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Tade0on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes

It is like I have been standing my whole life, and I just sat down.

I don't think I can find a better quote to describe this feeling.

My hypothesis is that to date they've been increasing benchmark scores via scaling up, but now that low hanging fruit is basically picked.

Tade0on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

For this to work long-term there has to be continuous improvement.

My belief is that paying off tech debt requires a better model than creating it. At the same time there are people who will create tech debt no matter the tool.

Should the models stop improving, the debt will pile up.

Tade0on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up

I second that question. Several times already I wished I had such a setup because the system was so congested that jobs would just time out.

Of course you can increase the duration, but if something is supposed to take less than 10 minutes but takes over half an hour, increasing limits won't really address the problem at hand.

Tade0on Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences

The other day I found that one old game of which I originally caught just a glimpse and remembered only a fragment of what one voice actor was saying is in fact Lords of Magic.

I attempted to google this a few years ago to no avail.

Tade0on Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution

So it is an engineering problem after all.

I watched the clip and the youtuber himself says the facility was poorly designed and should not have been built at all.

I've read ProLogium's press release when it came out and while their progress is impressive, I don't see their batteries making it to grid storage anytime soon. For one, they don't have the production capacity yet.

My bet is that for the time being it's cheaper to just build facilities with good fire prevention measures than have a technology which is just scaling up take over right now.

Tade0on Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution

Maybe. GP's comment about LFP is highly strange to me, as this type of batteries already passes the puncture test.

Li-poly, which are in just about every electronic device, on the other hand...

Tade0on Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution

> and LFP create huge amounts of colorless and odorless hydrogen gas

Lead-acid batteries do that while being charged, so it's an engineering problem to solve, not some insurmountable challenge.

Tade0on English: A vs. An

It leads to some funny situations.

This one time I was at a company get-together and the CTO, whose son was just born, received some Peppa Pig merch.

I exclaimed (in English) "Peppa Pig is the shit!"

The HR lady stared at me as if I killed her father with an accordion.

Tade0on Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'

This was such a weird gesture. Why did they need anyone to pay for the wedding and why did it have to be someone with ties to Putin?

Tade0on Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

Back then the term was still associated with 4chan.

Tade0on Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

I think a string of non-alphanumeric characters would work much better here, like "Once you have allowed that proprietary @#$&% into your C++ codebase”

Leaves more to the imagination.

Tade0on When code is a maze, smart developers make maps (2025)

I'm afraid this all gets thrown out the window nowadays.

Unless I tell them not to, LLMs lean on slapping verbose comments of the worst kind - describing the code instead of the reasons for putting it there.

I ask them to write comments in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, but all I really get from that is tersness.

Also the other day I stumbled upon a huge pile of documentation and I'm still trying to figure out if it's human or machine written. I stopped reading it half way through as I figured that perhaps it wasn't written for humans to read.

Tade0on Fuck it, make it anyway

I use LLMs at work. I'm expected to and paid to show up and do that, so I do it.

But I refuse to leave understanding the codebase to machines. I did that the other day as an exception and fortunately my reviewer picked up on things which weren't exactly broken - just redundant and inelegant - e.g. two variables which easily could have been one, passed between several methods.

We have an automatic reviewer as well and there wasn't even a peep from it regarding any of that.

And this is really the crux of the issue - LLMs won't ever create elegant and minimal code, because their style is based on the mean, which in turn is dominated by the work of people who shit out a lot of working, but write-only code.

Tade0on Fuck it, make it anyway

> I'm not going to share exact details about my paid app

You might not be aware of this, but you've answered the question - just indirectly.

Tade0on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]

IKEA is known for going the extra skogsmil in whatever they do.

Tade0on Eating Fruit Skins

I started chewing the leaves. There's a hint of strawberry in them.

Tade0on Eating Fruit Skins

My dad would peel the skin of every fruit, including grapes, which is how I learned to do it.

Tade0on Logo Programming Language

I learned the Language through examples because the version provided by the school didn't have documentation and in 00s Poland internet was still relatively rare.

I... participed in the competition, but that's all.

Tade0on Carmakers Have a New Idea to Boost EV Range: Add a Gas Engine

Interestingly, brands like Mercedes do the opposite - a recent test by What Car? indicated that the real (UK) highway range of the GLC 400 4Matic Electric is just 1.4% lower than its WLTP rating - 390 miles vs 394.

I don't know about anyone else, but I always needed a short break after 450km or so. Those 390 miles are more than I would ever use without stopping to charge.

Tade0on PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD

I must ask: as opposed to whiteboards or as opposed to screens for everyone?

Most certainly the latter is not implemented due to a lack of budget. Desks are still two-person as well.

Schools have always worked on a shoestring budget around here.

Tade0on PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkover

In sports it's victory because the opponents didn't show up or were disqualified.

Tade0on PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD

Here's a data point that should help:

Poland's math score dropped by just 5 points. As for other tests:

Science: -4

Reading: -7.

Much like with GDP per capita, my country is climbing the rankings, but only via walkover.

Tade0on AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200

There's an interesting phenomenon I've observed:

I am an extremely naive person in all aspects of life, except for money.

I was genuinely with you until I started reading that last paragraph.

Tade0on Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says

> An example would be the european reaction to AC.

That was over hyped in the media, particularly American.

It's largely senior citizens who oppose AC - they've spent most of their lives in a different climate and would rather not have to handle such an expense.

Meanwhile in some European countries like France demand for AC units doubled this year.

Tade0on Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says

> And nobody said that a vegan diet would have stopped climates change, they said strict vegan diets, ground based mass transit, dense development & re-wilding, energy transition.

That just makes it less possible.

Consuming and producing less is just not going to happen because there are at least four billion people who don't live the western lifestyle, but want to and there's not much that can stop them.

Tade0on AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems

LLMs reduced interest on tech debt, but it's still there and people who have a tendency to acquire it will go bankrupt eventually.

Tade0on The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

RPM is one thing, but the other is that engines run more efficiently at altitude due to the temperatures being much lower there.

Tade0on Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)

Using nitrogen-fixing bacteria is not a new concept and it's the life's work of Dr Mariangela Hungria, who recently received the 2025 World Food Prize for her achievements in the field:

https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/20202026_laureat...