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New comment by pipolo in "90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks"

pipolo — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:32:56 +0000

Seriously. I'm surprised they find it to be only 90%.

New comment by pipolo in "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"

pipolo — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:25:43 +0000

Safari's performance (both speed and power use) keep me on it vs. Chrome, but I do wish we could have some of the more power-user-friendly features. Chrome's omnibar history and bookmark suggestion algorithm is unparalleled, and I miss it.

New comment by pipolo in "Bender: AI's 'Existential' Risk Is 'Fake' [video]"

pipolo — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:24:50 +0000

Wait, the Emily Bender who just undertook an increasingly astonishing credibility conflagration on the basis that LLMs can't do arithmetic unless the answers are in their training data? That Emily Bender? Gosh, I'm inclined to agree that AI x-risk is mostly fake, but with friends like these...

(https://bsky.app/profile/colin-fraser.net/post/3mwrfschsn22p)

New comment by pipolo in "I own 28,000 books – here's what I've learned"

pipolo — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:51:24 +0000

I too enjoyed reading it and found it well written, with only a few passages that made my “AI” nose perk up. But FWIW, Pangram agrees with deadletterq. Guess this is one of those moments.

New comment by pipolo in "Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma"

pipolo — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:52:49 +0000

Hard to price in the political factors now involved in Moderna's success or lack of success.

New comment by pipolo in "All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes"

pipolo — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:16:02 +0000

I love this! I bet you could make a successful recipe book based on this concept, with large schematics that a cook can read from a distance while working in the kitchen.

New comment by pipolo in "I dumped Google for Kagi"

pipolo — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:04:10 +0000

This was precisely the last straw for me as well. The dark pattern is so outrageous and abhorrent that it felt right to dump Google on principle even if Kagi were not better. That it is better is a welcome bonus.