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

duskdozer — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:03:30 +0000

This falls short because not being forced into chit-chat and music is very pleasant, but chatting with LLMs instead of collaborating with other people on a project is not. These aren't equivalents.

>humans are social animals

with varying social needs

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

duskdozer — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:53:16 +0000

It genuinely is--and that's the honest truth.

New comment by duskdozer in "Claude is no longer available for minors"

duskdozer — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:47:50 +0000

And children will still have access to the internet and resources to teach themselves how to program.

New comment by duskdozer in "Claude is no longer available for minors"

duskdozer — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:36:42 +0000

Why would they need to do ID checks then?

New comment by duskdozer in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

duskdozer — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:31:02 +0000

It's hard to see how you wouldn't at least be okay with that outcome if you were actively making it happen. But maybe this is just explaining why I'll never have that much money.

New comment by duskdozer in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

duskdozer — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:34:52 +0000

Younger people may not use Facebook, but they use Instagram.

New comment by duskdozer in "Decapitating a MacBook (2025)"

duskdozer — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:42:29 +0000

>I tried Virtual Machines, probably had half a dozen MacOS VMs over the years in VirtualBox and QEMU/KVM. Getting MacOS working in a VM is difficult, inconsistent and (at least on my machines) performance isn’t great. Apple strongly does not want you doing this, you’ll always be swimming upstream.

Idk. A year or two ago I wanted to test something on Mac. I searched a bit and found an image and probably copied a qemu config from somewhere, and it worked without any obvious problems. I'm sure there was a performance hit, but it wasn't unusable by any means, and I don't run the latest hardware.

New comment by duskdozer in "Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation"

duskdozer — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:18:56 +0000

Well, depends on what "something"

New comment by duskdozer in "Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation"

duskdozer — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:16:39 +0000

It depends. It may be that more testosterone when you already produce "enough" - which is individual-dependent - won't give much additional strength if you aren't training specifically to take advantage of it. Additionally, hormones are complicated. The body will downregulate its own production when given "too much". I'm aware that bodybuilders have to follow certain treatment regimens and add other drugs to restart the body's production if they stop supplementing it at times.

New comment by duskdozer in "AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems"

duskdozer — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:43:04 +0000

The internet for me (and increasingly non-internet programs) is unusable at this point without excessive modifications. It's hard to imagine what it's like being unbothered by it all.

New comment by duskdozer in "Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year"

duskdozer — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:13:43 +0000

You can, with for example KeePassXC. But following passkey development it does seem that in time they will want Google or Apple to own your private key and for you to use it through them.

New comment by duskdozer in "The browser's main thread is expensive"

duskdozer — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:44:28 +0000

I suspect one reason is to subtly make the user feel more like they are interacting with a person.

New comment by duskdozer in "The browser's main thread is expensive"

duskdozer — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:40:55 +0000

It depends. My display being at 1000hz doesn't mean I need your homebrewed accordion menu eating up the CPU to slide out and wiggle at 1000hz

New comment by duskdozer in "Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools"

duskdozer — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:01:23 +0000

I think it's extremely unlikely that people who are bothered by LLMisms in writing would be more bothered by human grammar slips.

New comment by duskdozer in "The browser's main thread is expensive"

duskdozer — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:39:16 +0000

Somewhere along the line "machine translation" became conflated with "machine translation + LLM editing"

New comment by duskdozer in "The browser's main thread is expensive"

duskdozer — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:34:50 +0000

The basic Firefox "translate this page" on the original is more readable to me.

New comment by duskdozer in "Pre-Release of Polars 2.0"

duskdozer — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:21:48 +0000

I guess I am a casual pandas user only. Reading a guide on migrating/differences, it's hard to see why polars would be obviously better.

New comment by duskdozer in "Pre-Release of Polars 2.0"

duskdozer — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:14:37 +0000

It sounds like they should be on a version much higher than 2.x then.

New comment by duskdozer in "Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?"

duskdozer — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:27:00 +0000

No you're not wrong, but while I can't speak for this specific instance, in many other cases, this language is intentionally confusing in order to dark-pattern users into agreeing to the thing they don't want to. Similar is using ambiguous language next to a switch/checkbox that makes it difficult to tell exactly what each state means.

New comment by duskdozer in "Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"

duskdozer — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:44:02 +0000

I think an invite system like lobste.rs could be enough. Prune bots at common ancestors