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"Do you really think he's complaining about the white Aussie bartender who comes over here?"

-> Theres little complaint about the "white" Ausie bartender, BECAUSE he probably speaks great English, came there legally, isn't consuming wellfare resources, isn't advocating for Sharia law, and might even end up going back to Ausie land.

It's not about *skin color*, it is about culture/crime/wellfare resources and legal double standards.

If an Ausie entered the UK illegally, he would be deported. If an Ausie committed a crime, he goes to jail and/or deported. With these other people, they enter illegally but then get placed in tax payer funded hotels and politicians conspire with police to cover up their crimes (see the rape gang scandals) and they literaly arrested the victims.

At one point there were plenty of complaints when *too many Polish white dudes* rocked up in the UK and competed for jobs and didn't always speak good English.

Not about race - it is about Language, culture, job competition, crime rates, wellfare resources, values (sharia-law / treatment of women), social integration vs enclaves.

And only when it involves so many millions of people comming in that it rapidly alters the local culture. (or shifts votes! or whatever other thing people care about - overwhelming of infrastructure / housing availability)

Why is DHH a racist for sympathising with some Britts whom are unhappy with the 60% cultural transformation that is occuring in London?

You are reading between the lines to hastily conclude that DHH is a racist. You need more than just "he wasn't complaining about white Ausie bartenders".

Quote me an actual paragraph or sentence where DHH says he dislikes anyone because of their race ? Or stop calling people racists without hard proof. The tone of that DDH London article seems quite radical. But tone is not enough to indict.

And this is why these very serious words have lost their power. Racist, Sexist, Fascist.... When half the country is deemed to support "literal" Himler, or when Elon Musk, or Jews with family impacted by the Holocaust, are called Nahtzees, then these words have been diluted to mean nothing.

I hope people who so overused&misused these words are happy with what they achieved.

Congratulations you made these words lose all power. I would have preferred a world where these words still had serious meaning attached to them.

Yes many of us are surprised at negativity at Grok.

Grok is a top contender for me.

I also use 5 LLMs in parallel everyday, but my default stack is Grok, DeepSeek, Gemini 2.5 pro, ChatGPT, Claude - same as OP but I most often switch out Perplexity for Gemini. (DeepSeek with search has become my perplexity replacement usually)

Most of my questions don't hit topics prone to trigger safety blocks, in this case I find gemini surprisingly strong, but for difficult things Grok often wins.

Gemini and Grok and Claude benefit a lot whenever they supplement their knowledge with on demand searches rather than just quick reasoning. Ask a deep insight question on Gemini Pro without making it research and you will discover the hallucinations, logical conclusions that contradict actual known facts etc. Same with Grok. Claude Code CLI when going in circles, remind it to google for more information to break it out.

Grok one shotted a replacement algorithm of several hundred lines of code to replace a part of an operational transform library that had a bug for the last 5 revisions. It passed all my tests. Base grok 4 Model wasn't even optimised for code at that time. Color me impressed!

Great way to create future technologist or someone who will seamless use powertools to amplify whatever else they choose to do in life.

Still this is the crux of the linux experience and why I still don't main it - having to read logs to understand why an Xbox controller doesn't work.

Or a million other things like this. Sure it keeps getting better, by a lot. But the number of rough edge cases still is an issue every time I try out lonux again after lots of people tell me "Today Linux is different" - they always tell me and I always find, no it's still a thing you will still need to go spelunking in tech wizardry to do things that mostly just works on some other mainstream OS, like macos or even windows.

Classic! So true!

One reason to buy a 10 year bond over a 3 month bond paying the same interest rate - if you are worried that future interest rates could be lower on average than current rates. With 3 month bonds you need to replace then every 3 months, and if interest rates decline you can no longer get that rate. If you buy the 10 year, you've locked in your rate.

What makes investors patient when no profits for years, is when they see growth, entrenched commanding lead and network effects, large user base etc. As long as investors can imagine a good likelihood of eventual profitability, then growth in the present is a fantastic substitute for profits.

Growth tells you the eventual profits will be bigger. Leadership and moat gives certainty that the company will actually get the profits for the market they grew.

Immigrants or illegals?

I love this comment. I've also been in similar conundrums with products vs my values, but I have made a rule to limit how much I'm willing to deprive myself in service of values.

Very expensive beer! That six pack cost them a lot of market share. But I think the wishy washy interview with the marketing person in charge of that decision did not exactly help, with the typical beer chugging target demo.

Elon desperately convincing everyone he is not a Nazi, is like being asked to answer the question "Why do you beat your wife every day? " And then you trying to explain that "no it's not every day, in fact it is never." And then public opinion be like "He doth protest too much"

The reason people think Musk has gone mask-off for flipping politically left-right is because my strong suspicions are that really he is pretty centrist with some situational nuance around it.

He has some lefty care morality positions, like UBI which contrasts with his libertarian views.

If he thinks the left is going too far he jumps right, if he thinks the right is going too far or just flat wrong about something urgent and important he will jump left hard again, make no mistake.

He has at varying times supported climate change, maga, UBI, vocally anti Big Beautiful Bill, calling Trump involved with Epstein.... that is quite the mix, and the only one of these positions that actually benefitted him personally/financially was climate change.

All his other opinions ultimately hurt him a lot more than it benefitted him. It's not stupidity that makes him support causes that hurts him financially. It's because he thinks it's for the greater good.

Was buying twitter financially profitable? It may eventually be. But he tried to back out once he saw just how rotten a deal financially it will turn out for him!

A complex guy. Somewhat wings it when the way forward isn't clear.

“Twitter is biased. Let's buy Twitter. Oh sht, it's gonna cost me HOW MUCH? And it's profit potential is only THIS? Uhm, let's cancel the deal, was it really binding?“

I've always been perplexed when I see 100s-1000+ people work on software product development and very little happen with the product for YEARS while there are tons of obvious (to me) improvements possible. Only tiny bug fixes released on a pretty slow release cycle. Then I also just think of the twitter/X example.

Occasionally one reads stories of how people get paid pretty hefty salaries to mostly just work very casually. Contrast with the usual software engineering types I know that work insanely hard solving difficult problems day-in and day-out.

When I was younger I remember a lot of project managers (almost exclusively ladies in my environment back then) that mostly just ran around interrupting the programmers and relaying feedback and status and a lot of chitchatting and busy work. Often there can be tons of support roles, wellness officers and who knows what that can probably be slashed. What shocks me is when a lot of these really low value-add positions are given high seniority with crazy paychecks and very little real skill required and fairly low responsibility or accountability for anything vaguely tangible. I suspect in tech companies generating huge cashflows that almost seem decoupled from headcount in comparison to non-tech businesses, this stuff just get covered up. A big machine that is very profitable due to massive competitive advantage/network effects, can hide a ton of HR waste.

In contrast I like the fact that there is often an indication of what is not substantiated by strong/provable/scientific evidence and what is not. In fact I quite love both these subjective experience reporting and the more sceptical perspectives. A lot depends on the specific subject and whether evidence exists or is feasible to gather. I would hate to not hear about cool sounding ideas that MIGHT work, but is just not endorsed by rigorous chains of evidence. As long as the discussions are honest and in good spirit. People can point out risks and likihoods and alternative explanations. I really like those too.

Do we know? Is this answerable in advance? Probably not.

The reason why companies cut jobs while increasing prices for the same or worse products...... is.... wait for it..... money printing. NOT some new found level of corporate greed, companies have ALWAYS been greedy. It's not a change in greed. It's the result of the covid shutdowns where money printing was increased at the same time as the production of goods and services declined. That economic imbalance is still being felt, and of course money printing has re-accelerated after the big inflation scare caused them to temporarily cool it down.

Why is there no finder specific setting that if it receives focus and has no window open it automatically creates the default one?

The current behavior is such a terrible user experience.

I don't know how a company as big as apple can leave everyday things in such a terrible state.

"... of Silicon Valley billionaires whose creativity consists mostly of appropriating other people’s"

Are certain university departments stacked with people who think this way?

Have they spent any time anywhere near any super successful tech people? I mean, BEFORE jumping to conclusions I would label as rather obnoxious unsubstantiated slanderous opinions about a whole class of people. (They're tech billionaires, so f them right ?)

Not the original commentor, but outrage aside, what choices are there? Sometimes a problem isn't solved despite a solution existing. But in this case it's not clear to me that any real "solution" exists?

For Palestine: Either defiant resistance until extermination (or victory whatever it means) or bowing to a group one hates with every fiber of your being? No? Other alternatives? Alternatives they would be willing to accept? How do you even get concensus on such charged matters?

A lot of Palestinians are non-negotiable about wanting all Israelis gone from the region. And a lot of Israeli's may be willing to accept terrible solutions - terrible for the Palestinians. Some say genocide. But how do you choose between genocide or tolerating ongoing attacks?

Other solutions: Outside intervention. Outside world intervenes, but how and at what cost?

And for how long, and will it really be effective? And effective for which side? Is there a way to intervene without tipping the balance in favour of one side over the other? How to intervene in the most fair way to all sides? And is the cost and risk even worth it - unlikely?

I don't see how. I don't see any solutions. I have not heard of any viable solutions acceptable to majorities of populations on both sides, or even acceptable to most impartial outsiders.

Problem is not solved, because it is unsolvable. So it will end badly? Or continue as is for decades more.

I pasted this into Gemini trying to find solutions, the best I can come up with is a two state solution, involving land swaps to clear up the border, and then an international peace keeping force seperating them.

Exploring this solution reveals problems on both sides with proposed land swaps, suggesting basically that outsiders will have to ram a compromise solution down the throats of both sides - which to me sounds rather terrible.

A solution does exist? - micro democracy, delegate more decision making authority to the smallest geographic unit possible. Then people are voting for someone from their neighborhood.

If you believe in it, then pay. Just leave the rest alone that want no part of it.

I agree, this obsession with filling the entire surface area with touch-sensitive display, and the quest for zero edge bevel width, is the bane of usability, often the soft fleshy part of your hand holding on the edge folds over and marginally makes contact with the screen, and then the screen ignores all your tops from your other hand that you explicitly makes.

My problem is I get high resolution (1080p) even if I want 240p!

I might be traveling and be on very expensive 3g data, and want to listen to a video and not care about the display but low quality setting means little when you are a premium user.

You have to explicitly change video resolution every time the next video starts playing.

You cannot choose explicit resolution preferences like you used to.

And I get no difference in what happens to resolutions chosen for me between these two quality settings. Seems random/non-deterministic.

Many like to say that LLM's cannot do ANY reasoning or "theory building".

However, is it really true that LLM's cannot reason AT ALL or cannot do theory construction AT ALL?

Maybe they are just pretty bad at it. Say 2 out 10. But almost certainly not 0 out of 10.

They used to be at 0, and now they're at 2.

Systematically breaking down problems and Systematically reasononing through parts, as we can see with chain-of-thought hints that further improvements may come.

What most people however now agree is that LLMs can learn and apply existing theories.

So if you teach an LLM enough theories iy can still be VERY useful and solve many coding problems, because an LLM can memorise more theories than any human can. Big chunks of computer software still keeps reinventing wheels.

The other objection from the article, that without theory building an AI cannot make additions or changes to a large code base very effectively - this suggests an idea to try - before promting the AI for a change on a large code base, prepend it with a big description of the entire program, the main ideas and how they map yo certain files, classes, modules etc, and see if this doesn't improve your results?

And in case you are concerned that. documenting and typing out entire system theories for every new prompt, keep in mind that this is something you can write once and keep reusing (and adding to over time incrementally).

Of course context limits may still be a constraint.

Of course I am not saying "definitely AI will make all human programmers jobless".

I'm merely saying, these things are already a massive productivity boost, if used correctly.

I've been programming for 30 years, started using cursor last year, and you would need to fight me to take it away from me.

I'm happy to press ESC to cancel all the bad code suggestions, to still have all thr good tab-completes, prompts, better than stack-overflow question answering etc.

I've abandoned paid services and cancelled subscriptions (or left them 1 star reviews if they're apps) after they repeatedly log me out for no good reason (like an app update that cannot be bothered to preserve and migratie state caches between upgrades) , force me to retype my username each time sporadically etc.

If I am on the same device and requested my credentials to be remembered, then if you sporadically forget it, and there is a reasonable replacement for the service or I can opt to forego it, that service is DONE and has lost me as a customer.

I dunno, when I listen to interviews with Marc Andreessen he sounds insanely smart.

This has always been my own mantra too, but then I never represented an enterprise buyer so maybe it is effective to screen out buyera like me, but I can imagine even as an "large enterprise level buyer" I would not want to deal with this. It just smacks of dishonesty when you will not provide ANY pricing indication whatsoever. I am surprised "contact us for pricing" still works in current year? I assume it does, because one still sees it sometimes. Maybe if almost everyone started shunning this (and I expect those in younger generations than me probably will!) this tactic will die out. I can sortoff understand it for cases where you want yo relicense your product/data to become part of someone elses product/service and these deals might be custom negotiated. But for normal use of a product or service? hell no!

Was it really intended as a Nahtzee salute?

20 years go while programming java, I was struck by how simple and universally useful it is, to have any method that throws exceptions to be forced to declare them in the method signature, and all callers are then forced to either pass on the exception or provide a try catch that deals with it, making it almost impossible to have programd crash from un handled exceptions.

It was perfect, except for all the crashes from null variables back then. And my current favourite language Dart cuts null pointers by 99.99 percent by giving you null safety.

Checked exceptions and null safety, and suddenly programs crash like 90 percent less.

Now we must just figure out how to systematically eliminate index-out-of-bounds too, then 98 percent of program crashes are gone. All without writing unit tests and other costly rituals.

Just good language design.

It is possible to be unhappy with the end result of Ukraine or Trump's views of Ukraine without psyching ourselves up that these two dudes are literally H*tler.