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New comment by fridder in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

fridder — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:38:15 +0000

At least in high school I was the opposite. If I had a class with a teacher strict about notes I didn't absorb the material as well because I was more focused on getting the notes correct than engaging with the material

New comment by fridder in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

fridder — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:28:10 +0000

All well and good for folks without hand issues.

New comment by fridder in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

fridder — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:49:09 +0000

I also wonder what this moment will mean for chip design going forward. The fact that we are so constrained on the GPU side along with the success of unified memory with apple silicon does make me wonder what chips in 3-5 years will look like.

New comment by fridder in "The lost joy of music piracy"

fridder — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:02:06 +0000

Sony has so often footgunned itself it is comical. Occasionally great engineering hobbled by terrible business choices

New comment by fridder in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

fridder — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:00:23 +0000

or libghostty

New comment by fridder in "It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history"

fridder — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:30:15 +0000

Royalroad has been a great place for me

New comment by fridder in "Herdr: One terminal to rule them all"

fridder — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:59:49 +0000

I did find a plugin at least

New comment by fridder in "Herdr: One terminal to rule them all"

fridder — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:14:38 +0000

I wonder if it works with jj workspaces as well. I guess I have something new to tryout today

New comment by fridder in "Herdr: One terminal to rule them all"

fridder — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:08:55 +0000

Take a look at zellij as well

New comment by fridder in "Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all"

fridder — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:12:06 +0000

I think it is rather disgusting to equate raising humans and training an LLM

New comment by fridder in "Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective"

fridder — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:09:03 +0000

Well, I was trying to be a little charitable

New comment by fridder in "Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective"

fridder — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:13:43 +0000

His most innovative move was acquisition

New comment by fridder in "Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective"

fridder — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:11:39 +0000

Didn’t he famously trash folks over 30 years back? He has really done nothing innovative outside of ads.

New comment by fridder in "Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective"

fridder — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:07:44 +0000

Exactly. With the broad layoffs some companies do, you learn the company doesn’t value you, so why should you value the company?

New comment by fridder in "Most arguments are about ego, not ideas"

fridder — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:38:04 +0000

I think you are spot on. Also if you are actively listening you may learn that the fault is in how you are communicating your ideas instead of the ideas themselves being flawed

New comment by fridder in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

fridder — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:31:26 +0000

really is too bad FreeBSD couldn't be an alternative

New comment by fridder in "Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]"

fridder — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:09:38 +0000

there has been a decoupling of productivity gains and wage increases for some time. Not completely disconnected yet but still

New comment by fridder in "The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs"

fridder — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:59:32 +0000

We need a SETI@Home but for model training

New comment by fridder in "Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash"

fridder — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:13:13 +0000

I wonder if it will be better at building TUI's. It has been absolutely abysmal at interacting with them and building them

New comment by fridder in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

fridder — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:40:00 +0000

One problem: folks that are on blood thinners shouldn't supplement with vitamin k