alexjplant

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PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"(frvr.com)
219 points by alexjplant 2h ago|130 comments
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by alexjplant 4d ago
I've seen all four films plus "The Animatrix" and played two of the games and don't recall this at all. Contemporarily, however, there was an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise [1] that used this as a key plot point. [1]
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by alexjplant 7d ago
> It is quite absurd (but categorically true) that the quality of audio that folks were generally listening to in 2005 was better than what we are doing today. I seem to recall most people being perfectly content with 128kbps MP3s on iPo
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by alexjplant 7d ago
Defense contracting doesn't have an aversion to LLMs so much as it doesn't like doing anything that threatens the status quo. Many places sit comfortably 5-10 years behind the median of the rest of the industry or are stuck on pro
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by alexjplant 8d ago
As a 12-year-old I could barely afford shared hosting let alone a license for Invision or vBulletin. I recall that phpBB also had a reputation for stability (manually-applied RPG mods excluded) that Invision sacrificed in favor of more feat
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by alexjplant 8d ago
For enterprise software it's a feature. For most consumer software it's an anti-feature. Each of these crowds are on opposite ends of the same axis: the executive class coalesces around the mantra that LLMs bring automation benefi
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by alexjplant 15d ago
To paraphrase the sage Jimmy McMillan: the number of people who interview on their work laptops is too damn high. I'm always flabbergasted when they admit this and not once has somebody who did so passed. IME there's a strong corr
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by alexjplant 15d ago
What? You have to run Bridge on your desktop to get the functionality anyhow... if they offered it natively then it might be worth something but you have to run a binary to get it. Meanwhile Proton's mobile app has gotten buggier and b
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by alexjplant 15d ago
I switched to Tuta this morning. I used to be a huge Proton advocate but multiple hour-plus downtimes in a week for e-mail is unacceptable. At this point I had better uptime running my own mail server on a VPS (or at least when the UI went
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Proton Outage(status.proton.me)
15 points by alexjplant 15d ago|13 comments
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by alexjplant 15d ago
...the second in a few days.
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by alexjplant 16d ago
Because Flock is the first company to so brazenly violate the post-2011 social contract: if you're going to track somebody you need to give them coupons and content as compensation. They have failed to provide the people whose privacy
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Proton Global Outage(status.proton.me)
47 points by alexjplant 21d ago|33 comments
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by alexjplant 22d ago
No idea why you're being downvoted. I've bought el cheapo LowEndTalk-style VPS specials on two or three occasions and have gotten what I paid for each time. They either sold a microscopic slice of some over-provisioned 15-year-old
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by alexjplant 23d ago
I looked into this a while back (~6 years ago) and it basically broke down like this: diabetics outnumber injectable drug users two to one but not all diabetics use injectable insulin and the ones that do are more likely to do so at home. D
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by alexjplant 23d ago
> LLMs are just another abstraction layer above programming languages, machine language, etc. Programming languages are (largely) deterministic. LLMs are not. The boundary between an abstract concept and something executable sits comfort
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by alexjplant 27d ago
Fellow readers whose interests are piqued by this comment: this is apparently true. This book [1] talks about it in greater depth. From Wikipedia: > [The author] describes the growth of the Abstract Expressionist art movement, and its fr
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by alexjplant 1mo ago
This is heavily contingent on one's individual experiences. An uncurated modern web/mobile sounds like a hellscape - ads in one's start menu, autoplaying videos, a flood of promotional notifications from shopping apps, people
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by alexjplant 1mo ago
OpenCode Go provides a lot of usage for these models for the paltry sum of $10/month. Z.ai's coding plan provides a single-digit multiple of Claude Code's usage for a similar price and performance level. Kimi and DeepSeek mod
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by alexjplant 1mo ago
If you don't have regulatory hurdles to jump over then there are a whole raft of open-weight models that perform basically as well as Anthropic's offerings (and, in many cases, better because they're pulling fewer capacity-st
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by alexjplant 1mo ago
> we need more humans in the loop for a successful police state. There is enormous variance in performance between police departments. Where I live now the police have been nothing but helpful. In college our neighbor was a cop and was t
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by alexjplant 1mo ago
Healthy eating is available at restaurants too (Taco Bell being an amusing example - grilled chicken, beans, vegetables, and leafy greens) but people choose not to avail themselves of it. The straw man "Average American" is condit
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by alexjplant 1mo ago
Before I built a gaming computer circa 2004 I daily drove my family's old beige box that had a 350Mhz Pentium II with 64MB of RAM and Windows 98. I remember running CDex (because ripping CDs was all the rage), Trillian, and ZDaemon all
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by alexjplant 1mo ago
I'm going whole hog on LLM-driven development to build out an old school FOSS forum that can run in resource-constrained environments with a minimum of fuss. Think phpBB but written in Rust with modern UI niceties and a SQLite backend.
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by alexjplant 1mo ago
For my fellow '90s kids: the Canadair CL-215 [1] was the chief visual inspiration for the plane that Baloo flies in the Disney cartoon series "Talespin". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_CL-215
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by alexjplant 1mo ago
> In order to lease an iPhone, you must select one of the following carriers (but you cannot use a prepaid carrier plan): ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I suppose I'll keep buying my phones outright... no protection money to the carrier mafia == no
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by alexjplant 1mo ago
I've too many wacky interview stories to list here, but the first time I came to this same conclusion was when I had an interviewer interrupt me mid-answer to correct my pronunciation of "idempotent" (because I said it in wha
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by alexjplant 2mo ago
I've been getting into 3D printing recently and while the flagship Anthropic models can regurgitate community wisdom about the hobby they can't do spatial reasoning. They'll tell me that objects will fit on my print bed when
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by alexjplant 2mo ago
It's cultural. Rave kids who listen to melodic dubstep drink Ghost because they like everything brightly-colored and artificial. Good ole' boys blowing stuff up in the woods drink Bucked Up or Rip It because they work hard and wan
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by alexjplant 2mo ago
My favorite college food hack was the 1/4 lb Big Bite at 7 Eleven. The one near my house sold them for $1 and had an extensive bar of vegetables in addition to the machine that secreted warm nacho cheese and chili (!!!) out of a bag. M

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