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New comment by gavmor in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

gavmor — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:04:00 +0000

The cold takes themselves are a fantastic proof of the care and attention the devs put into this game, as well as the depths of their design philosophy.

New comment by gavmor in "Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction (2016)"

gavmor — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:38:02 +0000

> Almost nobody optimizes compiled assembly code.

Compiled assembly code is not an input to the next compilation; source code is an input to the LLM's next inference.

Sure, maybe "prompts are the code," but you must realize that code is also the prompt.

New comment by gavmor in "Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction (2016)"

gavmor — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:51:47 +0000

Well sooner or later I would expect a developer who intimately understands their code base to feel compelled to start refactoring and extracting fitting, meaningful well-leveraged abstractions.

New comment by gavmor in "Cirrus: ATProto Personal Data Server That Runs on Cloudflare Workers"

gavmor — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:07:17 +0000

Migrating to a workerd container is an option.

New comment by gavmor in "Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets"

gavmor — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:59:29 +0000

What's the data doing that's so sluggish? Is it being correlated/transformed, or is it just so many points of light are blocking each frame?

New comment by gavmor in "Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets"

gavmor — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:20:19 +0000

I wonder if Mollweide or Atlantis projections wouldn't be more performant?

New comment by gavmor in "But yak shaving is fun (2019)"

gavmor — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:58:24 +0000

Riding horseback saves time over walking but it's harder to smell the roses along the way. Nevertheless, millions now ride horses recreationally.

New comment by gavmor in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

gavmor — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:25:03 +0000

Who gets a sense of accomplishment from cheering for their home team?

New comment by gavmor in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

gavmor — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:13:33 +0000

The overall system that allowed this implementation is accountable. So why put such a fine point on it so as to exculpate the LLM?

New comment by gavmor in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

gavmor — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:24:51 +0000

> He was the perfect protagonist for a teenage boy: a coward, an underachiever, technically a wizard but only on a technicality, and frequently the most powerful spell in the universe was lodged in his head against his will. This will be familiar to anyone who has been sixteen.

s/frequently/initially

Also, how is a cowardly underachiever "the perfect protagonist for a teenage boy"?

"technically a wizard but only on a technicality" is obviously redundant

And what part of any of this is supposed to be familiar?

It's just a strange essay.

New comment by gavmor in "Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card"

gavmor — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:05:55 +0000

That's sorta how Agent of Empires and also Zed seem to operate—worktrees as a first class aspect of the workflow.

New comment by gavmor in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

gavmor — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:12:49 +0000

Give credit where credit is due: Descartes, Kant, Putnam, etc.

New comment by gavmor in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

gavmor — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:10:55 +0000

That’s somewhat overstated.

We know anesthesia "works," and we know some of its molecular targets, but we do not fully know the mechanism by which it produces unconsciousness, ie whether anesthesia eliminates experience, or mainly blocks memory, report, and integrated neural processing.

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

gavmor — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:10:48 +0000

Yeah, that's a scary way to lose 20 minutes...

New comment by gavmor in "Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy"

gavmor — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:44:15 +0000

Yeah, I suspect we're mostly quite wasteful of energy.

New comment by gavmor in "Learning Software Architecture"

gavmor — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:58:53 +0000

I wonder if they don't mean "between systems".

New comment by gavmor in "Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics"

gavmor — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:10:02 +0000

The terminal is keystroke-driven. It's character-selectable. It's reliable in a way that the GUI is not. When I drop frames, I can still enter the commands to rescue myself with some assurance they'll be interpreted, eventually.

I agree, a REPL isn't Unixy in the streams of text kind of way... or is it?

New comment by gavmor in "Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics"

gavmor — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:06:56 +0000

People use their tokens, and then complain of limits. Where's the incongruity?

New comment by gavmor in "ZAYA1-8B matches DeepSeek-R1 on math with less than 1B active parameters"

gavmor — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:04:01 +0000

Something promising I found is "DFlash DDtree Qwen3.5 & Qwen3.6 27B GGUF on RTX 3090" - https://github.com/Luce-Org/lucebox-hub

Didn't know 3.6 was available on Ollama outside of MacOS!

New comment by gavmor in "Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text"

gavmor — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:16:58 +0000

Something like a textual steganography?

Ursula K. Le Guin: 'The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words.'