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New comment by exitb in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

exitb — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:58:53 +0000

> Andy Warhol might disagree

He might not actually. He could have just printed the cans, yet they’re all hand painted. The fact that he could mass produce them, but didn’t is part of story.

New comment by exitb in "What will be left for us to work on?"

exitb — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:31:10 +0000

The only truly unprecedented thing is the white-collar part. Otherwise it happened many times over that entire regions where suddenly out of job and job prospects. Automation and offshoring have equivalent impacts on the affected job market.

New comment by exitb in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

exitb — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:39:47 +0000

Intricate sandboxing is a real solution in the same way bulletproof backpacks are a real solution to school shootings.

New comment by exitb in "What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis"

exitb — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 04:17:13 +0000

What’s described here isn’t connected to the agentic/AI nature of the software at all. Every single program you run as a regular user could potentially do this.

New comment by exitb in "AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence"

exitb — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:23:59 +0000

Notably, AI IS generally permitted to that, as there are easily obtainable models that will play along. ChatGPT won’t because OpenAI chose and implemented that limitation.

New comment by exitb in "Show HN: Analog Watch"

exitb — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:12:02 +0000

Yes, if you use an analog indicator for an analog parameter, you can skip a „parse” step. Similarly, airplanes use analog indicators, or digital ones that either mimic their analog counterparts, or in some way incorporate visual aids that go past a number. This allows the pilot to, at a glance, check the values, see the rate of change, get a useful readout even if the value is noisy or oscillating.

New comment by exitb in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

exitb — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:55:03 +0000

Pushy fundamentalists, I suppose.

New comment by exitb in "Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps"

exitb — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:06:52 +0000

I'm happy using Codex for alternative harnesses and non-interactive usage, but it does make me wonder when OpenAI will start to squeeze their customers in the same way.

New comment by exitb in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

exitb — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:19:48 +0000

It's not only about trust, but also about not wanting to give money to an entity that will pass it on to a political party you don't want to support.

New comment by exitb in "Help I accidentally a wigglegram"

exitb — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:06:04 +0000

Not that strange I guess, given how iOS does that automatically for all taken pictures.

New comment by exitb in "Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file"

exitb — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:57:19 +0000

I have a running Windows 98 PC with P3 550MHz and SSD connected via IDE adapter. The drive is a bit out of place, but it’s legitimately the fastest booting, most responsive computer in my house. Its only speed issue is that it can really do just one thing. Any heavy task (including large file/network operations, apparently) will render the system almost unresponsive until it’s finished.

New comment by exitb in "The 100k whys of AI"

exitb — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 06:57:50 +0000

Notably, in programming this is actually a desirable feature for most problems. Even human programmers are taught to produce predictable and obvious code whenever possible. I wonder is ultimately this is an artifact of optimizing the models for code, that they become less creative.

New comment by exitb in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

exitb — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:23:19 +0000

Given it’s a website mostly for experienced computer people who, like you, don’t really need those visual cues, don’t you think adding them would be superfluous?

New comment by exitb in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

exitb — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:12:38 +0000

Let’s look at the very website we on. Would you prefer for every clickable element here to be a button? Or even underlined as a link? Do you ever get confused navigating this website?

New comment by exitb in "New way of making espresso with ultrasound"

exitb — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:01:11 +0000

To be fair, precedent has already been made with cold brew.

New comment by exitb in "Apple Foundation Models"

exitb — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:27:33 +0000

I'm guessing it's a BlizzCon joke.

New comment by exitb in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

exitb — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:16:02 +0000

The "loudness war" issue is not inherent to digital sources. Nor is it something you need to "master the record out of". It's sufficient to not break it in the first place.

New comment by exitb in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

exitb — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:14:58 +0000

You’ve picked an interesting example, as driving a car, even with all safety precautions, is pretty much the most dangerous activity we do on a daily basis. Yet somehow we decide that the benefits outweigh the risks.

New comment by exitb in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

exitb — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:18:38 +0000

Many people will say it’s because of the slop. I think it’s because they have no product vision. The roadmap is pretty much a random walk, which combined with the velocity of agentic coding is like digging a moat with atomic bombs.

New comment by exitb in "Cannibalism"

exitb — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:38:18 +0000

Your job being automated to the point where you no longer proform it has the same adverse consequences. Whether this could work is some economic and societal setup is irrelevant, because that's not the world we live in.