Talking about the new normal is the new normal.
The weaker antipyretic properties of paracetamol/acetaminophen compared with ibuprofen has been known about for decades in adult studies. It would have been surprising to obtain a different result in children.
No, it's a bad idea. Coding agents are not omniscient gods. Cognitive complexity of code is still a thing for LLMs. And every line of code that the LLM writes is still a line that needs maintenance, and has bugs.…
It's ironic you talk about communism, because fundamentally this is a problem of "owning the means of production", i.e. who controls the AI and the robots. If it's you and me, then hey, we can all live happily ever…
You're not looney at all. Frontier models do dumb things all the time, especially on mature codebases. Just yesterday Opus 5.5 butchered the OOP model in a codebase I work on - it duplicated a load of classes that…
If it's just a toy, sure. But even frontier models reach a tipping point of complexity fairly early where they start introducing bugs quicker than they fix them. A (good) framework abstracts away the complexity so you…
People still buy into "research" from Gartner and Forrester despite it being an open secret for decades that they are pay-to-play. These kinds of "research" companies are there to validate people's preconceived ideas…
LADSPA v1 is ancient and fundamentally quite broken, and that's what they dropped. Audacity 4 ships with LV2 (i.e. LADSPA v2) support. FWIW I don't think I've used a v1 LADSPA plugin for a decade.
"As effective as placebo" does not mean worthless. As you point out, placebo antidepressants are fairly effective. It's a terrible bind. Patients want a pill to fix things, but if they know it's just a sugar pill, it…
That's where the fully automated weapons systems come in. Robotics and AI give the megalomaniacs of the world both a reason and the means to kill everyone with impunity. The rest of the 21st century is going to be…
Night Sight appeared on the Google Pixel camera app in 2018. I think Nokia was doing it first on phones before Microsoft destroyed the remains of their phone business. The reborn Nokia/HMD was also doing multi-sensor…
In most countries with universal healthcare, the universal healthcare provider plays a major role in preventive medicine, nudging people towards healthier lifestyles and influencing government policy on a wide variety…
Bars, restaurants and supermarkets have glass fronted refrigerators and freezers the world over, and yes, most are double glazed. They're just less efficient and more likely to break. In a commercial environment that's…
Sure, but if you are a business in the US, you might not be able to use it legally. And, through the US exercising extraterritorial jurisdiction, businesses in Europe doing business with the US might not be able to use…
Your "development build" is another person's daily driver. Case in point: GrapheneOS (or any other custom Android distro) is unlikely to be able to ever pass remote attestation, even a signed, secure boot build with the…
I think you've misunderstood. It's not an app problem. The problem is that it makes Free Software OSes unviable. The copy of Android you compile and install yourself - or your copy of desktop Linux where you upgraded…
That's the standard Piagetian understanding of child development, yes. Humans do not start out with theory of mind, and are thus inherently solipsistic, but in most cases an understanding that there are other conscious…
Then the slop merchants will simply move to controlling a DAW with AI and use the same software synths that everyone else does. It's a little more involved and slower, but far from hard. Ultimately this isn't really…
I think Apple doesn't really have a choice. They've been very strongly encouraged by the current US government to move as much chip manufacturing to the US as possible, and particularly to make Intel Foundry work, or…
It's not so much ripping off the designs - nothing of what Apple Silicon is doing is particularly surprising and both x86 and Intel's microarchitectures are sufficiently different to Apple Silicon/ARM that knowledge of…
Sure there's an analogue. It's being the tech lead of a team of junior to mid level developers. You design roughly what the solution should look like, split it into reasonable sized tasks so they don't go off the deep…
Here's the neat thing: you don't. I've tried, and I feel like I've got closer with faster models, but ultimately the agentic loop excludes you. Even if you're asking the agent to do simple short tasks, it's still:…
So why doesn't the mouse pointer work that way on an Apple trackpad? Surely if that's the case then when you move your finger to the upper left then the pointer should move to the bottom right. Because that's how it…
Umm, you can do basically all of this, today, with Home Assistant and a handful of add-on apps. I use a local LLM with it, but you can use a hosted LLM if you like. The core home automation stuff can run on a potato.…
> How did the UK and France solve it? Remove the fuel elements, reprocess what's useful, and store the reprocessed materials and nuclear waste somewhere "temporarily" that isn't really suitable for long-term storage.…
Talking about the new normal is the new normal.
The weaker antipyretic properties of paracetamol/acetaminophen compared with ibuprofen has been known about for decades in adult studies. It would have been surprising to obtain a different result in children.
No, it's a bad idea. Coding agents are not omniscient gods. Cognitive complexity of code is still a thing for LLMs. And every line of code that the LLM writes is still a line that needs maintenance, and has bugs.…
It's ironic you talk about communism, because fundamentally this is a problem of "owning the means of production", i.e. who controls the AI and the robots. If it's you and me, then hey, we can all live happily ever…
You're not looney at all. Frontier models do dumb things all the time, especially on mature codebases. Just yesterday Opus 5.5 butchered the OOP model in a codebase I work on - it duplicated a load of classes that…
If it's just a toy, sure. But even frontier models reach a tipping point of complexity fairly early where they start introducing bugs quicker than they fix them. A (good) framework abstracts away the complexity so you…
People still buy into "research" from Gartner and Forrester despite it being an open secret for decades that they are pay-to-play. These kinds of "research" companies are there to validate people's preconceived ideas…
LADSPA v1 is ancient and fundamentally quite broken, and that's what they dropped. Audacity 4 ships with LV2 (i.e. LADSPA v2) support. FWIW I don't think I've used a v1 LADSPA plugin for a decade.
"As effective as placebo" does not mean worthless. As you point out, placebo antidepressants are fairly effective. It's a terrible bind. Patients want a pill to fix things, but if they know it's just a sugar pill, it…
That's where the fully automated weapons systems come in. Robotics and AI give the megalomaniacs of the world both a reason and the means to kill everyone with impunity. The rest of the 21st century is going to be…
Night Sight appeared on the Google Pixel camera app in 2018. I think Nokia was doing it first on phones before Microsoft destroyed the remains of their phone business. The reborn Nokia/HMD was also doing multi-sensor…
In most countries with universal healthcare, the universal healthcare provider plays a major role in preventive medicine, nudging people towards healthier lifestyles and influencing government policy on a wide variety…
Bars, restaurants and supermarkets have glass fronted refrigerators and freezers the world over, and yes, most are double glazed. They're just less efficient and more likely to break. In a commercial environment that's…
Sure, but if you are a business in the US, you might not be able to use it legally. And, through the US exercising extraterritorial jurisdiction, businesses in Europe doing business with the US might not be able to use…
Your "development build" is another person's daily driver. Case in point: GrapheneOS (or any other custom Android distro) is unlikely to be able to ever pass remote attestation, even a signed, secure boot build with the…
I think you've misunderstood. It's not an app problem. The problem is that it makes Free Software OSes unviable. The copy of Android you compile and install yourself - or your copy of desktop Linux where you upgraded…
That's the standard Piagetian understanding of child development, yes. Humans do not start out with theory of mind, and are thus inherently solipsistic, but in most cases an understanding that there are other conscious…
Then the slop merchants will simply move to controlling a DAW with AI and use the same software synths that everyone else does. It's a little more involved and slower, but far from hard. Ultimately this isn't really…
I think Apple doesn't really have a choice. They've been very strongly encouraged by the current US government to move as much chip manufacturing to the US as possible, and particularly to make Intel Foundry work, or…
It's not so much ripping off the designs - nothing of what Apple Silicon is doing is particularly surprising and both x86 and Intel's microarchitectures are sufficiently different to Apple Silicon/ARM that knowledge of…
Sure there's an analogue. It's being the tech lead of a team of junior to mid level developers. You design roughly what the solution should look like, split it into reasonable sized tasks so they don't go off the deep…
Here's the neat thing: you don't. I've tried, and I feel like I've got closer with faster models, but ultimately the agentic loop excludes you. Even if you're asking the agent to do simple short tasks, it's still:…
So why doesn't the mouse pointer work that way on an Apple trackpad? Surely if that's the case then when you move your finger to the upper left then the pointer should move to the bottom right. Because that's how it…
Umm, you can do basically all of this, today, with Home Assistant and a handful of add-on apps. I use a local LLM with it, but you can use a hosted LLM if you like. The core home automation stuff can run on a potato.…
> How did the UK and France solve it? Remove the fuel elements, reprocess what's useful, and store the reprocessed materials and nuclear waste somewhere "temporarily" that isn't really suitable for long-term storage.…