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Vell, Greg’s just zis guy, you know?
Websitehttps://greg-kennedy.com
one guy brought some amazing thing he claimed ran on a Pentium 3 700mhz, but then when challenged in the comments said he couldn't actually run it and didn't know how lol

I can't ever really tell what the goal is here - github star inflation, maybe? - but the odds of getting uptake or contributors on these is so slim. The user (or bot) DID try to send this to some "awesome C" curated list, which maybe establishes credibility. No idea. The new Reddit account also tends to spam the same intro post across a swath of subreddits. Often they get banned for it.

It's not free, is the thing, it costs some money to buy tokens to play the lottery with this kind of spam. So I just really wonder what the jackpot looks like.

I don't usually end up looking too hard at the code of these any more, because it's kind of a trap - commenters often ask "how do you know it's AI" but the answer isn't in the codebase.
* reviewing code now takes vastly more effort than producing it
* but checking the network of the author is much much simpler and more reliable

There's also common AI "tells" similar to those that give away generative prose (em-dash, not-this-but-that, etc) and for C projects it tends to be things like "lightweight" or *especially* "ZERO DEPENDENCIES". Maybe it's hard for agents to install C libraries or something but so many of these proudly say they've got zero dependencies and include some half-baked HTTP server or something.

I just want to highlight the kind of slop that presently is hitting the r/c_programming subreddit. Every single day brings one or more of these kind of posts:
* brand new Reddit username
* brand new Github repo with one giant commit
* entire post and README sounds like a sales pitch
* any followup commits usually just faffing about with markdown in the README (no code updates)
* reinvents some kind of wheel or toy project with no chance of uptake
* no co-contributors or team behind it
* user never replies - or if they do, it's in broken English that is totally incongruous with the README phrasing (and betrays zero understanding of the code)

This one is a bit easier, because the (wrong) URLs point to some kind of AI phone startup or something, which makes it obvious that their well is poisoned

#ai #c #programming

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oh ok this is SACD territory I see
mostly this makes it really annoying to obtain newly remastered music now, because it's released only in two formats: stupid massive overkill sample rate (and I have to then downsample just to avoid burning hundreds of megabytes on storing ultrasonics) OR fucking. vinyl. please just remaster and give me 16/44.1 thanks. "one bit at 2.822mhz" statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
i am already shaking my head at 96khz as needlessly overkill but what the fuck man. can any speaker even reproduce frequencies that high? will they attenuate before crossing the room??
176 KHZ???? have you lost your minds????