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FpUser··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
>"Honeycrisp " - it was my love until it was not. over the years the taste and texture have completely changed
FpUser··on Sonnet 5.5
>"but maybe less important than they once were"

On browser based front ends it seems to be the case for me even though I still impose certain guidelines. On my C++ backends, no fucking way. Even the best models produce working but absolutely disastrous non scalable (performance wise and design wise) code unless watched over like a hen. Having said that - the value I get in either case is enormous.

FpUser··on Windows 11½
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FpUser··on Windows 11½
Lol. Love it but for some reason my windows does not do any of that
FpUser··on Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)
My latest C++ project is assessment engine covering various actuarial type things like calculates risk for insurance etc. Typical performance for bulk calculation reaches millions to 10s of millions assessments per second on 16 core server. Well there is a trick there that inside it JIT compiles rules from a DSL to an executable code. interpreter mode (used mainly for audit mode) is about 3-5 times slower which is still insanely fast
FpUser··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
>"Those wars are essential to protecting our economic interests"

Translation - we bomb people for money. well thanks for being frank anyways. otherwise it is sick to hear all that moralizing about "us being a good guys"

FpUser··on The first new cat species discovered in 100 years
>"I'd be getting scared when a cat reaches the 20kg threshold" - most likely even 10kg cat will shred you before you could blink. They're insanely fast and surprisingly strong for size. Furry explosives they are
FpUser··on The first new cat species discovered in 100 years
I have Bengal cat. Absolute love
FpUser··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
there is no smoke without fire
FpUser··on Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
>"Key for me is to "group" cables. For example, I have a bag of USB-C cables, a bag of USB-A cables, etc."

Yeah. I do the same

FpUser··on What will our economic future look like?
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FpUser··on iPhone Duo
There is a difference between laptop and a phone. Hopefully in the future phone can be switched to a full desktop mode and OS when it beams to large screen. Well that is unless by then we have chip in our brains or what's equally bad everything rented and leased and can be used from any physical location. Convenient but deadly.
FpUser··on iPhone Duo
>"I find Dex to be decent enough" - I guess it is very personal. I find it atrocious. Not this and not that. My instincts are screwed
FpUser··on Coyote v. Acme (1990)
Same here. It was really cheesy for my taste
FpUser··on iPhone Duo
>"kinda" - is a keyword. experience is abysmal, especially when it works but true desktop paradigm is not supported
FpUser··on iPhone Duo
>"breakthrough foldable design" - and what exact part of it is "breakthrough"? Do they have "invisible fold"?
FpUser··on iPhone Duo
>"I am in my 50s and don’t see myself staring at screens for too long, let alone coding."

I am 65 and still enjoy software development (not coding in particular) but decomposing business idea into software architecture and functionality. Decomposing is the part I really enjoy, the rest is a necessity but with AI that rest takes way less of my time than it used to.

I do not work for someone though. I develop products for clients or for my own business, was doing it all my life and was doing it from my own office for last 26 years. Not overworked either. Have enough time to enjoy life. Al in all very happy

FpUser··on iPhone Duo
in 10 years any phone should be able to wirelessly stream it to any monitor / tv and plenty of those will be everywhere
FpUser··on Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
>"I would prefer EU territory instead of "inside-europe-Belarus" for exemple."

Unless Great Orange or his successor/s would start having ideas

FpUser··on Can guitar frets perform multiplication?
The question is can those frets run Doom
FpUser··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
He who kills the dragon becomes one.
FpUser··on Gemini 3.8 Flash
>"safety performance" - this starting to get long in the tooth. Gemini cut programming session 3 times for "safety reasons" yesterday for mentioning image generation (I need to generate bunch of those for infinite zoom virtual training app experience). After I got creative and managed to trick it to answer t was of course because "think of a children"

And in my other app I was debugging and using OpenAI to optimize some path it cut me off numerous times because it did not like JIT functionality (this is my commercial business rule evaluation engine that compiles rules to executable code inside the app to increase performance using asmjit library)

I am basically paying for them to waste my tokens and time on these 2 tasks

FpUser··on FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
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FpUser··on A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]
love it. It has a mood
FpUser··on Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache
Tools exist to serve us, not the other way around.
FpUser··on AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
>"I won't get in your way."

Smart choice

FpUser··on AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
>"A lot of people may have to transition to careers that people do not want to have AI do, like nursing."

Becoming bum or going off the grid would be way more attractive to me than working my ass of in stressful conditions for meager pay so some motherfuckers can buy yet another yacht

FpUser··on AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
>"At some point, it will be cheaper to take the risk and train the junior entry person again"

I think they will have big problem finding people who will actually train those juniors by then.

FpUser··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Call me when Linux will be officially supported. After that I can look and see what else can I get for the price and maybe then ...
FpUser··on Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation
It is a pity they have such a short lifespan
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