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billyjobob commented on Claude can now create and edit files   anthropic.com/news/create... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
jimbo808 · 4 hours ago
I'd like to give these a try - what's your way of using them? I mostly use Claude because of Claude Code. Not sure what agentic coding tools people are using these days with OSS models. I'm not a big fan of manually uploading files into a web UI.
billyjobob · 4 hours ago
Both of those models have Anthropic API compatible endpoints, so you just set an environmental variable pointing to them before you run Claude Code.
billyjobob commented on Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor   breezepdf.com... · Posted by u/philjohnson
billyjobob · 4 months ago
Please don’t use the adjective “free” when describing proprietary software. We know you mean “free as in beer” but those outside our community may not and it may cause confusion over the meaning of free software.
billyjobob commented on Fully documented source code for Lander on the Acorn Archimedes   lander.bbcelite.com/... · Posted by u/ibobev
DrBazza · a year ago
To be honest, it wasn't easily playable on the Arch as Lander or Zarch.

Remarkable game for its time, as was the machine. It always felt like if Acorn had been based in the US, the world would be using Acorn machines. Instead, based out the UK it was hard to get economies of scale to mass produce and ship world wide.

billyjobob · a year ago
> if Acorn had been based in the US, the world would be using Acorn machines

Is not ARM (the Acorn Risc Machine) the most popular type of machine in the world currently?

billyjobob commented on Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable   matthewball.co/all/roblox... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
treyd · a year ago
I've had this half-idea for recreating something like Garry's Mod in Godot for a while now. It seems like something someone would have created by now but it doesn't exist yet for whatever reason.

Like, a framework for building first-person FPS-ish game modes and handling all the asset management, sync, etc, like GMod being built around Source does and just letting developers build the game modes without worrying about the annoying tricky stuff.

billyjobob · a year ago
billyjobob commented on KickC is a C-compiler for 6502-based platforms creating readable assembler code   gitlab.com/camelot/kickc... · Posted by u/muterad_murilax
WalterBright · a year ago
The way to do it is to make a C-like language that has types and operators that map easily onto the 6502 architecture.

After all, C was designed to map onto the PDP-11 architecture - things like postincrement.

billyjobob commented on Alan Turing died 70 years ago   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ala... · Posted by u/marvinborner
advael · a year ago
Yea apparently it was so important to the government of Britain to dictate which consenting adults can fuck each other that they would force hormones and essentially permanent probation on a literal world-changing scientist and undeniable war hero over it

I will never recognize a government's right to tell adults what they can do with their own bodies and other consenting adults, and it's insane that there are zero governments in the entire world that can uphold the basic principle of full bodily autonomy. Death to tyrants

billyjobob · a year ago
Turing's boyfriend was 19, therefore not an adult under UK law at the time.
billyjobob commented on Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4   blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/c... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
PinguTS · a year ago
> However http://example.com cannot use CNAME because it is an apex record [snip]. And this caused many websites to occupy an IP address unnecessarily.

That's not true. I have an server with a single IP and a number of Domains that are served from that single IP like http(s)://example.com http(s)://example.org http(s)://example.de

All of those delivery completely different websites from that single domain. You are mixing up two tings: DNS with HTTP(s). In DNS its right but for HTTP(s) it doesn't matter.

billyjobob · a year ago
Of course you can have multiple apex A records that point to the same IP address. We are talking about CNAME records here. Are your sites using CNAME records or A records?

Even if you are using CNAMEs, that's only been possible recently due to hacks/workarounds, as bonzini said.

billyjobob commented on Doom didn't kill the Amiga. Wolfenstein 3D did [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=wsADJ... · Posted by u/mariuz
tverbeure · a year ago
I had a C128 in 1986, but I don’t see how it was superior to any PC. The 8086 was faster, it had more memory, it had more expansion slots, and of course there was way more software if you exclude gaming.

In 1988, I had saved up for an Amiga, but my father offered to match what I had saved for a hard drive if I bought a PC instead.

billyjobob · a year ago
Like most kids in the 80s I would never “exclude gaming” from my evaluation.

The PC was 15x as expensive as the C128 and still wasn’t any good for gaming. While C128 had the entire C64 games library available!

It also had the CP/M software library and could run productivity software in 80 columns. Yes CP/M software wasn’t as good as DOS software, yes your spreadsheets didn’t calculate as quickly, but for a couple of years the C128 was the best option, until the Amiga came along.

The Amiga was certainly the best option in 1988. Arguably it was the best until about 1995.

billyjobob commented on Doom didn't kill the Amiga. Wolfenstein 3D did [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=wsADJ... · Posted by u/mariuz
wccrawford · a year ago
That's correct in the short term, but my parents were focused on the long-term and that the computer was an investment for my future, rather than a tool/toy for a present.

It wasn't long before I admitted how correct they were.

billyjobob · a year ago
Apparently a typical PC is 1985 cost upwards of $5000. The C128 was $299. So for rich people yes it may have made sense to pay a 15x premium to get hold of tech “from the future, today”. But you could have easily had both. And for a child, both machines would be entirely obsolete by the time the child grew up and entered the workforce, so I would question how much advantage you were really buying.

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