Hacker News: deusum

New comment by deusum in "Algorithmic fitting of Japanese candy"

deusum — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:37:16 +0000

This would be a fascinating Code Golf challenge.

New comment by deusum in "Space secrets leak disclosure"

deusum — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 15:11:46 +0000

That $10k was probably the limit for their work, not someone else’s stolen time.

New comment by deusum in "Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license"

deusum — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 14:50:57 +0000

Script kiddies bust their butts phishing and installing black market ransomware. This Whitney fellow is probably sitting in his office somewhere expecting people to just throw $100k (per month!) at him. ;-)

New comment by deusum in "Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)"

deusum — Wed, 15 May 2024 15:51:21 +0000

I believe it's now well into the realm of genericization.[1] Xerox lost a major lawsuit relatedly, iirc.

[1] e.g, https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/15-product-trade...

New comment by deusum in "Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition"

deusum — Thu, 02 May 2024 20:33:35 +0000

No one has pointed out that the AI companies are being sued for 'stealing' vast troves of copyrighted data, and the case is still in progress.

If the police departments are complicit, then does copyright stand to lose de facto as AI will only be increasingly implemented while the case slogs through the courts?

New comment by deusum in "Bing climbs to 13% of search engine market share in the US"

deusum — Wed, 01 May 2024 15:28:41 +0000

My favorite part is when you search for a local file, but it fails because it can't connect to the internet.

New comment by deusum in "Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later"

deusum — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:38:45 +0000

With AI we can expect full disinformation posts with supporting conversations.

New comment by deusum in "Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server"

deusum — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:27:21 +0000

This would be good opportunity to test out BSDs or Illumos variants, as well.

New comment by deusum in "Antarctic English"

deusum — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:13:08 +0000

At the Toys-R-Us in Antarctica, kids really don't grow up!

"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys-R-Us kid..."

New comment by deusum in "New jet engine enables efficiency at every speed for cheaper orbital launches"

deusum — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:47:42 +0000

Thank you, that context was illuminating.

New comment by deusum in "Whole Earth Index"

deusum — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:54:18 +0000

"Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1970 and 2002."

Whole Earth Index

deusum — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:54:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wholeearth.info/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39515363

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by deusum in "Princess: Coding Like Royalty"

deusum — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 19:22:19 +0000

Execute the function correctly, or the Princess will have you executed.

New comment by deusum in "VirtualBox KVM Public Release"

deusum — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 19:08:13 +0000

Virt-Manager does allow you to edit the xml config file by hand from within the interface. So, yes you can use ipv6; but no, it's not a convenient point and click gui interaction.

I'd be curious to hear the specific reasoning behind it.

New comment by deusum in "A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)"

deusum — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 15:30:34 +0000

Is it just me? His posts always begin with an interesting technical anecdote and then veer off into boring propaganda with sullies the reputability. It's an intellectual let-down.

New comment by deusum in "I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy"

deusum — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 18:48:36 +0000

Being a pro means you can fix anything you break - preferably before anyone noticies

New comment by deusum in "How Gyms Make Money (2015)"

deusum — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 03:19:58 +0000

AI can probably fix that in the near future.

New comment by deusum in "Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?"

deusum — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 21:36:03 +0000

Qubes does allow creating a VM for just about any program or service. But, in my experience, it suffers from latency. So, while fine for web browsing, it wasn't too keen on playing videos. YMMV of course, but Adobe products are already hogs without the emu layer.

New comment by deusum in "Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)"

deusum — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 14:48:47 +0000

We're still finding roman coins in the UK, that should be enough physical evidence against the idea. But, I imagine salt would be useful for bartering with some of the "barbari" the soldiers encountered.

New comment by deusum in "Video-Game Company Unity Closes Offices Following Death Threat"

deusum — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:42:40 +0000

Nah, that sort of regulation hurts innovation. /ˢ