BearOso

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by BearOso 8d ago
It is kind of funny, because they're partly up in arms because the Mastodon thread linked to your slightly ambiguous comment.
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by BearOso 8d ago
Summary: - The Motorola flagship costs too much and he's worried it will no longer run on the Pixel 7a that he got for $200 or that there will be any cheap options. But they said already there would be cheap options, and Motorola has a
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by BearOso 10d ago
I dunno. If they're using AI, it's well controlled. I don't see a lot of artifacts you usually get from full-on vibe-coding.
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by BearOso 16d ago
In Jobs's time, 2007-2011 there was still a lot of overall pushback against PRISM, and also from Apple. I remember reading that they reviewed and only ended up complying with 3 requests. It's not nothing, but Google and Microsoft
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by BearOso 16d ago
He had a kind of decent plan to improve things, but when AI popped up he panicked and went crazy. Same thing happened to Zuckerberg, who abandoned his VR crap and dumped into AI at a massive cost. The AI companies' marketing plan, FOMO
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by BearOso 16d ago
Following through on the top comment, surely you realized when you decided to forgo the back half of the test that, had the program compensated for it, you were consciously leaning into the ADHD diagnosis, right?
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by BearOso 17d ago
That's the thing about modern chatbots--they are nothing new technologically. They're just taking the same old neural networks and brute-forcing everything with ridiculous computing power and energy consumption. Autonomous agents
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by BearOso 18d ago
If burning dead organic matter is modern technology, then I guess the pinnacle of science was in the stone age when we learned to make fire.
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by BearOso 18d ago
We all reduced CFC use and stopped ozone depletion. The problem with climate change is that there is a huge incentive to not fix it, and the culprit is not just rich oil corporations. Many countries subsist solely on oil profits and have no
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by BearOso 22d ago
Furthermore, legacy x86 BIOS will always boot in 16-bit real mode and require transition to 32-bit protected mode. Even NT is briefly 16-bit on those platforms, and Windows 95 only remains so just a little bit longer for backwards compatibi
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by BearOso 24d ago
It's starting to look like win32 was the pinnacle of GUI API design.
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by BearOso 25d ago
Try https://legacysurvey.org/viewer
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by BearOso 29d ago
People don't want to pay for it. It's fine when you can buy a monthly plan and get lots of usage at the company's loss, but that's not sustainable. Once everyone has to pay enough for the usage to just break even, it&#x2
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by BearOso 29d ago
Not just significantly weaker. The Librem 5 uses the Cortex-A53 low-end ARM designs from 2012, and that particular NXP chip is not among the better implementations. The 3GB of RAM is anemic and becomes a greater restriction as time goes on.
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by BearOso 2mo ago
I like how this article pokes fun by not only using the tropes it describes sarcastically, but then adding subtext that AI never would. It also uses alliteration, grouping synonyms that use similar sounds, another playful literary device th
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by BearOso 2mo ago
What stuck out to me with that sentence was that a competent manager can determine productivity by looking at what the developer produced, easily and quickly. If the person has no clue what they're looking at and needs this software th
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by BearOso 2mo ago
Yeah, but a lot of hard work is done by those libraries. Interaction with external interfaces would go through the tools API, which I imagine would all use the same type of code that they could focus on fixing quickly.
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by BearOso 2mo ago
I think part of this is the mach bands illusion. We perceive some darkening at the transition between shades and think we have to replicate it in rendering. But we really don't because the brain creates the effect, so artificially addi
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by BearOso 2mo ago
> Rust does this automatically. A garbage collected language does this automatically. Rust still requires thinking about and tracking memory lifecycles, but the borrow checker will complain and keep you from doing it wrong. That's w
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by BearOso 2mo ago
It's been double-stable since early 2025 (version 3.2), so it's weird that Ubuntu doesn't have it when even Debian does. I've seen a couple projects holding back on the upgrade because of that. With the way the software
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by BearOso 2mo ago
The article is from Bain Capital. Of course they're going to ignore the obvious reason and blame something else. They raised prices more than people are willing to pay. Unlimited profit growth can't exist.
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by BearOso 2mo ago
Nedry doesn't have a camera on his end, and he's talking through a headset. Maybe guy at the harbor just knows where the closed circuit camera is? Since it's just quicktime anyway, I guess we'll never know what they inte
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by BearOso 2mo ago
I think Fabien is misinterpreting the part which he sees as "video conferencing." Nedry is talking to a guy on a regular phone line. He's just watching a security camera feed from the dock where the guy is.
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by BearOso 2mo ago
Yeah, this particular experiment doesn't reveal much because the Nvidia driver is a black box. We know in the past it used its "composition pipeline" in Wayland situations, and that was a particularly noticeable increase in l
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by BearOso 2mo ago
> Their internal representations are so cryptic and complex that even the top AI researchers don't really know how they work or what their limits are. No one is going to take you seriously as a rando HN user if you're claiming
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by BearOso 2mo ago
It's marketing. The big AI companies know what they're doing and are trying to drive adoption with FOMO. Some people bought into the idea early on and feel self-important. Meanwhile, using AI is so easy that it's tantamount t
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by BearOso 2mo ago
I think putting it in terms of API pricing is oversimplifying disingenuously. Anthropic still hasn't pulled the rug out from under us, so I'm sure it cost a great deal of money once everything comes together, likely surpassing 1.5
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by BearOso 2mo ago
I posted on an older article that I thought it probably cost half a million in API pricing. 165k USD is a lot lower. I wonder what the actual compute cost was. When this first hit the news, Opus 4.7 was brand new and required 6x the compute
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by BearOso 2mo ago
That's probably in an overscan area on most TVs, so it might not even show up.
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by BearOso 3mo ago
Lenovo has an incentive to say prices will never go down. They need to continue selling right now when prices are high, but customers will wait if they have reason to think they'll go lower.

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