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Re:AI-Stuff on Sunday December 21, 2025 @11:04PM (#46351200)
suddenly, you CAN trust that USB drive you bought at the market from a peddler
Re:AI-Stuff on Sunday December 21, 2025 @11:03PM (#46351193)
what if there was a USB adapter that had a little chip in it that routed anything that passed through it directly to and from the sandboxed environment?

you could configure it with bash commands.

Re:AI-Stuff on Sunday December 21, 2025 @10:39PM (#46351062)
an adult baby made this
You can alter the rate of transmission for different types of traffic. This is one of the benefits of the packet system. For example, if you wanted to rate limit peer-to-peer connections but not peer-to-giant-corporation connections, all you'd have to do is modify the QoS settings on your router. You can do this at home.
I think that's beautiful.

you've realized that the problems are not impossible, and it's just a matter of getting people to think about them in the right way.

that's easy. Humans have been getting other humans to think the ways they want since the written word. Nothing is more practiced as a discipline, except perhaps prostitution.

Re:E-Paper Display Refresh Rate Reaches New Heights on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @03:30PM (#45202491)
think in terms of "page-up" and "page-down" instead of scroll-wheel / thumb scrolling and it starts to feel alright.
Re:Making Video Games (Without an Engine) in 2025 on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @04:42AM (#44039252)
some games require a certain level of scale and for those games you should optimize in the pre-planning stage.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025) on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @06:25PM (#43562431)
Location: Portland, OR, USA

Remote: Yes, remote or hybrid

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Bash, C, Lua, Linux

Resume/CV: https://pastebin.com/FnUt0cw9

Email: [email protected]

Gotta get a job so I can buy food for my cat.

Everyone likes me. I work hard until I burn out. Use me with intention, but... please use me because I need to get a job so I can buy food for my cat. I can learn any language in a weekend, I can bang on Linux computers until they work, and I'm cripplingly honest and kind and I won't deceive you or try to hide.

Interested primarily in back-end roles.

Re:Ollama v0.1.45 on Saturday June 15, 2024 @07:45PM (#40693522)
Huggingface isn't local, while Ollama is.
The difference is, investments can go bad if the company fails.

A landlord never loses their money because they own the land. If a resident trashes their place, well they have insurance for that, better call the contractors to fix it up.

Re:What's New in Neovim 0.10 on Thursday May 16, 2024 @11:49AM (#40379804)
I like bright and bold colors, vibrant and flavorful.

these colors feel pastel, weak, and faded. I don't like them.

Re:The Most Talented Person in the World on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @08:48PM (#40361833)
because once Bot_J and Bot_Q are discovered to be bots, then everyone they've authenticated suddenly needs new people to vouch for them.

problem is, how do you figure out someone's a bot? Ah well maybe someone will make an AI tool for that, we humans are too busy doing groceries and putting round cubes into square holes.

Re:Dijkstra on real map data with raylib on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @11:51AM (#40356526)
Raylib is the best visual library for C! You can do whatever you'd like, as long as you can program it, which is always the most interesting part of the day.
Could solve Project Euler problems in Lua - aka, the easiest programming language to learn

https://projecteuler.net/

Alternatively, you could get a homeschool math textbook. They're written differently because the assumption is that the kid is going to have to teach themselves, and as such they are significantly more thorough and easy to understand. I highly recommend them. Don't get the kind that are "workbooks", those are usually trash. Find a good textbook that the kid can write in their own notebook for and sell after they're done with it. They'll learn how Ebay works, and algebra!