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New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

jvuygbbkuurx — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:37:28 +0000

That is exactly what is thought provoking. Usually we only learn glimpses of history, not a full distribution about it.

For example my draw died as a newborn (allegedly 50% died before 5), which made me think how many humans never really got to experience life.

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"

jvuygbbkuurx — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:14:20 +0000

Usually I don't care about the economy in MMOs, but in New World it was fun and different when it launched. I played almost exclusively for the economy. Buy and sell orders and separate auction houses between cities. There was many unexpected ways to make money with trading and crafting. The only major source of gold was a single main story quest early in the game, so if you weren't careful you would go broke and struggle. The economy wasn't that advanced, but it was fun watching the players ping pong back and forth with supply and demand.

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "Don't Paste the AI, please"

jvuygbbkuurx — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:10:12 +0000

No. Don't ask a question that AI can answer.

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)"

jvuygbbkuurx — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:54:53 +0000

You didn't expect your telemetry system to be used as a telemetry system?

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

jvuygbbkuurx — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:29:08 +0000

If it's to prevent accidents, it should just prompt user to confirm saving the screenshot with sensitive information.

As it is, it is just an annoyance that requires you to do stupid workarounds like taking a photo of your screen.

Imagine if a password manager didn't allow you to copy the password since you might accidentally paste it somewhere incorrect.

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose"

jvuygbbkuurx — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:56:36 +0000

If that is better (and possible) it will be baked in the tools. But is a model that doesn't know python better or worse at swift is what I wonder.

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "Asus Bike Booster"

jvuygbbkuurx — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 04:39:24 +0000

It's actually solved by putting thieves in prison (by the help of flock cameras).

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "The AI Situation in Software Development"

jvuygbbkuurx — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:48:19 +0000

I found it follows conventions and documentation well. So if you have a well designed core, it can easily add independent features without increasing overall complexity. Maybe it doesn't work in some very tangled domains like games, but some basic crud and saas stuff is pretty much a solved problem now with agents. They will trivially add features that humans would have pushed to a backlog forever as not worth the effort.

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "Delta"

jvuygbbkuurx — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:01:56 +0000

I don't like the default explanations. But I prompt for small code snippets with explanations of a problem and the solution. This is in the context of extending features, fixing bugs, reviewing new code etc. I still skim the code, but it's nice to have a somewhat thoughtful overview of the key points like database schema, API spec, algorithm or abstraction. It makes it easier to skim a large diff without feeling lost. It also quite often catches some weird choices that might slip through it not carefully reasoning about the code. For me it is hard to understand code I didn't write myself so I have landed on this workflow.

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have"

jvuygbbkuurx — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:17:05 +0000

You win some, you lose some. Maybe your coworker juniors became seniors and didn't negotiate higher pay.

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "200 Milliseconds"

jvuygbbkuurx — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:57:00 +0000

Indeed. But there are also delays that cause good feelings.

I still remember the POS in my previous employers cafeteria. It had something like 100-200ms delay in processing a contactless payment card. It felt like an order of magnitude faster than any grocery store (exact same POS device). It was always very satisfying to pay for lunch. By the time you brought the card to the reader it felt like it was already printing the receipt.

I always wonder how it was so fast and if it was just some random dev optimising some obscure edge case.

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

jvuygbbkuurx — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:16:57 +0000

Maybe download numbers are relatively low

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "Situational Awareness Down 67% in July in AI Stock Rout"

jvuygbbkuurx — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:13:23 +0000

He has served his time for those crimes

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026"

jvuygbbkuurx — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:08:16 +0000

Infinity is a ridicilous statement. Even the work that wouldn't have been done before is now time away from work that needs to be done. At worst it's negative x.

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident"

jvuygbbkuurx — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:30:22 +0000

Now I'm curious how many things did the AI try unsuccesfully. This sounds like some kind of brute force thing where every branch of exploit spawns N subagents trying to chain it. Just how deep did it go?

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification"

jvuygbbkuurx — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:42:10 +0000

It has been quite a slippery slope. Services that used to allow password auth have retired them in favour of bank detail login. I can kind of get it, since it's offloading support to the banks, but it's also annoying since the bank logins themselves are a pain to setup, maintain and use (mobile app only).

It would be nice to have some good standard that is less invasive.

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5"

jvuygbbkuurx — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:01:16 +0000

I found it eagerly reversing existing product decisions like changing a user given date into created date, since it thought creating something that is in the past is incorrect. This was not even related to the task at hand at all. I noticed this kind of stuff happens more with ultracode for some reason.

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

jvuygbbkuurx — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:21:09 +0000

That only matters if you are an investor not if you are a consumer.

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "Memory safety absolutists"

jvuygbbkuurx — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:48:13 +0000

Unsafe doesn't disable the borrow checker

New comment by jvuygbbkuurx in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

jvuygbbkuurx — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:04:04 +0000

I think originally they had good intentions. But they just cannot afford not to pull up the ladder, they raised too much.