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codingisfreedom··on New iPad mini
Came in to say exactly that. That’s what’s holding me back from upgrading my older Pro. I refuse to go back to 60hz.
codingisfreedom··on Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month
I seriously can’t understand why there’s so much respect for anyone that works at Meta.

These people have arguably contributed nothing to society for over a decade (and maybe even made it worse in some instances) for very fat salaries, and yet they’re being praised for being the example of best engineers.

I periodically use their websites and they’re horrible!

Seriously, we should know better as the dev-tech society.

And I don’t give a darn about their research that is being built on top of barely legal mass surveillance so don’t tell me their contributions from stealing data were helpful.

codingisfreedom··on Sonnet 5.5
Sonnet 5 had the same problem with ‘max’. In a free sub, I would never get an answer back even for very simple prompts. It would just churn on nothing and return max token usage reached.

I’m not sure whether that’s a feature or a bug at this point though.

codingisfreedom··on Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
I’ve asked Astra to build me an app for a prototype I created quickly using Sonnet.

It’s been 2 days and it made no real progress on the actual app. It created docs, scripts, workflows, and it’s doing a bunch of reviewing on every PR.

I told it that I just need an MVP.

I’m pretty sure an average senior engineer would have finished that task much quicker, and guaranteed with more readable, higher-quality code. Meanwhile, I think I’ve easily crossed 100k tokens so far on nothing.

Funny world we’re living in that this is “SOTA” and “AGI”.

I’m genuinely curious what these OAI and A/ engineers are working on that they praise these models so much. I did not see any improvement since Opus 4.5.

Also, I’m really unimpressed by any “one shot” demo that’s out there in the wild. It means nothing for serious software engineering.

codingisfreedom··on iPhone Duo
“The largest iPhone display ever”

Gosh I hate that idiotic marketing.

codingisfreedom··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
What’s the token usage of xhigh?
codingisfreedom··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
I really wish Firefox will catch up on the debug/devtools front. Nonetheless, I use FF as much as I can on both my mobile and desktop devices.
codingisfreedom··on Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo
I will never buy another laptop with less than a 500 nits display, no matter its specs/price.

I can’t believe virtually every other manufacturer is still making laptops with 250-300 nits.

Spending a full day looking at a dim, washed-out screen is just the worst experience ever. The fact that out of all manufacturers, Apple, which is considered the “expensive” and “premium” brand, made the Neo with 500 nits at that price point is just amazing to me. The rest have no excuse for putting these displays in laptops anymore.

codingisfreedom··on Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV
I think the idea of leveraging AI to find useless PRs is right.

I didn’t like the second part though where it starts banning people for “bad behavior”.

I get that AI resistance will be a thing in the next few years, but realistically engineers who plan on being around for the next 20-30 years just need to embrace it instead of being sour about it.

Because of machines, things have arguably improved for humanity as a whole. People who seek more elevated/finer products can still turn to handcrafted products.

Mass software will be produced by AI, and it will scale just fine.

codingisfreedom··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
Agreed. People seem to hold views that getting visas to the US is a human right.

It’s no fun, but these are adults (and often very privileged adults) that decided to move to a new country for more upside at the cost of no residency.

Conflating this with “inhumane” is just a basic misunderstanding of immigration and the contract these people signed up for.

Very uncomfortable, yet a risk these people took, and hopefully a conscious one.

codingisfreedom··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
By owned by other people you meant the Ottomans, right?

Cause they seemed to be just fine selling that land.

Also “ignoring the partition”? Literally the day the partition was adopted, the Arab league attacked Israel. 6 nations to 1, yet Israelis outsmarted them all (which is why you keep hating us).

Read more here (not TikTok) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War

codingisfreedom··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
If that ethnic group assembles a military group that invades your border and slaughters 1200 of your people in 1 day, then retaliation is expected. FAFO.

But I suspect you know nothing about Jews besides social media.

Next thing you’ll say we’re not native to that land right? We only lived in the middle east forever, but our food is cultural appropriation too, right?

codingisfreedom··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
I think you’ve been brainwashed so I’m out. Peace.
codingisfreedom··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
It has been attacked by a Palestinian militia terrorist group. Is it waging old testament wars? No, but it is retaliating at a rate the western world refuses to accept because the western world has different, much much milder kind of problems.
codingisfreedom··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
It’s not “whataboutism”, it’s micro geo political trends. Know the difference.
codingisfreedom··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
It’s mostly the national settlers that pull it toward extremism at its current state, not Haredim.

But it’s also October 7 that made the average joe even more extreme in their opinions.

codingisfreedom··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
It has been captured by bloodthirsty clique is true. But so does the US and every other nation around Israel.

Just check the facts about each and every government in the middle east.

codingisfreedom··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
I don’t support Netanyahu, and so does close to 50% of Israelis.

Qatar is spreading fake information and is funding Hamas as well as anti-Israel classes in major US colleges.

If you don’t trust Netanyahu then you should disregard the link you shared as well and that just strengthens my point.

codingisfreedom··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
These pile of rocks were funded by Qatar and that money could’ve been used to build schools instead of funding Hamas tunnels.
codingisfreedom··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
You can stop waiting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_child_suicide_bombers_b...