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New comment by prettyStandard in "Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode"

prettyStandard — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:43:29 +0000

I don't think we can fairly compare a phone pretending to be a desktop against other desktops.

It would be more fair to compare a phone that has desktop features, to a phone that doesn't have desktop features.

So let's compare the best Apple phone that refuses to have a dex like experience; to a Samsung that has had a dex experience for about 10 years, or to a Google phone that is now adopting desktop experiences.

If the future is anything like the past, in 5 to 10 years from now we'll see a desktop experience on iPhone and they're going to be snobby about it.

New comment by prettyStandard in "Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode"

prettyStandard — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:07:15 +0000

I'm sorry but I remain unconvinced.

Do you have any examples of desktop UI interfaces that are impossible to create in a Dex like experience, that is possible on Linux, Mac, and Windows desktop experiences?

Or is it that mobile apps will never work great/ideally on desktop? And if that's the case, how is that worse than not having them at all?

Maybe there is a scenario I'm not seeing here.

New comment by prettyStandard in "Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results"

prettyStandard — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 20:44:49 +0000

I think you can run a DNS server, and configure Android with a custom DNS server. Not sure about this exact case though.

New comment by prettyStandard in "Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1"

prettyStandard — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 10:48:45 +0000

Zero impact?

AI is involved in things from writing laws to taking drive through orders.

New comment by prettyStandard in "Bloomberg Announces Effort to Ensure U.S. Honors Paris Agreement Commitments"

prettyStandard — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:53:01 +0000

I know right? I've never heard of large projects needing upfront capital!

New comment by prettyStandard in "To make electricity cheaper and greener, connect the world's grids"

prettyStandard — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 14:52:17 +0000

I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted.

There's some educational videos on YouTube on High Voltage DC.

https://youtu.be/JH9-0AbR_1U?si=l57nkFt2YG5iLl3D

North and South America could sell a lot of electricity to the east this way...

New comment by prettyStandard in "Looking for work is a full time job"

prettyStandard — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 22:19:04 +0000

it was built by someone looking for a job. see their comment.

New comment by prettyStandard in "Operator research preview"

prettyStandard — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:43:31 +0000

Christ...

I wish I had something more curious to say.

Other than "Operator/Agent, please surface all sites using prompt injecting and just go ahead and cancel my account, and send a complaint to the appropriate authorities BBB/Reddit/CANSPAM"

New comment by prettyStandard in "Coming soon: PhD-level super-agents"

prettyStandard — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:10:32 +0000

Thanks for the laugh

New comment by prettyStandard in "Coming soon: PhD-level super-agents"

prettyStandard — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 14:43:26 +0000

I'm easily in the top 95-99th percentile of people I know and probably most people in general in most respects. Net worth, IQ, height, athletic achievements...

A good 10-20 years ago I anticipated these AI moments, and even some of the specifics like our use of ANNs(when everyone thought they were a failure), and yet I failed to capitalize on it.

It's hard to describe just how defeated and irrelevant these news articles make me feel.

I don't say this to brag or anything, I keep this account pseudo anonymous. Some follow up points and questions

- What hope do the normies have?

- Does anyone expect our representatives to do anything?

- How does this not end badly?

New comment by prettyStandard in "UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%"

prettyStandard — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:55:12 +0000

They prevent unnecessary treatments! /s

New comment by prettyStandard in "Show HN: Tramway SDK – The Unholy Union Between Half-Life and Morrowind Engines"

prettyStandard — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:05:37 +0000

You have to click on "Enterprise Mode" to find

> Design Patterns Used

> 82%

New comment by prettyStandard in "Show HN: Tramway SDK – An unholy union between Half-Life and Morrowind engines"

prettyStandard — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:56:05 +0000

You might enjoy "Black Mesa", HL1 remade with the HL2 engine. Played it during the pandemic. No Regrets.

New comment by prettyStandard in "Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?"

prettyStandard — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 12:50:28 +0000

I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but I found I naturally encouraging remarks to the LLM saying

- You're doing better...

- Thanks that helps me...

And I just wonder if that actually has an improvement...

New comment by prettyStandard in "Jimmy Carter has died"

prettyStandard — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 10:56:10 +0000

Not to nit pick, a better term you are looking for is "headcannon" as in "my headcannon is that the 'killer rabbit' in that movie was the same rabbit that went after Carter in his fishing boat."

I think I will be telling people this about the Holy Grail from now on...

RIP Jimmy

New comment by prettyStandard in "Are PC hardware companies driving technology into restricted closed ecosystems?"

prettyStandard — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 22:51:58 +0000

I agree and I know you're being helpful, but as soon as that's normalized they're going to start locking the ram.

New comment by prettyStandard in "I Run LLMs Locally"

prettyStandard — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 20:20:38 +0000

Even Nvidia's victims are better off... (O)llama runs on AMD GPUs

New comment by prettyStandard in "AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment"

prettyStandard — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:41:38 +0000

Not if it was never given input.

New comment by prettyStandard in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"

prettyStandard — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:19:09 +0000

For me the interesting thing is, assuming miny worlds AND simulation theory are both true. Many worlds would seem to be a way to essentially run a/b tests on the simulation. So how would you separate out/simplify details of your simulation like far away planet stars and galaxies? The speed of light and light cones, don't seem to be enough to make a difference except for on the largest scales.

New comment by prettyStandard in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"

prettyStandard — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:51:56 +0000

Sure it would. If you had Sims that went around killing other Sims, there's no way in hell you would promote them, or use their stimulated experiences as a bases for more complex/serious projects.

I'm not deep into LLMs or AI safety right now, but if you have a bad performing AI, you aren't going to use it as a base for future work.

I was about to go to bed so I was rushing through my initial comment... I was just trying to understand the motivations for trying to create a stimulated reality... Look at the resources we spend on AI?