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Re:The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription on Sunday May 31, 2026 @12:28PM (#48347036)
> out of the compiler

You mean a source that's been tested on billions of PCs over 45+ years?

As opposed to a LLM which outputs code that barely works on my machine™?

> demonstrably

I'm not entirely up to date on each week's LLM hype train/scandal but last I heard there was no public access to it or public-trusted 3rd parties that can review model's capabilities

Re:Generating All 32-Bit Primes (Part I) on Sunday March 15, 2026 @08:33AM (#47386804)
> There is a long way to go from here. Kim Walisch's primesieve can generate all 32-bit primes in 0.061s (though this is without writing them to a file)

Oh, come on, just use a bash indirection and be done with it. It takes 1 minute and you had another result for comparison

Re:Samsung may end SATA SSD production soon on Monday December 15, 2025 @08:14PM (#46283468)
Re:VCMI: An open-source engine for Heroes III on Thursday December 11, 2025 @10:48AM (#46232840)
There's support for HotA, I've been playing with the mod installed on both Android and Windows
Re:It's Hard to Build an Oscillator on Friday November 21, 2025 @06:00PM (#46010087)
Yes but DDS doesn't use a uController and still needs a stable reference clock/frequency/oscillator
Re:It's Hard to Build an Oscillator on Friday November 21, 2025 @05:57PM (#46010060)
Well, it's a bit of a chicken and the egg, no? Microcontroller won't work without a (most likely) crystal oscillator or something to act as a clock signal.

Now that I think about it, no, it's not even cheaper as XTALs are quite pricy compared to other discrete components.

I didn't mean to be rude - I interpreted the comment as "Would you like to build an (insert random object here)? Well, you can just BUY it and be done with it" - may not be as I put it (dumb) but certainly... simplistic and purpose-defeating

Re:It's Hard to Build an Oscillator on Friday November 21, 2025 @05:46AM (#46003220)
What intrigued me was the "just use a microcontroller" comment at the bottom of the page - I genuinely don't know if it was pinned because it's a joke, a genius idea or just top 10 dumbest comments of 2025
Re:What Killed Perl? on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @06:43PM (#45986879)
Since you're actively using it - how's performance in Perl 6? Are the rumors that it's slower true or exaggerated?
Any argument to back up your claim?
You're taking things out of context and commenting on the newly created problem. HN's not the right place for this
Re:Logic Gate Simulator on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:16PM (#34745963)
Falstad's circuit simulator helped me become the engineer I am today. It's an internet gem if you ask me
Re:Why Is Colorectal Cancer Rising Rapidly Among Young Adults? on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @05:25PM (#34700692)
We're supposed to avoid eating it
Re:TIL you can de-obfuscate code with ChatGPT on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @09:10AM (#34503736)
Misleading, ChatGPT generated both obfuscated and de-obfuscated code
How would this tighter connection be useful? The whole internet became/is a creative slate because the two worlds aren't connected

Connecting them would mean less privacy (or even lack of)

Just out of curiosity, why would you consider living there?
Bash supports case-insensitive auto-complete, see if you like it: https://serverfault.com/questions/217418/case-insensitive-ba...