of finding the smoking gun. Although it’s unpleasant that the casino and police assumed it was cheating and not a defect in the game itself (in what turns out to be a naive and self-delusional assumption), is that really that surprising or ridiculous a position to take? The catch 22 is the accused cannot defend themselves without divulging their secrets.

Suggestion for international workaround: pronounce as “ess-pack”?

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That’s on track to solve in 14. Don’t know how to get to 13

Stuck on 36 too! 14 moves no matter how much I think about it!

Kudos to the person who wrote the job description

I have stuff to say about JIT.