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New comment by FfejL in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

FfejL — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:36:55 +0000

Turing was half right. Pass his test and you haven't proven a machine can think — you've proven it can make us think it does. That's a far more dangerous thing to have built.

New comment by FfejL in "Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking"

FfejL — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:02:48 +0000

Honest, good-faith question.

Is CC getting better, or are you getting better at using it? And how do you know the difference?

I'm an occasional user, and I can definitely see improvements in my prompts over the past couple of months.

New comment by FfejL in "Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs"

FfejL — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:02:54 +0000

> It's not that Dell doesn't care about AI or AI PCs anymore, it's just that over the past year or so it's come to realise that the consumer doesn't.

I wish every consumer product leader would figure this out.

New comment by FfejL in "Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet"

FfejL — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:11:47 +0000

The actual headline is:

Analysis finds "anytime electricity" from solar available as battery costs plummet.

Those missing quotes go a long way to making the headline make sense.

New comment by FfejL in "It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it"

FfejL — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:01:09 +0000

"[Microsoft's] platform power didn’t just come from controlling applications on top of Windows, but the OEM ecosystem underneath. If OpenAI builds AI for everyone, then they are positioned to extract margin from companies up-and-down the stack — even Nvidia. "

Ah yes, the ChromeOS strategy. How'd that work out for Google?

Building a platform is good, a way to make quite a bit of money. It's worked really well for Google and Apple on phones (as Ben notes). But there's a reason it didn't happen for Google on PCs. Find it hard to believe it will for OpenAI. They don't (and can not) control the underlying hardware.

New comment by FfejL in "The role of developer skills in agentic coding"

FfejL — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:32:48 +0000

> Example: When encountering a memory error during a Docker build, it increased the memory settings rather than questioning why so much memory was used in the first place.

AI really is just like us!

New comment by FfejL in "UCLA professor says he's homeless due to low pay"

FfejL — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:58:50 +0000

“Technically, I am homeless. I do not have a place of my own. I’m not on any lease,” he says.

That is not 'technically' homeless, or any other kind of homeless. If it was, millions of adults who move back home with their parents would be 'homeless.' Millions of spouses who aren't on the lease or deed would be 'homeless.' Millions of roommates, too -- which is, in fact, what this guy actually is.

I sympathize that the guy is in a tough spot, $70k a year is not a lot to live on in LA. But this kind of self-victimization is not helpful, Professor.

New comment by FfejL in "Share of total health spending, by percentile"

FfejL — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 14:11:08 +0000

This is a horrible way to frame the study's finding. "1% of people are responsible" sounds like some group is wasting resources, or taking up an uneven share.

The study looks at one year, and finds in that one year 24% of spending was on 1% of the people receiving care. That's not very surprising. 30 years ago I was in a bad car accident. I'm sure the cost of the ambulance, the emergency surgery, and the after-care was WAY more than most people average that year, and easily the most expensive medical year of my life. But it was just that one time.

New comment by FfejL in "UniFi U7 Pro"

FfejL — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 23:35:07 +0000

I use Ubiquiti throughout my 90+ year old home, with multiple AC Pros. During the heart of the pandemic I had four people in my house, all Zoom'ing or streaming video at the same time, all on WiFi, with no issues.

I don't really know why I would need anything newer.

New comment by FfejL in "Record global temperatures and U.S. billion-dollar disasters"

FfejL — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:24:22 +0000

The article REALLY ought to say so, but the underlying data is CPI adjusted.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/

New comment by FfejL in "A deep dive into Single Pair Ethernet"

FfejL — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 14:44:07 +0000

Lighting? Or lightning? I'm hoping the latter!

New comment by FfejL in "OnlyFans: Who is Leonid Radvinsky, the elusive owner of a porn empire?"

FfejL — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:48:37 +0000

I don't doubt that. But how do they find candidates? And how do interested engineers find positions?

New comment by FfejL in "OnlyFans: Who is Leonid Radvinsky, the elusive owner of a porn empire?"

FfejL — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:39:57 +0000

OnlyFans is at his core a tech company, with (I'd guess) a stack that looks a lot like any other high volume social media platform. They likely have a decent size engineering group.

Yet all of what I would think of as the expected recruitment links (e.g. https://careers.onlyfans.com/) go nowhere. Quick searches on LinkedIn, Indeed and CrunchBoard come up empty.

Obviously, this is due to their content. But I wonder, how does a company like this recruit good (or at least decent) talent?

New comment by FfejL in "Why do cats knead?"

FfejL — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 01:51:28 +0000

Been here longer than you, my friend.

New comment by FfejL in "Why do cats knead?"

FfejL — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 15:30:40 +0000

The knead because those biscuits aren't going to make themselves!

New comment by FfejL in "GitHub Copilot Chat Leaked Prompt"

FfejL — Sat, 13 May 2023 14:44:01 +0000

Isn't the ultimate lesson here that the rules are useless? The user got CoPilot to break one of its own rules with almost ridiculous ease.

New comment by FfejL in "Amazon’s Cloud Crisis: How AWS Will Lose the Future of Computing"

FfejL — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 14:52:41 +0000

"something (such as a headline) designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink especially when the link leads to content of dubious value or interest."[1]

The article you get when clicking isn't the content promised by the headline. To get the content promised, one needs to go to a second article, which requires a fee.

If that's not clickbait, I dunno what is.

1: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clickbait

New comment by FfejL in "Amazon’s Cloud Crisis: How AWS Will Lose the Future of Computing"

FfejL — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 14:42:41 +0000

It's 100% clickbait, as the second part of the article is available only to paid subscribers.

New comment by FfejL in "Bitwarden PINs can be brute-forced"

FfejL — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 17:12:57 +0000

"Let's now assume that the user enables the PIN unlock and configures Bitwarden so that it doesn't require the master password on restart."

If the user has setup Bitwarden so the master password is not required, then the user gets what they asked for, namely a password database secured by a 4 digit PIN. Not clear to me why this is a problem Bitwarden needs to fix.

New comment by FfejL in "SimCity launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series"

FfejL — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:30:24 +0000

"SimCity should step outside the single-player bubble and embrace the fad of the moment—multiplayer"

Found the problem!