29athrowaway

The original version is fine.

GitHub is critical infrastructure for many projects and pushing AI slop is not acceptable.

They have the money to pay for quality development time.

Arimo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croscore_fonts

OpenAI fragmented into multiple companies that are now competing against them. OpenAI is buying compute and data.

Meanwhile, Google consolidated their AI operations under Google Deepmind and doubled down on TPUs.

The strategy "solve AGI and then solve everything else" is an all-in gamble that somehow AGI is within reach. This is not true.

The new focus of GitHub is to harvest data for AI.

Everything else not important to them.

They also don't understand spritesheets.

Another annoyance of Nano Banana (and its Pro version) is that it cannot generate transparent pixels. When it wants to, it creates a hallucinated checkerboard background that makes it worse.

I noticed that the sound changes depending on how you interact with it. Neat

Except when you chain many collection operations... then it breaks horribly.

> software development is better when you breathe the same air as the folks you work with

Ever heard of flu season? What if you have a family and don't want to bring diseases home?

> Attempts to represent ideas spatially get mutilated by online whiteboard and sticky note software.

Right... like, the Linux kernel team? Or any of the major open source key pieces of technology you use? Built by large teams that worked remotely for decades even when tools where orders of magnitude worse than the current state of the art? Some of them never meeting each other in person?

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Remote work DOESN'T suck. YOU make it suck.

Remote work is great if you care about shipping.

Want to go for coffee or want to talk about our weekends? No thanks.

Did you see the distracting thing outside the building? No, I didn't because I don't have to go there anymore.

Is the heat too high or too low? It's your own home, just adjust it to YOUR convenience.

Worried about your pets being alone? Just be next to them. I care more about my pets than some stranger from work.

Want to be loud and flex about random stuff? Log into LinkedIn and talk to the other geniuses like you while I focus on doing my job.

Most people SUCK at drawing, suck at calligraphy and their whiteboard diagrams SUCK. Therefore, whiteboards SUCK. Unless you have great calligraphy and drawing skills, whiteboards are not helpful. You are just sad because you are not getting attention by being in front of other people looking at you.

LinkedIn for job search is awful. It's just fake jobs and data harvesting.

So then because it's happens in the meat industry then it's least concern then. Whataboutism.

A problem is that the bulk of the people behind these labs are people that were conditioned from an early age to achieve high scores in standardized tests and conflate that with intelligence. Then apply that mentality to their models resulting in these leaderboards that nobody cares about.

- $2,000 price

- GPU is equivalent to a NVIDIA RTX 1650

- "Low profile" mechanical keyboard rather than a regular mechanical keyboard.

- Low modularity similar to a laptop.

- Holes right on the top where your spilled coffee goes

Neuralink was mentioned, and it immediately made me remember the sad stories of the rhesus macaques that were used as Neuralink animal test subjects for brain implants. The quality of the work was poor and they were able to pull the implants out and then the implants got loose, causing bacterial and fungal infections and swelling and the macaques had to be euthanized. But not before banging their heads against everything, picking on the holes in their skulls and going insane as their brains got increasingly infected. Reading that kind of disgusting inhumane crap makes me ashamed of being a member of the same species.

If you want to read more the search keywords are: "Animal 20" "Neuralink"

> Animal 20 was seen "pulling on port connector which is now dislodged (no longer secured)". The next day, Animal 20 was "picking at incision and occasionally pulling on implant". Soon, infections developed. On Dec. 20, UC Davis staff found antibiotic resistant E. coli and Candida glabrata, a fungal infection, at the surgical site. They discussed a "necropsy next week", meaning they planned to euthanize Animal 20.

Fucking cowards.

That is not just any guy though. He is the guy.

And also scarce skills.

PH did this as an April Fools joke in 2016. But you already know this.

Gaming on Linux is approachable because decades were spent working around the obstacles created by Microsoft and the work that Microsoft did to steer people away from open standards.

Microsoft could have effortlessly made it easier for others to implement integrations with Microsoft Exchange but they won't. They needed to make sure as many people as possible get vendor locked.

Imagine going to work, and having a meeting about how you can make it harder for your software to interoperate with other software. Or waking up in the morning and spending your day designing a proprietary protocol designed to prevent interoperability. That's just another day at Microsoft.

That memo redefines himself as toxic waste.

I was excited about SCTP over 10 years ago but getting it to work was hard.

The Linux kernel supports it but at least when I had tried this those modules were disabled on most distros.

Looks more legit than Redmond97.

If we go retro then I would go for a MacOS 9 look. Like what this user achieved: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/tsric2/xfce_color...

Maybe they like LXQt more.

XFCE can be themed to be almost identical to XP.

The rumble is really weird.

I don't know. I couldn't really get used to it, it has a weird feeling to it.

Steam Controller 1 wasn't good IMO and is now accumulating dust.

It's a Galapagos island full of stuff that evolved independently.

Concurrency is important, but if you are not familiar with concurrency primitives like mutexes, condition variables, barriers, semaphores, etc. and skipped directly to the actor model, that's a bit like you care a lot about concurrency while not caring at the same time.

Functional programming is great, but your CPU has registers and the way it works is closer to the imperative paradigm.

IMO, not the best use case for LLMs.

COBOL projects have millions of lines of code. Any prompt/reasoning will rapidly fill the context window of any model.

And you'll probably have a better luck if you had tokenization understands COBOL keywords.

You probably have better luck implementing a data miner that slowly digests all the code and requirements into a proprietary information retrieval solution or ontology that can help answer questions...

What an engineer tells you can be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, etc.

There is a large graveyard of people trying to escape the mainframe, replace COBOL, etc.

It's what they use in Jurassic Park.

The 3D file manager is fsn.