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New comment by kennywinker in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"

kennywinker — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:52:53 +0000

> The US and its allies delivering reconstruction plans for Iran worth at least $300bn

New comment by kennywinker in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"

kennywinker — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:48:39 +0000

Being attacked strengthens a nations unity, strengthens regimes, and eliminates room for dissent - did you miss 9/11? Oct 7th? Pearl harbour? The blitz?

New comment by kennywinker in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"

kennywinker — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:44:26 +0000

“US and allies” apparently

New comment by kennywinker in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"

kennywinker — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:36:32 +0000

…plus iran gets $300bn in reconstruction money

New comment by kennywinker in "Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust"

kennywinker — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:21:19 +0000

Projects like this really need to disclose how much ai was used. Otherwise my default assumption is it’s slop, which would be a bummer if someone carefully crafted this with some light ai assistance.

New comment by kennywinker in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"

kennywinker — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:27:37 +0000

> What's wrong with saying "Japanese cars" today?

Only that it’s a fairly meaningless grouping. When japan first entered the car market in north america there might have been some commonality, but now what characteristics do they share that some american cars don’t have? They’re not even imported a lot of the time.

Given that, it does start to feel tinged with racism if someone insists on grouping things together that don’t really belong together.

As for Chinese LLMs, the term doesn’t “feel” pejorative to me - but i also don’t see a totally clear set of attributes they share. Not all are open-weight. Some are small and can be run on consumer hardware, some are huge. They even have a variety of answers to what happened june 3rd 1989

New comment by kennywinker in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"

kennywinker — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:20:52 +0000

Have you looked, or you’re just waiting for someone to hand it to you?

New comment by kennywinker in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

kennywinker — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:56:38 +0000

They keep asking chatgpt how to monetize and it keeps giving slop answers?

New comment by kennywinker in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

kennywinker — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:06:22 +0000

I think the point is the tax brackets are supposed to be inflation-adjusted. So all the brackets go up 4.2% too. Idk if the implementation details make this actually work out 1:1 but that’s the idea.

New comment by kennywinker in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

kennywinker — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:59:50 +0000

Cumulative inflation since 2019 has been 30%. More with these new numbers, I think.

What jobs have the wages gone up 30% in that same time period? I’m sure a few, but not many.

New comment by kennywinker in "Notes on DeepSeek"

kennywinker — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:11:46 +0000

You wouldn’t steal a brain

New comment by kennywinker in "Siri AI"

kennywinker — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:33:27 +0000

It’s not “pulled off the internet with no context”. It’s the second slide in their marketing presentation about what’s new in siri. The context they chose for it is all around it.

New comment by kennywinker in "Siri AI"

kennywinker — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:31:28 +0000

> Most people still aren't familiar with AI

I don’t think that’s true. Who are these blissfully unaware masses, and how do I join them?

I guess it depends on your definition of “familiar”, but it’s in the news every single day, and you can’t even google something without being slapped in the face with it. I feel like the only people left unfamiliar are people who have no access to the internet - and by definition they aren’t buying iPhones

New comment by kennywinker in "Siri AI"

kennywinker — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:29:27 +0000

If that’s the story you’re trying to tell, where is the query in the image? The image alone doesn’t tell that story.

But also:

a) do you trust the llm to get it right 100% of the time? Because i’m gonna always read the original message to make sure.

And b) just excerpt the message “mike says i love it here at the snow … but i need snowboots” if you’re so desperate to shoehorn LLMs into everything, that’s just as easy a task for them as summarizing is.

New comment by kennywinker in "Siri AI"

kennywinker — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:22:09 +0000

My complaint is this image is supposed to tell the story of how this stuff is useful or new. Finding a message from earlier in the same day and then paraphrasing the message instead of just showing it isn’t useful or new. A simple keyword search uses infinitely fewer GPUs and finds me the info as fast without the risk of hallucinations or datacenter driven environmental collapse.

But for whatever reason - because this stuff is mostly useless, because they’ve all got ai psychosis, or because of general dysfunction in the corporate structure - they can’t come up with a better example.

New comment by kennywinker in "Siri AI"

kennywinker — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:11:33 +0000

> It could be 200 texts back.

Ok? But if I search for something just show me the thing I searched for (the proof). There is literally no need to repeat it in a slightly different tense. Who is that helping?

New comment by kennywinker in "Siri AI"

kennywinker — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:09:08 +0000

Using AI to summarize a message by saying what the message says in the same amount of words as the message So helpful!

New comment by kennywinker in "Siri AI"

kennywinker — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:00:38 +0000

Lol. That makes it almost make sense. It’s still showing me a summary of a text that uses exactly the same amount of space to convey exactly the same amount of information. Like, that’s just search - i’ve been able to get this info by typing “plant” into the search bar since they added spotlight in iPhoneOS 3.0 back in 2009

It’s also a text from 9:14am the same day.

If this is the second slide in your marketing slideshow, you clearly have nothing better to show.

New comment by kennywinker in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

kennywinker — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:55:58 +0000

The ISS isn’t supposed to be a profitable business, and it isn’t competing with terrestrial ISS’ that can use evaporative cooling.

New comment by kennywinker in "Siri AI"

kennywinker — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:51:51 +0000

The second slide on the site is… it’s gotta be a troll from some pissed off designer, right?

Screenshotted in case they change it https://imgur.com/a/n1I3z8g