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New comment by armitron in "The disjointed Prague of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided"

armitron — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:16:24 +0000

If you can look past the dated graphics, the OG Deus EX is by far the better game and one of the best games of all time. The writing and philosophy alone elevates the game to masterpiece status. They dumbed down down these core elements in sequels to focus on better graphics and simpler mechanics and these games are far worse for it.

New comment by armitron in "Three important steps in my maturation process"

armitron — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:01:54 +0000

Your particular interpretation of the author's choice in words tells us more about your psychological makeup than the author.

Take the "meta-cognition" advice to heart and perform some self-debugging in order to determine what exactly in your psyche made you react in this way.

New comment by armitron in "Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime"

armitron — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:43:52 +0000

This is not just false but egregiously wrong. The regular syntax of Lisp is a tremendous asset when it comes to LLMs being able to work directly in the image. If I had to score languages by how well they work with current LLMs, Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp would be at the very top.

New comment by armitron in "U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues"

armitron — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 03:39:15 +0000

The Department of Defense has never received a clean opinion on a full financial audit. Since starting comprehensive yearly reviews in 2018, the Pentagon has failed eight consecutive enterprise-wide audits due to scale, missing records, and untrackable assets.

Federal Government Made $236 billion “Improper Payments” Last Fiscal Year: https://www.gao.gov/blog/federal-government-made-236-billion...

The only propaganda I see here is coming from those who are so out of touch of reality that they firmly believe there's a chunk of the uniparty that doesn't increase the deficit.

New comment by armitron in "Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga"

armitron — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 03:53:00 +0000

I suggest author renames to AmigaCL.

New comment by armitron in "Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network"

armitron — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 03:43:33 +0000

No published specification, single Python implementation. Shame, as this solves a problem that badly needs to be solved well.

New comment by armitron in "FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce"

armitron — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:17:09 +0000

It wasn't fine for decades. Both democrats and republicans allowed regulatory capture to take place.

New comment by armitron in "Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI"

armitron — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:11:08 +0000

This reads like a critique of 2023 tooling published in 2026. Their Amdahl-style arithmetic (speed up a 14% slice, cap your gains at 14%) holds only if "AI" means autocomplete. Current frontier models do far more than that: research, code comprehension, review, test authoring, debugging, exploratory prototyping, ideation. That's most of the rest of the working day or "86%".

The only point that still holds is that organizational policies and procedures that automate AI use and lower the barrier to entry are more efficient than leaving it up to each individual. Every other point they make is either stale or was never true to begin with.

New comment by armitron in "In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years"

armitron — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:49:11 +0000

Wolfram is obviously a genius but, like a lot of geniuses, so ahead of his time that he'll be recognized, maybe, decades after his own death.

New comment by armitron in "Samsung demonstrates 3D stacked FETs with triple nanosheet channels at 42nm"

armitron — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:52:59 +0000

This seems like it could accelerate the transition to sub-1nm nodes (previously projected to mid 2030s), maybe by the end of this decade.

New comment by armitron in "15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test"

armitron — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:23:04 +0000

That must do wonders for antibiotic resistance.

New comment by armitron in "How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++"

armitron — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:27:57 +0000

Experts know that copy/pasting and/or reimplementing code is not an issue in practice regardless of how often it comes up as an anti-pattern in freshman CS courses. The (amalgamated) software system can still be audited in reasonable time as long as the number of third party dependencies is kept low.

Rust has thrown the baby out with the bathwater in that regard resulting in software that is practically impossible to audit without putting in enormous effort.

New comment by armitron in "How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++"

armitron — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:25:05 +0000

I've never seen a C program use hundreds of dependencies. This is typical in Rust (and Node). I know a few high assurance teams that dropped Rust for this very reason.

New comment by armitron in "Bitburner, programming-based incremental game"

armitron — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:10:57 +0000

Would be a lot better from every possible angle (immersion, depth, replayability) if it was sandbox multiplayer. Otherwise, I'd rather play TIS-100.

New comment by armitron in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

armitron — Sat, 23 May 2026 01:51:55 +0000

The level of delusional wishful thinking here defies belief. Seattle and all other US "left" strongholds are decomposing and falling apart, with parts of these cities worse off than the third world. Instead of realizing that it's ineffective, incompetent and detached from reality politicians that have brought ruin and misery, you want to hand them even more money.

Brilliant.

New comment by armitron in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

armitron — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:59:54 +0000

As has happened in nearly every European state with wealth taxes. But the elephant in the room is that these policies give the same ineffective, corrupt and entirely worthless politicians even more money to "manage". The very definition of delusional wishful thinking.

New comment by armitron in "OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools"

armitron — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:32:06 +0000

This level of naivety is characteristic of certain SV types where wishful thinking is the order of the day. We're already living through the disastrous effects of the "social media" revolution and this is going to be much more of the same, with even worse negative effects on society.

Just imagine what this will do to critical thinking, interpersonal relationships and family dynamics in a country where illiteracy is rapidly climbing. I don't think it's a stretch to write that if the unrestrained capitulation in terms of societal costs towards big tech continues, we're setting ourselves up for {generational, class-based} conflict that will rip our country to pieces.

New comment by armitron in "I got infected with a crypto-miner via misconfigured qBittorrent"

armitron — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:50:15 +0000

netns, wireguard

New comment by armitron in "I got infected with a crypto-miner via misconfigured qBittorrent"

armitron — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:20:36 +0000

I was scratching my head trying to figure out how he got Internet to access qbittorrent on a private IP, but then I read this:

"you see, at some point in time the password was bypassed for users on local network 192.168.1.0/24, however the traefik ingress lives on 192.168.1.1"

which of course is his real problem (reverse proxy, microservices). And of course he has to double down and pile on even more complexity as the solution, instead of throwing out all the crap he's stacked together and coming up with something simple, performant and sane.

New comment by armitron in "Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock"

armitron — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:50:03 +0000

They never made good notebooks. Compared to German and Japanese notebooks that even cost less, moleskine is terrible.