wvenable

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by wvenable 2mo ago
Often I find I want to correct the LLM; I think it makes more sense to do that before the commit. I don't want to commit a bunch of half-baked work even if it is just local.
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by wvenable 2mo ago
Even a roof on your head is perishable over time.
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by wvenable 2mo ago
Human life requires some consumables. Even with less stuff, you will always need some stuff.
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by wvenable 2mo ago
Commit is the line I don't let the LLM cross. There's no reason for it commit; that's the part where I check its work.
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by wvenable 2mo ago
> I'm so sick of having AI chase a bug and having to lead it by the hand like a toddler to try and help me solve bugs. This hasn't been my experience at all. I can give it a vague description of the problem and have it find it
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by wvenable 2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226923
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by wvenable 2mo ago
That neglect is the reason that it was made worse. Everything added to Windows that was worse is actively designed to generate some kind, any kind, of revenue growth. Without the full force of the organization behind it, it now has to str
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by wvenable 2mo ago
That is not correct at all. Part of the revisionist history these days is making IBM out the be hero that was crushed by Microsoft but nothing could be further from the truth. IBM was the lumbering giant that evaluated developers by lines
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by wvenable 2mo ago
I disagree. Microsoft software was some of the best. Maybe not because their quality was excellent but because their competition was easily worse.
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by wvenable 2mo ago
If customers have a real choice between ad supported and not ad supported then that's fine. (And by "real choice" I mean that ad-free isn't ridiculously overpriced) (And not a subscription fee to avoid ads)
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by wvenable 2mo ago
> Wouldn't it be fair if BMW at least shared the advertisement revenue with the car owners? No.
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by wvenable 2mo ago
Or making a VR headset that has to be tethered but still put all the compute on your face.
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by wvenable 3mo ago
70hz to 75hz on 12th Gen Core i7-12700 Get about 10 more hz in Firefox than in Chrome which was unexpected.
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by wvenable 3mo ago
I was going to say that really shouldn't be a problem but then I read further: https://sqlite.org/nulinstr.html
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by wvenable 3mo ago
> I assumed that people who enjoy software would be into intellectual stimulation but I've learned that this is wrong. Perhaps the fact that our jobs are intellectual is the problem. I find that at the end of the day I don't h
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by wvenable 3mo ago
In my experience, there is no advantage to pausing on some random icon I don't want. I always have to re-orient anyway. Tapping an icon on the screen is instantaneous. There's also some extra complexity in what grid of icons yo
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by wvenable 3mo ago
Of course, cars are always evolving, that's why a new model comes out every single year. Ironically, the screen elements of cars always become the most dated part. I don't feel there is nearly as much fashion in the touch screen
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by wvenable 3mo ago
It's a good argument except the basic controls needed for a car haven't changed in decades: We all need the same climate controls, media controls, etc. For deep car settings, those have been screen controls for over a decade now
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by wvenable 3mo ago
> The 2020 Bolt we just got leaves the climate controls on screen at all times At that point though they might as well be physical buttons! It's all the disadvantages of a touch screen and none of the advantages.
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by wvenable 3mo ago
I have this knob and I don't understand your point. With the knob or the touch screen, you need to look at the screen to see what you're doing. The knob merely controls a cursor. I find the knob considerably more distracting. F
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by wvenable 3mo ago
You cannot touch the touch screen on a Mazda with the commander knob unless you're in Carplay/Android Auto and only if you've found the buried setting to enable it. It is not an alternative for touch screen, it replaces it.
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by wvenable 3mo ago
Wait till have they have to swipe up from the bottom of a touchscreen to do the same thing. In many ways, it's all the same buttons with the same icons but now they're inside of menus!
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by wvenable 3mo ago
This is a timely article for me because I test drove a 2026 Mazda CX-5 and then ultimately purchased a 2025 instead. Disliking the giant touchscreen wasn't the only reason but it certainly was one of the reasons. The screen actually
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by wvenable 3mo ago
Eventually used cars will be today's new cars.
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by wvenable 3mo ago
> CarPlay is bad for the car manufacturer and is far worse than the modern car software. I have a new car with actually pretty decent modern car software; far better than the decades of crap software I put up with my last car. Carplay i
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by wvenable 3mo ago
I think that ship has sailed, my friend. My last car could accept a double DIN head unit but I never put one in because then I'd lose any way to control all the settings in the car. And that was a car from 2014! The integration is ev
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by wvenable 3mo ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" -- Upton Sinclair This is the CEO of Rivian's software arm -- his job is to create and sell software that runs in t
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by wvenable 3mo ago
I only got a car with Carplay this year... before that, phone in a dash mount. But just getting into you car and having it project your phone interface instantly from your pocket on a screen that is part of the car is really nice. I don&#
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by wvenable 4mo ago
In many countries, Whatsapp is texting. You wouldn't expect a dumb phone to do email but you would expect it to do minimal texting.
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by wvenable 4mo ago
You missed my point. The system designers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) are absolutely trying to build a system that gives the best and most accurate answers possible. The model itself does not have goals, intentions, or an internal concept of

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