overgard

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1. 751.▲
   by overgard 10mo ago

   Manual transmissions are still great! More fun to drive and an excellent anti-theft device.
2. 752.▲
   by overgard 10mo ago

   Are the intentions of the AI creators icky though? The ick didn't come from nowhere.
3. 753.▲
   by overgard 10mo ago

   I suspect people talk about natural resource usage because it sounds more neutral than what I think most people are truly upset about -- using technology to transfer more wealth to the elite while making workers irrelevant. It just sounds m
4. 754.▲
   by overgard 10mo ago

   You know, this kind of response is a thing that builds with frustration over a long period of time. I totally get it. We're constantly being pushed AI, but who is supposed to benefit from it? The person whose job is being replaced? The
5. 755.▲
   by overgard 10mo ago

   Compilers are deterministic.
6. 756.▲
   by overgard 10mo ago

   LLMs generate lots of security issues and bugs. Just being "Rust" doesn't automatically fix that. Generating that amount of code means no human review. How could this not end in obvious disaster?
7. 757.▲
   by overgard 11mo ago

   I'm kind of curious about something.. most of my graphics experience has been OpenGL or WebGL (tiny bit of Vulkan) or big engines like Unreal or Unity. I've noticed over the years the uptake of DX12 always seemed marginal though (
8. 758.▲
   by overgard 11mo ago

   Sam has a pattern of, uh, not being exactly honest
9. 759.▲
   by overgard 11mo ago

   System76 exists
10. 760.▲
    by overgard 11mo ago

    I don't know what it's based on, but it works extremely well. I use Rider & WebStorm daily and I find Rider is a lot faster than Visual Studio when it comes to the Unreal Engine codebase and WebStorm seems to be a lot more rel
11. 761.▲
    by overgard 11mo ago

    This guy seems pretty focused on XML based standards, but I think the reason XML based standards are dying is because people don't like working with XML.
12. 762.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    I dunno, the stuff they have now doesn't really need a lot of innovation. Like, my MacBook isn't very different from the one I bought in 2013 (other than massive performance improvements of course), but I don't really need it
13. 763.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    I suppose instead we can talk about people's 401k's being risked in a market propped up by the AI bubble.
14. 764.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    Totally curious about the "Candidate used AI to reply"
15. 765.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    These things sit in standards comities for years. Firefox has way fewer resources than everyone else, but Safari has no excuse other than that they mostly can't be bothered, because they'd rather you use an app. And honestly I wou
16. 766.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    It's satire.
17. 767.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    I think this is clever satire, but slightly blunted by the fact that the tech CEO's haven't been that far off from actually saying this stuff. I'm especially disgusted with Sam Altman and Darius Amodei, who for a long time
18. 768.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    "we made a machine to do everything so nobody does anything" is a lot different though
19. 769.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    I do not want an AI PC, and I sure as hell don't want my PC unwittingly turned into one.
20. 770.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    Right in time for the year of the linux desktop.
21. 771.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    WebGL took forever on mobile. WebGPU still is only partially supported on desktop. Memory64 isn't available yet at all. That's just my short list of things I care about, but any time I look at the boxes in caniuse safari is alway
22. 772.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    IE was so much worse than Chrome will ever be. I do occasionally think Safari is the new IE though -- not in terms of terribleness but just in terms of holding back the web by being the slowest to implement big new features.
23. 773.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    Are you trying to say I'm old? Machines are deterministic.. LLM's are very much not.
24. 774.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    I wouldn't call myself a hater, just disappointed. The hardware is incredibly powerful, but it's being held back but an OS that's locked down beyond reason. Maybe they just don't want to cannibalize Mac sales or somethin
25. 775.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    I don't think the "I just need to edit things in google drive crowd" overlaps much with the "I want to run a local LLM on a tablet" crowd. Anyway my point isn't that people shouldn't buy iPads, my point is
26. 776.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    The target hardware for vibe coded startups!
27. 777.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    I guess that's fine, but if that's all you're doing you could easily just get a hundred dollar chromebook. The marketing for this references things like transcode performance for Final Cut Pro. Implying that you would use it
28. 778.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    I get the impression they're trying to market this to laptop users. I'm still very skeptical of iPads as a productivity device. The problem isn't the hardware, it's the OS, the app store and the model for selling apps. A
29. 779.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    I’m not saying this shouldn’t exist, because it should, but does anyone actually have any faith that the FSF can actually do anything here? They’re like 15 years late to the party
30. 780.▲
    by overgard 1y ago

    That may be the case some day, but I don't think it's going to happen with LLMs. They get too many things wrong via hallucinations (likely unfixable) and often they can go deep into an (incorrect) rabbit hole burning a ton of toke