Resuna

Cybernetic entomologist and software archeologist. DBDG. Let Overwrite. Let Override.

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2026-07-21 16:17:02 CEST

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I think we're talking about different kinds of difficulty. American ballots are very long because they hold a lot of separate races at the same time, even if each individual race is very simple. You are probably right that this makes the tabulation too time-consuming for a manual count.
I'm not sure that "complex" is the best word and that's what bothered me, but it's not worth getting into a dictionary war.

2026-07-21 16:00:27 CEST

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In Australia you would have one form like that for each contest you're voting in, instead of a single form for all the contests, so that's equivalent to one single race.

2026-07-21 15:55:50 CEST

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Primaries should be eliminated and all candidates with enough signatures should stand in the general.

2026-07-21 15:52:08 CEST

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"we have, overwhelming, the most complex ballots in the world, for example"
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2026-07-19 10:53:23 CEST

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It's also an unnecessary distinction. Magic tricks are physics and mathematics too. LLMs are exactly that kind of trick.
"The mind is just math" doesn't mean "large language models can think".
They are emulating a tiny tiny part of the mechanism of thought, in a brutally mistaken way that doesn't generalize itself to actual reasoning.

2026-06-17 14:34:29 CEST

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I've got to admit that if somebody had asked me in 1986 whether this would be a thing in 2026, I would put down my copy of Neuromancer, look up at them, and say "oh yeah sure".

2026-06-07 16:50:24 CEST

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LLMs are like AN/FO explosive when compared to most uses of machine learning style fire.
"You object to me blowing up your house but I see you using a gas stove."

2026-05-16 04:47:47 CEST

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I am seeing units for as low as $9.99 a pair on Amazon US.

2026-05-09 03:20:09 CEST

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I was trying to get my Termcap implementation for CP/M and DOS into Byte right about when they were switching from being a small systems magazine to being a big advertising magazine. And I get one letter from an editor saying you need to turn this into an article and another letter saying this is way too much code to fit into BIOS.

2026-05-03 15:36:45 CEST

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DD because it's a funny reference to OS/360
AWK because the author initials
Excel because it's a excellent Visicalc
Edge because browsers are edgy
Safari because the internet is a jungle

2026-04-28 16:27:59 CEST

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Why did you stop beating your wife?

2026-04-28 16:26:37 CEST

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What? I didn't even mention or refer to you in the text you quoted.

2026-04-28 15:59:11 CEST

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I'm not going to respond to abuse with my own abuse, no matter how tempted I am.

2026-04-28 15:56:01 CEST

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Ah, abuse. It always comes down to abuse.

2026-04-28 15:52:10 CEST

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All the "internal processes" are linguistic, and not even sophisticated linguistic processing, anything else is hallucinated by the researchers fooled by the "clever hans" effect.
All mammals have basically the same hardware. All behavioral differences are due to differences in the size and arrangement of the connections between the neurons.

2026-04-28 15:39:09 CEST

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I have been following this approach since the first steps in the '80s. I'm pretty clear on how it works.
Software is a metaphor, the connectome is obviously a different kind of construct than procedural code, but it is the connections, not the fact that it is built out of neurons, that determines the kind of reasoning and model construction that the human brain performs. You are looking at the implementation and ignoring the big picture.

2026-04-28 15:27:39 CEST

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what you have actually written is based on a category error. You're confusing the platform, neurons, with the software.

2026-04-28 15:25:43 CEST

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The fact that we learn before requiring language is itself a demonstration of the fact that mammalian thought and reasoning, and human thought and reasoning, is fundamentally not based on language. Your argument is disproving your point.

2026-04-28 15:13:38 CEST

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Most human cognition is common to all mammals, even most of the frontal lobe is pre-linguistic. LLMs are ONLY linguistic. They are a clever hack repurposing a 1950s ERA model of how the visual cortex works to simulate the barest parody of linguistic processing. At the best you can say that they are implemented on something like a similar kind of processor, but the software, the neural connections and weights, is completely unrelated.

2026-04-28 12:14:02 CEST

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Large language models are fundamentally different from mammals on every level. They do not build models or reason about them. A rat is more "intelligent".

2026-04-28 00:59:19 CEST

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Large language models are fundamentally different from mammals on every level. They do not build models or reason about them. A rat is more "intelligent".

2026-04-27 02:09:38 CEST

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The confession is of course fanfic about its own non-existent reasoning.

2026-04-06 13:05:26 CEST

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Even back in the '70s when it was cutting edge CP/M wasn't what I wanted to run on anything. The whole architecture was bad and even teenage me could see it was a hack. Let's start with contemporary UNIX at the very least, and a 68000.

2026-03-30 18:23:53 CEST

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That's not true even in two dimensions.

2026-03-30 18:12:28 CEST

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Around the moon.

2026-03-19 22:40:56 CET

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They figure that with the memory and storage untouchable there's enough built-in obsolescence for now.

2026-02-27 16:46:36 CET

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In practice there is a lot of friction in the market.

2026-02-27 16:14:56 CET

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ifixit makes a good business selling kits and parts and providing instructions to people who can replace a hot-swap part but would be completely stumped by surface-mount soldering.

2026-02-27 13:12:00 CET

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That is not the target user for this kind of product. Anyone for whom replicating a daughter board is "trivial" will have no more difficulty with a surface mount soldering job to repair or replace the USB port.
The key here is that if EU law requires this kind of user replaceable part, then everyone will benefit.
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2026-02-27 12:01:18 CET

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Sure, if they're a boutique DIY board that uses the Universal Daughterboard that's great, but most boards aren't that and replacing the daughterboard if the USB connector is damaged is as much of a push-up as replacing the PCB because Keychron or whoever doesn't sell parts.

2026-02-26 20:04:12 CET

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Mechanical keyboards.

2025-12-20 15:50:01 CET

Every time I see someone writing "so-and-so was not phased by..." I want to hit them over the head with a complete multi-volume OED.
phased
adjective [ usually before noun ]
* A phased process is planned to happen in stages over a particular period of time.
fazed
verb [ T; not continuous ]
* past tense of faze (to surprise and worry someone).

2025-08-13 13:05:15 CEST

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I'm feeling "Momtana".

2025-08-01 00:39:07 CEST

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2025-07-07 12:52:54 CEST

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Why does an offshore call center even have access to administrator passwords?

2025-06-05 05:24:22 CEST

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2025-04-06 11:51:26 CEST

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How about the clever scheme from Niven's "A World out of Time"?

2025-04-06 11:36:32 CEST

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How much mass do we have in the Oort cloud?

2025-04-01 18:56:29 CEST

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Short of the kind of governmental control of computers like in Vinge's science fiction novel "Rainbow's End", in which even individual logic gates became part of a government controlled network, it's literally not possible to impose these kinds of controls when you can by a cigarette-box-sized computer you can use to control the process for under $40.

2025-02-28 14:52:43 CET

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2024-11-29 17:23:41 CET

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Horizontal space is the limiting resource. I do not have room for a wider display.

2024-11-29 17:10:20 CET

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LOL. Doesn't help me fit taller windows.

2024-11-29 06:46:44 CET

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Pity they're all 16:9 or wider. I miss 4:3.

2024-08-25 13:30:15 CEST

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> purged filament can be applied to another object being built simultaneously if desired
OMG this is amazing.

2024-08-09 03:18:55 CEST

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Kinetic what?
I googled and still don't know what this means.