onion2k

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by onion2k 4d ago
Let me choose when I want it split It would be good if there was an OS level setting for something like prefer-unified-display in the same way we have things like prefer-reduced-motion. This should be a choice.
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by onion2k 4d ago
I strongly suspect a lot of the huge tech companies don't actually know why they do things. There isn't a grand plan. There's a vague notion of "It'd be cool if we had a source for data for X, Y, and Z, because then
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by onion2k 4d ago
The rogue is the human that ran it unattended and didn't monitor the behaviour. That's the assumption that I'm challenging. The frontier labs are discovering unexpected behaviors. I think we should be moving to a place wh
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by onion2k 4d ago
Taxation will solve that. Any company that demonstrates even a glimmer of real AGI will get government money poured into it. They might even disclose it.
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by onion2k 4d ago
An agent is given a highly restricted environment, a difficult (or impossible) task and a large amount of time/compute it exhausts all possibilities until the only solutions left are to escape the environment and/or cheat. There
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by onion2k 5d ago
Access to AI isn't a right (yet). Anthropic can choose who to sell it to, and if that's not you then bad luck. They don't need a right to do that; they can just do it because it's their product and they get to say who
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by onion2k 5d ago
The future I dread is one where kids don't learn and just defer everything to AI. That puts so much power into the hands of the AI companies.
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by onion2k 5d ago
No one has lost anything though. AI is useful, but it's mostly just a shortcut. It removes the need to learn and to spend time and effort doing something. That's great, but you can still do the same work without it, especially i
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by onion2k 6d ago
"Genuine creativity" for mundane web sites is a reason to close the page and buy from someone else. Creative doesn't automatically equate to complex. For example, genuine creativity can be used to work within constraints li
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by onion2k 6d ago
I don't agree with the other commenter. The point you make is a fair one. However , I think the real information in your comment is that there are people making websites and web apps who aren't frontend developers. They're
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by onion2k 7d ago
Providing ready-made UI components and templates has never been a million-dollar business, nor should it be. Arguably many websites and apps desperately need a good component library because it's very clear the UI sucks without one
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by onion2k 8d ago
I don't think it's meant as something that's useful per se because highlighting 5m lines of code at once is unusual, and doing it in a non-deterministic way probably isn't especially helpful, but to show what a browser
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by onion2k 8d ago
someone of greater talent Someone of potentially greater talent, depending on the quality of the hiring process and the offer you can make. There is always a risk you end up with someone lesser or equal, especially if you value the inst
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by onion2k 8d ago
Didn't make your bed, no problem, just fake it. Except you need to have taken a photo of the unmade bed, uploaded it to ChatGPT, prompted for the 'fake made bed' version, and downloaded the image. Surely it's less effo
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by onion2k 9d ago
The Astra version seems to have used three.js r170, which is from October 2024. Sol used an even earlier version. GLM's code used the latest version, but I think it's just getting three.js@latest from jsdelivr so it's unlikel
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by onion2k 9d ago
That's AI getting an example of replicating the state that shows the bug which is exactly what I'm talking about. It does that far more than humans do, and it's ace. That's how you should be debugging a system - replic
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by onion2k 9d ago
One of the first things I tell the junior/mid-level developers I mentor is "You can't debug something just by reading the code." We all have a mental model of how our code works, and it's usually a bit wrong. Bugs
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by onion2k 10d ago
That probably means Fable doesn't have enough understanding of what AirBNB is in order to build a clone. If you think about it, people don't really write much about how an app like that actually works. They write about the impac
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by onion2k 10d ago
This is a form of unchecked privilege. He's saying he can spend time during the week reading a blog, and because of that he advocates taking a day a week away from screens. That's fine for him but someone working a manual job al
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by onion2k 10d ago
The products that are well established won’t get eliminated because they have adoption. An existing customer base can be a moat if there's an effect from scale, like a game where you need there to be people on a server to make it fun
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by onion2k 10d ago
If it's truly trivial to build a clone then people will just build their own apps to use themselves. In a couple of years regardless of how good your network it won't be possible to launch a successful SaaS app is unless it has a
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by onion2k 11d ago
I've always assumed that the reason there aren't many launch sites in Europe because the booster stage falls back to Earth, and generally you want that to be over the sea. People get cross if rockets fall on their houses. If you&#
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by onion2k 11d ago
How do you account for vandalism and theft? You don't consider the problems. That's how you can pretend it'll be low cost.
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by onion2k 11d ago
I'm rapidly coming around to the idea that Three.js is the wrong choice for browser-based 3D apps built with AI. Three.js is an amazing library, and if you're building by hand it's immensely useful due to the DX, but you don&
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by onion2k 11d ago
Geographically, yes, but that's not very important.
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by onion2k 11d ago
Anyone who's worked in tech in a large company will probably have experienced having an ops team who use RPA tools to do repetitive tasks that tech teams get the blame for when things break. AI will make this so much worse. Things will
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by onion2k 11d ago
The best non-web analogy I can think of is when someone builds a 2D platformer in Unreal Engine. The complexity of the tooling is necessary because someone else is making Witcher 4 in it. The fact the 2D platformer is using a vastly more
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by onion2k 11d ago
Webdev is the pinnacle of over engineering. Imagine you wanted to make a native desktop app that runs on Windows (going back to Windows 95), and OSX, and Linux, and have it use the end users choice of native components, QT, or GTK. It als
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by onion2k 11d ago
The value of future reports should also be a component though. By paying a low amount you discourage ethical bug bounty hackers from bothering to look for more exploits. If I think I'm only getting $1000 for a Chrome issue versus $100,
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by onion2k 13d ago
If you write one for likes and shares then yeah, totally dead. The same is true for all internet content though. AI has removed the need for anyone to ever visit a website again if they're happy to read what AI generates. If you write

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