kiliankoe

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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 3 months ago
Iirc a talk about the Gameboy hardware @ Chaos Communication Congress correctly, the system _requires_ the Nintendo logo shown at game startup to be present, otherwise it won't boot. And showing the Nintendo logo without authorization/licensing from Nintendo is copyright infringement.

This is likely not the case on the N64, but it's an interesting bit of detail of how Nintendo goes about things.

Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
Hey all, over the years I've been stumbling across people being amazed that iOS' system keyboard allows cursor movement and even text selection. Since the latter feature has finally been fixed in the latest iOS 26 update (amazing!), I thought it would be nice to link this document documenting several such features.

Feel very free to extend if you have more to share!

Comment · 7 months ago
I'm just curious what your motivation for the patch is, because I too use atuin and see the space-prefix as a feature. It's been around for a while (longer than atuin) to keep certain commands out of my history on purpose, like when running some one-off command with credentials as an arg.

Other than that I very much agree, patching stuff is wonderful in nix-land! Especially when things in nixpkgs-unstable break.

Comment · 8 months ago
As a side note, it's 2026, and there's still German software that thinks our postal codes are integers. Mine has a leading zero, and it hasn't been too long since I've seen (German-built!) software that silently truncates the 0 and then complains that it's just 4 digits and should be 5.
Comment · 11 months ago
They are, the model has no inherent knowledge about its confidence levels, it just adds plausible-sounding numbers. Obviously they _can_ be plausible, but trusting these is just another level up from trusting the original output.

I read a comment here a few weeks back that LLMs always hallucinate, but we sometimes get lucky when the hallucinations match up with reality. I've been thinking about that a lot lately.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Does Blender also qualify? It even shows you the name of the Python function behind each UI element on hover, which is great for discoverability when scripting. Or maybe it used to, can't see it now.
Comment · 1 year ago
Oh fantastic! And yes, I very much agree. I have some ideas for improving it a bit, maybe that'll make it worthwhile to PR into SwiftPM itself (:
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
The most recent episode of the podcast Science Vs explored this in detail: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/autism-the-real-reason...

The rise in autism rates (5x over the last 25 years) is almost entirely explained by changes in how autism is defined, diagnosed, and detected. Not by an actual surge in underlying cases or any specific environmental trigger like vaccines, air pollution, heavy metals, plastics, or screen time.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
And many other retailers, yes!

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