Hacker News: psjs

New comment by psjs in "Where the goblins came from"

psjs — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:39:57 +0000

Differs when I ran a local DeepSeek model.

You also get to see the tokens.

New comment by psjs in "Personal Computer by Perplexity"

psjs — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:12:53 +0000

Looks like Graebers bullshit jobs, right?

  1. https://davidgraeber.org/articles/on-the-phenomenon-of-bullshit-jobs-a-work-rant/
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
  3. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs

New comment by psjs in "A plastic made from milk that vanishes in 13 weeks"

psjs — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:46:39 +0000

Methane traps far more heat than CO2 before oxidizing back into it.

New comment by psjs in "GPT-5"

psjs — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 07:37:53 +0000

Modern WAIS-IV-type tests yield multiple factor scores: IQ is arguably non-scalar.

New comment by psjs in "The earliest versions of the first C compiler known to exist"

psjs — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 06:42:39 +0000

What features did BCPL have at that point that C didn’t have (and stil does not)?

New comment by psjs in "Making the Web Boring Again"

psjs — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 11:24:19 +0000

Do you have a link to that podcast?

New comment by psjs in "COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it"

psjs — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 22:57:56 +0000

“laf” or “lag”?

New comment by psjs in "The new Windows update made me think I'd installed malware"

psjs — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 22:11:18 +0000

1. Couldn't even get to try TES III Morrowind working properly on Win10, worked flawlessly on Linux + Proton.

New comment by psjs in "The new Windows update made me think I'd installed malware"

psjs — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 22:07:49 +0000

As Zizek would say, you have to be most wary when the ideological subjects start saying they are acting without ideology.

New comment by psjs in "Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too"

psjs — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 21:04:59 +0000

Won’t that degenerate the battery at a much quicker rate?