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I think they lost their direction and at the same time customer appeal. When OpnePlus started it was something new, now I have no reason to choose OnePlus for some time already.

I clone some repo from github, open it with default code editor which happens to be Cursor. I am cooked. That is it. It is the same as autorun.exe on some CD - I put some CD in my …

What is even more funny that AI agent spent A LOT of tokens while participating in this attack.

I wonder if Hans Reiser would have checked...

But doesn't things like that happen with people? Take academy where some professor implicitly states "facts" or military or software development where some highly praised senior al…

I think it was just cancer overall. One kills you lings, another kills you gut, heart and etc. We know that smoke itself is really really bad for you. Open fire is bad for you. Sit…

Statistics and other lies. One interesting point the article touches - there was a study concluding that if you quit smoking at 40 your life expectancy basically equalizes with peo…

Coding, programming and engineering are all a bit different concepts. Coding as in typing in the code might be solved. Engineering? Doubt. What is definitely not solved is knowing …

Exactly. Is it LLMs fault or yours to believing in it so much.

If you gave some junior dev a large codebase and just told to "refactor it" you would get a terrible result. If you gave junior dev exact tasks what to do where you will get better…

"It is not LLMs fault but you not knowing how to write a prompt". I know I know. But just giving all codebase and saying "rewrite it" is a no go. If e.g. going one class after clas…

And I personally get a lot of news from Facebook and Insta, never used Twitter. So who is to choose what social media is good and what should be banned.

If AI fails, you wrote the prompt wrong.

If you look at dog breeds the difference between longest living (~15 years) and shortest (~10 years) is ~5years or 50% of the lifetime. However we still struggle to appoint the ver…

I believe the "theater" is needed precisely for this - to catch bad actors. There could just be a long queue with some blind dog and scary looking guy at the end. What it still doe…

It looks like I am sharing all of my data with US Army!

Doesn't then a person with half a trillion have that ability? At what point does the ability start?

If you take any ancient or not so ancient civilization or kingdom, all the wealth including land and people's lives belonged to king/imperator which was appointed by god or somethi…

I had to go back to the page to check that it actually uses pixel font. To each its own I guess. For me the font was barely noticeable.

It is like discussing zombie apocalypse. People who are invested in bunkers will hardly understand those who are just choosing death over living in those bunkers for a month longer…

Anecdotal story. Once I stumbled into Korean restaurant in China Town in NYC. I just ordered something like lunch. I was alone. They kept bringing plates after plates of various di…

But the network is not working!

Crashed Chrome tab on Windows instantly but Firefox is fine. It shows loading but pressing Ctrl + U even shows the very start of that fake HTML.

Then again what if showing some funky hallucinogenic images/movies would have the same effect on some people? We surely know that people can go crazy (so have psychological effects…

As far as I know antidepressants and even pain killers are the most susceptible to placebo effect.