Martin_Silenus

Funny thing is when a sysop sent me a mail once: basically, he said to me that one of the machines he had the responsibility of back then warned him about a non-conform header. He asked me the name of the email software I was using to report the bug to the author. I thanked him for my first report ever, for his diligency, etc. and of course, I fixed it promptly ;)

Comment · 29 days ago

Yeah, "Triumph of the Nerds" was a wonderful adventure. Now, "Triumph of the Lamers" is taking over.

RIP

Comment · 1 month ago

The very best CAPTCHA, for now:

"2 + 2 = ?"

Any IA will fail the first try. Most human will fail too, but some will pass and they're the only ones I care about.

Comment · 1 month ago

> Who likes typing code

Hackers.

Comment · 1 month ago

I'm anti-AI to write code (coz' I simply love it since +40 years, so why should I ask something to do it for me?), but the title is just click-bait anyway. The article itself even has some clues that contradict the title. I precisely often use it to learn stuff, nothing else. Because you never stop learning about code. Granted I don't use AI the way 99% people do, that's for sure (I never felt the need to pay for it TBH).

Comment · 1 month ago

Hackers don't make Quake III Arena by trusting C rules or compiler optimizations anyway.

Comment · 1 month ago

I once ate a peanut too.

Comment · 1 month ago

What in this world prevents you to code?

Comment · 1 month ago

> I will miss it

When honesty goes out the window...

Comment · 1 month ago

Brute force being the antithesis of hacking spirit, I too wish brute force would end up in Lamer News instead.

Comment · 1 month ago

It didn't click, did it? You're a kind person, you know, but I'm not. I'm a misanthropic megalomaniac guy.

> I think you’re letting your pride get the best of you. Writing software should not be about ego. It’s about making something helpful, or something beautiful

The things I'm the proudest of are, by far, the most useless and unhelpful ones. The ones I did for myself. The ones that made me think "wow, now I rock!" and the machine spit its guts crying "mummy help me". That's what the demoscene (to name one subculture) was all about. That's what hacking is all about in the first place.

> or at the very least financially useful

These have always been the ones I'm the most ashamed about. These were the things I would not have done for myself, but for other people. The ones that kept me living, not the ones that made me feel alive. What did you think I was talking about?

> But I am sure if you were sufficiently motivated you’d learn how to make it work for you.

I'm motivated to code. I'm not an architect, a QA tester, or whatever, I'm a coder. Now, wanna know what kind of person I am and how I made LLMs work for me long before you suggest it here? Read that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072319#48073350

Then, come back and we can talk. I WILL NOT ASK A MACHINE SOMETHING I LOVE TO DO MYSELF, WHICH I TAKE PLEASURE FROM. If that looks like an idiotic and stubborn stance to you, FINE.

Comment · 1 month ago

Well, my way of thinking about it is basically that I did not spend my life shiting on over-engineered-bloated-Golberg-machine source code written by so-called programmers to finish my life asking agents to generate these same stuff 10x faster.

I love code, you don't, fine. So be it.

Comment · 4 months ago

Reverse-engineering is fun.