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stuaxo··on Microsoft Removes PC-to-PC Migration from Windows 11, Pushes Users to OneDrive
I'm sure this works fine when run in Microsoft offices (though I bet their actual IT don't do it).

So sick of pushing all our data to the cloud.

stuaxo··on Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why
Eh, including a whole browser has always been my complaint and I'm sure many others.
stuaxo··on Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
Thanks for the word nausea - I've been trying to put my finger on that - I kept thinking of sickness but that's too much, LLM nausea is definitely a thing.

Edit: I found reading those examples in the most sanctimonious voice I could imagine seemed very plausible - maybe LLMs sound like they are up their own arse.

stuaxo··on Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
I could handle the API being LLM generated (but maybe gently prize it out over time), it's the copy that gives me LLM nausea[1]

1 - thanks to the poster that mentioned nausea, I've been looking for the word to describe LLM based writing for a while and it's perfect.

stuaxo··on Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
Would be good if you could write the README without an LLM
stuaxo··on A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines
Aeropress is a similar amount of effort and just as quick.
stuaxo··on YC's Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens
Anyone worked out the carbon footprint of that ?
stuaxo··on Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver
Project should have generated some specs that a follow up clean room project could use.
stuaxo··on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
It's also introducing a new kind of technical debt much faster.
stuaxo··on Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too
Nope squishy is where it's at.
stuaxo··on The Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2B into the Midterms
Let me guess, they are all really nice people with no links to Epstein between them /s
stuaxo··on Show HN: UK Farming Simulator
American defaultism in the LLMs used to make this.
stuaxo··on Police Are Pulling People over Because AI Deems Their Driving "Suspicious"
AI magnifies biases and was trained off the internet so yeah the people are in the training.
stuaxo··on AI promised less work. I've never worked more
Sure but proper weekends are much much more recent.

But far away enough that we need to look at this again and get more time back to the workers.

stuaxo··on AI promised less work. I've never worked more
We had to riot and sometimes people were killed rioting to secure the weekend.

If things are to rebalance again and give some of the productivity gains back to the rest of us, we should be working far less and I hope it comes with less of a fight than it took for us to get 2 days a week off.

It's been over 100 years now.

stuaxo··on The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive
Its tiny, setting up traffic lights on some road junction might cost similar.
stuaxo··on Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
That antimatter particle when it gets to the end of the universe late: "you won't believe what happened to me..."
stuaxo··on Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
Sorry but no, this is absolutely not the case.

CA put out quizzes and in that era of Facebook the average user absolutely did not think filling in a quiz meant giving some organisation your data.

People probably didn't think about them being run by third parties at all - it was just a fun thing to fill in shared by friends and family.

stuaxo··on [dead]
Seeing such a ycominator comment makes me want to check them out.

> WeMove Europe is a values-based community of Europeans spread across the continent that seeks to build people power to transform Europe in the name of all people, future generations and the planet.

Ooh yes, how very dare they /s

stuaxo··on Pentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon for use at border
Sadistic
stuaxo··on The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden
AI data centres are a thing we are choosing to add, we could just not do that.

What benefit is the AI summary on search giving me Vs the actual search for a start.

stuaxo··on Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash
Of course I'll put rubbish in bins and maybe take it out as well as load the dishwasher - but I don't it under pain of penalty.

Air B+B used to be good about 10 years ago, but its scraping the barrel now and most of the time your better off on another site if you want a house or just booking a hotel.

stuaxo··on Migrate Your 300-Node Redis Cluster to Just 3 Lavik Nodes
What on earth is running on that, Panantirs spying database ?
stuaxo··on Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor
Oof.

LiteLLM has one of the nicest programmer UX to use but this is not good at all.

stuaxo··on Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare
Shutting down studios is what EA have been famous for in the industry for years.
stuaxo··on Ask HN: My Gemini bill shot up suddenly to 2500 USD in one day
Exactly. I use this stuff at work, but why would I ever risk this for my own stuff ?
stuaxo··on There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
Good for you.

I'm not an introvert and have worked under plenty of bad managers, I don't want to be a manager and wouldn't be a good one - I make stuff with code.

stuaxo··on How the Claude Code team does code review
It doesn't do all that much - so nobody being able to fit it in their head is not a good sign.
stuaxo··on Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years
Inequality has increased the middle class have been hollowed out and young people have no money so hardly surprising.
stuaxo··on Teachers Using AI Say It Frees Up Time for What Matters Most
How were the survey questions worded ?

Gallup will put up surveys for whoever pays.

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