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I like how this article pokes fun by not only using the tropes it describes sarcastically, but then adding subtext that AI never would. It also uses alliteration, grouping synonyms…

What stuck out to me with that sentence was that a competent manager can determine productivity by looking at what the developer produced, easily and quickly. If the person has no …

Yeah, but a lot of hard work is done by those libraries. Interaction with external interfaces would go through the tools API, which I imagine would all use the same type of code th…

I think part of this is the mach bands illusion. We perceive some darkening at the transition between shades and think we have to replicate it in rendering. But we really don't bec…

> Rust does this automatically. A garbage collected language does this automatically. Rust still requires thinking about and tracking memory lifecycles, but the borrow checker will…

It's been double-stable since early 2025 (version 3.2), so it's weird that Ubuntu doesn't have it when even Debian does. I've seen a couple projects holding back on the upgrade bec…

The article is from Bain Capital. Of course they're going to ignore the obvious reason and blame something else. They raised prices more than people are willing to pay. Unlimited p…

Nedry doesn't have a camera on his end, and he's talking through a headset. Maybe guy at the harbor just knows where the closed circuit camera is? Since it's just quicktime anyway,…

I think Fabien is misinterpreting the part which he sees as "video conferencing." Nedry is talking to a guy on a regular phone line. He's just watching a security camera feed from …

Yeah, this particular experiment doesn't reveal much because the Nvidia driver is a black box. We know in the past it used its "composition pipeline" in Wayland situations, and tha…

> Their internal representations are so cryptic and complex that even the top AI researchers don't really know how they work or what their limits are. No one is going to take you s…

It's marketing. The big AI companies know what they're doing and are trying to drive adoption with FOMO. Some people bought into the idea early on and feel self-important. Meanwhil…

I think putting it in terms of API pricing is oversimplifying disingenuously. Anthropic still hasn't pulled the rug out from under us, so I'm sure it cost a great deal of money onc…

I posted on an older article that I thought it probably cost half a million in API pricing. 165k USD is a lot lower. I wonder what the actual compute cost was. When this first hit …

That's probably in an overscan area on most TVs, so it might not even show up.

Lenovo has an incentive to say prices will never go down. They need to continue selling right now when prices are high, but customers will wait if they have reason to think they'll…

Backticks ` ` are used to trigger code-style formatting in markdown. Since all the coding AIs are trained almost entirely on github, you see it everywhere in their output. They'll …

Slack uses this? Thanks for the info. I've never been forced into Slack, so I wasn't aware of that. Either way, it's stupid to use in places it doesn't induce formatting.

Yeah. It simply shouldn't be falling back to a software cursor in the first place. That's the bug.

I'm seeing lots of bots/agents misusing backticks like this. It's because people are writing agent plans in markdown and the agent thinks it's appropriate everywhere. Maybe you sho…

You do realize that an LLM is an enormous decision tree? The prompt is the state and output tokens added to that are the subsequent state that's fed back into the machine. Running …

He's referring to accumulator styles, eg. the 6502.

In our small town, the local compliance officer is colluding with a tree-cutting company that has a contract with the city. They lie and claim trees are "dead" and they're constant…

We're in this situation because of laziness. I doubt doubling down on it is the solution.

Avoid the backtick quotes, too. Claude also mistakenly uses them outside of markdown.