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Comment · 2 days ago
> Claude Code had been installed

I just do not understand. CC is not the sole harness in the world, why the attackers insist to use it.

Comment · 2 days ago
same. I have Pro plan so I was pretty excited when Argon was released. But it was such a disappointment.

the problem with gemini is the whole app itself, not the model.

when you use other chat app, like chatgpt or deepseek chat, the app will use web search for everything to verify. and if it can not find anything useful, or the current fact is disputed, it will try to call web search tool again and again until the consensus.

meanwhile gemini will refuse to do web search if possible, and only do it a single time if demanded. worse, it uses the same result from google search, so the top ranking answers are almost all SEO garbage.

since then I just stopped asking gemini again. and I don't think the newer model will change the situation.

Comment · 5 days ago
???

CSS tricks was never about only css, it also had js, html, design and other tips, too.

Pretty useful to catch up with webdev related new features

Comment · 6 days ago
While it is not open sourced yet (to be honest it is not as important as you think, many programming languages are mostly implemened by a dozen people, even a single creator is not rare) it is not like he forbids anyone to ask for being beta testers, just like the blog writer.
Comment · 6 days ago
please. think about it a little more.

it is true you dont want to trip you up by the language you use, but look what people actually use the languages, not by theory.

almost nobody writes the high performant code directly, usually they just call some libraries that do the job instead. if you are the library writers, then sure, that's a different matter (but people have been doing it forever using c/c++), but for people who use the libraries to write the code, they don't care about any of that.

many people rather pick python, lua, ruby to write applications, even games, despite the low performance of the scripting language, but they don't care. and if it is only the scripting aspect of the whole framework (implemented in C++) then the speed lost is even less.

heck, even for rust, the core libraries always need unsafe blocks, despite they do not recommend user code to use them. it is the same story everywhere. the hard part will be write by more experienced people (and with more effort), the typical users just write domain logic instead.

so, for most people, they indeed need simpler languages with lot of syntactic sugars for better developing experiences.

Comment · 6 days ago
you are not wrong. but like I said it is entirely his choice, which is also reasonable considering the budget Order of the Sinking Star already burned (I heard it was at AA level already)

it is not like he can get the funding via opensourcing the language to cover the development. what he and his company needs is the game to finish and release and get enough profit to cover all the expense. making a new engine is already risky enough.

you just can't ask a man to ruin his whole career/life because it benefits you.

Comment · 6 days ago
Disagreed. C with syntax conveniences is what most people need.
Comment · 6 days ago
Eh? It is not his duty to public his language. It is not like publish the language is the end of story, you need to deal with the flood of feedback, that not always from good wills. The drama could cause him to lost time, effort and motivation, and hinder his game dev process.

It is pretty understandable he needs to hold back before he releases his new game, or even more.

Comment · 7 days ago
Revenue, not profit.

I hope Europe all the best but there is a reason why only US companies dominating those space.

US companies can operate in lost for many years, because they have deep pocket, and also because they have many way to earn profit.

Comment · 8 days ago
Wal or wal2 can help you with that.
Comment · 8 days ago
Well, that can be a recognizable pattern, too. Just imagine when you vibe code using the Chinese models, it suddenly becomes very slow then the output is drastically improved. It would be hard to not notice it.
Comment · 8 days ago
It is technically impossible, considering they need to serve them live and the token generation speed is a hard limitation. Just think about it, since us models hide their CoT, there will be dozens seconds delay before the first output token retuning to the user. And to predict the fake CoT correctly you need to at least read enough output tokens to make it believable. Then you have to hide their own model CoT to generate said synthetic CoT, which mean further delays. Adding up it will be at least 30s or 1m before you first seeing the thinking process.

I don't think nobody would notice such delays, because Chinese models do not need to hide the CoT like US models so usually they start emit text pretty soon

Comment · 8 days ago
It is not simple like that, anthropic claimed that they (Chinese labs) routed the api calls to Claude models to keep the illusion that Chinese models are also capable.

So it is not that the labs call the requests parallely and only return the internal version, but also serve those requests live so they can trick the users that the Chinese models are also great.

Which is very silly considering Chinese models are published to huggingface for everyone to test.

Comment · 8 days ago
It is pretty obvious anthropic is lying yet again if you think about it rationally.

Unlike Claude models which always hide the thinking process, Chinese models always show it. So how the heck they can delegate the api call to anthropic and still get the full reasoning? Yes there are tricks to reveal the thinking output, but they are just tricks and do not works reliably. So what would happen when they failed to do it? Cancel the ongoing token generation and revert back to it own model? What about the glitches, the delays, the changes in behavior?

I would understand if the attempts are small in volume, because normally people hardly notice it, but anthropic claims that they happened for millions of calls. Such large numbers would surely get noticed by Chinese users and got reported in the tech forums like linux.do. yet we haven't seen any sight.

Comment · 9 days ago

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