Fr0styMatt88

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by Fr0styMatt88 3mo ago
I think it’s the combined depth AND breadth of knowledge that can be captured by AI models that is going to make them way better than most humans at this kind of stuff.
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by Fr0styMatt88 3mo ago
Exactly. I was about to reply to the comment with “perfect example of not knowing what you don’t know” in terms of self-diagnosis. My internal model is/was “if the scan wasn’t set up / can’t detect the thing, why would the statem
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by Fr0styMatt88 3mo ago
I guess ‘per GB’ doesn’t really capture it, because the base number of gigabytes available to people (ie- the smallest compatible RAM kit you need to build a computer) and the base number of gigabytes you really need (OS bloat, feeling resp
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by Fr0styMatt88 3mo ago
Were we really paying more for RAM per GB in the late 2010s than we are now? Just really doesn't feel like it. Interesting.
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by Fr0styMatt88 3mo ago
Local using Qwen3.6-27B; 2xRTX 5070Ti graphics cards; VS Code with Cline at the moment and Ollama back-end (will get to trying the others soon).
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by Fr0styMatt88 4mo ago
It’ll be interesting. I’m using Qwen3.6:27B at home and mostly Sonnet/Opus (depending on the complexity of the task) at work. You have to break things down into smaller chunks for the local models. For the bigger cloud ones they can d
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by Fr0styMatt88 4mo ago
If we can agree that the AI model is at least as capable as a junior engineer or new contractor, how’s that different to saying “software engineering isn’t worth $200 a month”? Has a very race-to-the-bottom feel to it. Though in the grand s
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by Fr0styMatt88 4mo ago
It’s interesting — my own impression kinda matches that; I’m still doing most of the thinking when using AI that I’d do before writing the code, it’s just that now the feedback loop is so much faster. One of the artists at my company descri
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by Fr0styMatt88 4mo ago
How is the place you’re at approaching AI in this context? As a senior I worry about the juniors coming in — Claude can do what I would have previously tasked to a junior. I guess the shape of the junior role just changes.
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by Fr0styMatt88 4mo ago
As a senior you can get into a bad habit of being scared to make changes. It happens after enough experience with enough codebases. It’s good to not just go change things for the sake of it — it’s equally as important to ask yourself if yo
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by Fr0styMatt88 4mo ago
I mean I can see it. Books are just a way to transmit one’s thoughts and experiences to other people. So it’s no different to being exposed to someone with a different viewpoint. Common sense isn’t common or innate, it’s tribal knowledge
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by Fr0styMatt88 4mo ago
There was also the very early leak/theft of the Half-Life 2 beta source ( https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Half-Life_2_leak )
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by Fr0styMatt88 4mo ago
We aren’t even being given a choice nor being consulted for our judgement. Higher-ups are literally saying “This company WILL use AI, you are required to use AI, now go use it whether you want to or not”. I wonder if this will change now wi
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by Fr0styMatt88 4mo ago
I generally agree with you, except for one thing. Sure, users don’t care if the code is a mess. At least at first. I mean, they can’t know. But they DO care when the same bugs exist for years, when new features dry up, when it drains thei
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by Fr0styMatt88 4mo ago
So I’m wondering what ‘rasterizing’ literally means in this case. I imagine it’s just creating a 2D map of elements at a very low (probably character) resolution, then diffing that against the last generated map to come up with an optimal
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by Fr0styMatt88 4mo ago
Also fun, Google purchased movies over the years getting moved to Youtube and then seemingly losing all surround sound content and coming through as 2-channel only (Android TV).
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by Fr0styMatt88 5mo ago
Had a few eye surgeries (vitrectomies) under sedation, no pain but lots of flashing lights and lots of kaleidoscope patterns. It was pretty wild. I was lucky that coming out of sedation was actually fantastic, like the only time I can reme
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by Fr0styMatt88 5mo ago
I actually think it would have done well if it was just like those button boxes / Stream Deck / etc. Like a row of transparent function keys with screens, but then that would have been a flexibility tradeoff.
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by Fr0styMatt88 5mo ago
Even at the time I remember it was widely cited that the SIM eject tool was a test for their new manufacturing process.
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by Fr0styMatt88 5mo ago
What I’m curious about is what lead to larks ‘winning’ in the sense that there’s this massive prejudice against night owls. Though I have heard that there are natural biological functions that depend on the sun such that night owls who are
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by Fr0styMatt88 5mo ago
I _wish_ I could nap after hearing all the benefits, but for me it’s either doze off for five minutes and wake up feeling blah, or lie there for 10 minutes, MAYBE go to sleep for a bit and wake up feeling horrible. If I have light to anchor
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by Fr0styMatt88 5mo ago
Have you tried the screen zoom in accessibility settings? The responsiveness is great with the trackpad gestures.
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by Fr0styMatt88 5mo ago
From a quick Google that kinda makes sense, it’s just the strong, _sustained_ power draw that gives them issues. So I’d say fundamental AND inverter design — imagine pushing 2kW continuously through an inverter. It’s funny, power use can b
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by Fr0styMatt88 5mo ago
Yeah it’s when you go off the happy path that it gets difficult. Like there’s a weird behaviour in your vibe-coded app that you don’t quite know how to describe succinctly and you end up in some back-and-forth. But man AI is phenomenal for
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by Fr0styMatt88 5mo ago
I feel the exact same way about tutorials in games that try and be comprehensive and show you everything. Incremental games do an amazing job at this (things like Universal Paperclips, A Dark Room, etc); parts of the game are revealed to yo
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by Fr0styMatt88 5mo ago
Thank you, I was starting to wonder. I guess because I’m in game dev maybe, but in all my jobs knowing about the underlying stack has either been necessary knowledge or highly regarded. I can’t think of any time in my career where knowing a
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by Fr0styMatt88 5mo ago
How did it get in? Isn’t Linus known for being rightfully fussy about what makes it into the kernel? Would be an interesting story.
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by Fr0styMatt88 5mo ago
hahaha took me a bit to get what you meant.... Yep I've been reading LLM output a lot lately lol
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by Fr0styMatt88 5mo ago
I feel like it’s something more fundamental and broad than that. We slowly remove excuses to talk to other people. The thought crossed my mind the other day — if I’m asking the AI a question, that’s replacing a human interaction I would ha
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by Fr0styMatt88 6mo ago
It’s really really inconsistent. Sometimes select all is available, sometimes not. Sometimes the handles don’t work. Selecting text in a scrollable region is fiddly, etc. I’ve seen an insane drop in the quality of swipe typing recently a

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