fsloth

7 ms·

1.
by fsloth 4d ago
This is a bit strange article. If you enjoy doing a thing in specific way, nobody is going to take that away. Chess is a great example. More players than ever, perfectly obsolete if you compare yourself to a computer, but that does not hurt
2.
by fsloth 4d ago
"has AI broken that stranglehold?" Whatever AI is, it _is_ a huge democratizing influence in all fields.
3.
by fsloth 8d ago
The dog is even more on the nose. The shadow shape is almost the same despite the dog getting quite a lot of volume around it's original body parts.
4.
by fsloth 8d ago
Not all people can!
5.
by fsloth 8d ago
If you want to discuss a matter, it would be nice to spell out your point of view. How is the person supposed to know your opposing point of view if you don't tell it?
6.
by fsloth 10d ago
Oh! So were sheep just for meat back then?
7.
by fsloth 10d ago
Sinners was very cool but I'm surprised to find it as Hugo winner.
8.
by fsloth 22d ago
Yeah configuring whitelabel products for customer’s brand should be right in LLM:s ballpark.
9.
by fsloth 22d ago
Well we would think that wouldn’t we but businesses can be run by people for whose business ”works mostly” is good enough.
10.
by fsloth 23d ago
"LLMs can't write code worth a damn" I think it depends on the - ahem - context. In my experience they usually can, sometimes they can't. But generally their sense of software architecture remains abysmal, so even if the
11.
by fsloth 23d ago
"People will write new UI frameworks and languages if the problem seems interesting to them." I would think even with AI assistance industrial quality solutions (which is what we are talking here I think ) still require corporate
12.
by fsloth 24d ago
”GUIs always look bad outside of the "main" platform.” I think this is slightly wrong in two ways. i) If you want platform native then reimplement the gui on every target platform. It’s as ”simple” as that. If you need to ship to
13.
by fsloth 26d ago
" highly conscientious " Just doing what others wish is not conscientous in itself! It _may_ be depdending on situation but it can be just pathological towards the self. When it's psyhocologically hard to do things you imagin
14.
by fsloth 26d ago
Same!
15.
by fsloth 26d ago
This I don't understand. If it's not your job, then just ignore the reports. If it's actually critical, someone will put money on the table and then it's a business. And then it's about scheduling and resourcing - a
16.
by fsloth 28d ago
Personally I have zero reasons to upgrade from IPhone 13 until the software stops working. I hope it will last me several years more. Beautiful hardware.
17.
by fsloth 1mo ago
"it refuse to OCR public-domain books that included content that it didn’t like, such as references to prostitution in 19th-century books about Japan." Thoughtcrime -like territory and self-sensorship. The AI safety lobby is such
18.
by fsloth 1mo ago
This article from Popular Mechanics from 1959 -almost 70 years ago - sounds eerily similar as the pitch decks of so many "AI" CAD startups. Some problems appear almost as industrial invariants.
19.
"Revolution by robot – The Brain that talks to Tools"(Popular Mechanics 1959)(archive.org)
3 points by fsloth 1mo ago|2 comments
20.
by fsloth 1mo ago
I’m not sure we are at the top. Swarmed lower tier models appear to scale up in competence. So something like a Fable swarm running at 100x the speed might provide surprises. But ”top of the curve reached” feels like the likelier scenario.
21.
by fsloth 1mo ago
I don’t think average user _needs_ to solve frontier challenges. ”Call to Jane”, ”turn on the lights” and ”what’s the weather this afternoon” is more like it I would guess. Ofc if the model has some critical bugs that’s another matter.
22.
by fsloth 1mo ago
Weird - I would have expected Disney of all streamers to respect IP better given how dependent they are on IP.
23.
by fsloth 1mo ago
To me "explosive" means it comes unannounced and evacuates bowels within few seconds, ovepowering any sphincter resistance. If that's your normal poop maybe seek medical advice.
24.
by fsloth 2mo ago
Whoa the acceleration from the start surprised me. It’s huge and it just … zipped off the pad like a bullet (ok not real bullet but still).
25.
by fsloth 2mo ago
Hmm I never could get the DWARF debug information to hook up properly, must give this a try next time I need to return to the topic. If you don't mind - what's your specific setup when debugging Sokol, I might start from replicati
26.
by fsloth 2mo ago
" it's cross-platform" Nothing in real time graphics _actually_ is cross platform. You are always programming a vendor hardware. "Cross platform" really has no value in graphics programming, honestly, when discussin
27.
by fsloth 2mo ago
"The "universal" nature of WebGPU with the "web" focus feels a lot like the graphics API equivalent of WASM" Having shipped non-trivial WASM code in two projects That's not a positive thing. WASM is stuck
28.
by fsloth 2mo ago
TBH to me she reads as high performing idealist, not naive. Different things, may give similar signals.
29.
by fsloth 2mo ago
"insufferable and very naive." IMHO she is just not from US. US culture _is_ totally foreign to anyone not from there. Read the part where she describes her interactions with New Zealand prime minister and you will get it. That pa
30.
by fsloth 2mo ago
If you loved Catch-22 you will love ”Careless people”! I warmly recommend a read. Not to support Sarah necessarily - just because the book is great! It’s not really a spill-the-tea as much absurdist escapade in corporate america. Ok the det

More ›