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New comment by happycube in "Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects (2025)"

happycube — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:10:24 +0000

I actually finally got started with CC after 4.6. ;)

The output is certainly prodigious (I can do things for side projects that I'd be very unlikely to finish on my own), but it's not a coding prodigy so it hasn't dislodged me from the idea that it's outsourcing.

Overall, yes, quite remarkable.

New comment by happycube in "Honda is killing its EVs"

happycube — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:19:51 +0000

China also picked up (from A123) and ran with LFP batteries which are inherently safer.

New comment by happycube in "Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects (2025)"

happycube — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:13:08 +0000

I think the gist of it still applies to even Claude Code w/Opus 4.6.

It's basically outsourcing to mediocre programmers - albeit very fast ones with near-infinite patience and little to no ego.

New comment by happycube in "What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)"

happycube — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:03:05 +0000

The fab was already taken apart and sold by then.

New comment by happycube in "Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc"

happycube — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:09:43 +0000

CD's have repatterened uncompressed data using scrambling codes to keep the waveform stable (i.e. ~50% on/off)

And a Laserdisc with digital sound literally has that CD audio EFM waveform in the lower frequencies.

New comment by happycube in "What AI coding costs you"

happycube — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:28:18 +0000

Agreed - if you're only writing things with Claude Code that would exist anyway (largely day job things) you're missing out.

Having an AI-slop version of X for your own gratification is usually better than having no version at all.

New comment by happycube in "What AI coding costs you"

happycube — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:26:07 +0000

Yeah this feels at least partially Claude-written to me too.

New comment by happycube in "IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL"

happycube — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:04:40 +0000

You also need "make no mistakes"

New comment by happycube in "Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback"

happycube — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:22:11 +0000

This is in the Qualcomm SOC chip, so it's not something that has to be designed into the phone per se.

New comment by happycube in "Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux"

happycube — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 12:36:01 +0000

It's meant to be Just Good Enough to keep C-Suites from picking Zoom and Slack.

New comment by happycube in "AMD GPUs Go Brrr"

happycube — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 12:30:02 +0000

Yup... the first Ryzen/EPYC chips were literally a saving throw.

AMD's driver/software woes compared to nVidia make more sense when you realize they barely made it here at all.

New comment by happycube in "As many as 2M Cisco devices affected by actively exploited 0-day"

happycube — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 18:33:02 +0000

Sound out the first three letters. I find it a very fitting description myself.

I guess that makes it a hononym of a different acronym.

New comment by happycube in "Testing the Raspberry Pi 500+'s new mechanical keyboard"

happycube — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 18:01:53 +0000

As someone who grew up on Atari 8-bits, they missed a trick by not calling this the 800.

New comment by happycube in "As many as 2M Cisco devices affected by actively exploited 0-day"

happycube — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:57:08 +0000

SNMP: It's an acronym and a homonym.

New comment by happycube in "Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza"

happycube — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 01:58:10 +0000

Agreed, it along with claiming victory on that certain thing that started five years ago and didn't end yet, realllly annoyed the left. And now, matters are worse.

(It also made the statements about "radical left" candidates very ironic.)

New comment by happycube in "AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86"

happycube — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:15:19 +0000

There's a critical instruction for Objective C handling (I forget exactly what it is) but it's faster than intel's chips even in Rosetta 2's x86 emulation.

New comment by happycube in "Is air travel getting worse?"

happycube — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 22:56:33 +0000

... and because of activist investors, they're throwing that away.

New comment by happycube in "GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it"

happycube — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:57:08 +0000

Maybe it's the exposure to Chinese? I've heard that training models on code first helps, so I could see it.

I've also heard hearsay that R1 is quite clever in Chinese, too.

New comment by happycube in "A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees"

happycube — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 01:34:31 +0000

The sad thing is that, from what I can tell, Intel doesn't have a true planned successor to Alder Lake-N.

It really might be as bad a mistake as not having Intel Isreal's futher development of Pentium 3 would have been. (in other words, no Pentium M, no Core 2 Duo, no Nehalem...)

New comment by happycube in "A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees"

happycube — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 01:30:38 +0000

AMD was in critical trouble just ten years ago - if Zen 1 had failed AMD would have faced bankruptcy. Probably a good reason why they're so behind on the software side.

So AMD going from that to 2-3x intel's market cap is just... not quite as impressive as Apple's turnaround, but certainly in that direction.