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New comment by SJMG in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

SJMG — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:27:32 +0000

Great, as long as you don't mind the nexus of all human communication to be frozen in time three years ago.

New comment by SJMG in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

SJMG — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:35:50 +0000

Not to mention the entire well is "poisoned" now. You can avoid LLM points of entry. You can't go to a random source and expect to avoid generative output.

New comment by SJMG in "Flipper One – we need your help"

SJMG — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:28:26 +0000

You're right to complain. Writing code whose principal job is to be compiled and executed by a computer is not at all the same as writing prose whose job is (hopefully still) to be read by a person.

Up to a couple years ago, the latter was essentially a product of lever-less human attention.

New comment by SJMG in "Why I don’t vibe code"

SJMG — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:05:14 +0000

Indeed, I solve hard problem for a living, but those are mostly design. The actual engineering often decomposes to gluing things together with limited need for new primitives.

There are hard problems at every level of abstraction. TAGE predictor optimization up to handling data-center failover.

I don't really have a challenge for people like the OP, I get it. I too dragged my feet, even mourned the death of a type of work I had grown fond of. Then I got over it and realized I might prefer the romance of riding a horse into town, but I also like that there's semi-trucks delivering fresh produce to my grocery store year round. The leverage available right now is frankly insane. The one thing an "old dev" [as he self-labeled] can be sure of is that the younger generations will not share these hang-ups to the same degree and it's those people who will inherit the burden of maintaining and furthering the digital world.

New comment by SJMG in "Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language (2024)"

SJMG — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:17:05 +0000

Nim is a cool language—not sure why this is being shared now though; this repo has been dormant for some time. A newer effort is Sarcophagus,

https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/13879

https://github.com/elcritch/sarcophagus

New comment by SJMG in "Anthropic Is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried"

SJMG — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:59:20 +0000

Not to mention Tesla.

New comment by SJMG in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

SJMG — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:42:44 +0000

No cell phone period or no smart phone? I'm not sure how people manage the former. Do you have a home with a land line? What do you do when you travel?

New comment by SJMG in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

SJMG — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:05:38 +0000

Likely https://taalas.com

New comment by SJMG in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

SJMG — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:16:30 +0000

Agreed. I use it basically every day. It's almost disquieting how quickly Apple inserted itself into payments, but it's frankly safer than a credit card and the NFC(?) works much better.

New comment by SJMG in "Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym"

SJMG — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:33:00 +0000

I'm not missing the point; you made several. The one I engaged I quoted for you. You can see from the sibling comments that several of us took issue with it.

For what it's worth, I agree with your last position about just being honest. If anything, a finding like this should just move the asking of small favors from a stranger towards the norm.

New comment by SJMG in "DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro"

SJMG — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:40:45 +0000

> also feel comfortable saying that many Americans don't care one bit what happens to foreigners, be it by action of their government or companies

What's the point of this kind of statement for you? Does this help you understand others or just continue to drive the wedge in? Where are you from? Ask yourself can the statement,

"many {of my country} don't care one bit what happens to foreigners, be it by action of the government or companies" not be read as true?

There are self-absorbed, disinterested, uncompassionate people in every country which will satisfy your "many" qualifier.

New comment by SJMG in "Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym"

SJMG — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:27:34 +0000

> However when someone is at the gym and another stranger asks them to stop and do a favor that takes time out of their gym visit it’s just annoying, not a friendship starter.

Might be the place you live; this is not my experience at all. I ask randos to spot me every week. People love to help out. Sometimes they'll even keep an eye on you in case you have another set and come offering.

New comment by SJMG in "Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant"

SJMG — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:21:32 +0000

Are you thinking of this woman who was jailed in Fargo?

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-rec...

New comment by SJMG in "Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey"

SJMG — Fri, 01 May 2026 01:40:54 +0000

As another user suggested, train on the corpus that ends with the white paper publication.

New comment by SJMG in "Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey"

SJMG — Fri, 01 May 2026 01:34:14 +0000

This is very clever. You should pass the idea along to the guys at https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie

New comment by SJMG in "The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it"

SJMG — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:14:47 +0000

Hmm, what are you disagreeing with here?

New comment by SJMG in "The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it"

SJMG — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:44:15 +0000

I think the truth is in fact asymmetric on this front.

People, esp. many SWEs, like generating with AI, or more telling, wouldn't want to give it up in their work.

On the other hand, people generally hate consuming the product of gen AI.

Consumer experience = mostly negative

Producer experience = mostly positive

New comment by SJMG in "GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty"

SJMG — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:53:41 +0000

Dario said the same thing about GPT2 when he was at OpenAI. As you can see the digital and physically worlds are now completely compromised and life is a pale shadow of what it was 5 years ago…

These guys have poor track records and compromised incentives.

New comment by SJMG in "You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts"

SJMG — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:36:52 +0000

It's true. There's probably not a clean rule for when to listen and when not to.

I would propose as a heuristic that for the early stage, when your product relies on true-fans, you at least consider the content of a complaint more and don't just treat it as a signal that something somewhere is wrong. Bringing it back to the OP, I'm sure this is what Card did himself.

New comment by SJMG in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

SJMG — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:36:06 +0000

This is my thought as well. Fewer severance packages.