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New comment by jack_pp in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

jack_pp — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:25:18 +0000

In the good old days of 2011 when I started to learn C++ "for real" I did it using learncpp.com, google and "support" from freenode's #c++ where truly masterful wizards would help me with the most inane questions. I don't think anything I've ever found has come close to freenode's level of "support".

In the old days where we didn't depend on services and everything was local even if you needed something truly arcane if you knew where to ask you could find a niche expert willing to help out or at least that's how I remember it. Nowadays if you have a problem with a service you literally are shit out of luck because there is absolutely NOTHING you can do about it, you can't debug it, you can't hack it, NOTHING.

New comment by jack_pp in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

jack_pp — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:11:49 +0000

In my case or a lot of people's cases.. I eat beans to save money and if I have to save money now.. months of adaptation isn't gonna cut it

New comment by jack_pp in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

jack_pp — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:07:05 +0000

well if your solution is to eat beans with 3/4 meals and I STILL need to social distance for a few months while I acclimate then that's not really the best solution now is it?

New comment by jack_pp in "DeepSeek v4"

jack_pp — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:11:31 +0000

Democracy in most of the countries is just theater. Trump promised no more wars iirc.

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather live in a country without a million cameras that automatically fine me for crossing the street illegally but I don't actually deceive myself in thinking my vote counts for much.

New comment by jack_pp in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

jack_pp — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:46:35 +0000

Same where I'm from, it's in pill / capsule form

New comment by jack_pp in "Codex Hacked a Samsung TV"

jack_pp — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:15:00 +0000

that could make a for a nice blog / gist

New comment by jack_pp in "White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets"

jack_pp — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:25:56 +0000

Arrogance / hubris. Some people even if they know it's rigged will believe they know which side the insiders are on

New comment by jack_pp in "Transformers Are Bayesian Networks"

jack_pp — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:31:11 +0000

I suspect it means it's LLM generated without it being checked

New comment by jack_pp in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

jack_pp — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:30:30 +0000

Maybe to get a real breakthrough we have to make programming languages / tools better suited for LLM strengths not fuss so much about making it write code we like. What we need is correct code not nice looking code.

New comment by jack_pp in "AI (2014)"

jack_pp — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:37:57 +0000

> Yes, everyone starts out creative.

Are there studies done on this or is this just wishful thinking?

New comment by jack_pp in "AI (2014)"

jack_pp — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:36:08 +0000

Sure and all the same, most people just don't have it.

New comment by jack_pp in "AI (2014)"

jack_pp — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:05:23 +0000

Well was Jobs a "doer"? Did he get his hands dirty on the code? Or did he use his employees how we would like to use LLMs?

New comment by jack_pp in "Drawvg Filter for FFmpeg"

jack_pp — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:59:40 +0000

They are not comparable, ffmpeg-python just abstracts away the CLI, pyav is a low level binding of the ffmpeg libs.

It may seem "dead" but ultimately it just helps you build CLI commands in a more sane way, the CLI interface to ffmpeg has been consistent for a long time. Only thing that may change is individual filters which you can just give raw to ffmpeg-python.

I remember when I was heavily using it last year I found a fork that seemingly had more sane typing or something but since LLMs last year didn't know about the newer lib but could write decent ffmpeg-python code I stuck with it and it did the job.

New comment by jack_pp in "Drawvg Filter for FFmpeg"

jack_pp — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:03:18 +0000

Maybe it helps to view ffmpeg as a DSL and the ugliness is caused by the CLI constraints / conventions.

For what it's worth, LLMs are a great tool for both composing and understanding ffmpeg commands.

And if you want something more verbose / easier to read you can use something like https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python (with LLMs) as well

New comment by jack_pp in "NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute"

jack_pp — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:43:36 +0000

And that same information contained in an LLM is a compression of how many terabytes of training data? Maybe in the future there will be models an order of magnitude smaller and still better performing.

What I'm saying is you can't judge the data in the genome by purely counting the bytes of data.

New comment by jack_pp in "How kernel anti-cheats work"

jack_pp — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 08:22:41 +0000

Streaming services already have a solution for environments where they can't run DRM - crap quality stream. My solution to their solution? torrents.

People can dual boot, what's wrong with a special gaming linux distribution?

New comment by jack_pp in "How kernel anti-cheats work"

jack_pp — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:54:24 +0000

again fighting against windmills, valve isn't even mentioned in the article. Valve's anti-cheat for CS2 is user-mode.

Do you have evidence valve is working to infect the linux kernel for everyone?

New comment by jack_pp in "How kernel anti-cheats work"

jack_pp — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:31:50 +0000

I'm sorry but you are fighting a crusade you can not win by definition. If I am free to use my computer for anything I want then I am also free to lock it down to enjoy my favorite game. If I care about my freedom I will have a dedicated machine for this game that I accept I will not have control over.

You are hijacking this thread about VOLUNTARY ceasing of freedom as if the small community even willing to install these is a slippery slope to something worse. You have a point when it comes to banking apps on rooted phones and I'm with you on that but this is not the thread for it

New comment by jack_pp in "How kernel anti-cheats work"

jack_pp — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:01:14 +0000

Or bad players might get owned by better ones, conclude the other guy was cheating and the only way to compete is for them to cheat as well.

Sort of like nuclear weapons

New comment by jack_pp in "How kernel anti-cheats work"

jack_pp — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:47:06 +0000

That is not the solution if you want to play competitively of whenever you feel like it.

Kernel level AC is a compromise for sure and it's the gamers job to assess if the game is worth the privacy risk but I'd say it's much more their right to take that risk than the cheaters right to ruin 9 other people's time for their own selfish amusement