torginus

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by torginus 9mo ago
I feel like there's some credibility to 'this time it's different' The US economy depends on the country's position of world hegemon - the US dollar is the world's main reserve currency, the US enforces interna
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by torginus 9mo ago
That doesn't really line up with my experience, I wanted to debug a CMake file recently, having done no such thing before - AI helped me walk through the potential issues, explaining what I got wrong. I learned a lot more in a short am
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by torginus 9mo ago
While a really entertaining experiment, I wonder why AI agents here develop personalities that seem to be a combination of all the possible subspecies of tech podcastbros.
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by torginus 9mo ago
I just wanna make the point that I've grown to dislike the term 'CRUD' especially as a disparaging remark against some software. Every web application I've worked on featured a database, that you could usually query or c
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by torginus 9mo ago
2 well identifiable classes in western societies are landlords vs renters, where the latter is paying a huge chunk of their income to be able to use an appreciating asset of the former. This class thing is especially identifiable in Europe,
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by torginus 9mo ago
My personal take is that there has been no progress - potentially there has been a regression on all LLM things outside of coding a scientific pursuits - I used to have great fun with LLMs with creative writing stuff, but I feel like curre
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by torginus 9mo ago
Is it just me, or does Claude Code's UI design which both prevents copy-pasting large snippets and viewing the code as its generated feel incredibly discomforting?
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by torginus 9mo ago
One thing I found out from my years of commenting on the internet, is as long as what you say sounds plausible and you state it with absolute conviction and authority, you can get your 15 minutes of fame as the world's foremost expert
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by torginus 9mo ago
I usually take extra care when going through a school zone, especially when I see some obstruction ('behind a tall SUV', was the waymo overtaking?), and overtaking is something I would probably never do (and should be banned in sc
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by torginus 9mo ago
Yeah, spy sat tech today is likely good enough to track every single person that steps outside in the FoV of the sat in real time .
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by torginus 9mo ago
This is the most ridiculous take. If I were pro/anti-US, It would be understood as an opinion on the domestic/foreign policy of current or past US administrations. If I were pro-China, that would by this standard, mean that I refu
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by torginus 9mo ago
This sounds very conspiracy-y. I'm sure there are metrics like consumption of certain items like food, medicine, etc. which is at a mostly consistent level accross subsections the human population. Like arthiris medication, foodstuffs,
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by torginus 9mo ago
I think range only really matters in the context of highway drives, I kinda dislike these composite estimates like WLTP (as you can never be sure of what exactly they measure)
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by torginus 9mo ago
What I don't get is why they don't design UIs with a status bar on the side - you have so much waster horizontal real estate both in landscape monitors, with every website, code editor having huge bars on the either side of the te
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by torginus 9mo ago
It didn't fail imo - it was intended a low-volume product for next-gen Tesla tech - Ethernet based fieldbus, 48V systems, area controllers etc. The philosophy is the same like other high-end cars - you field test your latest experiment
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by torginus 9mo ago
I have an opinion on EVs that basically the only models that make sense are the ones shaped like the 3 and Y. I feel like EVs are a checkbox product - you either make things 'good enough' for the customer - range, driving dynamics
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by torginus 9mo ago
I haven't used MS Word in quite a while, but I distinctly remember it changed minus signs to em dashes.
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by torginus 9mo ago
Yes Im not familiar with the Chinese internet, however I've found that in expert topics, textbooks far outperform most internet content, with the sole exception of Wikipedia, which also sometimes has almost professional/academic-q
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by torginus 9mo ago
Considering how complex some software can get, it's more surprising there are people who can hold enough of the whole design in their heads that they have a good idea of what's going on in general.
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by torginus 9mo ago
Before I got serious with fixing and building things at home, WD-40 was a catchall panacea you sprayed on stuff to make it work.
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by torginus 9mo ago
I remember smashing a broken monitor as a kid for fun, hearing about the implosion stuff, and sadly found the back of the glass was stuck to some kind of plastic film that didnt allow the pieces to fly about :(
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by torginus 9mo ago
Yeah it super weird that while we struggle with latency in the digital world, storing anything for any amount of time is an almost impossible challenge in the analog world.
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by torginus 9mo ago
What counts and what not? I'm sure the US has killed a lot more who could be reasonably considered civilians, deliberately in the same time frame, even if they were not US citizens. Sure it was not the current admin, but one of the 2 m
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by torginus 9mo ago
I think the reference to scaling is a pretty big giveaway that things are not as they seem - I think it's pretty clear that we've run out of (human produced) data, so there's nowhere to scale to in that dimension. I'm pr
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by torginus 9mo ago
Which has been shown time and time again, that Chinese LLMs instead of providing a blanket denial, they start the this is a complex topic spiel.
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by torginus 9mo ago
I'm pretty sure if you criticise the US on something they care about, you posts will disappear from social media pretty quickly. Not because of political censorship but because of Trust and Safety violations
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by torginus 9mo ago
It's weird to see this naivete about the US system, as if US social media doesn't have its ways of dealing with wrongthink, or the once again naive assumption that the average Chinese methods of dealing with unpleasant stuff is th
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by torginus 9mo ago
If LLMs are great at reviewing, why do they produce the quality of code they produce?
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by torginus 9mo ago
It just occured to me that it underperforms Opus 4.5 on benchmarks when search is not enabled, but outperforms it when it is - is it possible the the Chinese internet has better quality content available? My problem with deep research tends
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by torginus 9mo ago
Man, the Chinese government must be a bunch of saints that you must go back 35 years to dig up something heinous that they did.

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