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New comment by drchickensalad in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

drchickensalad — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:40:46 +0000

The new model every week is not necessary at this point really. What if you could run opus 5 for the next couple years at 1/20 the cost?

New comment by drchickensalad in "I Love the Computer"

drchickensalad — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:07:43 +0000

> The comparison suggests that the thing doesn't do what it's marketed to do

In my opinion you should interpret the usage of "AI" here to mean "the entire business/management/financial/bubble ecosystem surrounding LLMs". The snake oil is much more how LLMs are being weaponized and utilized rather than a specific technical assessment (although that often is an issue too)

New comment by drchickensalad in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

drchickensalad — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:04:34 +0000

Ok let's be honest 2.5 hours each way is an abomination and I bet most people who hate their WFH situation prefer it over that shit.

New comment by drchickensalad in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

drchickensalad — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:02:24 +0000

This is 2009 right? I almost expected the classic 100+ year old quote, but knowing the year still has the same effect of conveying how something that feels recent has been felt forever.

New comment by drchickensalad in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

drchickensalad — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:15:28 +0000

> if it costs 10x less

This will not happen. Nobody desires to give that up. Also AI does not deliver even remotely that much true value multiplier

New comment by drchickensalad in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

drchickensalad — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:33:30 +0000

You're asking why oil doesn't act like water. It's not really an impossible task, it's just not one they agree with.

New comment by drchickensalad in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

drchickensalad — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:06:07 +0000

Check out the Epic Encounters 2 mod for D:OS2. Best tactics experience I've ever had. Runners up are LWOTC for XCOM3 and Homebrew for BG3.

New comment by drchickensalad in "I quit. The clankers won"

drchickensalad — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:33:41 +0000

You do know that there's many different personalities that people can have right? A lot of people love writing code and don't care about those things at all.

New comment by drchickensalad in "LLMs can be exhausting"

drchickensalad — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:49:31 +0000

You're so lucky you feel this way...every day is a worse hell for me since these demons arrived. I miss my job.

New comment by drchickensalad in "We might all be AI engineers now"

drchickensalad — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:58:40 +0000

I wish I moved to HCOL earlier so I could have saved enough fast enough to be you. I thought it would take more time before the end...

New comment by drchickensalad in "Cosmologically Unique IDs"

drchickensalad — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:53:36 +0000

That also looks like the widely used BSON ids, to anyone else interested

New comment by drchickensalad in "After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up"

drchickensalad — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:36:45 +0000

Yeah I've seen this a few times on the backend that decides this. The standard should be to use the accept-language header, but all the time when people write their own code on top of frameworks (or maybe use niche shitty ones) they just geoip for language.

For business use cases sometimes it's based on the company's default language that you're an employee for.

New comment by drchickensalad in "Apple to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments for first time in 14 years"

drchickensalad — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:10:52 +0000

My iPhone friends literally grab my s24 ultra camera when we take pictures at cocktail bars and tell me to send them the picture

New comment by drchickensalad in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"

drchickensalad — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:19:40 +0000

That doesn't get shown publicly for everyone else watching you.

New comment by drchickensalad in "How do I get into the game industry"

drchickensalad — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 21:41:47 +0000

I was an admin on a huge wire mod server as a teen and it changed my life :). I might not even have gotten into software, don't even want to imagine that life

New comment by drchickensalad in "Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012)"

drchickensalad — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:40:59 +0000

I think you grossly undervalue execution. Ideas are cheap. Most developers would have turned those games into weaker money extracting machines that generate one tenth the love from current players

New comment by drchickensalad in "Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)"

drchickensalad — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:35:13 +0000

This fuels my feelings on why most uses of GenAI are such a step back for society's non-short-term effectiveness.

New comment by drchickensalad in "LLM Inevitabilism"

drchickensalad — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:37:10 +0000

Isn't that what was said about the next year, the last two years?

New comment by drchickensalad in "Why Koreans ask what year you were born"

drchickensalad — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 22:44:36 +0000

Gotta love when you're in a 2,000 person public company, and you can still "heya Phil" despite not being a personal friend at all, and he even prefers it

New comment by drchickensalad in "Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature"

drchickensalad — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 12:52:51 +0000

I miss F#