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I think it's a bit inflated to label Gmail a "great tech for consumers". Maps certainly, YouTube mostly, Chrome & Android for loyalists, but Gmail hasn't been "great tech" for well…

Similarly there is research that shows the quality of LLM outputs strongly correlate with the education level (in the field) of the person promoting them.

Japanese software and software technology culture is amongst the worst in the world. They're famous for failing to adopt modern ways of working, tools and as an industry is serious…

You know your phone is OLED right? I'm assuming you left a still image on without the inbuilt screen refresher enabled or something? I remember seeing that way back in the early OL…

Really? I've had many updates over the 7 years since my c9 was released, still getting them as recent as earlier this year I think.

7 years into my C9 and it never fails to impress.

If you care about home cinema it's important. There's a pretty big jump down. You can look up the specs and reviews of the C and G series from LG. Anecdotally quite a few times whe…

I suspect the entire 3.x family is fundamentally problematic and we'll need to see an architecture change before they're half decent like back in the 2.5 days again.

I'm aware of that setting, but this is the Samsung baseline. The panels they export for OEMs / other manufacturers don't seem to have the same hyper saturation. Even just standing …

Their panels are often over-saturated with that fake HDR like look, similar to their phones.

Unfortunately they make arguably the best OLEDs and webOS is pretty decent to use (especially compared to the terrible OS that Samsung and Sony run). I think the best thing people …

I haven't used Codex in some time, but in Claude Code I force my context size down to 280k on purpose as in my experience your best work is done within the 30-250k~ range regardles…

It's 2.8T, I'm sure they will open the weights but it will only be able to be run on very high end machines.

And American providers, not sure if it's still the case but OpenAI were doing this.

Soulseek is still going hard.

I suspect there's some cargo culting, and some folks that are generally more likely to table flip than understand things that challenge their workflow.

Yes their docs cover how to properly prompt it to ensure you don't get hit by the classifier, you can distil those down to a skill to help build prompts for the more challenging si…

I've been working with it heavily since its first release. I use it for software architects, complex debugging and some development and I have not had it refuse or downgrade even o…

Yeah the 256GB/s bandwidth is really very limiting

ultracode in Claude Code kicks off a dynamic workflow.

This looks very much like many slopped up UIs I've seen over the past few years. Not saying the code is, but the design itself looks vibe coded?

Weird they talk about their 31B dense model but haven't actually released it anywhere.

But does anyone actually need a Windows?

They canned the moved to make -p commands API billable.

Material design looks pretty dated these days. I'm wondering why people would still be using it? Is it just a taste thing or something people have been working with for a long time…