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New comment by fartfeatures in "ChatGPT and Codex Is Down"

fartfeatures — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:22:08 +0000

My existing sessions are working fine but I cannot create new ones.

New comment by fartfeatures in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

fartfeatures — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:33:03 +0000

I'd be worried about securely erasing my data when returning a leased model.

New comment by fartfeatures in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

fartfeatures — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:23:18 +0000

That's an extreme risk to them buying at inflated retail prices when supply is improving and prices are about to come down. Scalpers arent a large enough group to act as a cartel.

New comment by fartfeatures in "The August 17 outage"

fartfeatures — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:21:53 +0000

They really aren't. AI commit messages are much more thorough and correct than some of the stuff I've seen humans do over the years e.g. Fix, Fixup, Fixed some Stuff, Should work now, Definitely should work now etc etc etc.

New comment by fartfeatures in "Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves"

fartfeatures — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:14:55 +0000

Redundancy is just waste wearing a trench coat etc etc.

New comment by fartfeatures in "DuckDB Internals Part 1"

fartfeatures — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:56:43 +0000

EO/IR

New comment by fartfeatures in "DuckDB Internals Part 1"

fartfeatures — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:23:53 +0000

This is something that can't escape people making such statements but never seems to be addressed. Perhaps it is unaddressable as the original statement is grounded in emotion not reason?

New comment by fartfeatures in "DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)"

fartfeatures — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:02:49 +0000

I'm not convinced that is true. The JCB digger didn't put groundworkers out of business. A consultant that can get more done in a day is worth a lot more than one who can't. There is still skill required in wielding the tool of the day and that skill is marketable.

New comment by fartfeatures in "Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch"

fartfeatures — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:45:34 +0000

Standard Operating Procedure.

New comment by fartfeatures in "Report on an Unidentified Space Station – J.G. Ballard (1982)"

fartfeatures — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:10:46 +0000

Sure but isn't that the definition of clickbait?

New comment by fartfeatures in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

fartfeatures — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:23:13 +0000

Either that or Apple don't want to lose their 30% until they are forced to, one jurisdiction at a time. I guess we all need to make our own inference as to which is more likely.

New comment by fartfeatures in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

fartfeatures — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:58:51 +0000

Why as an Apple user in the UK am I considered too dumb to use a 3rd party app store but if I were 30 miles away in France I would be considered intelligent enough to cope? Because this was never about my safety. It was about their 30% as correctly supposed above.

New comment by fartfeatures in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

fartfeatures — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:50:07 +0000

I'm very clumsy and I've never hit the play button by accident. What are you guys doing that makes it so easy to accidentally click the play button? Are you using the mac with the touch bar or something?

New comment by fartfeatures in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

fartfeatures — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:47:57 +0000

Sounds like snuff porn, not my sort of thing but thanks though.

New comment by fartfeatures in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

fartfeatures — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:43:59 +0000

This is very dystopian in my opinion. I'm not the arms, legs, sensors and actuators for a machine super intelligence. I wouldn't treat another human as my slave because they aren't as intelligent as I am any more than I would expect to become a slave for a machine. This is our world (for now) and that is why we fit in. Not because we can serve.

New comment by fartfeatures in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

fartfeatures — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:09:35 +0000

We've known of a very good way to fix primary schools since 1907. Nearly 120 years. We simply do not want to do it because the labour and materials are more than we want to spend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education

New comment by fartfeatures in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

fartfeatures — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:54:57 +0000

Nobody uses a horse and cart as an every day method of commuting anymore.

New comment by fartfeatures in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

fartfeatures — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:15:50 +0000

Why would having more thinking companions stop you from thinking? Knowledge compounds.

New comment by fartfeatures in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

fartfeatures — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:12:40 +0000

I think by that point humanity will having some pretty fundamental discussions about the nature of work and money.

New comment by fartfeatures in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

fartfeatures — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:23:11 +0000

"bake cake in 170" is genuinely confusing at first glance though.