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New comment by lallysingh in "Googlebook"

lallysingh — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:22:58 +0000

This is just chromeos+Gemini

New comment by lallysingh in "Googlebook"

lallysingh — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:22:09 +0000

I use AI regularly to consider new looks. Just have it render someone like me in different outfits. Super useful.

New comment by lallysingh in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

lallysingh — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:42:43 +0000

I think this has all suddenly shifted with high-quality programming AIs available. How difficult is this to implement with Claude?

New comment by lallysingh in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

lallysingh — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:06:44 +0000

Windows isn't a useful base of comparison anymore. They really stopped trying years ago.

New comment by lallysingh in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

lallysingh — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:11:05 +0000

It's been working great for me. I haven't seen any changes.

New comment by lallysingh in "The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]"

lallysingh — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:02:51 +0000

Did we have the same PC?!

New comment by lallysingh in "The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]"

lallysingh — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:09:24 +0000

Didn't MS also do OS/2 early on? Didn't they bill IBM by line of code?

I can't say much about Solaris, I used it - much later - on sparc and amd64.

I can say that I was writing 16 bit windows apps in '95, including drivers and VxDs, and Win 3.1 was a piece of garbage inside and out.

New comment by lallysingh in "Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found"

lallysingh — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:06:14 +0000

I don't know why you'd believe they've ever been capable of putting out quality software.

A bug in the software is a bug in the process, and the process is the job of leadership. They've never cared about software quality. They'll put out lots of books about it, lots of talks, lots of claims. But they won't actually put out quality software. It's not in their DNA, never was.

It's not their size nor their age that makes this hard for them. Plenty of larger, older companies put out better product ever day. It's just them. Someone in each size class is the best, and someone else is the worst. MS has been the worst the entire time.

New comment by lallysingh in "The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]"

lallysingh — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:24:45 +0000

I had to restore my son's desktop PC last night from a USB stick. It didn't even have drivers for graphics over 800x600 or the wifi card. I was flabbergasted. It's windows 11, 2026, a 6-month old PC. I genuinely don't know how someone could sell something this awful with a straight face.

Windows was only ever better than DOS, by the same vendor. It's been awful compared to any competitor it's ever had. Really. I don't see a non-gaslighting argument for Windows anywhere.

New comment by lallysingh in "Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks"

lallysingh — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:41:01 +0000

Yeah, I mean I'm looking at frameworks/thinkpads on one side and chromebooks on the other. Not charging up to $440 (!) for a keyboard isn't a great act of engineering or generosity. This has been ridiculous for a very, very long time. Being less ridiculous isn't worth celebrating. The goal markers have moved so damned much.

Compare to a thinkpad keyboard FRU. They have fluid drains and still cost $99 for a top-end laptop. My daughter's chromebook keyboard replacement at school was $16.

New comment by lallysingh in "I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye"

lallysingh — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:16:36 +0000

I think we'll have to start configuring our client tools (e.g. browser, email client, etc) to render domain names with annotations for different character classes. E.g. our native character set is a standard color (blue/black) and then other character sets would have to stand out (purple background?).

New comment by lallysingh in "The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest – and AI Is the Hunter"

lallysingh — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:33:35 +0000

This entire page is a sales pitch, but it doesn't really cover how things are hidden or how much that costs.

How does it compare to tor hidden services?

New comment by lallysingh in "Tesla is committing automotive suicide"

lallysingh — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:02:44 +0000

GM didn't sell EVs for years after releasing the EV1. They didn't get any market advantage from the EV1 because they left the market after, for a long time.

New comment by lallysingh in "Tesla is committing automotive suicide"

lallysingh — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:45:16 +0000

If a robot can do basic cleaning, laundry, and dishes, that's worth a lot to a lot of people. Dual-professional households have the money, and not having to do this housework could save some marriages.

New comment by lallysingh in "Tesla is committing automotive suicide"

lallysingh — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:35:52 +0000

The EV1 gave GM no advantage.

New comment by lallysingh in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

lallysingh — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:37:17 +0000

I was still thinking of CS :/

New comment by lallysingh in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

lallysingh — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:10:50 +0000

On the bright side, an LLM can really help set up a reproduction environment.

Perhaps repro should become the basis of peer review?

New comment by lallysingh in "Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters?"

lallysingh — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:37:42 +0000

How well did you terminate the scsi chain?

New comment by lallysingh in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

lallysingh — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:36:52 +0000

My first guess was debouncing. They assume that the switches are worn out, deeply weathered, and cheaply made. Each press will cause the signal to oscillate and they're taking their sweet time to register it.

When the device is new this is an absurd amount of time to wait. As the device degrades over 10, 20 years, that programming will keep it working the same. Awful the entire time, yes, but the same as the day it was new.

New comment by lallysingh in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

lallysingh — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:45:38 +0000

Yeah. Just like another engineer. When you tell another engineer to build you a feature, it's improbable they'll do it they way that you consider "right."

This sounds a lot like the old arguments around using compilers vs hand-writing asm. But now you can tell the LLM how you want to implement the changes you want. This will become more and more relevant as we try to maintain the code it generates.

But, for right now, another thing Claude's great at is answering questions about the codebase. It'll do the analysis and bring up reports for you. You can use that information to guide the instructions for changes, or just to help you be more productive.