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PacificSpecific

270 karma · joined December 8, 2025

Programmer and technical artist
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PacificSpecific··on Anthropic S-1
I presume you mean a stock that holds its price with no dividend?
PacificSpecific··on The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines
The problem is it's hard to realize that is indeed the case.
PacificSpecific··on Firefox Enterprise
Still wild to me that people would gamble or look at pornography on a company computer
PacificSpecific··on AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Sounds like he wasn't allowed from my talks with him but I had the same thought as you.

My guess is since it's an industry with a lot of compliance maybe there was a requirement.

PacificSpecific··on AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
For the first time a friend of mine left a job because they were fed up that 80% of the job was reviewing Claude submissions. I have to admit that would probably drive me nuts as well.
PacificSpecific··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
Maybe I don't understand the word snarky but this seemed fine.
PacificSpecific··on WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload
I bounced around distros for a good while and nothing ever stuck until I tried Fedora. Now Linux is all I use. It's low friction and low maintenance.

Plus I went and installed a bunch of cool desktop effects so it's cool to me now :)

PacificSpecific··on ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)
Wow that makes it even more interesting!
PacificSpecific··on ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)
Are you originally from Russia?
PacificSpecific··on GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
Fallen off the homepage so what? I genuinely don't understand
PacificSpecific··on Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion
Oh yes I still use it at work.

The max account is for home projects where I'm basically making some common tools but tailored to myself (diet tracker, note app etc).

It's been great but across work and home it's just too much.

PacificSpecific··on Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion
I got a max account during this promotion and it's been very fun but I'm a little burned out and am kind of looking forward to going back and tinkering with game engines without the help of an LLM for code gen (will still use it for documentation questions but I can do that with the free tier)
PacificSpecific··on Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
Glad to see this comment as this has generally been my experience as well. I'm really curious to see why it's so infuriating for others. My best guess is I'm using it more conservatively than most other users in this thread.
PacificSpecific··on Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America
I dare say LLMs were one of the things that finally pushed me over the top to be a full time Linux user. For a lifetime Windows user Linux novice like me they really helped me get unblocked on basic stuff like installing Nvidia drivers and setting up a samba share.
PacificSpecific··on Do we just want slaves?
Anecdotally it does seem to be the case in my experience with extended family.
PacificSpecific··on Codex Resets
I've had this too on my personal pro plan and also when I run the usage command it says it's resetting tomorrow rather than getting cut off.

I'm trying to squeeze what I can in the meantime but I feel like they said it was getting cut off multiple times and they keep extending and possibly resetting it (havent been looking close enough to know for sure)

PacificSpecific··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
I think the person you are replying to was referring to Gary tan
PacificSpecific··on What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public
I've moved to Joplin and am pretty happy with it. Was easy to self host on my WebDAV.

I believe it imports Evernote data too.

PacificSpecific··on AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn
Honestly I can't tell the difference with LinkedIn. Feels the same as it's ever been
PacificSpecific··on PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform
Thanks for the insight. Do you think something like nebula could ever be feasible?
PacificSpecific··on AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design
Recently I heard some people conflate procedural generation and generative AI and I had to explain why there isn't some legal or ethical issue with what breaks down to essentially scattering some points.

It's really getting annoying having to have these conversations.

PacificSpecific··on PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts
A decade ago they pulled my purchased copy of mortal kombat 2. Not the first time they've done stuff like this.

I stuck to buying hard copies and dwindled off the series as they started to charge just to play multiplayer.

PacificSpecific··on When I reject AI code even if it works
Ah interesting. We are in very different domains haha. I had to search a lot of terms.

Thanks for sharing!

PacificSpecific··on Google Hits 50% IPv6
Thanks for the info! I'll look into openwrt
PacificSpecific··on Google Hits 50% IPv6
Fair enough. I do question it often.

It's a standard Asus router but it's given me a lot of ire. I hate to say it but it's never a problem when I install windows on the same machines

(I'm currently in the process of trying to completely remove windows from my life)

PacificSpecific··on Google Hits 50% IPv6
First thing I do on a fresh Linux install is set ipv6 to deactivated. Fixes all my initial Linux install problems. I don't question it, it just works every time.
PacificSpecific··on When I reject AI code even if it works
That's cool. Could you share some concrete examples of your successes?
PacificSpecific··on Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux
Don't worry you aren't. Luckily no one will use this distro day to day
PacificSpecific··on Valve raises Steam Deck prices
Never thought I'd be living in a world where my tech hardware purchases INCREASE in value over the years.
PacificSpecific··on Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image
Couple options I've tried. ALICE vision is an open source library (I used it through Houdini)

Also epic makes an app called Realityscan

The term is "photogrammetry" which might help in your searches

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