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New comment by ddosmax556 in "Sorry, I'm in a meeting"

ddosmax556 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:39:09 +0000

In google meet you can ask anyone to "join audio" and if they approve, neither you nor them hear each other through the meeting, and you can listen to them talk next to you. But honestly a mildly noise reducing headset is enough.

New comment by ddosmax556 in "`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach"

ddosmax556 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:16:03 +0000

It's not that hard to enable 2fa & force password manager usage. And it's not that hard to use it. In fact a pw manager alone is much more convenient than remembering passwords. The only people I know who "can't remember their passwords and are locked out" are people who don't use the pw manager and have dogs*it passwords with tiny variants they forget. They often need multiple attempts to log in anywhere. Yeah 2fa & pw manager is a tick more complicated but it's not like it take hours, it takes minutes per day. And you protect against stuff like this. No sympathy, sorry.

New comment by ddosmax556 in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

ddosmax556 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:48:14 +0000

You're assuming they're hiding the numbers because they think they seem bad in the discussions about data centers using too much water. The cover up is likely motivated much differently, and I would bet that doesn't really care about people complaining about waiter usage.

New comment by ddosmax556 in "Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city"

ddosmax556 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:39:12 +0000

For sure. Just like movies. Everything in moderation. But I won't buy 60 bucks AAA games, they're either a time sink, or a waste of money. Indie is enough. I uninstalled Factorio after having spent 90% of my free time on it for a few days.

New comment by ddosmax556 in "cp: -r or -R?"

ddosmax556 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:36:21 +0000

For those that don't know what 'copy as regular file' means, it means the copy command opens any file as though it was a regular file. If you have a FIFO queue sitting around it will read the content of the FIFO queue - if nothing writes to it, the command will hang. If you do cp -r /dev/zero foo, it will write zeroes into foo until the disk is full. -R otoh will copy a fifo queue as a fifo queue.

New comment by ddosmax556 in "Prompting Claude Opus 5.5"

ddosmax556 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:11:38 +0000

You are comparing mature technology to something that's on the edge of human advancement. It's like comparing the first steam driver cars with a Tesla, and complaining that the steering wheel looks different, and suddenly you have to press a pedal with a foot rather than a lever. Things are still changing!

New comment by ddosmax556 in "Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city"

ddosmax556 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:09:29 +0000

Beautifully put, better than I could have, why I don't touch games in general. They're amazing, but they make you feel like you're advancing, achieving, experiencing, when really you're not, you're barely doing anything than jumping into the future. But, as I understand you to mean as well, not everyone is like that, for some it feels to bring balance. In particular, if you're a coach, surely you have no shortage of human interaction, or being outside, doing sports, and networking. But it's not for me for sure.

New comment by ddosmax556 in "Prompting Claude Opus 5.5"

ddosmax556 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:40:06 +0000

Not sure how you missed that but models are fundamentally changing in features, scope, intelligence, pricing, communication style. Of course it changes every 3 months. Of course there is no product that lasts more than 3 months. We're in a race right now. It won't stop changing for a while.

New comment by ddosmax556 in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

ddosmax556 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:20:58 +0000

Right, but the best restaurants are not most restaurants. The best high end events are not most events. Most events and restaurants could be improved a lot by AI already

New comment by ddosmax556 in "What Using AI Therapy Gets Wrong"

ddosmax556 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:58:09 +0000

I don't know much about therapy, but this article appears to be a good analysis of what current therapy is about, why it works, and why AI might not be able to replace it.

But some of the things mentioned, such as: your therapist gets moved by your story themselves, they are themselves imperfect, and in general you're talking to a human being you have to respect etc - these things, while they definitely do support current therapy in important ways, they are not a deliberate design choice of how therapy works. They are rather constraints that come about when you are using a human being as a therapist, made out of flesh. So, the last point the article makes - that therapy itself might mean something else in the future - is the real question, in my mind.

The current form of therapy has incredible strengths in part because it works with these human constraints. But AI based therapy might be able to fill a different gap, one that regular therapists cannot fill - on account of, for example, not being available 24/7, not having the capacity to read entire diaries or chat histories, or taking on different personas. Or, simply, being cheaper than a real therapist, which can benefit many even if the ultimate quality is worse.

New comment by ddosmax556 in "Stabilizing Rust's Never Type"

ddosmax556 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:27:39 +0000

It results in different behavior in the compiler. You don't have to check the return type of a function in which you call a function return never. Using a different symbol gives you a hint why the code works, if you used `Never` you'd have to KNOW it works differently.

New comment by ddosmax556 in "The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative"

ddosmax556 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:20:00 +0000

Completely agree. I think there is a danger that we will loose important interactions because we don't need them, but there's also a chance that we skip unimportant ones and focus on important ones.

If being in a Waymo alone causes you to be more comfortable to chat with people on the phone, it can even have a positive effect, for example.

New comment by ddosmax556 in "Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem"

ddosmax556 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:57:08 +0000

Your comment appears to imply that the fact that LLMs used prove2me makes their accomplishment in any way less powerful. But consider that we just witnessed an AI system generate an automated proof that was previously unthinkable within 11 days and 300k+ of money. What tools were used along the way is kind of irrelevant, would you not say?

New comment by ddosmax556 in "If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II"

ddosmax556 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:17:29 +0000

The title of the paper itself is odd. "LLM" is an abstract computation that's performed on some substrate, could be GPUs, could be a piece of paper, could je Minecraft, could be AoE, or could be all of them together.

That's not a property of LLMs thought, that's a trivial property related to turing completeness. I don't get what LLMs have to do with this - if LLMs have anthropomorphic properties, so does AoEII, duh, it's called emergence

New comment by ddosmax556 in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

ddosmax556 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:14:31 +0000

Anthropic, if you're reading this: I'm a developer trying to figure out LLMs, I use them 8h per day to do my work. Claude Desktop is a missing piece I don't have access to because I'm only on Linux! I'm happy with a simple AppImage.

New comment by ddosmax556 in "The desperation of NYTimes"

ddosmax556 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:43:50 +0000

What's with these journals all being so hostile? I remember years ago i tried to delete my Washington Post account - there was no button anywhere in the settings menu though, only: text if you want your data deleted. I texted them, they asked back, do you live in a GDPR region? I said no, they replied well tough luck. Insane

New comment by ddosmax556 in "Ableton Extensions SDK"

ddosmax556 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:20:56 +0000

check audiotool

New comment by ddosmax556 in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

ddosmax556 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:54:48 +0000

I understand that this is frustrating for people who mostly write thoughtful emails. But personally I use gmail for exactly the following things: account recovery, system notifications, and b2b email threads. For the latter, I really couldn't care less about form or shape. It's a tool to an end, to get a point across. I found the auto writing stuff pretty useless so far (suggestions change the intended tone or even meaning of the email) but summaries are very useful to get a grip what happened in a larger thread which I should only know the gist of anyway.

I might be in the minority but to me email is an annoying requirement to reach out to people, and that is not due to the AI tools, it's due to: thread management, the horrible noise of unasked for newsletter, and system messages and updates I theoretically do care about but that are just inconsistently formatted and badly listed. I welcome AI giving me a better overview over what's going on than what I myself have.

New comment by ddosmax556 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

ddosmax556 — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:51:19 +0000

It can be discussed but not like this. The tone is problematic and results in the reaction. You're basically saying: I found a few bugs and I saw that you use tool X, thus you're now not worthy of maintaining this software without my supervision. Which is tiring if the initial report doesn't even show what exactly was wrong, or if something was wrong. It's just a feeling of: something doesn't work for me; I don't like AI tools; I see you're using AI tools; therefore I now tell you that you're not capable of maintaining this package, and I have to intervene. Such a stark comment must be done on more than just vibes and feelings.

New comment by ddosmax556 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

ddosmax556 — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:07:07 +0000

Yes, reliability plummeting is valuable feedback, but it should be framed as such, and not attack the maintainers descision to use agentic tools to write code, and especially not in that high nose way with an undertone of: What you're doing is obviously wrong, did you even think?? Everyone here knows it, are you stupid?

And the maintainer can then choose to use that feedback to incorporate it into the workflow, on their own time. If they so choose (which I'm sure they will, unless they get burnt by the community right now).

I think we agree.