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New comment by phorkyas82 in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

phorkyas82 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:06:35 +0000

That'd be so great. No more cursing if I forgot the "-ai" or "-ki" flag in my search and see this odious AI overview processing window rendering slowly and taking up the space where my search results should be.

New comment by phorkyas82 in "Magnifica Humanitas"

phorkyas82 — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:45:28 +0000

..just like any other government?

New comment by phorkyas82 in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

phorkyas82 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:45:40 +0000

"Just like humans..", was also my first thought.

> frequently escalating to severe misconduct to satisfy KPIs

Bug or feature? - Wouldn't Wallstreet like that?

New comment by phorkyas82 in "Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC"

phorkyas82 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:25:36 +0000

Don't forget that gcc is in the training set.

That's what always puts me off: when AI replaces artists, SO and FOSS projects, it can only feed into itself and deteriorate..

New comment by phorkyas82 in "Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments"

phorkyas82 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:51:11 +0000

That's why there is separation of powers or ought to be.

New comment by phorkyas82 in "Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years"

phorkyas82 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:28:04 +0000

I always had this: "Only dead software needs no maintenance" in the back of my head, and similarly "bug free only means it's not been used and vetted enough"

While probing into this, I think there could be a case where software is mostly done: when it is shipped with the hardware and run in an isolated environment.

The mentioned tools are probably not distributed in binary form for different OS, I assume, otherwise that statement _cannot_ be true.

> failing to to finish software indicates a badly defined scope. In my first job there'd even been a contractual penalty if you are not done in time. And this company produced examples of "finished" software, that controlled warehouse material flow, sometimes running on 20 yrs old MCU. (which of course meant they could not extract money of these customers, because the software ran too good)

New comment by phorkyas82 in "Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back"

phorkyas82 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:55:46 +0000

Slightly moving into the other direction, after 17 years of science and tech optimism I see myself turning into a Luddite more and more. First observation was that communication and social aspects of software seems crucial for success and proliferation. And next came: that technology seems inept to solve any socio-econimic problems, but rather aggravates them.

New comment by phorkyas82 in "GPT-5.2"

phorkyas82 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:18:22 +0000

Isn't that what no LLM can provide: being free of hallucinations?

New comment by phorkyas82 in "Italy's longest-serving barista reflects on six decades behind the counter"

phorkyas82 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:37:33 +0000

Second that. I see that as a failure of society or democracy as a whole - that we are no longer able to have that broad, public conversation and act accordingly. Why should every "innovation" be shoved down our throats, if we don't want to?

New comment by phorkyas82 in "An infinite joke: How math is bigger than AI"

phorkyas82 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 04:12:50 +0000

Uff, dunno where to start even: I think as a transcendent number π cannot have a finite expansion like 10 in any base, then it would be rational. But that is not so important. I think in your argumentation you are mixing to things.

The finiteness of everything, our world and the universe: That was also something that struck me, and made me disbelief in God which is said to be infinite and perfect. It's an undeniable observation - see also how Aristotle was to deny the existence of actual infinity and only allow potential infinity, which was only lately challenged by Cantor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actual_and_potential_infinity) You seem to use this as an argument, that our mental world is.. infinitely more than our physical. So you advocate some kind of dualism and claim that LLM never will have access to our mental world?

Idk, this "mental world", amazing as it is, is clearly powered by our physical body.

New comment by phorkyas82 in "LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises"

phorkyas82 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 03:25:27 +0000

Some human attempts: "Why did the sun climb a tree?" "Because it was chased by the Great Bear."

"Why did The Sun climb a tree?" "To spy on The Royal Family having picnic."

New comment by phorkyas82 in "A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy"

phorkyas82 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:43:02 +0000

Well, I wouldn't entrust critical infrastructure to the private sector which.. blindly optimizes shareholder value and sells your data anywhere. Germany's train privatization also comes to mind,.. or US healthcare - worse service for more money.

New comment by phorkyas82 in "AlphaWrite: AI that improves at writing by evolving its own stories"

phorkyas82 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:48:15 +0000

Generally, it's inter-subjectively decided what art is, which works enter the canon and are passed on. Placing it solely in each individual, "it's only a matter of taste", falls a bit short of some centuries of aesthetic theory.

Also, AI is maybe only the last straw as Silicon Valley and the digital sphere was already "transforming" the creative industry, cp this piece: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/the-dea...

New comment by phorkyas82 in "The Gentle Singularity"

phorkyas82 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:15:33 +0000

As far as I understood any AI model is just a linear combination of its training data. Even if that were such a large corpus as the entire web... it's still just like a sophisticated compression of other's people's expressions.

It has not made its own experiences, not interacted with the outer world. Dunno, I won't to rule out something operating solely on language artifacts cannot develop intelligence or consciousness, whatever that is,.. but so far there are also enough humans we could care about and invest into.

New comment by phorkyas82 in "Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts"

phorkyas82 — Wed, 07 May 2025 10:29:56 +0000

If you want to use non standard fonts, I think, you should use XeLaTex to compile your file. After installing the font in the system, this just worked on my Ubuntu:

\usepackage{mathspec} \setallmainfonts(Digits,Latin){Old Timey Mono}

\begin{document}

Just test some equation \begin{equation} \frac{e^x}{2-x} = \int_0^\infty f(x)dx \end{equation}

\end{document}

New comment by phorkyas82 in "Modern LaTeX"

phorkyas82 — Tue, 06 May 2025 12:53:26 +0000

The biggest pain I remember was placement of figures. I think the [h] parameter would advise to place the graphic right "here", but even if added the exclamation mark for extra force, it would often wind up somewhere else.

Like when our chess trainer could not put six diagrams on one page with latex, s.th. that is very feasible with typst (https://github.com/Phorkyas/typst-samples/tree/main/chess)

New comment by phorkyas82 in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

phorkyas82 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:53:15 +0000

It's like the blaming in a playground fight; who started first? For context: https://nitter.net/KushDesai47/status/1907618136444067901

New comment by phorkyas82 in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

phorkyas82 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 09:40:50 +0000

> $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt

deal was reported: Monday, December 16, 2019

Just like a programmer complaining about some atrociously bad code only to learn she has committed it herself.

New comment by phorkyas82 in "Pi Chess Board"

phorkyas82 — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:07:53 +0000

That was still operated 20 years ago: https://www.hnf.de/en/permanent-exhibition/exhibition-areas/...

New comment by phorkyas82 in "Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity"

phorkyas82 — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:34:19 +0000

Well, the learnedness as typist is probably not so much of a factor if you consider the setup:

   (b) type the presented word using the right index finger on the keyboard.

That's really one thing that threw me off, when I stumbled upon it: How is this realistic typing?.. Sounds almost like comparing a flute and a piano and concluding the superiority of the former, because the pianist had to play only using one finger at a time?