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dieortin··on Gemini 4 Carbon
I really liked Bard as a name. IMO it’s much better than Gemini. Not sure why you think they desperately want us to forget it :)
dieortin··on AI promised less work. I've never worked more
> I love writing code (…). Writing code, however, is daunting, taxing on the mind, takes a lot of mental toll, and you must be in the proper mental space. So if i have a tool, that can take some of that weight off of my mind, so i can focus on the bigger picture, is a good thing.

You clearly don’t love writing code.

> I write code on the train, and in my sleep nowadays

And you don’t write any code. Not in the train, not in your sleep, and probably not in the office either. Having Claude do it for you is not writing code. You wouldn’t claim to be writing code if you had an intern do it while you sleep.

dieortin··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
In my experience it is extremely buggy now. For months the “copy link” feature in tweets didn’t work. The video player is broken half the time, and videos get stuck when you try to rewind them.

Also, it is now full of bots and grifters, plus Musk’s own promoted tweets with whatever political thing he’s obsessed with at the moment showing up in everyone’s timelines.

dieortin··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
Why?
dieortin··on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
Scores are dropping all around the world. I don’t know why you’re suggesting it’s only happening in the US.
dieortin··on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
Yeah, because US companies are forced to offer their services in the EU, right? And they definitely don’t do so because it’s incredibly profitable. Plus, the US definitely hates that the EU depends on them for so many things, giving them huge power and leverage.

What a great point you’re making here!

dieortin··on New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors
Isn’t Kimi K3.1 pro developed by an AI company?

> You are tying AI usage to bigAI and that is unfounded.

Tell me a single competitive AI model that hasn’t been created by a large AI company. I don’t care if weights are open or not.

dieortin··on How the Claude Code team does code review
> can roll back changes and investigate them

Sure, you can do that, but irreparable harm might have been already caused. Sure, that’s unlikely when your product is an LLM wrapper. But in something like a database, it could be catastrophic.

dieortin··on How the Claude Code team does code review
> One colleague said slowing down does lower your error rate, but mostly because you're doing less of everything

That’s not how rates work

dieortin··on New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing
> Apple does not give Withings access to Apple Health's data

What do you mean? My Withings app can access that data without issues

dieortin··on Muse Spark Open
I’m surprised it had time to “wreck multiple codebases” in the few days it’s been out
dieortin··on Muse Spark Open
MacOS, even nowadays, has a level of polish and care put into it that nothing you do with opus is going to get close to.
dieortin··on Gemini 4 Argon
Opus is 2x the price. If it’s more intelligent or not is hard to tell, this model has been out for a day.
dieortin··on Gemini 4 Argon
> It is mind boggling how difficult it is. I should be able to go to some well known URL, e.g. gemini.com

What’s so complicated about going to gemini.google.com ?

> Why isn't it called Gemini Desktop

There is a Gemini desktop app. Antigravity is for agentic stuff, similar to Codex.

dieortin··on Gemini 4 Argon
Sounds like you were using the older Gemini 3.1 Pro from February, and not the new release this post is about
dieortin··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
> Only now that their job (the elites) has been automated

I’m sorry, are you seriously referring to mathematicians as elites?

> People who weren't in the club and genuinely enjoy math are having the time of their life proving results

If they couldn’t do so before and they can now, it sounds like they don’t understand what their LLMs are producing anyways. That doesn’t sound very fun to me. If they genuinely enjoyed math, maybe they would want to understand it instead of prompting an LLM to do stuff for them?

dieortin··on Gemini 4 Argon
He’s just wrong, 3.6-flash-lite does not even exist. He definitely has access to regular 3.6 flash.
dieortin··on Gemini 4 Argon
Aren’t Muse and Dots literally the same as Gemini Spark, which came out months ago?
dieortin··on When did Google get so weird?
> They no longer index sites or take ages to do so

Search for any recent news and you’ll see this is obviously not the case

dieortin··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
90% * 60% = 54%, which is still way better than the most efficient internal combustion engines. So even in that case an EV is still better. Plus, it gets greener when the grid gets greener.
dieortin··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
Very impressive for a combustion engine, but still way worse than the ~90% efficiency of a battery electric car
dieortin··on Audacity 4.0
Why do you care so much about the UI framework used?
dieortin··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
I don’t know if you’re joking, but I don’t see anything in the linked tweet which suggests that is the case
dieortin··on Hang on to Your Firefox
Aren’t Chrome and Firefox also filled with “horrible unsafe C++”?
dieortin··on No AI Fridays
Based on what you’re describing as “your zone”, I would assume you have never experienced the flow state others are talking about. Flow state comes with long stretches of deep, focused work, without context switches or interruptions. This is fundamentally incompatible with what you’re claiming to be “your zone”.
dieortin··on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
Do you have a source for this being the reason they might remove some troops?
dieortin··on Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items
Maybe you eat a lot of calories, or dairy?
dieortin··on Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM
Your network exposure is via the windows network stack first, then Firefox.
dieortin··on Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit
Not details, but at least having a basic notion of where countries are located. Everyone should be expected to know, for example, that Mexico and Spain are two different countries that are located in different continents. Yet it’s always people from the same country referring to one by the name of the other.

https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2015/10/22/why...

dieortin··on Protobuf has LSP support
Depends, if you use textproto then renaming is problematic too
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