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New comment by mirsadm in "Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed"

mirsadm — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 12:18:48 +0000

Maybe everybody has more capable models they're not releasing. Unless they're out they may as well not exist.

New comment by mirsadm in "Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7"

mirsadm — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:26:01 +0000

If anything it's the exact opposite. They're ridiculously powerful with more memory bandwidth than pretty much any equivalent PC. It is easy to make sloppy software because you can get away with so much.

New comment by mirsadm in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

mirsadm — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:45:33 +0000

They consume everybody's hard work then sell it to all competitors. What a deal.

New comment by mirsadm in "There's no such thing as a small software team anymore"

mirsadm — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:08:32 +0000

And they're really good at adding more code to reduce complexity. In particular Claude is absolutely bonkers at the moment. I am having trouble taking this seriously especially because you mentioned Claude. Have you looked at anything it's done?

New comment by mirsadm in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

mirsadm — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:43:58 +0000

Dunno that's my experience with most businesses. I doubt AWS is that much better under the hood.

New comment by mirsadm in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"

mirsadm — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:29:24 +0000

That's just not true. I am still finding the UI taking 40-50% of CPU time with many hours of wasted time on optimising it and ugly hacks. There's no convincing some people though. Because they can always say you just don't know how to use it.

Well I've been doing this for a pretty long time and I'd like to think I'm pretty good at it.

New comment by mirsadm in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

mirsadm — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:17:23 +0000

Yes but they would have had to spend years training/practicing which apparently is not a thing we value anymore.

New comment by mirsadm in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

mirsadm — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:19:51 +0000

An older iPhone is already better than most new cheaper Android phones.

New comment by mirsadm in "The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams"

mirsadm — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:29:23 +0000

You're right to push back...

New comment by mirsadm in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

mirsadm — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:25:53 +0000

Does it? That's not even well established yet. These things aren't that good.

New comment by mirsadm in "Thomann takes legal action against Fender"

mirsadm — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:55:21 +0000

I'm looking at buying one now and as far as I can tell Fender seems to make shoddy quality instruments these days. I see a lot of recommendations for PRS and others.

New comment by mirsadm in "Will It Mythos?"

mirsadm — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:00:40 +0000

To me it feels like they're basically tweaking these things around the edges. I'm not seeing any difference in capability just preference. This has been the case for a while.

New comment by mirsadm in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

mirsadm — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:10:01 +0000

I'd be curious to see how much CPU time is wasted on looking for a null every time strlen is called. The extra length integer is probably insignificant compared to that.

New comment by mirsadm in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

mirsadm — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:53:20 +0000

What does older mean in this context? Because some people still think the year 1996 wasn't that long ago. Modern Renault cars are fine and reliable enough. I've had 4 in my life time and had zero issues myself. I see a ton of them here in the UK and, again, they're fine.

New comment by mirsadm in "Claude Fable 5"

mirsadm — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:37:00 +0000

It's the real deal. Before Fable nothing I tried worked. It has finally helped me finish my teleportation device. I can't show you or anyone the proof but trust me it's true.

New comment by mirsadm in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

mirsadm — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:13:44 +0000

What's 12 months lead time worth? Not much from what I can tell. Contrary to what these AI companies might tell you, if an AI model can't do it, a human can still do the work.

New comment by mirsadm in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

mirsadm — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:39:28 +0000

This seems pretty unlikely. If it turns out to be true then you don't need a junior or senior dev you can just get a random person from the street and they could do the job.

New comment by mirsadm in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

mirsadm — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:29:41 +0000

That is a very uninformed view. Real time CV is not going to be doing that anytime soon.

New comment by mirsadm in "The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers"

mirsadm — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:56:46 +0000

You can apply this same argument to everything. Code is deterministic but what is being made is often not because people don't know what they want to make. Society can choose just to make everything boring and deterministic so that computers can do everything.

New comment by mirsadm in "Google I/O"

mirsadm — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:38:53 +0000

It's gotta be booking a flight or restaurant or something. They demo this every year and it never works.