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whaleofatw2022 commented on Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations   anthropic.com/research/en... · Posted by u/virgildotcodes
antonvs · 9 days ago
Clearly you're planning something nefarious, if you're investigating such dangerous encryption techniques as ROT13.
whaleofatw2022 · 8 days ago
Just imagine how it might react to ROT26!
whaleofatw2022 commented on 1910: The year the modern world lost its mind   derekthompson.org/p/1910-... · Posted by u/purgator
noosphr · 14 days ago
Electric cars were invented in 1881 a full 4 years before the first internal combustion car.
whaleofatw2022 · 14 days ago
Kinda interesting to ask what would have gone different if the infrastructure was in place to make electric cars 'good enough' as far as charging infrastructure.
whaleofatw2022 commented on A Real PowerBook: The Macintosh Application Environment on a Pa-RISC Laptop   oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
o11c · 22 days ago
No, VLIW is fundamentally a flawed idea; OoO is mandatory. "We need better compilers" is purely Intel marketing apologia.
whaleofatw2022 · 22 days ago
Isn't VILW how a number of GPUs worked internally? That said GPU isn't the same as GPC
whaleofatw2022 commented on Anthropic revokes OpenAI's access to Claude   wired.com/story/anthropic... · Posted by u/minimaxir
forty · 23 days ago
Oracle db products are not meant to build databases, unlike LLM code generator which are meant to build any kind of software, so the restriction sounds a bit different.

Imagine if Oracle was adding a restrictions on what you are allowed to build with Java, that would be a more similar comparison IMO.

whaleofatw2022 · 23 days ago
Yeah but did you know you also can't publish benchmarks?

E.x. if you make a product that works on multiple databases, you can't show the performance difference between them.

whaleofatw2022 commented on Drones Are Key to Winning Wars Now. The U.S. Makes Hardly Any   nytimes.com/2025/07/13/bu... · Posted by u/perihelions
mikestew · a month ago
I’d be amazed if the use case were exactly the same, such that low bandwidth communication were equally useful in both cases, yes. Beside the fact that Voyager 1's 160 bits/s would be luxury for an underwater craft using VLF or ELF.

And it apparently bears repeating: communication with a submarine using VLF/ELF is one-way. Such is not the case with a spacecraft, even if the latency sucks.

whaleofatw2022 · a month ago
Lots of folks forget the challenges of attenuation in a given medium... e.x. light doesnt go `c` in fiber....
whaleofatw2022 commented on Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale   recall.ai/blog/postgres-l... · Posted by u/davidgu
KronisLV · a month ago
> Postgres/ClickHouse/NATS

Maybe throw in a dedicated key-value store like Redis or Valkey.

Oh and maybe something S3 compatible like MinIO, Garage or SeaweedFS for storing bunches of binary data.

With all of that, honestly it should cover most of the common workloads out there! Of course, depends on how specialized vs generic you like your software to be.

whaleofatw2022 · a month ago
NATS does KV pretty well now (didn't have expiration till earlier this year)
whaleofatw2022 commented on Four integers are enough to write a Snake Game   andreinc.net/2022/05/01/4... · Posted by u/wonger_
webdevver · 2 months ago
Damn, I thought it was literally written in 16 bytes of assembler.

it should/might/could be possible to write a snake game in something like, 30 bytes of x86 asm.

boot up real mode old school bios environment. 0xa000 is your screen, width/height with int 10.

whaleofatw2022 · 2 months ago
There's a version of snake written in C# that runs in UEFI. That said its at least 8kb in compiled form on windows (not sure size of uefi build) [0]

[0] https://codevision.medium.com/running-c-snake-inside-uefi-df...

whaleofatw2022 commented on Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice   pcgamer.com/gaming-indust... · Posted by u/riffraff
pointlessone · 2 months ago
The dev, having access to source code, issues the final patch that disables that feature. Better yet, the dev, having access to source code, never implements this feature in the first place as it doesn’t improve the player experience in any shape or form.
whaleofatw2022 · 2 months ago
Well thats more or less what people are asking for with this.
whaleofatw2022 commented on Ocarina of Time Randomizer   ootrandomizer.com/... · Posted by u/nickswalker
bevr1337 · 2 months ago
I couldn't find an easy answer on the wiki or site, but I am using my phone instead of a desktop.

Do users still need to obtain (an obviously legal, Nintendo approved) ROM of classic OOT to use the randomizer?

whaleofatw2022 · 2 months ago
Yes. Typically randomizers take the input rom (or data from a CD in the case of something like SOTN) and use that as a starting point.
whaleofatw2022 commented on Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)   spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-im... · Posted by u/purpleko
afiori · 2 months ago
I wonder how much of JPEG good quality is that we are quite accustomed to its artefacts.
whaleofatw2022 · 2 months ago
There's something to be said about this. A high quality JPEG after cleanup can sometimes be larger than an ARW (sony RAW) on export and it makes no sense to me.

u/whaleofatw2022

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