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New comment by ilivethere in "Steam Machine"

ilivethere — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:05:03 +0000

Not OC, but I believe the RAM price surge is what will kill the Steam Machine. For the same price, you can get a gaming laptop with better specs.

New comment by ilivethere in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

ilivethere — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:13:22 +0000

I don't believe the willingness to install yet-another-messaging-app is a good measure of friendship value.

Between SMS, messenger, instagram, whatsapp, discord, slack, ms teams, signal, there's a point where juggling too much messaging apps become a burden instead of convenience.

New comment by ilivethere in "Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame"

ilivethere — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:07:13 +0000

> Medicine is another prong to the attack, with the development of new treatments to better ease the symptoms of pollen exposure. One Japanese trial, for example, showed a long-acting under-the-tongue immunotherapy tablet was were still helping alleviate symptoms two years after treatment. Other scientists have even been experimenting with genetically modified rice designed to alleviate allergy symptoms.

There is. Sorta

New comment by ilivethere in "A desktop made for one"

ilivethere — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:02:23 +0000

It's a question of time and priorities.

I work 8-10 hours a day and outside those working hours I want to spend time with my family, my friends, and my hobbies.

At the same time, during those 8-10 working hours I don't want to spend time fiddling around with different programming languages or software patterns just to spit out a quirky little tool that would make my job a bit easier.

For example, I wanted a local to-do list software that I could easily integrate with my workflow. Spent some time trying to find one, but not a single one worked the way I wanted. So, one morning, I spent 5 minutes detailing what I wanted, prompted it to Claude and let it rip while I was working. 30 minutes later, it was ready.

New comment by ilivethere in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

ilivethere — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:30:06 +0000

Typical case of the "curse of knowledge". We deal with AI on a daily basis on the technical level, so it's very easy to forget that the "common" folk really still believe that AI can replace dieticians, gym coaches, etc

New comment by ilivethere in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

ilivethere — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:26:22 +0000

> But the author just took pictures of food & expected a realistic response?

Outside our tech-enabled bubble, there are folks who have been sold the idea that ChatGPT et al is a miracle worker capable of replacing dieticians, gym coaches, psychologists, etc.

So it's VERY plausible to believe that there are folks out there snapping pics of their meals and asking GPT to spit out nutritional values.