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New comment by rplnt in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

rplnt — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:42:50 +0000

If the correctness check was vibecoded there's a good chance it was cheated. So maybe that, on top of the, you know, code review (see the sibling comment).

While PRs may have been used to correct style, that shouldn't have been their only or even main purpose. That's on whoever was using it that way, not on the concept of reviews.

New comment by rplnt in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

rplnt — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:26:47 +0000

You cannot deliver feedback on something that doesn't exist. If you mean a review in the style of "all of this is wrong and needs to be rewritten differently" then yes, that's something to be discussed beforehand. But I don't imagine this is what people think of when discussing a review.

New comment by rplnt in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

rplnt — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:31:59 +0000

But what if you have English configured as a preferred language? Isn't that what it's for? Wouldn't it make sense for a website to respect that (when available)? I hate that google.com doesn't and defaults to random languages based on IP.

New comment by rplnt in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

rplnt — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:15:35 +0000

Couldn't it also be case where the pesticides are fine to use on potatoes but not on tomatoes, for example?

New comment by rplnt in "New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste"

rplnt — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:53:47 +0000

Yeah, middle schooler with middle school understanding can design anything. There are plenty of middle school solutions in the comments around. The problem is when they meet real world, beyond their high school level understanding of the issue.

New comment by rplnt in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

rplnt — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:23:37 +0000

Overwhelming majority of customers doesn't even know they can care. And most of them wouldn't anyway. So your vote doesn't matter to anyone but you, sadly.

New comment by rplnt in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

rplnt — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:01:53 +0000

> This theory appealed to SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who was asleep at his home in California when the rocket exploded. Within hours of hearing about the failure, Musk gravitated toward the simple answer of a projectile being shot through the rocket.

Man, the signs were always there, right? I think I only fully realized it in 2018 during the cave "incident".

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

rplnt — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:47:11 +0000

That's the distinction I was trying to make - looking for an answer vs. looking for some content on a website. There's overlap in those, and we used to use the web search to find answers, but you can't use chat to search web.

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

rplnt — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:25:42 +0000

Yes, significantly, but not recently. It can't search anymore. Like literally, it can't. You cannot reach a web page you know exists, like you used to.

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

rplnt — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:21:43 +0000

> It messes up sometimes (very rarely)

I don't believe this for a second. It has constantly the worst output of any serious AI I've seen, by far. It's laughably wrong sometimes, usually just wrong. It can usually cope with mundane keyword searches where it's still better to just read the wiki blurb, because even those can be mangled.

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

rplnt — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:17:52 +0000

So you are not actually searching for anything on web. This is more about using google as a web search engine, something it could do maybe a decade ago.

New comment by rplnt in "Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash"

rplnt — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:33:16 +0000

> there doesn't exist any situation, in any plane in any conditions, where holding the stick back the entire time would be an appropriate input

What about the Boeing crashes?

New comment by rplnt in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

rplnt — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:26:54 +0000

You say "normal" and then add the other paragraphs, which are very clearly not normal. Common maybe.

New comment by rplnt in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

rplnt — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:21:56 +0000

Why do you think they are arguing with you instead of adding to your comment?

New comment by rplnt in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

rplnt — Sat, 23 May 2026 08:10:56 +0000

Slightly related (me not understanding) is why the Copilot in VS code is essentially just CLI interface. Why can't it use the IDE tools (search, LSP, ...). All it ever does is trying to execute grep.

New comment by rplnt in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"

rplnt — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:59:25 +0000

AI benefits from tools to verify its halucinations. That's much easier in a typed and compiled language. Then have a language that can't be monkey patched at runtime and the confidence increases even more.

If you mean "easy to get something out of it" then yeah, it's great.

New comment by rplnt in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

rplnt — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:14:16 +0000

You can label the whole output, every time, right? May include sponsored content or something.

New comment by rplnt in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

rplnt — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:10:34 +0000

That doesn't solve this particular problem. Your local model was trained on reddit comments written by bots.

New comment by rplnt in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

rplnt — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:05:25 +0000

Why was the informative title updated to this, sorry to say, shit? Not every client displays arbitrary parts of the paths. Not even inquotes to distance it from the submitter. 0/10 improvement

New comment by rplnt in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

rplnt — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:52:51 +0000

It doesn't crash. Just the UI is completely unresponsive until I switch to another app and back. It's weird.