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New comment by blueboo in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

blueboo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:30:05 +0000

Cool

…but never buy v1 hardware folks! Especially for limited runs like high end laptops.

Apple quality comes from scale. A narrow product line means they have literally hundreds or thousands times more testing than PC ultra books. (And still — don’t buy a first iteration of a new Apple chassis.)

New comment by blueboo in "Show HN: A CSS 3D Engine (no WebGL)"

blueboo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:27:11 +0000

I think the answer is no, as this is a creative repurposing of css3d as a basis for a general 3d engine. That lets you put web content everywhere, even on the triangles of your teapot. Cool, but extravagant

Whereas THREE.js or webgl is purpose-built for realtime animated 3d scenes.

New comment by blueboo in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

blueboo — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:55:21 +0000

> That may suit Anthropic as private models can't be distilled

They can be distilled internally… expect great things from Sonnet 4.8

New comment by blueboo in "Why Not Venus?"

blueboo — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:51:44 +0000

Why not the Pacific Ocean

New comment by blueboo in "Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers?"

blueboo — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:30:41 +0000

In a master’s, you learn a lot about a little

In a PhD, you learn everything about nothing

New comment by blueboo in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

blueboo — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:36:19 +0000

Wait till Codex doubles prices/halves quotas on May 31

New comment by blueboo in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

blueboo — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:05:27 +0000

Billions in profit may unblock scaling customer support beyond scrappy startup minimums

However (and I loathe this logic) if you can get the marketplace to accept that minimal level, and the brand harm is inconsequential, why not pocket the savings

New comment by blueboo in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

blueboo — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:13:33 +0000

For those who find this appealing: Fires still burn down houses so what’s the point of fire departments?

New comment by blueboo in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

blueboo — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:10:40 +0000

Skill issue—in management.

Good leaders perceive workhorse vs showhorse spectrum, critical toil vs needless flash (and vice versa).

It’s hard. Most fail at hard things. The industry in the aggregate will fail at hard things

So you get articles like this.

New comment by blueboo in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

blueboo — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:32:46 +0000

Open source meth is still bad in absolute terms even if it’s better than the alternative meth

New comment by blueboo in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

blueboo — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:50:04 +0000

They’re not going to build their own, it’ll just be one of the many capabilities of the agent platform they use. A 2024 SaaS is just a playbook for next-gen AI.

You don’t buy a spelling correction program because it got built into Word. And now, the OS…

New comment by blueboo in "Travel Is Not Education"

blueboo — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:51:54 +0000

Indeed perhaps the most valuable lesson from travel is returning with the realization of just how poorly the generalizations and statistics describe the messy reality of a place. Everywhere has every sort of person

New comment by blueboo in "Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20"

blueboo — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:46:01 +0000

“In a sufficiently complex system, malfunction or even total non-function may go undetected for long periods, if ever”

John Gall, The Systems Bible

New comment by blueboo in "All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)"

blueboo — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:46:13 +0000

When faced with the choice of making genmedia more expressive vs looking higher production-value, big labs always choose the latter.

Expressivity requires intent, which turns out to be rarer and therefore less apt to show up in a benchmark or crowdsourced head-to-head comparison.

New comment by blueboo in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

blueboo — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:03:01 +0000

The recent Acquired ep on “Alphabet Inc” put it aptly: social media moved into Google’s space, video (reels, “pivot to video”), and social media for socialising moved to message groups, iMessage/Whatsapp/Discord.

Revenue-wise, video ads have always been the sun to print ads peanut m&m.

Look where the pucks going then:

Implication: ChatGPT as a realtime video avatar will hit the jackpot with ads, but not before. Count on the ChatGPT device having a screen for that reason

New comment by blueboo in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

blueboo — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:46:58 +0000

What? AI assistants are prohibited from providing legal and/or medical advice. They're not lawyers (nor doctors).

New comment by blueboo in "Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'"

blueboo — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:50:01 +0000

We call it “legacy DeepMind”

New comment by blueboo in "YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'"

blueboo — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 01:15:27 +0000

In certain niches, the marginal value of kneecapping the competition exceeds the viable budget for counteracting gaming. It may be a quirk of this reality’s hyperparameters that a UGC media monopoly inevitably suffers from this. Or maybe at a certain point it hits their bottom line and better enforcement is contrived.

New comment by blueboo in "Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway"

blueboo — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 03:59:05 +0000

Can't you trivially reframe the initial purchase as being subsidized by that license? Your $200 smart knife sharpener would be $300 if it weren't recording audio 24/7 (for VAD, surely!)

I don't like it either but here we are

New comment by blueboo in "Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch"

blueboo — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 04:16:25 +0000

When was the last time you did a deep research? Good agents just do research as necessary. I find GPT5 Pro >> all the top DR agents