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This is never going to be resolved through speculation. There are parallels with the Zodiac killer's identity where there's a group of very likely candidates but no conclusive proo…

Resist hypes and just use whatever you feel like. Torvalds uses a 40 year old EMACS implementation and that seems to be working for him.

I left Spotify years ago. Youtube is so much nicer in terms of content alone. But Youtube, with its insane backlog of video's not available elsewhere, is straight up a monopoly, so…

I'm just so glad I'm past the phase where I'd worry about these things. It's very exhausting.

I doubt talking heads on the TV can move markets.

How can the models be impressive if they switch to Chinese mid-sentence? I've observed those bizarre bugs too. Even GPT-3 didn't have those. Maybe GPT-2 did. It's actually impressi…

The Weezer video was quirky, funny, creative, catchy and appealing to multiple generations. A stroke of genius by Microsoft.

Probably a prank or an ambush set up by the anti-billionaires.

FWIW, I just gave Deepseek the same prompt and it solved it too (much faster than the 41m of ChatGPT). I then gave both proofs to Opus and it confirmed their equivalence. The answe…

Rather the opposite. A vibe-coded startup cannot survive if it can be trivially duplicated. The proof will be in observing the inverse phenomenon; (pure) software companies disappe…

It's certainly morally and legally dubious to facilitate attacks on things that others choose to use in within their own private domains, just because you disagree with that choice…

I honestly don't understand why a terminal emulator needs to be performant. Seems like peak bikeshedding to me.

Very, very few people care about privacy to a meaningful degree, even if they (loudly) profess that they do. For communication apps specifically, there's also the network effect pr…

Many people (not the EFF or ACLU, lol) saw it coming years ago and put in a monumental effort to try to turn to tide, only to be relentlessly repressed and dehumanized by bolshevik…

I'm the same. For my use case there is little benefit in using those tools, and for security and privacy reasons I don't want to unleash all this software on my computers and netwo…

Same; any time I see BWT I think of Fabian Giesen. I think he was only 16 or 17 when he wrote that article. By chance I once sat near him and the rest of Farbrausch at a demoparty,…

What a miserable and hopeless undertaking having to do this tightrope act of appeasing existing users, prospective users, advertisers and lawmakers. Managing a fledgling social med…

How did they get the passwords to his Google and Coinbase accounts? He reused passwords? The same one for Google as for Coinbase? Or did they reset his Coinbase password via his Gm…

These are all very circumstantial.

Considering the need for LLM boilerplate coding as a language and tooling failure is an interesting observation. It begs the question why there is still such a thing as boilerplate…

This could have been an amazing short sci-fi story.

Making sensible choices requires thinking things through, and understanding what it really is that you are doing, or refrain from doing it. Experts are just as prone to neglecting …

Around $15/month for Claude (yearly subscription they offered me at the start of the year). Had a Gemini Pro sub for 1 or 2 months but it didn't impress me that much. When I need r…

I don't get this. I have no education, no resume, no Linkedin and I've never applied for a job in my life. Employers/recruiters reach out to me, and I usually turn them down. I'm n…