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New comment by kurisufag in "Claude Shannon's randomness-guessing machine"

kurisufag — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 07:39:17 +0000

mildly related: when i want a single bit of entropy in my day-to-day without fooling myself, i think of a random long-ish word and decide based on the evenness of the number of letters. probably this isn't an unbiased oracle, but it's good enough when i don't have a coin handy and care about avoiding self-delusion more than fair odds.

New comment by kurisufag in "GitHub no longer uses Toasts"

kurisufag — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:14:39 +0000

it's a link. if your browser doesn't have some visual cue that a load is occuring (for me it's a favicon indicator and a visual loading bar) you're having a client issue.

>How does this make the accessibility problem any better?

it's not a UX decision to load slowly on poor uplinks (fwiw it's near-instant on my machine). obviously nobody would /choose/ to do that.

toasts, though, are a definitely conscious UX choice.

New comment by kurisufag in "GitHub no longer uses Toasts"

kurisufag — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:56:50 +0000

that's just an link. the only latency is your browser pulling the (admittedly, unnecessarily large) page -- would you prefer some static hydration garbage?

New comment by kurisufag in "How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise"

kurisufag — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:38:37 +0000

Presuming the kind of runaway superintelligence people usually discuss, the sort with agency, this just turns into a boxing problem.

Are we /confident/ a machine god with `curl` can't gain its own resilient foothold on the world?

New comment by kurisufag in "Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain"

kurisufag — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:54:17 +0000

sleep deprivation definitely reduces raw reasoning ability. in some cases, though (and this is true for getting buzzed as well) the trade-off is absolutely productive.

New comment by kurisufag in "Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain"

kurisufag — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:46:48 +0000

That's possible. It feels a lot like the placebo component in drinking: if you're free to ignore one of the few things you need to /live/, it should be much easier psychologically to be carefree (similar to "oh, haha, i'm drunk, might as well get wacky").

New comment by kurisufag in "How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise"

kurisufag — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:39:15 +0000

The moment properly self-improving AI (that doesn't run into some logistic upper bound of performance) is released, the economy breaks.

The AI, having theoretically the capacity to do anything better than everyone else, will not need support (in resources or otherwise) from any other business except perhaps once to kickstart its exponential growth. If it's guarded, every other company becomes instantly worthless on the long term, and if not anyone with a bootstrap-level of compute will be able to also, do anything ever on a long enough time frame.

It's not a race for ROI, it's to have your name go in the book as one of the guys that first obsoleted the relationship between effort, willpower, intelligence, etc. and the ability to bring arbitrary change to the world.

New comment by kurisufag in "Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain"

kurisufag — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:35:53 +0000

anecdotally, i never feel better than when i haven't slept. spent 8pm tuesday -- 8pm thursday this week awake nursing cheap energy drinks, and not only could i manage a higher-than-usual level of focus, i was genuinely content.

bombed a midterm halfway though, but at least i felt good about it.

New comment by kurisufag in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"

kurisufag — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 03:24:29 +0000

the reds did space much, much worse.

first satellite? all sputnik could do was beep, and it ran out of batteries in three weeks.

first animal? laika died.

first station? there were two attempts to crew it -- the first failed to dock and everyone on the second mission fucking died. the soyuz 11 crew remain the only human deaths in space.

first *naut? yuri gagarin didn't even have manual controls.

the n1 was catastrophic. need i go on?

New comment by kurisufag in "MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers"

kurisufag — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:35:02 +0000

all work and no play makes jack a dull boy. having a little fun spurs good work and vice versa.

4get needs your help [searching Google]!

kurisufag — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 20:10:17 +0000

Article URL: https://4get.ca/help-me.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45520065

Points: 30

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New comment by kurisufag in "Why our website looks like an operating system"

kurisufag — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 02:07:32 +0000

tmux (and screen) are incredible assets for remote sessions, both for continuity across dropped shells and multi-shell activities when the connection process is tedious (multiple jumphosts, proxies, etc.)

New comment by kurisufag in "Our love letter to Internet Relay Chat [video]"

kurisufag — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 18:28:20 +0000

HISTSERV blows. keep chats ephemeral.

New comment by kurisufag in "X-Clacks-Overhead"

kurisufag — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 22:32:59 +0000

for a while I thought I might go to one of those uniquely nerdy colleges where they let you fuck around with dorm infrastructure.

i back-of-napkin'd a whole packet-over-laser relay system based conceptually on the clacks that'd give every room/station its own serial-interfacible (up|down) link. you could link buildings out of windows and stuff. horribly impractical and prohibitively expensive, but the kind of thing that could only happen in a university on-campus environment.

New comment by kurisufag in "xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app"

kurisufag — Wed, 28 May 2025 19:58:31 +0000

> This is not a sentence in English.

> I'll be here at day.

i hate to heckle, but... :)

New comment by kurisufag in "MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery"

kurisufag — Sat, 17 May 2025 01:26:52 +0000

fwiw i believe strongly that there would not still be a nitter without graf's work on it.

in the space of working on cool shit, he's good people. see: moldbug and urbit, for a similar case.

New comment by kurisufag in "From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you.""

kurisufag — Fri, 09 May 2025 00:59:51 +0000

pharmabro went to prison for sec fraud, not the daraprim hike

New comment by kurisufag in "Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs"

kurisufag — Tue, 06 May 2025 22:31:42 +0000

i added a minutely scrot cronjob about a year ago and haven't used it once. remembering "that website i was on last week" is apparently not a real problem I was having

New comment by kurisufag in "Path Isn't Real on Linux"

kurisufag — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 04:44:27 +0000

or with ipa-esque authentication schemes and shared mounts

New comment by kurisufag in "Sycophancy in GPT-4o"

kurisufag — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 04:32:18 +0000

>create a place truly free of AI for those who do not want to interact with it

the bar, probably -- by the time they cook up AI robot broads i'll probably be thinking of them as human anyway.