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

TedDoesntTalk — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:48:35 +0000

How much does corporate espionage help them?

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date""

TedDoesntTalk — Sun, 24 May 2026 04:44:04 +0000

He could have sold those printouts instead of giving them away.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

TedDoesntTalk — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:06:28 +0000

Experts have beginner’s mind.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

TedDoesntTalk — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:05:15 +0000

Great story. Had no idea. Still love the name Uwe. One of those German names that doesn’t have an English equivalent unlike, say, Pieter.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate"

TedDoesntTalk — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:51:01 +0000

> the more they will tend to gradually pull that into some homogenous abstract equilibrium

I experienced this with resume editing. The LLM removes everything that differentiates my resume from a pile of junior engineers with “average” experience. Anything that was special or unique or different was eventually replaced with generic stuff

Of course I didn’t use what it produced, but it was maddening because the LLM kept insisting this was better than what I had.

I found LLMs to be much more useful in suggesting edits to very small chunks of my resume (a sentence or three) rather than the overall vision of the document.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Teaching Claude Why"

TedDoesntTalk — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:30:06 +0000

You may disagree with Freud, but he is responsible for mental health therapy becoming a socially acceptable practice in the West.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

TedDoesntTalk — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:40:55 +0000

Where does he mention “without Robux”?

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

TedDoesntTalk — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:31:35 +0000

It’s not debt bondage in Roblox. It’s company scrip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

TedDoesntTalk — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:28:09 +0000

The CEO does not say it’s a horrible idea. The interviewers say that. CEO says it’s “brilliant idea”.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

TedDoesntTalk — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:27:05 +0000

In case you don’t want to watch the video: his answer is yes BUT he needs to figure out how to do it legally in the different jurisdictions that control kids gambling.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

TedDoesntTalk — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:59:12 +0000

Were the payments considered income?

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010)"

TedDoesntTalk — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:50:32 +0000

Electrics won’t replace ICE until the range issues in cold weather is figured out.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "F-Droid site certificate expired"

TedDoesntTalk — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 19:33:07 +0000

Is it possible that one day certificate expiration will be a thing of the past?

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "How to Firefox"

TedDoesntTalk — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:33:08 +0000

Brendan Eich’s contributions to computing are immeasurable. Your opinions of his social or political views don’t change that.

Do you not use Linux because you don’t like Linus? He’s quite a controversial figure. And before you say Linux is not Linus, the same can be said about Brave and Brendan.

Many other people work on these projects than just the leader.

Do you not use JavaScript because you don’t like Brendan?

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "How to Firefox"

TedDoesntTalk — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:25:15 +0000

> what are you doing with all those extra milliseconds you claim you're saving?

Watching more ads.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Work Life balance slows careers"

TedDoesntTalk — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:22:36 +0000

Do you know how many “mights” and “may not” are in your post? A lot.

You “might” lose half your investments after working 16 Hour Days for 20 years to a divorce. You might get hit by a bus.

Nothing is promised except for this moment, right now.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Genetic code enables zebrafish to mend damaged organs"

TedDoesntTalk — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:06:54 +0000

Future humans will be part human, part lizard, part zebra fish, and seveal other species. We will regrow teeth, heart, and limbs. Sometimes we might accidentally grow a tail.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "The Hobby Computer Culture"

TedDoesntTalk — Tue, 27 May 2025 16:31:45 +0000

> Even as late as 1978, an informed observer could still consider interest in personal computers to be exclusive to a self-limiting community of hobbyists

WHAT? That was true even well into the 1980s.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Recession and crisis in the IT industry. 7 months of interviews with 50 managers"

TedDoesntTalk — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:50:42 +0000

Clarification: he is not interviewing to be hired for a job

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "The Discovery of the Celendrical Date Line"

TedDoesntTalk — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:48:02 +0000

Wikipedia says the international date line is “a cartographic convention, and is not defined by international law.”

The “line” wasn’t a convention at all in the 16th century so how did sailors experience loss of a day?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line#:~:t....