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New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

not_a_bot_4sho — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:39:42 +0000

This is uncomfortably true.

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision"

not_a_bot_4sho — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:46:04 +0000

As I read this, looks like a single run per task. I'd be interested to see best out of N like 5 or 10 to start.

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

not_a_bot_4sho — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:15:27 +0000

Strictly from a linguistic perspective: what a terrible and dumb term ('magic') to try and introduce into physics.

How does gravity work? Magic!

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant"

not_a_bot_4sho — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:38:00 +0000

Power pup was the superdog. Rocky was the normal dog.

(I was way too into the building apps with the assistant framework as a kid...)

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Shopify outage [resolved]"

not_a_bot_4sho — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:26:06 +0000

> And even then we won't be able to tell if it's because of the AI or because they fired everybody that knows what they are doing.

This is an important distinction worth teasing apart when these events happen

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Shopify Is Down"

not_a_bot_4sho — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:04:39 +0000

I have a friend at shopify in a staff role and they are so incredibly into AI it's fascinating. Even their job interviews are all about using AI and the traditional algorithm questions are gone. PRs written by AI, and PRs reviewed by AI and rubber stamped by humans.

I can't speak to stability but I get the impression it's a poster child for being all in on AI, moreso than other tech companies. By far.

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

not_a_bot_4sho — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:30:53 +0000

Tangentially, I've seen a couple people use "CoPilot" here instead of "Copilot" (the actual product name).

Where does the Pascal case inspired variant come from? Is it a reference to something? Is it like "M$" was used back in the days?

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

not_a_bot_4sho — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:41:39 +0000

> receive a 5-paragraph-plus email that was clearly written with some AI

Which is promptly and ironically summarized by AI on the receiving side

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks"

not_a_bot_4sho — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:32:31 +0000

My eldest kids are allowed 2 hours of screen time on the weekends. Zero during weekdays. No phones, only tablets and computers. No social media allowed.

Most of their peers seem to have unlimited or at least plentiful screen time, and often use their phones at bus stops and things like that so the friction you mention comes up. "It's not fair. Jane has a YouTube account and Instagram!" -- to which I mentally reply "tough shit" but verbally provide more polite answers.

But I've got a younger one not yet in school, who is strictly limited to things like sesame street under supervision. I've noticed other daycare parents are similar as strict with screen time, with similar opinions about social media, something that wasn't the case with my older kids.

I find that change refreshing.

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

not_a_bot_4sho — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:11:06 +0000

By design. The whole point of Phi is the "textbooks is all you need" theory on curated training data, as opposed to kitchen sinks.

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

not_a_bot_4sho — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:03:29 +0000

Mind sharing more details about your use and experience with DGX? I'm just curious

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Vibe Coding Is Not Engineering"

not_a_bot_4sho — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:42:18 +0000

> Who ensures it followed the specs?

The human. But only if you care about verification.

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

not_a_bot_4sho — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:35:12 +0000

> You are in the minority ... 41% of households use recurring cleaning services ...

Wouldn't that put OP in the majority?

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers chasing usage scores"

not_a_bot_4sho — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:42:46 +0000

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/2899/

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis"

not_a_bot_4sho — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:30:56 +0000

Framing everything as 'gaslighting' has finally worn out. 'Psychosis' is fashionable again!

Treadmill keeps on moving...

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

not_a_bot_4sho — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:27:24 +0000

Xfinity/Comcast automated support has swear word detection. I eventually picked up on this after the 4th or 5th time they sent out a non-technical 'technician' in response to my concerns over SNR causing connection instability.

(Me: "here is a comprehensive analysis of modem logs over the past 7 days and clear indication of the cause"; Xfinity: "Let's turn off the wifi router for 30s! It didn't work the last 50 times but it's the only thing we can do.")

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "A sleep-like consolidation mechanism for LLMs"

not_a_bot_4sho — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:20:37 +0000

Some of them were straight up psychopaths too, as evidenced by `kill()` !

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)"

not_a_bot_4sho — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:32:42 +0000

> (also thanks for the useful message telling me to "contact the website owner... while blocking me from the website where the contact info should be)

I hit this a lot with Firefox VPN and it's ridiculous

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

not_a_bot_4sho — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:24:44 +0000

I was searching for reverse sear info and it told me to make sure the steak is at least 37f/3c internally before eating lol

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Don't Roll Your Own"

not_a_bot_4sho — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:23:58 +0000

Ugh you triggered me.

I hate how most "modern" websites have MEGABYTES of JavaScript. CSS? Pack it in a js bundle with JSX and object literals. Images? Throw them in too, just make it load on demand.

Hell, just put a

there and let js do the rest. It's not like we have browsers and networks and edge nodes optimized to render websites in other ways.