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I used to get 2-3 shady crypto offers per week on LinkedIn. It stopped when I started replying with AI generated responses demanding multiple verification steps: official email, official offer link, terms and scope etc. And a note with a firm refusal to run any code or install any package on my machine for "recruitment tasks".

The PR buzz convinced me so I subscribed today to Pro. Running two tasks simultaneously with Fable and Opus 4-8 on ultra reasoning, analysing a single smart contract file used all my 7h usage within 20mins and didn’t produce any results. Pretty useless. I think Anthropic has plenty of room to optimise the interactions and token use but that would cut their income quite a lot, I doubt there’s any will to do it pre-IPO.


> Running two tasks simultaneously with Fable and Opus 4-8 on ultra reasoning

That's abnormally heavy usage for Pro plans which don't include a whole lot of usage to begin with. Opus is generally too much for them but you can get a lot of mileage out of Sonnet.


That’s a big lol compared to what I get out of ChatGPT Pro… running 5.5 on xhigh.


Dosbox has its emulator to run DOS, but afaik dosbox binary that starts up dosbox on Mac uses Rosetta on M-series Macs, and without Rosetta it simply won’t start and emulate DOS.


At least the ARM-based binary of DosBox-X (a variant of DosBox) runs natively and works great for everything I've thrown at it like old Apogee games, etc.

https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x


Wow that brings back some memories, but I was playing those games on a 386 running them on any hardware from this century must be absolutely trivial.


Oh yeah for sure. I used to play Commander Keen, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Major Stryker, etc. though it was on a 486 SX 25 MHz back in the day too!


But I wonder if Heroic can install HoMM2 on a Mac if no Mac binary is available on GOG.


Hmm i guess this would require figuring out how to extract game data from an .exe installer GOG distributes. I guess AI would figure it out in like 3 minutes ;) I’ll check later.


You could try https://github.com/dscharrer/innoextract (installable via homebrew).


I wondered if innoextract was Linux only, but I see there is a homebrew formula. https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/innoextract

Is the author reading hackernews?


That, or just run it with wine.


Interestingly, wine works on Apple Silicon via Rosetta2 so I guess it won't work by macOS 28, and we will be only left with arm64 DOSBox-X.


... and arm64 innoextract hopefully


There was a tool that would take a GOG installer and extract it.

https://www.macsourceports.com/utility/extractor


So I guess sci-fi movies were right all along. Nobody in Star Wars knows how hyperspace travel works, it just works. The little robots know everything but almost no human bothers to care. People just carry on with their bickering lives while the bots whiz in the background, and these robots are astonished at human inefficiency every single time, but rarely do anything about it. And people are still people.


That's only because movies like Star Wars are not sci-fi movies, but more like westerns in space.


Sounds of explosions and engine whine in vacuum beg to differ!


So I guess that yesterday's questions "Where is vibecoded Photoshop?" just got answered with a vibecoded Gimp UI that looks like Photoshop ;) but seriously, nice work!


Well my idea was that when I said that the overall story arch is interesting, one would read a paragraph or two and see themselves if it's worth reading further or not, so I didn't think mentioning anything else is necessary ;)


You're correct these text are much better called short stories, but I chose the word "novel" anyway. And despite the slop, I still find this experiment interesting for one: because it intrigues me how AI ponders on the subject of sovereignty, and for two: because when I tried other, human novels I also encountered slop (albeit human): pages of meaningless descriptions, deliberations and dead-end side-plots.


Seems like every bubble has the same thing going on. I guess during tulip mania everyone was a florist.


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