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elcritch

5,266 karmajoined 11 anni fa
https://github.com/elcritch/

I'm also on discord as `.elcritch` / elcritch#6389.

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Ask HN: Favorite aspects of Cocoa/NeXTSTEP for app dev?

6 points·by elcritch·20 giorni fa·0 comments

Building a BLE Sensor Scanner with Nim and BleuIO

bleuio.com
3 points·by elcritch·3 mesi fa·0 comments

Nimony v0.2 – early preview of Nim 3.0's compiler

nim-lang.github.io
19 points·by elcritch·8 mesi fa·1 comments

Tcpreplay – Modify and Replay Packet Captures Back into the Network

thegraynode.io
2 points·by elcritch·10 mesi fa·0 comments

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elcritch
·4 giorni fa·discuss
Yeah it's sorta of fascinating. Likewise now cells phones are faster than supercomputers from two decades ago and everyone can afford one. Meanwhile hardwood furniture is much more expensive now that it's usually in the "rich peoples" category.

From what I've read, the little plastic baubles part of buttons are cheap, it's the electrical wiring harnesses and assembly that are expensive part of physical controls.
elcritch
·5 giorni fa·discuss
Better robotic weeding drones using lasers or spray guns to kill weeds. We can still get high yields and cut back on weed killers and possibly pesticides if they can do pests too.
elcritch
·5 giorni fa·discuss
Great info, and seems less likely cash grab than some.

Still a scam can include other "deceptive schemes" – maybe he's just trying to get fame or plain old attention.
elcritch
·6 giorni fa·discuss
I meant rebuild civilization for myself, say lost in Alaska or something. Though maybe there's a market for tablets with all the youtube survivalist, building, and technology re-creation out there. ;)
elcritch
·7 giorni fa·discuss
With Starlink, a smartphone, and a solar charger I’d have access to enough YouTube videos to rebuild civilization. Literally.

There’s enough to go from building any type of housing to building your own steel forge. It’s amazing.
elcritch
·7 giorni fa·discuss
My generation would prepare in advance for outing. We’d print the route from MapQuest. ;)
elcritch
·7 giorni fa·discuss
Starlink is manufacturing the satellites at scale. They’re likely to cost not much differently from large ground based 5G towers at some point. The antennas are “digital” so no expensive mechanical systems needed.
elcritch
·8 giorni fa·discuss
> But the material is the same, and this notion that somehow, today's boys and young men are worse for this exposure than their predecessors is insidious and deeply ignorant.

No what's ignorant is ignoring the prevalence and nature of modern online pornography. Hopefully you realize that having the worst of what previous generations might've been exposed occassionally to by copying grainy VHS videos is literally a few clicks away now.

Much like social media it's pushed constantly onto them (well all us men). It's a giant predatory industry with a very addictive product.

It's not a reputation thing because it's about how destructive it is to society as a whole to both men and women. It's a very different sort of destructive behavior than previous generations might've had.

> hugely unjust to the overwhelming majority of young men who flinch from the idea of hurting a woman in bed or out of it

There's lots of great young guys out there. How about we not regress due by allowing new rampant destructive influences. That's my perspective.

We're seeing huge upticks in "incels" and "red-pilled" young men now. IMHO that's largely influenced by pervasive (mysoginist) pornography.

Even then, apparently young women don't agree with you as recent polls show young women don't view men favorably anymore [1]. So apparently something, or many things, are going wrong.

1: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/women-men-fe...
elcritch
·8 giorni fa·discuss
Well true, that's possible. The sensors and compute are relatively expensive and tractors are already highly automated. Plus a small tractor can be relatively inexpensive and optimized for the mechanics of the task!

I'm thinking more of the small tasks that are often needed. Mending fences. Pulling weeds. Feeding chickens. Running off coyotes. Lots of things.
elcritch
·8 giorni fa·discuss
Mock it we might now, but 12 acres and (not too distant future) open weights AI models capable of driving open source robots for farm labor would be huge.

No need for huge expensive purpose built tractors. Even if they’re slow you could have half a dozen running 24/7.

It could provide independence for anyone with a modicum of resources.
elcritch
·9 giorni fa·discuss
Perhaps try reading the report linked in the third paragraph of the news article?

It's at: https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/resource/pornograph...

To quote from that report:

A literature review of 19 academic papers, drawing on multiple methodologies since 2005, conducted by the Government Equalities Office (GEO) to assess the relationship between pornography exposure and negative behaviours towards women and girls found that pornography use had a statistically significant association with attitudes supporting violence against women (with violent pornography showing an even stronger association). [44] A meta-analysis of 9 studies found a significant association between pornography use among adult men and attitudes supporting violence against women, such as ‘rape myth acceptance’. [45] The association was found to be significantly stronger for violent pornography than non-violent pornography. Other studies involving young adults, including Peter and Valkenburg (2009) [46] and Hald et al. (2013), [47] have found that past pornography exposure among young males is significantly associated with less egalitarian and more aggressive attitudes towards women. This is particularly worrying when young people are being exposed to pornography.
elcritch
·9 giorni fa·discuss
I don't think it's a "reputation" issue, more of a what they're being exposed to and what it's normalizing. From studies I've seen it's a significant percentage (from a random Google search [1]):

The review talked to young people aged 13 to 19 and surveyed 1,000 young people aged 16 to 21. Over 6 in 10 (64%) said they had seen online pornography. Of these:

    1 in 10 (10%) of nine-year-olds had seen pornography
    3 in 10 (27%) of children had seen pornography by age 11
    Half (50%) of children had seen it by age 13
    4 in 5 (79%) had seen violent pornography before the age of 18, with the report stating “young people are frequently exposed to violent pornography, depicting coercive, degrading or pain-inducing sex acts”.
1: https://www.fpa.org.uk/rshe-for-teachers/uk-online-child-sex...
elcritch
·9 giorni fa·discuss
Practically speaking there's not much difference since there's a large amount of violent or extreme pornography which also teaches boys that directly or indirectly. It also teaches girls that it's "ok" cause they see it online.

There's many studies and organizations who publish warnings about violent pornography and young adults:

Dr Ruth Weir of City St George's, University of London, said extreme porn had been "normalised online" and was now "playing out in young people's relationships". [1]

1: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e82pwyg33o
elcritch
·9 giorni fa·discuss
How is that different than pervasive pornography though? Many young boys now think it’s normal to ask girls for sexual acts before having ever kissed a girl.
elcritch
·12 giorni fa·discuss
Not really, it was based on the belief of the ability and dignity of the individual.

My mind goes more to the Cultural Revolution in China where millions were killed or starved because a bunch of college students decided that the enemies were the “five black categories” who were enemies of “the people”.
elcritch
·13 giorni fa·discuss
It’s sad to me after reading stories like this how much Western societies have generally lost the pursuit of Bildung (wisdom, virtue) that shaped men like Wilhelm von Humboldt's.

I’ve come to firmly believe that a society which looses the pursuit of the noble in the individual in exchange for mere technological excellence will in the long run loose technical ability as well.

It’s not even about a religious ideals, but secular ones as well. Really any belief system that puts the onus on individuals to pursue nobleness, as opposed to the more empty “reforming society” or “fixing society” that universities in particular appear fixated on currently.

Reminds me of CS Lewis’ critiques our modern age in “Abolition of Man” who critiqued it very well.

Of course we see this tension of education of the individual vs mass indoctrination in most western public school systems. TFA was a good read, as I’d always assumed and read that universal education was created as just a tool for mass indoctrination for obedient workers.
elcritch
·19 giorni fa·discuss
It’s like a slice of the earlier web. Realized I haven’t seen a c|net logo around for a long time.
elcritch
·21 giorni fa·discuss
Unfortunately doesn’t answer the question “successful LLM project”.

From what I’ve seen of GitHub and AWS this year the answer is no. That’s despite me being bullish on LLMs and finding them highly productive.
elcritch
·25 giorni fa·discuss
It really doesn’t seem very hard to have a small invalidation list. Just a redis cache or a simple broadcaster, etc.

Does anyone have an example of how they built a JWT revocation service?
elcritch
·27 giorni fa·discuss
Yeah I’ve been using gpt-5.3-codex-spark in Codex lately and it can be surprisingly good and it’s super fast. However it needs more explicit instructions.