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stodor89··on Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
I'll take "jumping to conclusions" for 500, Alex!
stodor89··on Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste
"This program performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."
stodor89··on Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
> "yell" at it hoping that it will miraculously do what I want

It's certainly not helpful in getting the LLM from A to B, but maybe you don't care? Maybe you just need to blow off some steam?

People may call that irrational, but I'm certainly not seeing an abundance of commonly-agreed-upon rationality in all the other things they (we) do, so it's in character.

stodor89··on Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
Maybe, in a better world, but... nah, there's no time for that!
stodor89··on Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
Everyone is specific until eventually they get frustrated/annoyed/tired enough.
stodor89··on Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo
I'd say my Thinkpad X9's glass haptic touchpad is as good as my Macbook Pro's. Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen13 has a great optional haptic touchpad at almost no added cost, which makes the years of negligence even more insulting.

"Yeah, we can do it. No, it's not expensive. But we had to choose what to copy-paste from Apple this time around, and a haptic touchpad was $2.93, whereas hating our customers was free!"

stodor89··on Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?
Interpreting Vinca symbols as a full-blown writing system is also widely considered a stretch.
stodor89··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
I suspect erotic novels make it more likely for readers to become victims of abuse, if anything.
stodor89··on There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
I'd never trust a printer enough to leave a gun next to it. Especially if it's HP.
stodor89··on Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
> I'll await your Rust ports of Windows, Linux and MacOS then.

Unironically this. Like most game developers, I was extremely sceptical of Rust, based on opinions I've read on the internet. Ugliest syntax I've ever seen, and "safety" features are irrelevant and just get in my way. Compile times are glacial. Tons of direct and indirect dependencies needed.

But then I got to use it professionally for a year or so, and I was MINDBLOWN by how much less stuff I have to keep in my working memory at all times. And libs like tokio and actix-web were so well-designed that I actually enjoyed reading the code in my free time. Fighting the borrow checker? I had like five such instances in the first month, understood what it wants and why, and it never bothered me again. Compiles were indeed slow, but I went from "if it complies the first time around, I'm probably missing something" to "if it compiles the first time around, it's most likely correct".

Turns out, I had significantly underestimated what Rust brings to the table, while focusing on stuff that wasn't really that important once you get used to it.

Nowadays I'm back to gamedev. I'm happy about that, because my year in cloud/edge dev felt like we were consistently solving the wrong problems. But I do wish my current team was more open to giving Rust a chance. It solves so many actual problems, and is being dismissed with reasoning like "sorry, I don't have programming socks". And by very smart people! WTF is this timeline?

stodor89··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
> Soccer is by far the most popular sport on the planet, the fact that it makes a lot less money than hockey is insane.

FIFA is (1) on paper, not there to make money, but (2) in reality, obscenely corrupt.

Worldwide, association football makes more than all other sports you referenced, combined.

I hope this is UEFA taking a principled stand, but maybe there's some weird scheme going on, let's see what happens next.

stodor89··on Parody Hacker News (2013)
dang comment with links to other parts of the discussion
stodor89··on EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps
Of course they shouldn't get a pass.

My point is, we can't expect them to behave. And if they promise to, that promise isn't worth much.

stodor89··on EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps
That's a problem for future Homer. Man, I don't envy that guy!

pours vodka into a mayo jar

stodor89··on EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps
Yep. If a train ticket costs 100 euro and the fine for freeloading is 5 euro, you'd be a fool to buy a ticket.

Don't blame Google for pushing boundaries. That's what people (and corpos) do in any competitive activity. Do blame our politicians for being incompetent and ill-meaning.

stodor89··on Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
stodor89··on Apple increases MacBook and iPad prices by 20%
Pfft. It's been 6 years, they just introduced a shittier version, and it's a smash hit. Most ahead-of-its-time computer ever made.
stodor89··on How I play video games with spinal muscular atrophy
In Warcraft 3 we had Space: https://liquipedia.net/warcraft/Space
stodor89··on Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
Windows users don't care. The MS account is some set-and-forget BS for the most part.
stodor89··on Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
> they have no excuse

That's irrelevant, because they don't owe you an excuse to begin with.

stodor89··on The computer science degree isn’t dead
Open link. Get hit with corposlop imagery. Close article and go read HN comments.
stodor89··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The clear historical record seems to indicate we've got a bunch of pathological liars trying to automate pathological lying.
stodor89··on Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]
Common sense is not profound. What you suggested is a bit too much, but some accountability and reciprocity would be a good start.
stodor89··on Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]
I, for one, totally believe the government will prevent the government from abusing the government's power. /s
stodor89··on Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]
> Did they think

Pretty sure they didn't do a lot of thinking.

stodor89··on Hacker News, Sans AI
> Kind of like nuclear weapons

True, but you're not being bombarded 24/7 with irrelevant -- and most likely false -- information about nuclear weapons.

stodor89··on Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India
Civilizations have made underground cities for quite some time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu_underground_city
stodor89··on MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production
Better SoC, no spinning fans. Also the screen won't die after 2 years of light mode usage.

The remaining stuff... I'd say Lenovo has caught up for the most part.

stodor89··on 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
Yoo, what about the "and be happy" part???
stodor89··on 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
We're talking trillions here. They will absolutely have to make it work, whatever it takes.
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