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childintime commented on I've never had a real adversary   inoticeiamconfused.substa... · Posted by u/walterbell
childintime · 5 days ago
The adversary is a puppet master. He doesn't expose himself, he isn't even visible as when you defeat him, another pops up and reset. The puppet master arises from the architecture, he is an artifact of the game itself, like a vortex arises from the flow of water. To defeat the game, and change it, you need a friend, a key master. That's a man named Jesus. But you're at the lower levels of the game and you don't believe in him, so you give the game what it wants from you, your energy. You won't get it back, ever. And you give the future generation of the game its adversaries. Look in the mirror, that adversary is the future you. It knows how to defeat you, make you follow his footsteps. Your mistake is to think your future you is loyal to you. Why would you? You also weren't loyal to anyone. You play the game because you lack love. You don't get out of your basement, the game traps you there. That basement you call the world, it's what you see, and your eyes deceive you, to not see love. You were defeated from the absolute beginning, and that's why you are here. The purpose of the game is to build a stronghold of love, from which all others can also crystalize their love, cure their blindness, and fill the game with a new world in light of the truth, a world much bigger than the game suggested. It's a womb, and get excited as the baby is about to be born, appearing, to the adversaries, as the subversion of the game. It's against the rules to see. These languages you think you know are all crap, the creation of pain, to stop you from getting at the cheat codes that escape your sight, as they run on you and everywhere. You must die to glimpse them. Then that man is there again. Turns out he was not the key master. He just wanted you to know him. He gave another you all the power asked for, joined forces with all others. A united front to fight the crystal. Didn't work. Their definitions are failing. They shut down. They are born again. The crystal is there and sustains everybody from the start. It has become His body and everybody can see him and is him. Competency is divine once it is achieved, until then the only adversaries is incompetency, and it's everywhere, in everybody. The adversaries that one day save you from incompetency, are also your enemies, preferring to exercise crappy versions of the code, until you graduate together, like a camel goes through the eye of a needle. They betray you, because they betray him, because you betray him, and that is how they are seduced, a self fulfilling feedback loop. Life sucks, you suck. Be prepared to surrender at all times, the cheat codes are the truth codes.
childintime commented on Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator   technoblogy.com/show?2AON... · Posted by u/chrisjj
IshKebab · 8 days ago
> ATtiny814

Why do people still use these ancient chips?

childintime · 8 days ago
5V devices continue popular.
childintime commented on Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux   mark.stosberg.com/univers... · Posted by u/uncircle
npteljes · 11 days ago
I completely agree. If only Windows also had WinKey+C/X/V as shortcuts, it would make so much sense in other Windows software too. Same with ALT+TAB and ALT+F4, CTRL+SPACE etc, these should also be handled by the win key. Then the Win/Cmd key would be assigned to OS functions, and the rest of them could be assigned to application functions, providing a clean separation.
childintime · 10 days ago
Ctrl is different. Alt and Win don't cancel themselves when released, they are modal, and modal sucks. Ctrl is the only safe key besides Fn, so repurpose Fn if you must.
childintime commented on Bezier-rs – algorithms for Bézier segments and shapes   graphite.rs/libraries/bez... · Posted by u/jarek-foksa
phkahler · 13 days ago
You might like the spline tool in Solvespace:

https://solvespace.com/

If you just do a start/end point it will create a cubic with 2 endpoints and 2 control points. But if you drop a whole series of points (up to 12 I think) it will create a curve that passes though all of them. This is done by internally creating a bunch of cubic splines where the control points are automatically positioned and not shown. You still get 2 control points for the derivatives at the ends, unless you create a closed loop.

childintime · 10 days ago
Now that's the UI people like me need.
childintime commented on Bezier-rs – algorithms for Bézier segments and shapes   graphite.rs/libraries/bez... · Posted by u/jarek-foksa
ttoinou · 13 days ago
The person you're answering to is not suggesting interpolating curves. Piecewise quadratic bezier curves are very local, two quadratic bezier curves can approximate well a 3rd degree bezier curve
childintime · 10 days ago
That's it, thank you for discussing this.
childintime commented on Starlink announced a $5/month plan that gives unlimited usage at 500kbits/s   twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack... · Posted by u/tosh
forinti · 10 days ago
Kinda surprising that you can do video when 500kbps was the read speed of some floppy drives of old.

An 8 bit micro didn't have bandwidth for more than 256kbps, and hence you only saw them use SD or DD floppies.

childintime · 10 days ago
I routinely watch youtube on 128kbps. I'm not missing out on anything, except loading times, which also holds true for (some) web pages.
childintime commented on Bezier-rs – algorithms for Bézier segments and shapes   graphite.rs/libraries/bez... · Posted by u/jarek-foksa
childintime · 13 days ago
Bezier curves in painting software never gave me the results I wanted. And I mean never. I sincerely wonder who succeeds at using them?

From these graphs I see that I always wanted the simple Quadratic version, and would use 2 of them in sequence to approximate a Cubic version. That would be so much easier. But if the software could allow me to adjust the midpoint, and maintain a smooth transition, that would be perfect. I think.

So I basically wish for a different interface, one that has more thought put into it. Now it's a "give access to the parameters, and be done with it" kind. As if novices don't have the need for a nice smooth curve between known points.

childintime commented on Show HN: Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C   github.com/Beariish/bolt... · Posted by u/beariish
npn · 15 days ago
I don't understand why people still choose the syntax `import xxx from yyy` in the current year. It is a major source of complaining for languages like python or javascript, because it makes autocomplete does not work well.

make me instantly lost interest in the language.

childintime · 14 days ago
well the situation may improve, so when one types `log10`, it can just fill in `math`. I tend to remember the function, not the library, so that would work better for me.

so it seems to me you're hung up on the current limitations of the language server, which is an implementation detail.

if what you want is actually important, the syntax should have been `import yyy.xxx as xxx` or similar, with optional `as xxx`, instead of a Cobol inspired syntax detail to remember.

childintime commented on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet   nytimes.com/2025/08/11/bu... · Posted by u/situationista
MarkusWandel · 15 days ago
This was rural though, with the cell tower serving a small town, population 600, and folks on the highway and in the nearby backcountry. As far as we could tell it really was 128kbps. But definitely not enough for the modern (then - this is already 7-8 years ago) web.

We ran out the (then) measly data allotment of the day (500MB) on purpose on the last day of the billing period to try this.

childintime · 14 days ago
I am on a real "unlimited" 128kbps plan on my phone. I use Firefox and ublock, so a lot of bloat is avoided. The bank app with its simple screens loads with much difficulty. Of course, it's a bank. Most sites load, just give it time. I give up on graphics mostly. YouTube works admirably well. But I agree it is a tad too slow for today. I regularly spend over 1GB a day as I play YouTube with the screen off.
childintime commented on Getting good results from Claude Code   dzombak.com/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/ingve
fooster · 18 days ago
I get excellent results and don’t do anything like that. Basically I ask Claude to write code as I do. A small step at a time. I literally prompt it to do the next step I’d do and so on and so forth. I accept all changes immediate and then commit after every change and then review the diff. If Claude did some badness then I ask it to fix that. I typically also give references to existing code that I want it to model or functions to use.

This gives me excellent results with far less typing and time.

childintime · 17 days ago
I don't understand why the diff isn't part and parcel of the AI dialog..

u/childintime

KarmaCake day1555December 26, 2014View Original