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Re:Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:23AM (#50351674)
Sort of like inverse compression of text? Inflation?
Re:A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:17AM (#50073071)
I've come to understand it as something with both a magnitude and a phase. When you have a unity sine wave, it has two points per period where the magnitude is zero but those points have different phases.
You did not have to know about the assembly most of the time _because_ the assembly output of the compiler would be guaranteed (bugs notwithstanding) to conform to certain rules. Not the case with an LLM
Re:Writing Efficient C++ Code on Monday September 28, 2026 @08:36AM (#49877004)
Not OP but I believe this is referring to defining a `volatile const` for a read only register which C++ does not allow because you would need to initialize a const. Not sure what the C++17 solution would be
Re:ChatGPT Is Throwing 404 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:02AM (#49550980)
Yeah who wrote that website? Oh right
It is also legal to buy potatoes and burn them, nobody would care if I do it. But if I buy up a food supply enough to feed a country and burn it it would be wrong.
Re:ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux on Thursday August 13, 2026 @07:51AM (#49284602)
Doesn't it automatically use bwrap if it's installed (in the container in this case)?
Grok why program no work? Make work please
So he was fired for sharing he had ketamine based therapy for depression? Why? Like is it promoting drug use or something?
Re:Patreon laying off 20% of staff on Friday July 24, 2026 @09:46AM (#49035553)
Exactly. I would be insulted if I was part of this layoff, brutal honesty would be much better
So what do you use for TOTP? Also bitwarden?
Re:Fundamentals of Wireless Communication on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:44AM (#48905964)
Thanks for the last rec, it looks like exactly what I need. As a self learner I still like some theory but a good mix with practical and building intuition. Like 'The art of electronics'. This looks to be a similar style
Re:Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing on Sunday June 28, 2026 @04:24PM (#48711251)
Did not read the twitter thread but I think it is a mix of some companies with above strategy and most others just cargo culting
That's nice except when you work somewhere where more and more developers are pushed to pump out slop generated by AI as fast as possible. So far I am not there yet but I have plenty of friends in the industry who are basically 'not allowed' to code manually anymore.
Re:I'm Tired of Talking to AI on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @10:11AM (#48294689)
Yeah but that was an explicit sarcastic response. I guess we need a 'letmechatgptthatforyou' link to show explicit sarcasm
Is the weight loss just from sleeping better and therefore making better food choices?
I'm interested in this, what do you use to host the git repo? Just a private repo on something like github or your own server? How do you backup your private key?
Re:The vi family on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @08:32AM (#48121081)
Why cscope and not an LSP?
Why would you say GUI based workflows are better (ignoring LLMs for now)? I would maybe give you debugging with breakpoints but for anything else I love my neovim with tmux setup
Re:Is anybody else bored of talking about AI? on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @09:29PM (#47512020)
> AI is every conversation with everyone

Wow that sounds horrible.

Yeah losing is maybe a bad example. What about a software update bricking the device, or a hardware problem?
Kinda like how I have it set up in linux except the system partition is the uki and the user password is LUKS2 passphrase
Re:2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop on Friday January 02, 2026 @08:39PM (#46471870)
What devices are you expecting driver issues with? Even NVidia is not much of a problem these days
Re:FPGAs Need a New Future on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @07:36AM (#46364838)
I knew someone who created a mandelbrot set viewer that would display over an VGA port, you had a game controller to move around and zoom into it. Something like that?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) on Monday December 15, 2025 @06:02PM (#46282113)
An RTOS compared to bare metal just means it is some nice abstractions that you would expect from an OS : tasks, mutexes rtc.

An RTOS compared to an OS like linux basically just means it is deterministic, you can guarantee some interrupt is handled within a certain time. Not necessarily faster

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:57PM (#46282043)
Calling them and asking for what exactly?
Re:Cassette tapes are making a comeback. Yes on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @07:58AM (#46204466)
I have recently learned that in a pinch the band of a condom will do as well.
Re:Linux Career Opportunities in 2025: Skills in High Demand on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @08:40PM (#45987758)
What are you looking for? Yocto experience? Experience writing drivers? C/Rust/C++? Hardware / FPGA experience as well?
Re:More random home lab things I've recently learned on Monday October 13, 2025 @04:24PM (#45572949)
You can manage containers with proxmox. The idea with proxmox is also to use something that you might encounter at work to practice with at home.
Re:Made for People, Not Cars: Reclaiming European Cities on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @08:30AM (#45196684)
I mean I feel for you but cycling in the rain is not that big of a deal, greetings from the Netherlands

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