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New comment by arbirk in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

arbirk — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:17:03 +0000

I think we should start by making exams that mirror work day performance: Presenting ideas, summarizing, reviewing a proposal and commenting etc. This is of course more expensive, but keeping exams inexpensive is one of the major problems in the age of AI.

Just to note: I was taught 3 different writing systems and my ability to write on a whiteboard is rubbish

New comment by arbirk in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

arbirk — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:26:06 +0000

what is rate per 100.000 tracking? I guess it means among living persons at every datapoint. If so decreasing mortality overall and final diagnosis specifically plays a large role in the numbers

New comment by arbirk in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

arbirk — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:20:06 +0000

They focused on the wrong product imo. File sync as in syncing the files you are actively working on and temporary files like clipboard etc. is powerful. Syncing folders and doing backups is difficult and expensive. I am still looking for a good product that makes it easy to do all that.

New comment by arbirk in "Travelers on Air Force One ordered to throw away gifts, phones after China trip"

arbirk — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:19:40 +0000

https://www.computerworld.dk/art/291220/frygter-spionage-eu-...

New comment by arbirk in "Travelers on Air Force One ordered to throw away gifts, phones after China trip"

arbirk — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:06:57 +0000

EU officials have to do the same when leaving the US

New comment by arbirk in "Claude for Legal"

arbirk — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:04:03 +0000

Would use it if it wasn't supporting the space wanker

New comment by arbirk in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

arbirk — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:30:52 +0000

I always wonder with these posts: - are they talking about coding (where I am the control flow) - or RPA agents (in which it is obvious) ? - also don't use llm for deterministic tasks

New comment by arbirk in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

arbirk — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:41:20 +0000

I think that is an insult to MS Bob

New comment by arbirk in "Do your own writing"

arbirk — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:32:34 +0000

I agree. As the amount of cheap content grows, I think we will come to like condensed to the point articles like this one.

New comment by arbirk in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

arbirk — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:13:24 +0000

The radar count is probably nearing a billion at this point

New comment by arbirk in "GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating system"

arbirk — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:42:33 +0000

We are back to printing books, boys

New comment by arbirk in "Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts"

arbirk — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:26:13 +0000

I once worked in a government agency where 4 employees used a app that on ran on IE6. So the rest of the 2000 strong organization had to use chrome by remote desktop into a server.

Decision tree: Does any department still use IE6? Yes -> lets setup a Remote Desktop cluster so the rest can use Chrome

New comment by arbirk in "How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel"

arbirk — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:51:42 +0000

Is that an iPad?

New comment by arbirk in "Grace Hopper's Revenge"

arbirk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:06:38 +0000

1) AutoCodeBranch does not present similar problems, so you can't compare the Upper Bound metric across languages. Actually the Elixir tests are transmuted from other languages.

2) The Tesla section is interesting. I'm not saying that you are wrong, just that their methods have not produced the promised results yet

3) Wireless humanoid robots is a bad platform because we don't have the hardware to support them. Both battery density and compute efficiency is too low currently to support freestanding robots. Rip Roomba - long live its legacy

New comment by arbirk in "MacBook Neo"

arbirk — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:42:56 +0000

Many governments and large companies issue burner laptops when traveling to the US or China. This is a perfect candidate for that

New comment by arbirk in "MacBook Neo"

arbirk — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:41:27 +0000

Also for males it is natural birth control. Can be a plus depending on your situation

New comment by arbirk in "Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude"

arbirk — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:24:09 +0000

Yes, but that is for a specific JSON format. The instructions are in md

New comment by arbirk in "Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude"

arbirk — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:14:00 +0000

If this is true, the why does Claude Code's own system prompt not use this style? https://github.com/Piebald-AI/claude-code-system-prompts/tre...

New comment by arbirk in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

arbirk — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:50:08 +0000

Can we just use markdown already?

New comment by arbirk in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

arbirk — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:28:37 +0000

I know many will disagree and that is ok. Imo we need global id based on nation states national id. I know that the US doesn't have that, but the rest of the developed world do. I don't want id on porn sites because I don't think that is necessary, but I want bot-free social media, 13+ sharing forums like reddit and I want competitive games where if you are banned you need your brothers id to try cheating again.