Hacker News: drxzcl

New comment by drxzcl in "Small Models Have Arrived"

drxzcl — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:01:05 +0000

We call it Ravenclaw vs Hufflepuff. I guess it's a generation thing.

New comment by drxzcl in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

drxzcl — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:30:45 +0000

The agent will happily fix that for them. They are through like that.

New comment by drxzcl in "The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness"

drxzcl — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:10:06 +0000

But what would we consider conscious?

My position is that there is no actual, definitive answer to that question, and therefore it makes no sense engaging with the concept.

New comment by drxzcl in "The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness"

drxzcl — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:58:39 +0000

I can make an AI system with a survival instinct right now. Of course, all that will do is make people tell me “it’s not a proper survival instinct” or move the goal posts and tell me I need yet some other property.

This whole endeavor is doomed from the beginning. There is no crucial test for “consciousness”, just ad hoc criteria people come up with to land on the conclusions that leave their belief system intact.

Consciousness is not a concept that can be rendered operational.

New comment by drxzcl in "The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness"

drxzcl — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:40:17 +0000

That’s fair. I’ll delete.

New comment by drxzcl in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

drxzcl — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:54:37 +0000

You can’t forget to take class W mnestics. Not unless someone prevents you from taking them.

New comment by drxzcl in "I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13"

drxzcl — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:47:47 +0000

All the stores I can get to within a reasonable time period stock ISO keyboards instead of ANSI, and I've never really warmed up to those. So I'm stuck with next-day even for macs.

New comment by drxzcl in "Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’"

drxzcl — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 06:09:49 +0000

As an aside, I have never seen a decent license for user generated content. Either they expose the platform to serious liability, or they come across as incredibly predatory.

New comment by drxzcl in "Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z"

drxzcl — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:28:20 +0000

Wait, what's the story of the sailboat trip? My searches are coming up empty, but it sounds like a great story.

New comment by drxzcl in "Pasta Cooking Time"

drxzcl — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 05:21:03 +0000

The north sea is 34 grams per litre. The Mediterranean is 38. For my pasta I use 10, and that's on the high end.

New comment by drxzcl in "What's happening with founders over 40?"

drxzcl — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 13:53:50 +0000

Honestly? I think they are just rationalizing away their respective midlife crises.

New comment by drxzcl in "Grok-2 Beta Release"

drxzcl — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 14:14:33 +0000

Again, you are ignoring the identity based systems they describe, that have been in place for centuries before either of them were born.

You know which ones I mean.

New comment by drxzcl in "Grok-2 Beta Release"

drxzcl — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:20:49 +0000

The guys closing polling places in black neighbourhoods? The guys denying women and trans people healthcare?

Identity politics has always been a conservative project.

New comment by drxzcl in "Regular Glucosamine Use and Mortality"

drxzcl — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:34:56 +0000

It’s 500k people for over a decade. If any study has the data to do it, it’s this one.

New comment by drxzcl in "How ECMO is redefining death"

drxzcl — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:04:00 +0000

Not to downplay the dilemmas we face today, it seems to me that the main problem is that the machine is too expensive, too complicated and too large to serve as a permanent heart/lung replacement.

We have an excellent record of making machines smaller, cheaper and simpler to operate. This machine will be the pacemaker of the future.

New comment by drxzcl in "Passkeys: A shattered dream"

drxzcl — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:02:55 +0000

You generally enroll a passkey for a single device or connected group of devices. My icloud-syncing devices has a passkey. My windows laptop has another. My desktop has yet another. I have also enrolled my yubikey.

I could stop using my idevices tomorrow and not be negatively influenced.

New comment by drxzcl in "I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist"

drxzcl — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 12:01:08 +0000

Plagiarism is not a legal thing. Copyright infringement is, but that’s a different beast.

New comment by drxzcl in "Understanding x86_64 Paging"

drxzcl — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:01:37 +0000

It diverges more from x86 than I would have expected!

New comment by drxzcl in "Passwordless: a different kind of hell?"

drxzcl — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 15:26:32 +0000

I have a Mastercard branded card issued by the Dutch quasi-monopolist (ICS). Every time I have a transaction with a merchant with ties to NL, they force me to do 2FA using their crappy app.

I have no words to express how much I hate this.

New comment by drxzcl in "Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils"

drxzcl — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 11:02:40 +0000

The MIT license is two paragraphs long. The GPL is little more than a page, plus a very informative preamble.

Don’t take anyone’s word for what they say or which is better. Read them.