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New comment by epohs in "Google changes its search box"

epohs — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:57:39 +0000

The shark has fully cleared it’s jump.

New comment by epohs in "Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down"

epohs — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:18:13 +0000

Tough to tell exactly what you’re referencing, but you might be thinking about the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum, which was a natural increase in carbon in the atmosphere that led to higher temperatures. So, in some ways very similar to what we’re seeing now, but if my understanding is correct, even the PETM which was “dramatic” on a geological timescale took thousands of years to ramp up, and played out over 200,000 years. What we’re seeing now is happening much quicker, and is highly correlated with human influence.

New comment by epohs in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

epohs — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:44:58 +0000

This seems big. Is this big?

New comment by epohs in "Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people"

epohs — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 01:09:08 +0000

Which social and communal values, specifically, do you think The NY Times and the New Yorker are promoting the dissolution of?

New comment by epohs in "Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games, says store fees stifle startups"

epohs — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 01:57:26 +0000

Counter example to what? Why should they not be able to run both a relatively open ecosystem and a mostly closed one?

I don’t think Apple is arguing that it is impossible to allow more open ways to install apps on iPhones. I think they’re saying that they don’t want to, and that they shouldn’t have to.

New comment by epohs in "Building a Mac app with Claude code"

epohs — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 17:25:40 +0000

A year or two ago I had a pretty simple thought. The idea was that LLMs make a great assistant for a skilled developer, a bad replacement for a skilled developer, and a dangerous assistant for an unskilled developer. That idea has mostly seemed to hold true as I have gotten more experience with LLMs.

I think I would revise it now to allow that LLMs can be really useful teachers for unskilled developers, however I don’t get the sense that that’s how they’re being used in many cases. It seems that it’s more common that unskilled developers using LLMs just vibe code their way through issues that they run into, never really gaining insight into why the thing they’re working on failed, and just push through until it seems like it isn’t failing anymore.

And that more or less reinforces my idea that they’re dangerous assistants in those cases where the developer is unskilled. It’s pretty much inevitable that this will introduce problems that make it through the process of creation not only unnoticed, but problems that the developer is incapable of understanding even if they are noticed.

New comment by epohs in "Earth's clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming"

epohs — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 13:48:50 +0000

Likely because they are tall and tilted in a direction facing the sun, so that the moisture blocks more of the light than it would if the sun was hitting it at a more oblique angle.

New comment by epohs in "Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri"

epohs — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:35:25 +0000

Google Maps had already launched and had really surprised everyone at how much better it was than any other mapping tool a few years before iPhone launched. and just the interactivity of it in general independent of it being a “map” was a paradigm shifter.

Yes, the iPhone put it in everyone’s pocket, but if Apple had built a handheld device that was powerful enough to run any interactive mapping tool Google Maps was already the obvious choice.

It’s a minor quibble, but to say Apple played a majority role in Google Map’s success doesn’t ring true to me. In 2007 Google Maps was easily overtaking all other mapping tools with or without the iPhone.

New comment by epohs in "Why Is Light So Fast?"

epohs — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:31:52 +0000

Here's a 5 and a half hour long video of a photon travelling across the solar system.. spoiler the photon in this video doesn't move quickly

https://youtu.be/_qKOpvDa82M?si=HyO5TGSvxw0DN5yF