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zvmaz commented on Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)   anders.unix.se/2015/12/10... · Posted by u/turrini
Loocid · 2 months ago
When did Linus say he doesn't know how to install a distro? My understanding is he's only said he prefers to use simple to install distros.
zvmaz · 2 months ago
Thanks for asking, I had to search the quote since I recalled it from memory. I couldn't find it, but here's the closest I got [1]. The disdain and arrogance of this person is just incredible.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHGTs1NSB1s

zvmaz commented on Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)   anders.unix.se/2015/12/10... · Posted by u/turrini
gentooflux · 2 months ago
RMS could have taken a photo of his screen, or done something cheeky like dump his screen to a padded ASCII text file and submitted that. Stick in the mud.
zvmaz · 2 months ago
"I don't know how to make a screenshot"

Linus Torvalds often says that he does not know how to do X (like install a Linux distribution, or other simple stuff). I wager that it's a status thing.

zvmaz commented on How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs   arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047... · Posted by u/50kIters
crazygringo · 2 months ago
There is nothing new about this. Elites have been shaping mass preferences with newspapers for centuries, and television for many decades. Countries have been shaping mass preferences through textbooks and educational curricula too.

If anything, LLM's seem more resistant to propaganda than any other tool created by man so far, except maybe the encylopedia. (Though obviously this depends on training.)

The good news is that LLM's compete commercially with each other, and if any start to intentionally give an ideological or other slant to their output, this will be noticed and reported, and a lot of people may stop using that LLM.

This is why the invention of "objective" newspaper reporting -- with corroborating sources, reporting comments on different sides of an issue, etc. -- was done for commercial reasons, not civic ones. It was a way to sell more papers, as you could trust their reporting more than the reporting from partisan rags.

zvmaz · 2 months ago
> If anything, LLM's seem more resistant to propaganda than any other tool created by man so far, except maybe the encylopedia. (Though obviously this depends on training.)

How would you know? My first thought is that the data on which LLMs are trained is biased, and the commercial LLMs enforce their own "pre-prompts".

zvmaz commented on Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship   kerrick.blog/articles/202... · Posted by u/Kerrick
forinti · 2 months ago
I feel that many coders have a very basic understanding of SQL, don't really want to get better at it, and don't really care.

If they can get away with a query that takes 2s to return a single row, they will be quite content and will not be bothered to look at the query plan.

It's a shame, because everything could be a little better with hardly any effort.

zvmaz · 2 months ago
> It's a shame

No, it's not. This goes against the whole thread and the article posted.

zvmaz commented on Run ancient UNIX on modern hardware   github.com/felipenlunkes/... · Posted by u/doener
leoc · 3 months ago
xv6 the MIT 'spiritual port' (so to speak) of Version 6 Unix probably deserves to be mentioned there as well, as while it's not actually a historic Bell Labs Unix it will better meet some people's needs. https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2025/xv6.html
zvmaz · 3 months ago
Videos that go through the xv6 source code: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbtzT1TYeoMhTPzyTZboW...
zvmaz commented on Linear algebra explains why some words are effectively untranslatable   aethermug.com/posts/linea... · Posted by u/mrcgnc
zvmaz · 3 months ago
> I hope these rather unorthodox leaps between linguistics and mathematics helped make it almost obvious that some words and ideas are untranslatable in practice. I also hope you don't take the analogy too seriously, because it won't go much further than this.

Phew! Thanks for clarifying.

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zvmaz commented on Samsung Family Hub for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem   news.samsung.com/us/samsu... · Posted by u/janandonly
zvmaz · 3 months ago
I don't buy any appliance that has "smart" in it. Yeah, no, thanks.
zvmaz commented on Becoming a compiler engineer   rona.substack.com/p/becom... · Posted by u/lalitkale
rs186 · 3 months ago
I cannot recall the last time (if ever) I saw any article on HN that has a "this is a photo of me" in the middle of it, coming out of nowhere.
zvmaz · 3 months ago
Maybe a less subtle self-promotional blog post, as compared to others.

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