Yes, I dislike this kind of take so much. It keeps being repeated as a truthism and a way of putting down people that don't do what the speaker wants. It's fine to disagree, but there's no need to get such a threatening…
If people develop long COVID after catching COVID (even before the vaccine existed), but not after taking the vaccine, then the cause is the virus not the vaccine. Those weird comments coming back again and again is…
Oh, it did not feel AI but Pangram does say AI, high confidence. Good catch. (I'd trust an ML algorithm that only has to classify in two boxes, thus easy to evaluate, over my own gut feeling).
As much as I disagree with the general consensus that the article follows of "delegating non-automatable work that requires thinking and understanding to the machine because it is boring, even though the machine is…
Vaccines were very effective against the first variant, and got less effective with later ones. People forget about the timeline. Article mentions the delta variant at which time vaccines were still very effective IIRC.…
> Maybe I’m a bit weird, but I like seeing all these warnings: “You have unsaved work! Are you sure?” One of the reasons I don't like to reboot: Windows taking a few seconds to show the warning, so I have to either…
If Chat Control gets through, it means the Parliament approved it, which means the EU people voted for politicians that supported the idea. If the EU got dismantled, the same politicians would be elected (they won once…
Doesn't wine have various rules to remain a white-room implementation? Not sure using LLMs which have possibly been trained on leaked Windows sources would be compatible with that. But that's just speculation, I wonder…
Using Windows Server 2025 (it has an evaluation version), I encountered a few problems (Xbox Controller needing to dig out de Windows 7-era drivers, Meta Quest audio not working, using pnputil to import missing drivers…
Being sick ~20 days per year was the norm for me before remote work (and using N95 masks after it ended). Some people are lucky, others are not. (well, "luck" actually encompasses many factors such as population…
I'd be curious to see how much the decision to not recommend it in older people is "cost / benefit" ratio (the vaccine is expensive and if you say it may be slightly useful you might be putting pressure on yourself (as…
Fun fact: on modern Windows, if you uninstall modern notepad using the Settings app to get the old one, you won't be able to associate .txt files with notepad.exe without a registry trick:…
No idea about the overall background of the project or devs, but: https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/blob/master/CoC.md In my understanding a good chunk of the CoC dislike connects to MAGA ideology (because CoC aim at…
The alternative before is that you knew where you were reading the information from. So you knew what level of trust to give each information. AI summaries removes that ability from you, and even when it gives the…
There's much more air outside than inside, so 15C colder inside does not mean that the entire city gets 15C hotter outside. And in a heat event, most people are inside, not outside. 1C hotter outside to make it livable…
The cursor animation is actually a great one because it does not add any latency. By comparison, when animations are not disabled on my Pixel 6 it takes almost one second to switch application instead of maybe 100ms…
What are those dark patterns? It's an off button, it works, and it does not get back on. It's the polar opposite of the "maybe later, I'll ask again every week and reset the setting in your back" unfortunate norm that…
Games are for fun. Wasting time in a game is fine, that's what it is for. (edit: not saying that pejoratively) Other applications are to do things. They should do the thing and get out of the way as fast as possible.…
> Firefox will also disable V2 sooner or later. Source? > Firefox won't, because mozilla banned that extension from store. It's unbanned; the author chose to not put it back.…
France is quite likely to put the far-right in power next year, don't get your hopes up. I wish it wouldn't happen but a lot of people seem like they will not vote in a runoff between a far-right candidate and a…
More than non deterministic : LLMs don't have a specification to obey to in the first place, while compilers (rather, programming languages) do.
Fully agree with the article (as my comment history would attest). I wonder why people worry so much more about "determinism" over conformance to a spec. (a compiler can be nondeterministic and correct which is not…
There will still be jobs. Manual jobs, the kind that break our backs and have us breath various stuff we shouldn't (dust, fumes). Robots are difficult and maybe not so economically viable when everyone is desperate for…
You don't choose to use Windows. You have to. Because it's the only OS that supports whatever tool you need for your work. Windows is mandatory in many situations, which is why it can afford being obnoxious.
This was probably a joke about a lot of developers delegating coding to LLMs which are usually non-deterministic (which I personally think is less of an issue than LLMs not having specified behavior like programming…
Yes, I dislike this kind of take so much. It keeps being repeated as a truthism and a way of putting down people that don't do what the speaker wants. It's fine to disagree, but there's no need to get such a threatening…
If people develop long COVID after catching COVID (even before the vaccine existed), but not after taking the vaccine, then the cause is the virus not the vaccine. Those weird comments coming back again and again is…
Oh, it did not feel AI but Pangram does say AI, high confidence. Good catch. (I'd trust an ML algorithm that only has to classify in two boxes, thus easy to evaluate, over my own gut feeling).
As much as I disagree with the general consensus that the article follows of "delegating non-automatable work that requires thinking and understanding to the machine because it is boring, even though the machine is…
Vaccines were very effective against the first variant, and got less effective with later ones. People forget about the timeline. Article mentions the delta variant at which time vaccines were still very effective IIRC.…
> Maybe I’m a bit weird, but I like seeing all these warnings: “You have unsaved work! Are you sure?” One of the reasons I don't like to reboot: Windows taking a few seconds to show the warning, so I have to either…
If Chat Control gets through, it means the Parliament approved it, which means the EU people voted for politicians that supported the idea. If the EU got dismantled, the same politicians would be elected (they won once…
Doesn't wine have various rules to remain a white-room implementation? Not sure using LLMs which have possibly been trained on leaked Windows sources would be compatible with that. But that's just speculation, I wonder…
Using Windows Server 2025 (it has an evaluation version), I encountered a few problems (Xbox Controller needing to dig out de Windows 7-era drivers, Meta Quest audio not working, using pnputil to import missing drivers…
Being sick ~20 days per year was the norm for me before remote work (and using N95 masks after it ended). Some people are lucky, others are not. (well, "luck" actually encompasses many factors such as population…
I'd be curious to see how much the decision to not recommend it in older people is "cost / benefit" ratio (the vaccine is expensive and if you say it may be slightly useful you might be putting pressure on yourself (as…
Fun fact: on modern Windows, if you uninstall modern notepad using the Settings app to get the old one, you won't be able to associate .txt files with notepad.exe without a registry trick:…
No idea about the overall background of the project or devs, but: https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/blob/master/CoC.md In my understanding a good chunk of the CoC dislike connects to MAGA ideology (because CoC aim at…
The alternative before is that you knew where you were reading the information from. So you knew what level of trust to give each information. AI summaries removes that ability from you, and even when it gives the…
There's much more air outside than inside, so 15C colder inside does not mean that the entire city gets 15C hotter outside. And in a heat event, most people are inside, not outside. 1C hotter outside to make it livable…
The cursor animation is actually a great one because it does not add any latency. By comparison, when animations are not disabled on my Pixel 6 it takes almost one second to switch application instead of maybe 100ms…
What are those dark patterns? It's an off button, it works, and it does not get back on. It's the polar opposite of the "maybe later, I'll ask again every week and reset the setting in your back" unfortunate norm that…
Games are for fun. Wasting time in a game is fine, that's what it is for. (edit: not saying that pejoratively) Other applications are to do things. They should do the thing and get out of the way as fast as possible.…
> Firefox will also disable V2 sooner or later. Source? > Firefox won't, because mozilla banned that extension from store. It's unbanned; the author chose to not put it back.…
France is quite likely to put the far-right in power next year, don't get your hopes up. I wish it wouldn't happen but a lot of people seem like they will not vote in a runoff between a far-right candidate and a…
More than non deterministic : LLMs don't have a specification to obey to in the first place, while compilers (rather, programming languages) do.
Fully agree with the article (as my comment history would attest). I wonder why people worry so much more about "determinism" over conformance to a spec. (a compiler can be nondeterministic and correct which is not…
There will still be jobs. Manual jobs, the kind that break our backs and have us breath various stuff we shouldn't (dust, fumes). Robots are difficult and maybe not so economically viable when everyone is desperate for…
You don't choose to use Windows. You have to. Because it's the only OS that supports whatever tool you need for your work. Windows is mandatory in many situations, which is why it can afford being obnoxious.
This was probably a joke about a lot of developers delegating coding to LLMs which are usually non-deterministic (which I personally think is less of an issue than LLMs not having specified behavior like programming…