ravenstine

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by ravenstine 19d ago
It's kinda nuts to me how people can act like Claude is lightyears ahead of OpenAI models. Sure, it's one thing to simply have a preference or claim that Claude does some things better, but in reality they are both about as effec
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by ravenstine 19d ago
I find that Camp B is a lot more likely to not understand Camp A than the other way around. Both enjoy the outcome of "we made something cool", but Camp A more heavily values the journey to get there, and many in that camp aren&#
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by ravenstine 20d ago
Hundreds of deaths are linked to bathtubs every year, too. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9418042/
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by ravenstine 20d ago
Well they're going to be shipping GOS on Motorola and I think some other devices, so basic things like the messaging app need to actually have some polish to them. I really like GrapheneOS overall as-is, but the messaging app felt lik
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by ravenstine 20d ago
Really? I mean, yeah, it's probably written by an LLM, but it's hardly the worst that I've seen. Looks way more straight forward than the modern README featuring a ton of badges, emojis, confusing out-of-context screenshots
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by ravenstine 20d ago
I think these AI platforms would guarantee bigger wins for themselves if they figured out how to give these models more of an object-conceptualization of their input than they currently have. Solving math puzzles is cool and all, but 99% o
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by ravenstine 24d ago
Even if a urinal doesn't splash, there's usually (always?) a decent amount of fine droplets that eject out from the stream since the flow is rather turbulent. On top of that, the fleshy opening is never completely stable. What we
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by ravenstine 24d ago
Thanks for sharing this! I spoke out of ignorance, having only considered the source code being available but not the licensing. (though I find narrowly defining "open source" to be rather pointless) I haven't tried every
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by ravenstine 25d ago
I hope they replace the AOSP keyboard with FUTO keyboard. I'm mostly fine with the other stock apps, but that keyboard was the one thing I absolutely had to end up replacing due to its jenky behavior.
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by ravenstine 25d ago
Why would they even care? 99% of people aren't going to be installing Linux on their Macbook. If Apple did care, they'd have stopped allowing dual booting a long time ago.
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by ravenstine 26d ago
Does self-hosting need to be all or nothing?
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by ravenstine 27d ago
2 months seems generous at this point. Every new thing I "learn" seems to be obsolete within a week or two, if it's not obsolete already.
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by ravenstine 28d ago
That's the thing. I was once that guy who was meticulous about reviewing code and later making sure to approve every little change an agent wanted to make. But I mostly gave up because of the business demand to use AI to ram as many
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by ravenstine 28d ago
I've yet to organically run into anyone who regularly uses Grok for coding. I'm sure they're out there, but what I hear with my own ears tells me that Grok is a relatively small slice of the market. In my sphere of colleague
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by ravenstine 1mo ago
GrapheneOS (the project) might recommend for or against certain things in relation to their specific objectives, but that doesn't mean all GrapheneOS users have the same objectives or need to comply with the opinions of GrapheneOS. For
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by ravenstine 1mo ago
Software is one of the most derivative types of works ever invented. It's arguably based on copying what other people have already created. The modern world would look a lot more primitive if this wasn't the case. Corporations l
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by ravenstine 1mo ago
With the way today's economy works, they probably wouldn't even care if they lost 1/4 of their customers in just one year. Maybe their share price would jump!
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by ravenstine 1mo ago
Every step up in my career has, ironically, lead to less autonomy.
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by ravenstine 1mo ago
Gotta love how these companies are careful to make account suspensions seem like an intentional decision by a human and not the result of a Claude prompt.
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by ravenstine 2mo ago
I'd rather be alive now than during the Ice Age. However, I think we may live in the worst time in terms of predicting one's own future, as well as the future of our children. I haven't managed to have kids, but if I had any
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by ravenstine 2mo ago
I get it and yet I don't. On one hand, my experience with Cursor (albeit limited) tells me that it's a perfect fit with Elon's other ventures. Then again, I don't see how there's anything so special about it that
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by ravenstine 2mo ago
That's really interesting. I have no experience writing anything that involves GPUs/TPUs, but over the years I've consistently read that CUDA is the "real moat" of Nvidia, which I never totally believed, but the wa
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by ravenstine 2mo ago
That's my biggest gripe with open source software. It's not really the open source part that's bad, but when projects turn into major projects with a substantial user base, I think the owners have an obligation not to delude
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by ravenstine 2mo ago
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by ravenstine 2mo ago
> planned obsolescence This is a criticism I've never understood. I think I know what you're referring to, but it really says more about Apple customers than Apple the corporation. In my opinion, for all its faults, Apple ma
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by ravenstine 2mo ago
I'm not even sure I'd let my kids (if I had any :() play Roblox. People seem to just let their kids play it for hours without interacting with anyone, and when I do try and play it with kids of friends, etc., the games they play w
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by ravenstine 2mo ago
Yeah, it's probably different when the CEO is a founder in some way. As an organization scales, leadership is replaced with non-founders, and blame becomes diffused, the nature of the C-level is just not the same.
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by ravenstine 2mo ago
> CEOs are also Fall Guys. A fall guy is the person who takes the blame when the whole thing falls apart. Do you have an example of this? The usual criticism of CEOs is based on the exact opposite; that we are the fall guys, and that
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by ravenstine 3mo ago
They're also designed to not offend anybody, so their output tends to be very bland even compared to the most milquetoast of human beings. I was only surprised once when ChatGPT responded with an enthusiastic "hell yes" seem
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by ravenstine 3mo ago
I will support this idea if they allow changing your PayPal handle! When they first introduced that feature, PayPal made it seem more frivolous than a username. In fact I don't even think they called it a username at the time. I decide

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