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New comment by darkhorse222 in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

darkhorse222 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:30:21 +0000

Quantum physics teaches us that at the fundamental levels of physics, reality itself is probabilistic. Probability distributions collapsing to discrete locations aligns nicely across LLMs and quantum mechanics.

New comment by darkhorse222 in "Cursor 3"

darkhorse222 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:56:58 +0000

If you're inexperienced you have no bookcase at all, going from that to a rickety bookcase is an enormous improvement.

(Perhaps this is why some devs dislike it, perhaps they place the quality of their work very very high)

New comment by darkhorse222 in "AI coding is gambling"

darkhorse222 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:50:45 +0000

Similar to quantum computing, a probabilistic model when condensed to sufficiently narrow ranges can be treated as discrete.

New comment by darkhorse222 in "US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]"

darkhorse222 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:37:12 +0000

It's just weird that it's this complicated. We should get a static IP from our DNS. We should use standard open source streaming conversion mechanisms. It should go over basic video codecs.

Lately I've been working towards just using a webserver to host video files. Sure, it's not adaptive, but for goodness sakes it's simple.

New comment by darkhorse222 in "US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]"

darkhorse222 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:31:56 +0000

Wasted time should not be defined as unproductive time, it should be time you did not experience, time you were completely clocked out, not even enjoyed, not relaxed or relished. Wasted. It is a subtle difference but critical to remember if you want to reclaim your time rather than claiming it for capitalism.

New comment by darkhorse222 in "US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]"

darkhorse222 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:29:37 +0000

Perhaps this makes a very big difference to you, but I often have to remind myself that iTunes movie rentals are very much alive and function just as they do some ten years ago. No subscription required. Not physical, sure, but a normal rental experience.

Though I do miss old Netflix. That was fun.

New comment by darkhorse222 in "What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state"

darkhorse222 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:54:24 +0000

The event one seems perfectly fine with a dictionary or even a class that wraps your events and pairs with an event object subscribers can attach to with a singleton attribute.

New comment by darkhorse222 in "What Happened to Amazon. How Founders Become Day Two, Take Company with Them"

darkhorse222 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:07:33 +0000

Rather than picking at the examples like other commenters, I very much agree with the diagnosis, which is that you do not want to pick someone who will protect your baby. That is a babysitter. You want someone who will become a parent of their own.

Ownership is one of the leadership principles. That doesn't just mean owing the things that exist, it means owning the conceptual direction of the company.

New comment by darkhorse222 in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

darkhorse222 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:45:30 +0000

Yeah! Or cigarettes!

New comment by darkhorse222 in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

darkhorse222 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:41:00 +0000

I think you would use SharePlay for that maybe

New comment by darkhorse222 in "How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills"

darkhorse222 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:53:25 +0000

People used to and still say the same thing about GPS. As these systems mature they stay up and become incorporated into our workflows. The implication in the case of GPS was that navigating on your own is not a very critical task anymore. Correspondingly the implication here is that software design and feature design are more important than coding or technical implementation. Similar to Google, it's more important that you know how and what to ask for rather than be able to generate it yourself.

New comment by darkhorse222 in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

darkhorse222 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:29:45 +0000

Personally I feel that their emphasis on privacy by design was a very winning marketing strategy. Not sure if it played with the general pop.

New comment by darkhorse222 in "Iran is likely jamming Starlink"

darkhorse222 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:24:07 +0000

Yeah I like fiber optic lines

New comment by darkhorse222 in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

darkhorse222 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:16:35 +0000

Good thing almost all of programming falls into the former. Most of the economy runs on well defined languages. Billions and billions of dollars.

New comment by darkhorse222 in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

darkhorse222 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:14:00 +0000

>I'm sure people noticed this issue internally and brought it up but some thing by some designer was seen as biblically sacred and overruled all reason.

I disagree. Seems more like the group that implemented border radius at the OS UI implementation level did not work with the group that handles window sizing. Not everything is a conspiracy.

New comment by darkhorse222 in "Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression"

darkhorse222 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:15:18 +0000

My two cents on this topic is to create short term, superficial incentives to help create the practices that yield the long term incentives. For me this is paying extra for a gym with a hot tub, sauna, and cold plunge. Now I derive relaxation from the workout, but before that I also received a lot of support from the knowledge that the amenities afterwards were waiting for me.

I'm not a big believer in discipline.

New comment by darkhorse222 in "Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill"

darkhorse222 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:47:21 +0000

So would that be almost all republicans and half of democrats?

New comment by darkhorse222 in "Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society"

darkhorse222 — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:31:23 +0000

My understanding is that a big appeal of sports gambling is that it adds stakes to entertainment. So instead of casually watching the game you're much more invested. Given this angle, I don't think the majority of casual sports betters are thinking about this in terms of getting rich. It just makes their frequent content more engaging.

New comment by darkhorse222 in "Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors"

darkhorse222 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 19:17:53 +0000

I know how much my ride will be and I know it doesn't vary based on what happens along the way. L

New comment by darkhorse222 in "Pixel 10 Phones"

darkhorse222 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:23:32 +0000

If you cannot understand what made Apple successful then or today what makes you think you're not failing to grasp something? You head right on to making an argument when nakedly revealing that you can't comprehend the other side.

Not surprising, this site is made for the Woz's of the world (and that's fine!).