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New comment by kittoes in "When random is not actually random enough"

kittoes — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:05:42 +0000

That chance is strictly zero though. While it's theoretically possible for the loop to never terminate, such an event is basically never going to happen in any real world scenario.

New comment by kittoes in "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"

kittoes — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:18:30 +0000

Bingo. I feel like any of the commentary around the safety of nuclear ANYTHING completely forgets history. Looking at you Radithor...

New comment by kittoes in "ChatGPT Pro 500"

kittoes — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:57:25 +0000

Fair, I'm personally using it to play with the toy game engine project that I've been messing around with over the past 15+ years.

https://github.com/ByteTerrace/Puck

It was originally a small project in scope, just a basic GameBoy emulator, a shader VM, and some Azure integrations. Just a bunch of things I wanted to dabble with in order to learn and have fun. Over the past few months it has grown immensely into something resembling an operating system more than a toy engine. There's even a custom DSL for authoring worlds that abstracts over the state/rendering models; it's completely ridiculous!

Will I make any money off the thing? Probably not, don't care. The things I've learned along the way have been worth way more than the amount of money I burned on a few monthly subscriptions. Learning how to interact with agents and treat them like a team was worth it alone; the product I have now is simply a nice bonus.

New comment by kittoes in "ChatGPT Pro 500"

kittoes — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:39:31 +0000

Would you ask the same thing if they happened to employ a single quality software developer? Can you imagine paying said developer 12k a year and expect them to deliver? How about a personal tutor who you have access to 24/?

I've been dropping the equivalent of a car payment for three months and it's been worth every single penny; even if I never actually sell a product.

New comment by kittoes in "ChatGPT Pro 500"

kittoes — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:44:13 +0000

https://github.com/ByteTerrace/Puck

Scope creep? When you give a mouse a cookie and all that...

New comment by kittoes in "ChatGPT Pro 500"

kittoes — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:24:07 +0000

Can you please explain to me how the announcement is anything but a negative? Especially for such power users. That same 200$ plan now allows for half the usage it did when I subscribed a couple weeks ago. Tibo and co can dress this pig up however they want, it's still less usage than I bargained for.

New comment by kittoes in "Java 27"

kittoes — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:42:45 +0000

Interesting take, how is optional functionality annoying? Isn't the fact that it's just sugar a huge benefit? Us old timers can simply stick to what we're familiar with.

New comment by kittoes in "People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination"

kittoes — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:57:08 +0000

I literally could not tell you what my own wife or children's faces look like from memory. The feeling of sandpaper, I can basically relive it 1:1. Same with music, I can all but hear it. So there does seem to be quite the spectrum, even if it's all imaginary.

New comment by kittoes in "StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter"

kittoes — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:15:23 +0000

Did you catch that we can't LAN with it? Might seem small, but that's how some of us still choose to play. Being able to host on our own terms is kind of the main reason we still play the ancient versions...

New comment by kittoes in "Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide"

kittoes — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:03:35 +0000

That's the fourth amendment, not the second, so it's quite the leap to go from "I have the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures" to "I have the right to personally bear arms against the government to protect my property.".

And yes, I'm absolutely certain. Go ahead and test your theory against the American government and I'll wait to see you on the news.

New comment by kittoes in "Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide"

kittoes — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:02:00 +0000

You know, the human beings eligible to join the previously mentioned militia. The idea wasn't "everyone has the right to openly carry", the way it has been perverted recently, it was that you were individually responsible for the acquisition and maintenance of your own armaments. The militia act of 1792 was passed almost immediately after the second amendment was ratified, codifying what I just claimed.

New comment by kittoes in "Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide"

kittoes — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:35:55 +0000

A fairy tale? The UK, Australia, and Brazil all have something to say about that claim. In developed countries, the United States is an extreme outlier so why pretend this is a completely unapproachable problem?

Our constitution itself gives us a blueprint because it states, in no uncertain terms, a "well-regulated militia"; not "each individual citizen".

New comment by kittoes in "Woman Pulled over at Gunpoint Twice After Flock Camera Glitch"

kittoes — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:16:39 +0000

Yeah, so you fit in exactly the category I described. Assuming a better system then almost no one would argue against it, but our system is so tragically flawed that many conclude we don't need a justice system at all.

New comment by kittoes in "Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide"

kittoes — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:14:21 +0000

Why does this always have to be binary when any amount of gun control is suggested? It's simple math: if me didn't manufacture so many guns and didn't make them so readily available then there will inherently be less danger... this isn't even debatable!

New comment by kittoes in "Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide"

kittoes — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:08:49 +0000

Virtually everyone is, including those who oversimplify and go too far with words like "abolish". The problem we have right now is that "successful policing" is currently defined in such a way that there's almost zero accountability for those who enforce the law.

New comment by kittoes in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

kittoes — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:18:38 +0000

https://blob.byteterrace.com/public/bds-theorem.html

I have no affiliation whatsoever with any AI company, nor any formal education outside high school, for what it's worth. Simply being curious and persistent can get you quite far in my anecdotal experience.

New comment by kittoes in "All major LLMs are lib-left. Even Grok, half the time"

kittoes — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:32:12 +0000

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for taking advantage of AIs and would never begrudge their usage. The problem I have here is with the site calling itself unslop and the post claiming "I" everywhere. Claude didn't simply assist, it wrote almost the whole article as far as I can tell. The human in the loop even went out of their way to ensure that no emdashes leaked through...

Just feels very dishonest, ya know?

New comment by kittoes in "All major LLMs are lib-left. Even Grok, half the time"

kittoes — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:29:22 +0000

Is it truly bias though? As others have pointed out in the thread the list of things considered left right now are essentially arbitrary. "Woke" has been applied to basically anything and everything that a particular party disagrees with, so much so that it's effectively meaningless at this point.

New comment by kittoes in "All major LLMs are lib-left. Even Grok, half the time"

kittoes — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:24:09 +0000

It's a bit ironic that the site is called unslop while the post was clearly authored by Claude. All the claims about "so I did X" end up reading as quite disingenuous because there's absolutely no disclaimer whatsoever that an AI wrote the article.

New comment by kittoes in "GC and Exceptions in Wasmtime"

kittoes — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:37:00 +0000

I'm not familiar with the current spec and those posts are from 6/3 years ago, respectively. Do you happen to know if anything has changed since?