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ACV001··on How to Write with an LLM
just don't use it for writing
ACV001··on The DeepMind Institute
I wonder if they could make the font even greyer on that website. MORE GREY because I am still able to read it (bearly).
ACV001··on I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs
Nice. It took me an hour just to understand what this competition is about :)
ACV001··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
$5500 for 96GB of RAM? insanely expensive (the MacOs is really bad compared to Windows or Linux).
ACV001··on Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees
yeah that's why the trend is now to call all back to the office so that you don't feel too well.
ACV001··on Linear algebra done right
agree, tried both and they are hard as a starter.
ACV001··on The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online
stupid idea
ACV001··on Cars collect a startling amount of data about you
There is a lot of legislation missing in the world. Partially to blame is corruption (so called lobbying), greed and so.
ACV001··on Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025)
Similar articles in the future. "Bitcoin mania: when a single bitcoin was worth more than a house"
ACV001··on Where the goblins came from
those idiotic remarks at the end of each answer are so unnecessary and annoying
ACV001··on HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)
the title spews evil
ACV001··on Astral to Join OpenAI
ok so the buying frenzy has started. We will end up with a new google basically monopolizing the internet. Only in this case it is much worse. M&As are evil.
ACV001··on A sufficiently detailed spec is code
I don't agree. The code is much more than the spec. In fact, the typical project code is 90% scaffolding and infrastructure code to put together and in fact contains implementation details specific to the framework you use. And only 10% or less is actual "business logic". The spec doesn't have to deal with language, framework details, so by definition spec is the minimum amount of text necessary to express the business logic and behaviour of the system.
ACV001··on Never-before-seen Linux malware is "more advanced than typical"
trash ad for linux antivirus. who uses that anyway?
ACV001··on I program without syntax highlighting
naive approach. waste of time. Learning to code outside an ide is only useful very rarely
ACV001··on I program without syntax highlighting
naive
ACV001··on Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics
Quite a dumb application of quantum physics. Cooling something to near zero, which takes energy, and is complex, and big, in order to obtain precisions which are magnitudes higher than what is necessary. As if one would use CPUs to prop up an uneven table and would boast that they use microelectronics.

"Instead of relying on conventional sensors, these devices use clouds of atoms cooled to near absolute zero. At those temperatures, atoms start to behave strangely — acting as both particles and waves. As the atoms “fall” through a sensor, their wave patterns shift in response to acceleration. Using what’s effectively an ultra-precise optical ruler, the system can read these changes with extraordinary accuracy, without needing satellites at all."

ACV001··on Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years
thank you for all you hard work!
ACV001··on Samsung engineer accused of giving handwritten 10nm DRAM data to CXMT China
great. hopefully the oligopoly will break and ram prices will normalise.
ACV001··on DIY NAS: 2026 Edition
raspberry pi + 2 HDDs and a 2 slot bay (~$150).
ACV001··on What is “good taste” in software engineering?
Readability and maintainability. When a new change is short you know the code has good maintainability, when you have to touch 30 classes to make a change, you know the code is not that well written.
ACV001··on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial
bullshit to increase sales
ACV001··on Kaleidos – A portable nuclear microreactor that replaces diesel generators
A startup where most of the money were spent on that animation on the website.
ACV001··on The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods (2018)
they should have called it parliament, not cathedral. BBC don't know the meaning of the word cathedral, or was this intentional to trigger some kind of reaction from religious groups.
ACV001··on Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing
bs article paid for by those big corporations.
ACV001··on Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist
Just as the invention of writing degraded human memory (before that they memorized whole stories, poems), with the advent of AI, humans will degrade their thinking skills and knowledge in general.
ACV001··on Scientists find another way we're exposed to forever chemicals: Through our skin
One must be naive to not know that all the shampoos, gels, creams, masks and all those introduce various chemicals into our bodies, some are more harmful than others.
ACV001··on Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly
Probably no, as they must have an agreement to sell your navigation as training data to those providers.
ACV001··on UK Government destroys £1.4B of PPE from one Covid deal
Ask Matt Hancock https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/28/matt-hancoc...
ACV001··on The Architecture Behind a One-Person Tech Startup (2021)
Stack and the technical part is rarely the important factor in success. The idea and marketing seem to be the important bit. The stack can be the cause of failure, but it can never be the reason for the success of a startup.
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