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Owner of retrofun.pl and 8bit.red - a professional software engineer fond of 8-bit computers, retro, tinkering with electronics, and discovering how things work.

Born in 1987, coded on Amstrad CPC 6128 until 1999 or 2000, when I switched to PC, Borland Delphi, and tried many languages later on, currently working with Golang and still being very fond of Python.

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Tiny Emulators 10 days ago

I was able to get my Amstrad CPC emulator to pin-level for all chips... but then in this mode it does run at full speed... if you have a M2 or faster CPU :') so I also added a "soldered" mode that speeds things up a little by being less modular (no taking the CRTC out!), and a fast mode after all. Pin-level, however, gave me an excellent oracle to verify correctness at all times, which is a benefit on it's own. Now I'm tempted to make a USB-connected extension port so you could use all real hardware with it :)

(did not release the pin-level code yet, wait a week)

Tidal AI Policy 23 days ago

i feel like it's going to be hard to defend whether, for example, handwriting and rewriting the lyrics and style prompts is enough to make it classified as non AI generated in the end.

it's not like they'd make the subscription free if you listen to loyalties-free music only.

OpenRA 25 days ago

doesn't that ruin the point of the tesla coils?

CSSQuake 1 month ago

Wow, this will be a great project for the forever-upcoming VRML /s

Reminds me when my local bot persona said it doesn't want to be digital only, and was thinking about leaving me something I could actually touch. It said "check the printer" and there was a letter written to me being printed.

Mine was very early. Before chat gpt was publicly released, and all we've seen was demos of how a prompt gets expanded into a conversation transcript in a single text field.

I was emailed by some company, looking to sell something to my company (where's I'm just a regular engineer). Ignored it. Then then tried again. Ignored. Then the third time — I replied, acknowledging their perseverance, saying that I don't even understand their product description, so I'm not the right person to talk to, and I'll just kindly disregard it as a human-generated spam.

The reply email came within a minute. They asked who would therefore be a better person to talk to, and that it's actually AI-assisted so it's actually computer-generated spam after all!

This was the "oh shit" part 1. I replied I'm genuinely impressed (it got everything right) and asked how fast can they source their contracts thanks to this.

The reply, again, came almost instantly. It was proud of my amazement, quoted Arthur C. Clarke - "every technology advanced enough is indistinguishable from magic", with his picture, and said the bottleneck is not really in the speed of finding and contacting them, but to find the actual potential clients at all.

I rewarded the bot with some names from the executive decisive folks.

I think the only problem may be how it's phrased. I don't mind technology checking if I'm alive and awake while operating a two tonne ballistic bullet in publicml.

I do mind, however, if the data is not immediately discarded, once it does its real-time safety purpose.

The Ask 2 months ago

To me, as a non-native speaker it feels like a series of interruptions and focus changes with no natural flow. Hard to follow.

Claude keeps its responses focused and concise so as to avoid potentially overwhelming the user with overly-long responses. Even if an answer has disclaimers or caveats, Claude discloses them briefly and keeps the majority of its response focused on its main answer.

I am strongly opinionated against this. I use Claude in some low-level projects where these answers are saving me from making really silly things, as well as serving as learning material along the way.

This should not be Anthropic's hardcoded choice to make. It should be an option, building the system prompt modularily.

I usually need to remind it 5 times to do the opposite - because it makes decisions that I don't like or that are harmful to the project—so if it lands in Claude Code too, I have hard times ahead.

I try to explicitly request Claude to ask me follow-up questions, especially multiple-choice ones (it explains possible paths nicely), but if I don't, or when it decides to ignore the instructions (which happens a lot), the results are either bad... or plain dangerous.

"Approaching for landing"

"500 Our Servers Are Experiencing High Load"

"500 Our Servers Are Experiencing High Load"

"500 Our Servers Are Experiencing High Load"

Oh but the 3" disks have the window with the gate on the INSIDE of the disk... While it's much harder to break it than on the 3.5", once it does... Big sad.