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New comment by scragz in "“Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs"

scragz — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 02:54:58 +0000

there are some diffusion text models.

New comment by scragz in "The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?"

scragz — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:28:14 +0000

they're gonna start making you log in on old to combat scrapers.

New comment by scragz in "How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps"

scragz — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:27:30 +0000

and then you ride in the street and drivers yell "get on the sidewalk" and try to hit you.

New comment by scragz in "Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine"

scragz — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:09:47 +0000

I went to the seattle zinefest a couple years back and it was so fun.

New comment by scragz in "Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise"

scragz — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:52:56 +0000

using them you kind of get a feeling for skill level and can extrapolate that better than juiced benchmarks.

New comment by scragz in "The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)"

scragz — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:06:13 +0000

methadone is not a less harmful substitute, it's just the one that makes official people money. the withdrawals are worse.

New comment by scragz in "Gen Z Resentment Toward AI Grows as Adoption Stagnates and Workplace Fears Mount"

scragz — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:22:49 +0000

please don't speak of the mentality I'll like we are subhuman.

New comment by scragz in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

scragz — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:12:58 +0000

you are using a Radeon RX 6900 XT on Fedora Linux. we know this because you admitted it in the previous comment.

New comment by scragz in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

scragz — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:15:36 +0000

rock over london rock on chicago! pontiac we build driving excitement

New comment by scragz in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

scragz — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:51:12 +0000

different cultures have different views on disclosing vulnerabilities to distros before the public?

New comment by scragz in "Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML"

scragz — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:14:20 +0000

using flags for language is a bad pattern I wish would die. I'm not clicking on the British flag!

New comment by scragz in "Programming languages used for music"

scragz — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:34:33 +0000

you can get the LLM to output max patches in JSON and copy paste directly into max. it was pretty decent at it when I tried and would probably be even better with relevant recent documentation in context.

New comment by scragz in "Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help"

scragz — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:09:16 +0000

they think it's a soda vending machine

New comment by scragz in "The programmers who live in Flatland"

scragz — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:51:18 +0000

free market brain.

New comment by scragz in "The programmers who live in Flatland"

scragz — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:49:56 +0000

some people only think about life as a way to make money. unfortunately coding was best-in-slot career for too long and these kinds of people hijacked the culture.

New comment by scragz in "Gemini 3"

scragz — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:03:33 +0000

correction: pacman is not a human and has no soul.

New comment by scragz in "Tinnitus Neuromodulator"

scragz — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:07:43 +0000

I still want to try one of the ones with the cyberpunk pacifier that shocks your tongue to stimulate neuroplasticity.

New comment by scragz in "Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents"

scragz — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:57:28 +0000

AGI is when it is general. a narrow AI trained only on coding and training AIs would contribute to the acceleration without being AGI itself.

New comment by scragz in "Claude Haiku 4.5"

scragz — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 21:17:52 +0000

it writes bad code and blinding speed

New comment by scragz in "I switched from Htmx to Datastar"

scragz — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:15:32 +0000

if a feature I want is in the paid product then I assume there's less chance of it being added to the free version. every feature has to go through a process to decide if it's paid or free.