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Dissociation Isn't Always a Trauma Response

thebeardisred — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:59:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-neurodivergent-psychologist/202608/dissociation-isnt-always-a-trauma-response

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49518138

Points: 10

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Sampling hard [quantum] circuits with verifiably high fidelity

thebeardisred — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:24:21 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25941

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507059

Points: 2

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4K Video Feedback Fractal Device, Fractals Without a Computer

thebeardisred — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:41:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XjQ10ph4yo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49474779

Points: 1

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New comment by thebeardisred in "Perplexity Portable Computer"

thebeardisred — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:32:35 +0000

So, what's the "luggable" version of this?

New comment by thebeardisred in "OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell"

thebeardisred — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:16:24 +0000

All of these words spilled and no mention of the ISA.

New comment by thebeardisred in "Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]"

thebeardisred — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:48:01 +0000

Thanks @CliffStoll for the wonderful talk.

New comment by thebeardisred in "RSI Simulator"

thebeardisred — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:40:05 +0000

I see you didn't play the game. It's a constant series of clicking in one of a very few points on the screen.

New comment by thebeardisred in "llama.cpp"

thebeardisred — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:28:18 +0000

Package management provides cryptographic attestation over the entire process, including the scripts run. Nothing is arbitrary nor mutable in the default state. The files touched will be in a predictable place and the scope of privilege escalation is clearly defined.

New comment by thebeardisred in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

thebeardisred — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:15:07 +0000

The field demo I want to see, Human in the loop to failure switch over: Simulated failure of some form, where (for safety reasons) crew triggers ejection. This defaults the system to autonomous mode and the plane performs a safe landing.

New comment by thebeardisred in "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"

thebeardisred — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:37:23 +0000

Yes… Ha ha ha… YES!

New comment by thebeardisred in "You Don't Own Your .io or .ai. You Rent a Country's Politics"

thebeardisred — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:59:58 +0000

This was why, despite quite a few of us enjoying the gag, we gave up the domain `libcore.so` at CoreOS many, many years ago. Too much of a supply chain risk.

New comment by thebeardisred in "Rob Pike – 'Concurrency Is Not Parallelism' [video] (2012)"

thebeardisred — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:49:44 +0000

Slides - https://go.dev/talks/2012/waza.slide

New comment by thebeardisred in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

thebeardisred — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:41:52 +0000

What is this providing over similarly Markdown based open source note taking applications like Joplin? (https://joplinapp.org/)

I've been a huge fan of the fact that my backend sync infrastructure is my own self-hosted S3 bucket with local clients handling the presentation layer.

New comment by thebeardisred in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

thebeardisred — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:30:06 +0000

> Dopamine neurons respond not to rewards received but to the uncertainty of whether a reward will arrive: the more unpredictable the outcome, the stronger the signal.

This leads me to think about the idea of procrastination as a mechanism of gambling by the sub-conscious. A subversive way of "raising the stakes on the game" in an attempt to "make things a little bit more interesting."

New comment by thebeardisred in "Dav2d"

thebeardisred — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:30:31 +0000

I've noticed that a number of comments seem to have missed the recursive naming pattern:

    Dav1d AV1 Decoder
    Dav2d AV2 Decoder

Just like "GNU's Not Unix"

LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor

thebeardisred — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:50:35 +0000

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/29/llm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959504

Points: 3

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New comment by thebeardisred in "Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds"

thebeardisred — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:54:36 +0000

I would frame this completely differently: plants evolved around sensing the low level vibration created by rain as a signaling technique for the timing of sprouting.

:shrug: Makes sense to me and doesn't try to turn this into some baffling mystery.

Ada's is Closing June 6th, 2026

thebeardisred — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:12:42 +0000

Article URL: https://adasbooks.com/adas-closing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909358

Points: 2

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New comment by thebeardisred in "Familiarity is the enemy: On why Enterprise systems have failed for 60 years"

thebeardisred — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:22:45 +0000

For anyone looking for the original - https://web.archive.org/web/20120504065429/http://michaeloch...

(it was easier for me to use in reader mode because it didn't obliterate spacing between words)

New comment by thebeardisred in "The Story of Mel (1983)"

thebeardisred — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:52:14 +0000

Personally, I like this accounting - https://melsloop.com/