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New comment by IAmNotACellist in "The Met releases high-def 3D scans of 140 famous art objects"

IAmNotACellist — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:34:39 +0000

Here's a little script to download all the publicly available scans (135) as GLBs and stick the metadata in a JSON. The scans are all CC0 (public domain)

https://github.com/InconsolableCellist/met_scans

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "GPT-5.2"

IAmNotACellist — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:08:07 +0000

You're not calling Sam Altman a liar, are you?

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "GPT-5.2"

IAmNotACellist — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:49:04 +0000

Why do they care so much? They're a non-profit dedicated to the betterment of humanity via open access to AI. They have nothing to hide. They have no motivation to lie, or lie by omission.

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

IAmNotACellist — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 02:55:23 +0000

They can't even make Explorer work. They're pathetic.

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?"

IAmNotACellist — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:21:49 +0000

>Now try to follow your own sources, both links for that sentence call it a code editor with MS doing the correct reverence " happy with using a regular code editor like Sublime Text instead of a full IDE like Visual Studio."

People call applications apps, and before that they called applications programs. VSCode is called an IDE. My link calls it an IDE. Some people call it a code editor. Some people call emacs and vim IDEs. VSCode does everything an IDE does, including compiling, debugging, and profiling.

>So try to make an actual argument/use a proper source for one instead of treating wikis as the ultimate truth

Just because you don't like it being called an IDE doesn't mean it isn't an actual argument.

Regardless, you haven't and can't attack my central point. The only one I care about, in fact: that the user can feel the vast difference in quality of VSCode vs. Explorer, and can tell that it's made competently vs. incompetently.

I also said nothing about how long it takes to start up--you brought that up. I called it "polished, fast, intelligent UI, not buggy, [and it] consistently improves," all of which are true. All of which you've ignored.

>You're, you are responding to a point about very slow startup time

I'm responding to someone who doesn't understand my argument, and probably doesn't want to.

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?"

IAmNotACellist — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 03:56:43 +0000

>vs code is slow as a text editor due to chrome

VSCode is an IDE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code

>Visual Studio is the one to compare to "any other heavy IDE"

Why? VSCode is an example of a well-made product from MSFT, unlike Explorer.

>and there are plenty of code editors with plugins that start much faster,

What IDE with plugins starts faster? And I'm not talking about the startup time of VSCode.

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?"

IAmNotACellist — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:14:40 +0000

VSCode starts up the same as any other IDE, and is responsive and snappy when using it. Explorer starts up about 100 times slower than any other file explorer, and is exceptionally while using it too.

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?"

IAmNotACellist — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:33:40 +0000

A more interesting question to me (and one where MSFT employees here would have some insight) is to what degree is Windows' recent ABYSMAL fucking quality the result of AI, outsourcing, or bad management? You can also feel the difference in healthy employees vs. unhealthy, when you switch between something like VSCode (polished, fast, intelligent UI, not buggy, consistently improves) and Explorer (paleolithically slow, unstable, buggy, crashy, the worst version is always the latest).

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video"

IAmNotACellist — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:25:51 +0000

There are dozens of top-quality models with FOSS licenses you can download and run right now

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "iPhone Air"

IAmNotACellist — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:31:35 +0000

Looks as thin as the zfold 7 but without the inner display.

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)"

IAmNotACellist — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:31:02 +0000

Pff, now Microsoft Word probably sends your document to an AI every second and asks it to send back a PNG that highlights every misspelled word, and it overlays that underneath your text.

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "Converting existing users to systemd-homed managed users"

IAmNotACellist — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:28:54 +0000

When systemd came out people said you were a conspiracy theorist if you said it would be anything more than an init system. Now in the year of our Lord 2025 we're discussing "systemd-homed" as if that should ever be a real thing.

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%"

IAmNotACellist — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:44:06 +0000

This doesn't seem noteworthy. It's called a context window for a reason--because the input is considered context.

You could train an LLM to consider the context potentially adversarial or irrelevant, and this phenomenon would go away, at the expense of the LLM sometimes considering real context to be irrelevant.

To me, this observation sounds as trite as: "randomly pressing a button while inputting a formula on your graphing calculator will occasionally make the graph look crazy." Well, yeah, you're misusing the tool.

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "All AI models might be the same"

IAmNotACellist — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:55:07 +0000

I agree LLMs are converging on a current representation of reality based on the collective works of humanity. What we need to do is provide AIs with realtime sensory input, simulated hormones each with their own half-lifes based on metabolic conditions and energy usage, a constant thinking loop, and discover a synthetic psilocybin that's capable of causing creative, cross-neural connections similar to human brains. We have the stoned ape theory, we need the stoned AI theory.

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "Grok 4"

IAmNotACellist — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:50:11 +0000

How does Claude Code at $200 compare to their basic one, at $20?

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "Should I Block ICMP?"

IAmNotACellist — Wed, 21 May 2025 23:50:24 +0000

That's why I only use urinals with dividers, to block ICUP

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "The Internet 1997–2021"

IAmNotACellist — Mon, 12 May 2025 20:41:38 +0000

MUDs were awesome. Usenet too, IRC, then IM like ICQ and AIM.

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)"

IAmNotACellist — Mon, 05 May 2025 23:52:19 +0000

That's the most disgusting sentence fragment I've ever heard. I wish it could be sent back in a localized wormhole and float across the table when Systemd was being voted on to become the next so-called init system.

Edit: Nevermind, I misunderstood the article from just the headline. But I'm keeping the comment as I find the reference funny

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "Why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation"

IAmNotACellist — Mon, 05 May 2025 23:50:45 +0000

A properly setup experiment could distinguish signal from the noise of normal memory variation.

New comment by IAmNotACellist in "Why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation"

IAmNotACellist — Mon, 05 May 2025 23:42:53 +0000

Is my LLM experiencing real or simulated suffering? How many layers of complexity and real-time stimuli-responsiveness would make the answer to that question effectively unknowable?