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New comment by knowknow in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

knowknow — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:20:43 +0000

Not only that but compiler optimizations are generally based on rigorous mathematical proofs, so that even without testing them you can be pretty sure it will generate equivalent assembly. From the little I know of LLM's, I'm pretty sure no one has figured out what mathematical principles LLM's are generating code from so you cant be sure its going to right aside from testing it.

New comment by knowknow in "Ghostty is now non-profit"

knowknow — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:48:21 +0000

Keep in mind that Linux doesn’t use the GPL3 and stuck with the GPL2 since the maintainers and Linus Torvalds thought that it was overly restrictive [1]. So at some point the license friction becomes too large to be practical for organizations to use or contribute to.

[1] https://youtu.be/PaKIZ7gJlRU

New comment by knowknow in "A Love Letter to FreeBSD"

knowknow — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:20:13 +0000

It seems FreeBSD is becoming more talked about in enthusiast communities simply because Linux is a lot more mainstream now and there’s a joy in contrarianism rather than any real changes with either of the two operating systems.

New comment by knowknow in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

knowknow — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 01:33:35 +0000

You do realize that there are ways to avoid nuclear proliferation without war? The US had a deal with Iran and multiple other countries that made them limit their nuclear capabilities, but the US withdrew from it in 2018.

New comment by knowknow in "National Archives Releases Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Records"

knowknow — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 01:04:09 +0000

It’s amazing how something that has not resulted in any concrete examples or real world implications can cause such a hysteria for decades.

New comment by knowknow in "Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative"

knowknow — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:30:12 +0000

What’s wrong with Spotify?

New comment by knowknow in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

knowknow — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:15:41 +0000

Is it considered part of it? From my understanding, the culture has changed significantly and post get auto deleted eventually, so it’s not a good archive either. The only thing old about it is it’s web design

New comment by knowknow in "Usability Improvements in GCC 15"

knowknow — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:05:48 +0000

Kind like how GPL 3 makes it infeasible for most companies to use/support free software. At least Stallman gets to feel morally superior though

New comment by knowknow in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

knowknow — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:22:58 +0000

> The financial incentives to create addictive digital content would instantly disappear, and so would the mechanisms that allow both commercial and political actors to create personalized, reality-distorting bubbles.

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> But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence. Word-of-mouth and community networks worked just fine. First-party websites and online communities would now improve on that.

Humanity had hatred and insular bubbles a millennia ago just fine without advertisements. There was genocides and wars before the current form of ads ever emerged. It's a shame that so many people think that changing a financial policy is all that is needed to change an ingrained human behavior.

New comment by knowknow in "Everything is Ghibli"

knowknow — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:34:46 +0000

It’s not, the quote in question was from a completely different AI demo which the author mischaracterizes.

the quote in context - https://youtu.be/ngZ0K3lWKRc?si=gw-_z17n_XWfqzcQ

New comment by knowknow in "Everything is Ghibli"

knowknow — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:06:03 +0000

I wonder how Hideo Miyazaki feels about this, the fact that machines are able to recreate his style seems to go against the whimsy he creates in his art. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a possible lawsuit considering how strongly that style is tied to him, and that the model surely used his films as data.

If it was me I would feel horrible that what I gave to the public and dedicated my life to was contorted in this manner.

New comment by knowknow in "Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water"

knowknow — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 06:59:23 +0000

I feel like we are so privileged in the US that there’s little to no personal consequences for being so wrong about a topic. Eventually there’s needs to be a correction, whether it’s because we regain our senses or we stray so far that the majority of people start to be majorly affected. I’m fearing it’s the latter.

New comment by knowknow in "Veloren – voxel action-adventure role-playing"

knowknow — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 20:17:49 +0000

I feel like there’s this assumption from Rust enthusiasts that Rust will supersede all other languages and tools. While it’s cool that these things are being done, it’s not enough to show that it will become a major game programming language. Especially due to how mature and sophisticated other tools are in comparison to the Rust tools.

New comment by knowknow in "Show HN: Physical Pomodoro Timer with ESP32 and e-paper screen"

knowknow — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 15:40:32 +0000

Cool project! I would recommend checking out the LVGL library [0], it’s an embedded graphics library to create UIs. It’s pretty simply to use and feels a bit like html. It’s a little bit harder to set up hardware communication, but once it’s set up, it streamlines making the UI and responding to input immensely.

[0] - https://github.com/lvgl/lvgl

New comment by knowknow in "[dead]"

knowknow — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:54:30 +0000

> The 22 cases include Chicago resident Julio Noriega, 54, a U.S. citizen who, according to court documents, was arrested, handcuffed and spent most of the night at an ICE processing center in suburban Broadview. He was never questioned about his citizenship and was only released after agents looked at his ID.

It’s only going to get worse and more normalized. This isn’t a mistake either, there’s a reason why this administration is trying to end birthright citizenship [0]

[0] - https://apnews.com/article/trump-birthright-citizenship-nati...

New comment by knowknow in "Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi"

knowknow — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 01:29:00 +0000

Interesting that TikTok is the 3rd highest on the block list (considering Pinterest links as one). I wonder why since it’s not often that I get it as a search result on Google . Is TikTok showing up as a result common on kagi or is TikTok just that bad?

New comment by knowknow in "Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo"

knowknow — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:05:27 +0000

The comment is saying that liberal politicians should be

>prioritizing housing, infrastructure and government services supporting people's economic activity of all kinds.

Nothing about what you mentioned at all. Nor did I ever claim Kamala ran on what you said. The fact that you and the commenter have different ideas of what rational policies are and assume politicians should be running on that platform is part of the bias. You assume that most people want the same thing as you but most people don’t. The majority actually enjoy social issues.

New comment by knowknow in "Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo"

knowknow — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:53:46 +0000

It’s amazing that this gets upvoted while it is completely uninformed about what liberal politicians actually run on. This is what the Kamala campaign ran on, it didn’t work. People love getting tangled on social issues as it’s the most provocative. This conception that most people actually care about rational policies is false and has been false for at least the past decade.

New comment by knowknow in "AMC Theatres will screen a Swedish movie 'visually dubbed' with the help of AI"

knowknow — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 21:19:54 +0000

Why is Firefox considered bad now? Is Mozilla any worse than Google?

New comment by knowknow in "The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards"

knowknow — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 04:21:41 +0000

This article isn’t compelling at all. Most standards aren’t even “open”, you need to pay thousands of dollars to access most of the ISO standards for instance. It also ignores that companies may be choosing standards as they know interoperability typically increases productivity and adoption, which can be profitable.

For example, you can be cynical and reason that Microsoft created the Language Server Protocol to keep people on VSCode as it expands the languages it can support, reducing people switching to other IDEs for a specific language. The fact that it helps other text editors is just a byproduct.