fallingbananna

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by fallingbananna 6d ago
I wonder how many of the 100k+ enginners at Google work on that "simple" text box that shows you relevant websites to the input text.
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by fallingbananna 6d ago
Those 27.3% are still in the ballpark of modern models: - Sonnet 5 - 12.4% - Luna - 17.3% - Grok 4.6 - 20.3% - Sol - 37.3% - GLM 5.3 - 41.8% - Opus 5 - 51.8%
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by fallingbananna 7d ago
The last time I tried Minecraft, from the point I dropped into the world, I could start punching dirt and trees and placing stuff around and building things. In No Man's Sky I got dropped in some world that felt empty with tutorial on
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by fallingbananna 7d ago
I've seen cards with 1% chargeback in the EU though. How does that work? And it wasn't just a temporary marketing promotion. I've used such a card for many years. (It was issues by a big bank that had almost no presence in my
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by fallingbananna 7d ago
I could imagine that Pix is still better for merchants if that is the final fee. With Visa and Mastercard there are usually many additional actors that also take their share and drive the final fee up.
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by fallingbananna 7d ago
I think they may be confusing what payment terminal providers charge with what VISA/Mastercard does.
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by fallingbananna 7d ago
That's exactly how I treat reviewing AI generated PRs at work. Except... the next day they are still there and I have to push myself a bit further through the wall of changes before closing the tab again.
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by fallingbananna 7d ago
Can you elaborate on that? What points was the book making?
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by fallingbananna 9d ago
>I’m sort of surprised that the EU isn’t stepping in to support them. On a similar note: Why does it have to be the EU to step up? Why doesn't EU rather speed up making VC investments more attractive, so that EU and banks don't
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by fallingbananna 15d ago
I have the exact same feeling about him. He has built a following of people that want to hear his extra skeptical views. And even if he changed his mind about some things, he cannot admit it, as that is not what his followers want to hear f
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by fallingbananna 17d ago
Aren't there way more factors than just energy, industry and transportation? Agriculture is a huge pollutant, so we should take steps towards alternatives that don't require large scale animal farming. Fashion is another gigantic
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by fallingbananna 22d ago
Here is a list of languages that use "milliard": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/milliard#Descendants
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by fallingbananna 23d ago
In theory, yes. In practice, no. In my experience there is no correlation between payment and state of bathroom. I've been to paid ones in terrible state and free ones in amazing state. And I also don't see any trend or correlatio
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by fallingbananna 23d ago
It's not just homeless, mentally ill or drug addicts. In Europe it's frequently teenagers (even those whom parents provide good lives), football fans, drunk people, etc. Some people are antisocial and destroy public stuff just for
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by fallingbananna 23d ago
>Could EU just ask DHL/Hermes/whatever to charge an additional €1 "for recycling"? Yes, but... Within EU we already pay ~€3 for packages from China. And in Austria we will soon pay additional ~€2 for every delivered p
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by fallingbananna 24d ago
It's rooted in the education system to this day. The majority of school teachers grew up under the Soviet side of cold war propaganda. And in history education in particular, we are told that "we" have always looked towards R
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by fallingbananna 26d ago
Yup. Not a difficult problem to solve. In the code define everything as a span with a name, scope (start-end), description and tags... and then you can easily dynamically produce traces, spans, logs or metrics based on what you need.
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by fallingbananna 26d ago
I don't know how hard it is. But I can certainly say there is no business inscentive for it. When it comes to improving performance by a few ms, or implementing a new feature, business people will always choose a new feature, unless th
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by fallingbananna 26d ago
I don't think either one was better or worse than the other. Underdocumented, underexplained and sometimes out of date... or overly verbose, repetitive, information sparse, and sometimes halucinating. Both are bad and with some effort
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by fallingbananna 26d ago
People are good at pattern recognition. If you're exposed to AI a lot, you're going to start noticing patterns that allow you to identify it.
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by fallingbananna 26d ago
The density argument is very interesting. Does speed reading help you process the final message faster if it's written by AI compared to people? Because if you read 1 information dense sentence, 1 medium dense, and 1 sparse sentece wri
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by fallingbananna 26d ago
Are we sure there is some objective, technical definition of what is intelligence and what is not? Isn't it rather a subjective philosophical concept? What if human intelligence is also a statistical model, trained by evolution to make
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by fallingbananna 26d ago
Isn't this the case with most well established software? There is still a lot of work done on the background, perhaps even more than ever. But unless you are a power user eagerly waiting for one of the things currently worked on, you w
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by fallingbananna 28d ago
How quickly this has changed since the time when people were boycotting OpenAI for making a deal with US Department of Defence and switching to Anthropic.
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by fallingbananna 29d ago
To be fair, before the aquisition, GitHub was super stable, but also it felt like they rarely changed or added anything. After Microsoft acquired them, they started rolling out new features at an incredible pace. And if you look at the brea
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by fallingbananna 1mo ago
I don't like it. I don't take any offence. It just triggers the same AI;DR for me. If I think the task requires a human to think about it. And the person is the human paid to think about it. Whether I get a wall of AI text, prompt
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by fallingbananna 1mo ago
Personally I never engaged in the community aspect of GitHub. In my eyes it would be a ginormous gain to our colective mental health to not have the expectation to contribute to open source projects for free, or to have "green squares&
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by fallingbananna 1mo ago
Distopian for people, but highly desirable for the companies writing these articles. It's no wonder they casually state it as inevidable, when their stock price rises the more people believe it.
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by fallingbananna 1mo ago
>People understand instinctively that "just building more" is not working and never will. Wait. Why? Do they? If the problem is the lack of housing. Why wouldn't building more be a solution? Or are you refering that the ph
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by fallingbananna 1mo ago
I can imagine that all the tool calls that agents regularly make during regular software dev workloads would become the new bottleneck and so tasks overall won't be completed anywhere near 10x faster. However, I wouldn't diss the

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