Hacker News: slabtickler

New comment by slabtickler in "Omarchy Is Not A Distro"

slabtickler — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:07:23 +0000

the DHH defense league is incapable of explaining why a collection of dotfiles needed sponsorship from CloudFlare as opposed to like... if anything relevant to your 'unixporn' interests, maybe the bougie tiling WM it uses instead?

it's not a crime to use someone else's config. i have before, saves time. but the ratio to overall work here to the attention this thing has received is strange. it reminds me a lot of 'linux youtubers' who review distros and 90% of what they talk about is the default WM. very much a skin-deep idea of what a linux distro is

New comment by slabtickler in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

slabtickler — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:41:51 +0000

putting aside the lack of quality of most LLM-written code (even the big scary tech demo-y stuff), there is more to life than this pragmatism of "value adds." you can just write code because you want to.

this sentiment is also very funny considering the subject matter is reimplementing coLinux, which no one uses anymore, except as a toy, for an operating system no one uses anymore, except as a toy.

New comment by slabtickler in "Santa Cruz restaurant changes logo after flurry of negative reviews for AI art"

slabtickler — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:33:18 +0000

all art has lineage, but all art is not simply reducible to mimicry. the act of creative endeavor is not to just be a parrot

New comment by slabtickler in "Santa Cruz restaurant changes logo after flurry of negative reviews for AI art"

slabtickler — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:30:36 +0000

coffee was mid. it's right next to pike place, you can get actually decent coffee down the street. not talking about starbucks either

New comment by slabtickler in "Santa Cruz restaurant changes logo after flurry of negative reviews for AI art"

slabtickler — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:50:41 +0000

a lot of people on here are going to instantly defend any AI use in spite of the specifics but the over-abundance of blatant diffusion model art in cost-cutting nowadays, in places where it isn’t even expected, is ridiculous. marketing is by no means the peak of artistic endeavor but genai logos for small business street taco vendors, coffee shops reek of laziness. never mind the inundation of places like Etsy and Redbubble where it is getting increasingly less possible to find stuff made with human intention. shades of the anti-materialism of the 90s: now consumer products are all just generated, never made.

there is this coffee shop in downtown Seattle, Artly coffee, that operates on this gimmick of serving robot-produced coffee. a 20 year old employee hangs in the back to essentially do nothing and sit on their phone. it is a silly experience worth trying once, but no more. Coffee by itself is already a cross section into the hyperindustrial production that has informed the trajectory of our lives since before being born, but i feel regardless there are such things that are a step too far

New comment by slabtickler in "Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey"

slabtickler — Fri, 01 May 2026 08:33:12 +0000

deanonymization via automated stylometry is not a new idea, e.g. from 2015:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...

New comment by slabtickler in "Every GPU That Mattered"

slabtickler — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:04:13 +0000

Fails to mention any TBDR-based GPU at all. Do PowerVR and Qualcomm not exist? Or hell, Apple?

New comment by slabtickler in "Support for the TSO memory model on Arm CPUs (2024)"

slabtickler — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 02:00:42 +0000

imo the fragmentation argument is very flaky. this is not like, e.g. the old ARM big endian mode which accidentally created a separate ISA for really dubious reasons. the only thing that really have a need for alternate store orders on ARM at this point are just (x86) emulators. This argument may have made more sense 10, 15 years ago but ARM has become so ubiquitous that the idea of “oh my port of this originally x86 userland software crashes on ARM due to a synchronization bug, better use this TSO thing as a get-out-of-jail-free card “ really doesn’t have much water to it now

New comment by slabtickler in "Support for the TSO memory model on Arm CPUs (2024)"

slabtickler — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 01:38:51 +0000

just speaking honestly i would not consider I$ snooping as part of the definition of TSO. it is part of the x86 memory model yes but “TSO” does not define the full story here

New comment by slabtickler in "ARM or x86? ISA Doesn’t Matter (2021)"

slabtickler — Mon, 15 May 2023 06:11:11 +0000

That was mostly IBM's doing and goes well beyond the purview of the ISA specifically. x86 doesn't really define that you "must use a BIOS/UEFI/etc." You can't boot, for instance, a standard copy Windows or Linux on a Sony PS4 (which is not actually a PC compatible, even though it almost seems like one) without ten billion asterisks and hacks.