futhey

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Comment · 19 days ago
Code quality is just going to get worse. I think that ship has sailed. Its no longer economical for humans to write good code. We're all going to be building better scanners, automated review mechanisms, quality checkers, feedback routers, etc. for the next 5 years.
Comment · 29 days ago
I could be wrong but my read from following this on Twitter was that it started on Deepseek 4 (flash). It probably started out focused solely on that model with no guarantee the techniques would transfer to anything else.
Comment · 29 days ago
Because every bit of this webpage was written by Claude.
Comment · 1 month ago
When I was younger I realized I was falling into specific intellectual traps, and I've noticed LLMs adopt every one I attempted to thoughtfully eradicate in my own reasoning. You can often sound smart by adopting a contrarian position without actually putting a lot of thinking effort into what you're considering. It's a quick escape hatch to sound intelligent; quickly identify a contradiction or a counterargument and state it confidently. Adopt a contrarian viewpoint. You don't have to be right but often you will sound intelligent.

I assume this is just the natural result of asking LLMs to produce text and paying someone three cents to evaluate if it's a good response or not.

Comment · 2 months ago
Not sure how this is even possible but the trending box for Taiwan just shows the Thailand trending searches in a different order... And worldwide trending searches are predominantly... in Greek?
Comment · 3 months ago
So the buyout price is never going to match depreciation, and in almost all cases keeping the device doesn't make sense.

The flip side of this, Apple gets more control of the resale market, pushing more buyers into the new device market.

In theory it lets them solve any market problems that emerge where independent resale markets let high quality devices cannibalize sales of new devices.

Comment · 4 months ago
This is the AI we were promised
Comment · 5 months ago
Same! I distinctly remember seeing portions of this wallpaper that led me to believe it's procedurally generated and not simply a collection of video files, and had to rewatch it to confirm. There are several points where the date and time match the system date and time down to the second.
Comment · 1 year ago
Linked spec sheet is labelled as 2.5 years old, chip is 6 years old
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm being pedantic but I liked your comment. Most TVs today are giant ARM computers, ~95% of TVs ship with ARM Cortex but only about 35% have some variant of Android.

Most LED backlights are wired in such a way that when one LED fails it bricks a significant portion of the panel backlight. You'll knock out entire rows or huge portions of neighbor backlight LEDs when one fails. Basically it's a cheap way to ensure a whole row of LEDs are the same brightness but the tradeoff is one LED fails and it looks like 5% of your screen went dark.

It seems like a good beginner-intermediate thing that'd be approachable to learn with a basic multimeter and beginner level soldering skills.

Comment · 1 year ago
Small UX thing: I would have loved to not had to inspect element to grab the placeholder text to test it out :)
Comment · 1 year ago
I bought the color package, enjoying it. It's a personal preference. Hopefully the founders get a variety of feedback and can make a judgement based on multiple datapoints.
Comment · 1 year ago
That worked. Really well!

But, white on black is really ugly. Even black on white or a simple inversion would be an improvement.

I think it could benefit from the ability to pause and see the transcript, and make edits before the video is generated.

Comment · 1 year ago
X is so large that it can simultaneously be a giant dumpster fire, the most toxic social network ever to exist, and still have room for honest discussion and good communities.

Gives me some hope for Bluesky, etc. I don't think you need to be Twitter scale or have global network effects to work. Your community just has to choose a particular platform and show a preference for it. You get miniature network effects once your community adopts it.

So if your favorite community doesn't like a particular platform, I don't think they're stuck there, just because it's the one with global scale. They just have to organize an exit.

Comment · 1 year ago
I thought it was an April fools joke, glad I'm not the only one.

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