mmcnl

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by mmcnl 29d ago
Why are we not curing cancer? We should.
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by mmcnl 1mo ago
Yeah this is misleading cherrypicking. Also it's super slow. Not impressed with slow efficient chips. Anyone can make a chip efficient by reducing clock frequency and sacrificing performance in the process.
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by mmcnl 1mo ago
Easy, it's priced much lower in the US on purpose so that reviewers will directly compare it with the Neo to get more favorable reviews, while in fact it should be compared to the Air from a price perspective (and then it will lose on
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by mmcnl 1mo ago
You're completely right. Power draw scales non-linearly with clock frequency. Therefore one can easily increase perf/W by lowering the clock frequency, at the expense of performance. This is not new information, this is basic phys
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by mmcnl 1mo ago
For me this metaphor only makes the original point more credible.
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by mmcnl 1mo ago
There are many math problems that are simply puzzles: intellectually interesting but nothing worth of value depends on it. To me it would be more impressive if we could define hard problems that need to be solved up front and see how the mo
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by mmcnl 2mo ago
Sooo true, AI never asks questions. It just makes up requirements. I think it's because the models are trained on benchmarks where task completion is an important metric. But I'd rather have it not finish a task and specify why th
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by mmcnl 2mo ago
I recognize this, LLMs never stop, they pursue the dead end at all costs.
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by mmcnl 2mo ago
The real value I think never really was the code, it was the learnings from the journey to get to the code. The struggle allowed for iterative discovery of the real requirements and technical challenges. With AI you skip that path and it lo
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by mmcnl 2mo ago
Indeed. I wonder how much AI will do in industries with longer feedback loops that are much noisier. I think the field of software is a unique field in that sense.
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by mmcnl 2mo ago
I think other industries are late, but also will see less productivity gains. In software engineering agents have the benefit of very short feedback loops that provide extremely actionable insights which allows the agent to very quickly ite
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by mmcnl 2mo ago
Plex has a great Tizen app. It just works on my TV same as Netflix.
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by mmcnl 3mo ago
Hardware revenue is 3x the services revenue, even with half the margins it still generates more profit than services. I get that Apple would like to increase service revenue but they are a hardware company at heart and their financial state
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by mmcnl 3mo ago
The battery life stinks, the build quality is subpar and the fan runs all the time. If you don't care about anything that makes the MacBook Pro a premium device, then sure you can be overpriced consumer-grade slop that has a slight edg
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by mmcnl 3mo ago
This is just plain wrong. Apple generates most revenue and profits with hardware and it's not even close.
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by mmcnl 3mo ago
The world would be a better place without AI, OpenAI, Anthropic and all others. It only immerses the world into chaos, dystopia and increased inequality. So far nothing for the public good has come out of it.
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by mmcnl 3mo ago
The AI "market" is not a free market. It needs regulation.
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by mmcnl 3mo ago
Very normal in The Netherlands, was kinda surprised to learn it's not a thing in English speaking countries?
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by mmcnl 3mo ago
Not in some ways. The value of working code that meets the requirements and generates revenue is very high, it's a gift.
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by mmcnl 3mo ago
I agree here. Sure, certain tasks that would take weeks are just one prompt away now. But out of a group of 100 people, how many are able to come up with the correct prompt?
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by mmcnl 3mo ago
Anthropic claims 8-fold productivity increase since 2025. If even that isn't enough to enable support for Linux, I don't know what it is.
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by mmcnl 3mo ago
Good question indeed, I think quality matters less these days because it's trivial for an LLM to increase code quality. Quality is usually observed from a human perspective. But in my experience, codebases that humans would judge as &q
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by mmcnl 3mo ago
It is a good substitute. 1. Usually the commit message is often too short to capture the "why" adequately. 2. It is very beneficial to capture the why in one single source of truth, and that usually is not the Git commit message i
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by mmcnl 3mo ago
Who reads commit messages anyway?
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by mmcnl 4mo ago
Made me buy a MacBook Air instead. Waited for a long time because I was not a fan of macOS, but Apple is quite cheap in all segments nowadays. A well-specced MacBook Pro these days is cheaper than a ThinkPad X1 Carbon. The MacBook Air at ~$
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by mmcnl 4mo ago
I don't think so. AI use is still very limited. For OpenAI and Anthropic and the AI boom to match their valuation, AI adoption needs to increase substantially. The current constraint is data centers. Pricing will be heavily influenced
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by mmcnl 4mo ago
This is true, but funny thing is: it was also true before AI.
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by mmcnl 5mo ago
I doubt that. The developer community is what made the MacBook predominant in every tech organization. Before that Macs were mostly popular in the creative sector.
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by mmcnl 5mo ago
I was trying to come up with a response but you're right. It would be easy for Apple and Apple would get so much goodwill from the community in return.
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by mmcnl 5mo ago
CPU decoding/encoding for video means warm chassis + spinning fans. Fan noise is very annoying with video calls.

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