deusum's comments

deusum | 1 year ago | on: Algorithmic fitting of Japanese candy

This would be a fascinating Code Golf challenge.

deusum | 1 year ago | on: Space secrets leak disclosure

That $10k was probably the limit for their work, not someone else’s stolen time.

deusum | 1 year ago | on: Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license

Script kiddies bust their butts phishing and installing black market ransomware. This Whitney fellow is probably sitting in his office somewhere expecting people to just throw $100k (per month!) at him. ;-)

deusum | 1 year ago | on: Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)

I believe it's now well into the realm of genericization.[1] Xerox lost a major lawsuit relatedly, iirc.

[1] e.g, https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/15-product-trade...

deusum | 1 year ago | on: Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition

No one has pointed out that the AI companies are being sued for 'stealing' vast troves of copyrighted data, and the case is still in progress.

If the police departments are complicit, then does copyright stand to lose de facto as AI will only be increasingly implemented while the case slogs through the courts?

deusum | 1 year ago | on: Bing climbs to 13% of search engine market share in the US

My favorite part is when you search for a local file, but it fails because it can't connect to the internet.

deusum | 1 year ago | on: Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later

With AI we can expect full disinformation posts with supporting conversations.

deusum | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server

This would be good opportunity to test out BSDs or Illumos variants, as well.

deusum | 2 years ago | on: Antarctic English

At the Toys-R-Us in Antarctica, kids really don't grow up!

"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys-R-Us kid..."

deusum | 2 years ago | on: New jet engine enables efficiency at every speed for cheaper orbital launches

Thank you, that context was illuminating.

deusum | 2 years ago | on: Whole Earth Index

"Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1970 and 2002."

deusum | 2 years ago | on: Princess: Coding Like Royalty

Execute the function correctly, or the Princess will have you executed.

deusum | 2 years ago | on: VirtualBox KVM Public Release

Virt-Manager does allow you to edit the xml config file by hand from within the interface. So, yes you can use ipv6; but no, it's not a convenient point and click gui interaction.

I'd be curious to hear the specific reasoning behind it.

deusum | 2 years ago | on: A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)

Is it just me? His posts always begin with an interesting technical anecdote and then veer off into boring propaganda with sullies the reputability. It's an intellectual let-down.

deusum | 2 years ago | on: I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy

Being a pro means you can fix anything you break - preferably before anyone noticies

deusum | 2 years ago | on: How Gyms Make Money (2015)

AI can probably fix that in the near future.

deusum | 2 years ago | on: Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?

Qubes does allow creating a VM for just about any program or service. But, in my experience, it suffers from latency. So, while fine for web browsing, it wasn't too keen on playing videos. YMMV of course, but Adobe products are already hogs without the emu layer.

deusum | 2 years ago | on: Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)

We're still finding roman coins in the UK, that should be enough physical evidence against the idea. But, I imagine salt would be useful for bartering with some of the "barbari" the soldiers encountered.

deusum | 2 years ago | on: Video-Game Company Unity Closes Offices Following Death Threat

Nah, that sort of regulation hurts innovation. /ˢ

deusum | 2 years ago | on: Chrome: Heap buffer overflow in WebP

...a textbook oxymoron?