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New comment by x0n in "Libghostty is coming"

x0n — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:58:12 +0000

problem: we have ten different VT terminal parsers

solution: write a new VT terminal parser to replace the other ten

result: we have eleven different VT terminal parsers

New comment by x0n in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

x0n — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 16:40:50 +0000

silk road was on the dark web, a place that is oriented 100% around anonymity. This precludes any sort of "elimination of fraudulent reviews" since there's no reasonable way to build any sort of chain of trust.

New comment by x0n in "A minimax chess engine in regular expressions"

x0n — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:01:21 +0000

Apparently it's more of a 1.75ply search according to the author :)

Try: c4, Qa4, Qxa5, Qc7, Qxc8# lol

New comment by x0n in "A minimax chess engine in regular expressions"

x0n — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:49:05 +0000

Oh no dude, it's worse than that: c4, Qa4, Qxa5, Qc7, Qxc8# lol

New comment by x0n in "A minimax chess engine in regular expressions"

x0n — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:48:11 +0000

c4, Qa4, Qxa5, Qc7, Qxc8# lol

New comment by x0n in "Show HN: Rebels in the sky – Terminal game about space pirates"

x0n — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:18:15 +0000

blockchain is too slow and completely inappropriate.

New comment by x0n in "Show HN: Rebels in the sky – Terminal game about space pirates"

x0n — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:16:36 +0000

So much fun! Works fine on windows terminal too! mouse, keyb, colours -- all good.

New comment by x0n in "Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser"

x0n — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:14:36 +0000

There's no compilation (yet?) -- the code is interpreted, so runtime only.

New comment by x0n in "21.2× faster than llama.cpp? plus 40% memory usage reduction"

x0n — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:27:50 +0000

The hyperbollocks marketingspeak in the summary paragraph put me off:

"The key insight of PowerInfer-2 is to utilize the heterogeneous computation, memory, and I/O resources in smartphones by decomposing traditional matrix computations into fine-grained neuron cluster computations. Specifically, PowerInfer-2 features a polymorphic neuron engine that adapts computational strategies for various stages of LLM inference. Additionally, it introduces segmented neuron caching and fine-grained neuron-cluster-level pipelining, which effectively minimize and conceal the overhead caused by I/O operations."

Ahem, what? Let's overload a biological construct "neuron" to imbue it with magical technopowers and then derive the rest of our BS from this. No sale.

New comment by x0n in "Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]"

x0n — Tue, 14 May 2024 16:25:47 +0000

And there's the rub: it's always about the beauty.

New comment by x0n in "Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]"

x0n — Tue, 14 May 2024 16:22:59 +0000

It's important to remember though that these words, i.e. "virtual particles" are just words used to convey a-priori what are purely mathematical constructs. It in no way is declaring that such things are tangible instances (e.g. detectable in a cloud chamber or through other empirical means.)

New comment by x0n in "Asynchronous Programming in C#"

x0n — Wed, 01 May 2024 17:52:38 +0000

I don't think that's a complete view as nuget started on codeplex (!) and I think the commit history wasn't imported fully (mine is missing)

New comment by x0n in "Asynchronous Programming in C#"

x0n — Wed, 01 May 2024 17:51:09 +0000

Weren't we working Codeplex at the time too? So I'm not convinced that the history is all there in github.

Oisin

New comment by x0n in "New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser"

x0n — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 14:28:55 +0000

Firefox can easily open the defaultapps dialog and prompt the user with some text what to do. This is a nothingburger. There is no conspiracy.

Try it yourself: start, run... ms-settings:defaultapps

New comment by x0n in "New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser"

x0n — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 14:25:47 +0000

They haven't stopped users from changing their default browser by the proper explicit mechanism in Windows (default applications.) They've stopped shitferret malware from switching it, or yes, other browsers. If I want to change my browser, I'll do it myself.

New comment by x0n in "Could the cosmos, in fact, be conscious?"

x0n — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:00:01 +0000

The scourge of "intelligent design" comes in many forms.

New comment by x0n in "Turn your picture into a Lego character"

x0n — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:33:53 +0000

Hmm, yandex.ru backend? No likey.

New comment by x0n in "Touch Pianist"

x0n — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 13:36:24 +0000

You is doing it wrong. This game is not about chords, it's about tempo.

New comment by x0n in "Clone-a-Lisa"

x0n — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 22:15:48 +0000

Hilarious way to spend 15 mins. Thanks!

New comment by x0n in "Samsung's response on 'moonshot' controversy"

x0n — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 18:31:32 +0000

This is a total non-answer. Nothing but technojargon and babble for baffling the average consumer. They fall short of admitting that yes, they effectively replace images with "enhancements" that are sourced from their ML models in some cases - they prefer to talk about how they merge multiple frames - taken by you - with AI Magic (tm).