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New comment by alienbaby in "The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners"

alienbaby — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:30:15 +0000

It's pretty easy to see what that does though, even if it is shorter. Wouldn't the other approach be more obfuscated?

New comment by alienbaby in "A Trillion Characters"

alienbaby — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:26:41 +0000

I type somewhere, nothing appears

New comment by alienbaby in "IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry"

alienbaby — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:06:29 +0000

they've also still got their storage stuff. I always wondered why that isn't doing better, it seemed pretty damn good when I've ended up working iwth it.

New comment by alienbaby in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

alienbaby — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:28:25 +0000

Are LLM's really doing the scraping?

Wont this just be non-intelligently scraped, stored, and then fed into the training dataset?

I mean, who's scrping all this stuff and then running inference across it at the kind of scales this implies?

New comment by alienbaby in "Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence"

alienbaby — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:20:51 +0000

5318008 ftfy ;)

New comment by alienbaby in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

alienbaby — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:18:45 +0000

I wonder what happens if you ask Claude to solve the problem, and don't review it's answer properly..

New comment by alienbaby in "Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE"

alienbaby — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:41:29 +0000

They could easily have read it, and thought , that communicates the information that it needs to.

No point creating busywork for yourself just shuffling words around when the information is there, no?

I guess it depends on what you want out of the article. Substance, or style?

New comment by alienbaby in "Withnail's Coat and I"

alienbaby — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:26:32 +0000

I looked for this coat, or one like it not so long ago. I found Andrea Galer is making them tailored to order for £2-£3k . Something I can't afford unfortunately. If anyone knows if anything passably similar let me know!

New comment by alienbaby in "Withnail's Coat and I"

alienbaby — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:11:36 +0000

Fractal means that something has a fractional spatial dimension. Ie, a fractal plane filling curve would have a dimension somewhere between 1 and 2

New comment by alienbaby in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

alienbaby — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:34:17 +0000

there are plenty of enterprise github users. Where I work currently has an internal github and uses external github.com to host public facing OSS work.

New comment by alienbaby in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

alienbaby — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:29:49 +0000

We've had trouble with git and repo's that have used non standard refs. It's all fine and fancy until we wanted to use some tooling that works with git, except it wouldn't see our unusual refs, and because they were non standard they were effectively hidden unless you knew they were there. So the migration work (almost) silently lost 10+ years of old work that was hiding away under those non standard refs.

New comment by alienbaby in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

alienbaby — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:01:32 +0000

it's not being able to code thats the problem. It's a multiplier on how much you can complete in a given timeframe.

New comment by alienbaby in "The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination"

alienbaby — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:04:35 +0000

Sounds like you may have been hallucinating to begin with.

New comment by alienbaby in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

alienbaby — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:08:50 +0000

You have two buttons. If you press that one, you might die. If you press the other one, you won't die. Which one do you press?

New comment by alienbaby in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

alienbaby — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:06:24 +0000

You might die if you press blue.

Ok.. don't press blue.

New comment by alienbaby in ""cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2"

alienbaby — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:38:19 +0000

Stty sane has also got me out of this hole many times

New comment by alienbaby in "Claude Opus 4.7"

alienbaby — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:01:25 +0000

no, he's saying that in amongst whatever else is there, you can often see how you could refine your prompt to guide it better in the firtst place, helping it to avoid bad thinking threads to begin with.

New comment by alienbaby in "Cal.com is going closed source"

alienbaby — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:24:32 +0000

This was my thought too. Your tool is great at finding vulnerabilities, and we want software to be secure for everyone, secure code should not be out of reach to those who can't afford it.

Scan everyone's code, for free. Make all code as secure as an llm can make it as a baseline.

New comment by alienbaby in "Cal.com is going closed source"

alienbaby — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:20:09 +0000

This feels like it misses the point. Tokens = money. The real differentiator is time and effort.

Llm's will find your issues faster, but not necessarily more accurately than a domain expert. But experts cost money and effort takes longer to apply.

Are llm's going to reduce everyone's wages because they are cheap labour?

New comment by alienbaby in "The M×N problem of tool calling and open-source models"

alienbaby — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:08:15 +0000

In Greek mythology, Procrustes (/proʊˈkrʌstiːz/; Greek: Προκρούστης Prokroustes, "the stretcher [who hammers out the metal]"), also known as Prokoptas, Damastes (Δαμαστής, "subduer") or Polypemon, was a rogue smith and bandit from Attica who attacked people by stretching them or cutting off their legs, so as to force them to fit the size of an iron bed

I can't figure out if you meant that or not, it kinda fits. (No pun intended)