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New comment by frakt0x90 in "Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC"

frakt0x90 — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:55:38 +0000

Is this a troll comment? I don't see where the author used AI to generate the code and if you don't see the point of experimenting with technology, you're on the wrong website.

New comment by frakt0x90 in "Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare"

frakt0x90 — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:08:40 +0000

That's p-values for you.

New comment by frakt0x90 in "Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC"

frakt0x90 — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:44:02 +0000

In the US at least, even if you don't find prison that bad, the charge itself can ruin your life. Having a felony extremely limits your prospects.

New comment by frakt0x90 in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

frakt0x90 — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:57:45 +0000

Too late for me. I was on Spotify since 2013 and switched to Qobuz due to AI, bad recs, and dislike for the company. Qobuz puts much more effort into manual curation so I still find awesome weird music and have encountered 0 AI. Mainly due to not relying on recommendation algos anymore. I'm sure there is still AI in there. Only issue I've encountered is an annoying playback bug when switching from wifi to data.

New comment by frakt0x90 in "OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership"

frakt0x90 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:23:17 +0000

You would also have a whole team of consultants, advisors, lawyers, and VP+ people specializing in each area telling you what the problems and possibilities are if you actually had that job. They're not operating in a vaccuum.

New comment by frakt0x90 in "Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017)"

frakt0x90 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:30:23 +0000

Of course they would. A criminal is just a person. And with such an extraordinary percentage of the US population in prison, you can expect the full spectrum of ability, intelligence, passion, compassion, and everything else. Our prison system is an extreme tragedy that most people are numb to because it's been that way forever.

New comment by frakt0x90 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

frakt0x90 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:30:01 +0000

If all the AI stories on this site were replaced with amazing stuff like this, the world would be a better place.

New comment by frakt0x90 in "Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent"

frakt0x90 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:47:57 +0000

I think this is true for many. Hence paid services that will keep track of subscriptions for you. I saw somewhere a proposal to force subscription services to refund you if you didn't interact with it at all during the payment period. That seems reasonable. If it's only profitable through people's inattention, it's a leech and shouldn't exist.

New comment by frakt0x90 in "Personal Encyclopedias"

frakt0x90 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:14:03 +0000

I agree. When my mother died I got access to her emails, diaries etc. I read some and as you would expect there are a whole range of emotions and opinions in there, many of which I did not care to engage with. So I asked my wife to read some and she said said she thought it was worth keeping so we do. I will not read it, but perhaps someone else will get some value from it someday. It's no effort to keep (no boxes or terabytes of data).

New comment by frakt0x90 in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

frakt0x90 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:48:44 +0000

They explicitly stated this as a reason during their last layoff cycle.

New comment by frakt0x90 in "Flash-KMeans: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact K-Means"

frakt0x90 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:04:28 +0000

They created this in service of their video generation model which "clusters and reorders tokens based on semantic similarity using k-means.":

http://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.18875

New comment by frakt0x90 in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

frakt0x90 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:53:51 +0000

Balatro was made in Love2d which is Lua!

New comment by frakt0x90 in "Claude helped select targets for Iran strikes, possibly including school"

frakt0x90 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:34:42 +0000

It's a funny way of imposing a very large fine. Make the service only available during predefined "visitation hours", prevent updated learning except from resources available in the prison, restrict speech and actions according to prison rules etc.

New comment by frakt0x90 in "We should revisit literate programming in the agent era"

frakt0x90 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:13:33 +0000

Maybe for literate programming, we can switch from common, ambiguous human languages like English and Spanish to [Lojban](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban)! That way our human language will be unambiguous which will translate to machine code much better. We'll call this the de facto "language for programming". Improvements and other variants may pop up in the future as new needs arise. All that is old is new again.

New comment by frakt0x90 in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

frakt0x90 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:36:33 +0000

For me, Fastmail has been incredible.

New comment by frakt0x90 in "The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala"

frakt0x90 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:39:05 +0000

This is exactly what turned me off. It supports so many paradigms that every line of code I wrote I had to sit and think if I was doing it the "right" way and it was miserable.

New comment by frakt0x90 in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

frakt0x90 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:05:16 +0000

Whenever I see defences of AI "art" people very often reduce the arguments to these analogies of using tools, but it's ineffective. Whether you use MS Paint, Photoshop, pencil, watercolor etc. That all requires skill, practice, and is this great intersection of intent and ability. It's authentic. Generating media with AI requires no skill, no intent, and very minimal labor. It is an approximation of the words you typed in and reduces you to a commissioner. You created nothing. You commissioned a work from a machine and are claiming creative authorship.

New comment by frakt0x90 in "Open-source Zig book"

frakt0x90 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:49:09 +0000

I imagine a lot of people didn't even click. They see free Zig materials and upvote.

New comment by frakt0x90 in "Are We Doomed?"

frakt0x90 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:26:00 +0000

This is just not interesting. A dictator can force people to do things.

New comment by frakt0x90 in "California law forces Netflix, Hulu to turn down ad volumes"

frakt0x90 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:56:44 +0000

And everyone else.