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CookieCrisp··on They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7
I feel like having a local qwen model that could run without the internet competes with having a local searchable wikipedia. If disaster does strike, we could now recreate a lot of knowledge with a single high end pc
CookieCrisp··on [dead]
The Cursor blog says it was not developed by Anthropic
CookieCrisp··on The tragedy of losing your Wikipedia page
I don't think it has to be entitlement. It could be a sign that you were "up and coming" and now you're not. I can see how that'd still sting a bit even to have external validation of your own anxieties.
CookieCrisp··on Microsoft and Epic Games Suddenly Agree That AI Is Theft
I think this is a bit disingenuous. The stance they’re taking seems consistent to me. I’m Interpreting their view as “Using AI to create something new isn’t theft, using it to recreate or access an existing product is copyright infringement” - makes sense to me
CookieCrisp··on IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem
Good enough for the old world, but I'm not so sure it's good enough for what's coming.
CookieCrisp··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
Your reality sounds miserable to me. “The only ways to be creative are the ones I deem acceptable, otherwise it’s tainted”. That’s snobbery at it’s greatest
CookieCrisp··on PHP 8.2.35
No, the entire world abandoned it when you realized it wasn't the perfect language. The rest of us are just role playing today basically. It's a bit of a lark, kind of like civil war reenactment.
CookieCrisp··on Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)
Personally, I’d be glad to be woken up for something like this. I wouldn’t want it to be a demand, but a demand wouldn’t be needed anyway
CookieCrisp··on Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now
Several people who work on PHP have said it's not enough, that only the patch will do, but, they're staying silent otherwise
CookieCrisp··on How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
I’m not worried about becoming like them, and I have never once seen complaining about them or calling them out work positively for the person doing it. But, I’ve found acting confused and asking them for more detailed information has helped.
CookieCrisp··on Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
Hear hear! It took me a bit but I've reached the point where I'm enjoying just "growing". I think we grew up in a world that molded us to compete, and to judge ourselves based on others, but I think with AI we're going to reach a point where our hobbies are going to be just seeing what we can accomplish for ourselves.
CookieCrisp··on Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things
10 minutes of AI doesn’t ruin someone from programming or solving fractions either, it just lowers the ability short term. Likely not by making someone dumber but instead impacting motivation. Give someone a calculator and then take it away and you would get a similar result
CookieCrisp··on Reasons to Dislike AI Coding
They’re looking for reassurance to avoid fear. The same way we all do when we see that someone has been in a freak auto accident, we try and find some way to tell ourselves “oh, that wouldn’t happen to me”
CookieCrisp··on FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks
I spent three months in another country where I didn’t apeak the language very well. Hard not to see life’s brutal realities from that position
CookieCrisp··on Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art
He did alright, he might have been right 20 years ago too
CookieCrisp··on FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks
I was incredibly more naive and idealistic 2 years ago. Seeing the world more accurately than I did before has been quite the shock
CookieCrisp··on Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs
I just will never understand how you all can have your head so deep in the sand.
CookieCrisp··on Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs
LLM's are already transformative. I get thinking it isn't going to solve all the world problems, but, companies throughout the entire world are already using it at enormous numbers. Transformative means it changes the world, it already has. It does not mean it changes your life.
CookieCrisp··on Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
Indeed, I’ve heard so many people misunderstand it because of this type of wording. Like there is still some plan and series of steps we’re following - which really misses the whole point and why it’s worth knowing in the first place
CookieCrisp··on Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
What did people do 500 years ago?
CookieCrisp··on I don't want to read what you didn't write
That’s like, just your opinion man.

I disagree, but I think neither of us are going to benefit from continuing this discussion.

CookieCrisp··on I don't want to read what you didn't write
I think there are a lot of situations unaccounted for here

- people writing in a non native language

- people insecure in their writing

- people not used to writing in industry terms

- people with the curse of knowledge that are aware that they can’t write for a general audience well

Surely others too. None of those mean you have to read it, but I have gotten immense value from reading some things people have had ai write (and I’ve seen a ton of junk as well)

CookieCrisp··on Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August
Nah, I used $1500 in api prices last week, after caching (8900 ignoring caching) for what amounts to $50 a week. They’re nowhere near api prices yet
CookieCrisp··on Xiaomi MiMo v2.6
The US is meeting with China to discuss the threat of AI… May be fine but, i’m wary
CookieCrisp··on Saving another 100TB of RAM
And yet the world still turned
CookieCrisp··on Iranian banks' SSL certificates are being revoked due to OFAC sanctions
Hahaha, that’s a good joke
CookieCrisp··on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
Classic example of victim blaming. Not the company generating the ad, not the company approving it, but the person who is trying to block it, and then ACTUALLY did stop using Adsense.
CookieCrisp··on Feeling Sad about AI
One of my early programming jobs was bringing a print newspaper to the web. I was actually going through some of my emails from that time yesterday, which brought back a lot of memories. I was largely despised by most of the staff. Some told me the internet was a fad, others assumed I thought I was better than them. The editor kept insecurely saying “I know you think I’m a dinosaur and don’t want to hear what I have to say but…” the thing is… I didn’t think they were dinosaurs at all. I had enormous respect for them (it’s why I applied!), I knew the internet was inevitable and wanted to salvage as much as I could of what I loved.

The internet did change their industry and the world. Many of them did lose their jobs. That is what technology does. Efficiencies mean someone somewhere is no longer needed. That was hard for me to accept for a long time, but if you have programmed professionally long enough you have almost definitely indirectly contributed to some job loss. (And new jobs as well! But… to the people who do lose their jobs, there is little comfort in that)

I think what is worth keeping in mind though is 1) wishing something away wont make it so, so it is best to do your best to avoid putting your head in the sand, and 2) while many many people will be completely uprooted (sometimes in miserable ways) that is not at all a statement about them. The journalists of before were and are still incredible people, the brick layers too. Us doing work that wasn’t automatable before did not make us better than them, or even more creative than them.

CookieCrisp··on Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue
No, but it makes sense to me that we’d need to go through this step to get where we want to go
CookieCrisp··on Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
And storing memories for every “footgun” it finds, while removing more important memories (or shortening them until they’re inaccurate or useless)
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