IAmNotACellist

It's simply not true and is clickbait, designed to sucker in people like you who think this is a matter of "journalism."

BS, fake news, and dumb. Did a handful of humans actually post about this? I'm sure, and probably tried it for a day. But "people," as in a group of people large enough to be remotely news worthy? No. This is just bait. Also not hacker news.

Intentional malice from companies that benefit greatly when they can initiate another doom-marketing loop full stop

So brave of Apple to make the world's first foldable phone

Some friendly but direct advice (as I've wanted a clear and up-front shrinkflation evidence website forever): if your goal is to get people to contribute examples, then those landing pages are failures.

The first link reads like it's basically nothing. No content. A single photo of ancient sardines with no caption or purpose. It's some backrooms internal Wiki page. "Possible uses" like you're not even sure what you're doing. Your first sentence makes no sense: "Log on Open Food Facts food products that are not sold anymore and were on sale there..." That's gibberish. "Where to find the products"? What products? What? What is this page?

I'm not trying to be rude, just give you a chance to hear how it reads to a user unfamiliar with what you're doing, looking at it whatever that is for the first time.

The second page is dominated by a donation banner, and it's already a hard sell to get someone to download an app. What I gather from the first graphic is that this is a carbon-neutral, EU effort to get me to eat bugs or soy paste. The graphic literally means I have to weigh my personal enjoyment with someone's conception of what's best for the planet at large (and historically that's meant things like "you will own nothing and you will be happy").

Here's a little script to download all the publicly available scans (135) as GLBs and stick the metadata in a JSON. The scans are all CC0 (public domain)

https://github.com/InconsolableCellist/met_scans

You're not calling Sam Altman a liar, are you?

Why do they care so much? They're a non-profit dedicated to the betterment of humanity via open access to AI. They have nothing to hide. They have no motivation to lie, or lie by omission.

They can't even make Explorer work. They're pathetic.

>Now try to follow your own sources, both links for that sentence call it a code editor with MS doing the correct reverence " happy with using a regular code editor like Sublime Text instead of a full IDE like Visual Studio."

People call applications apps, and before that they called applications programs. VSCode is called an IDE. My link calls it an IDE. Some people call it a code editor. Some people call emacs and vim IDEs. VSCode does everything an IDE does, including compiling, debugging, and profiling.

>So try to make an actual argument/use a proper source for one instead of treating wikis as the ultimate truth

Just because you don't like it being called an IDE doesn't mean it isn't an actual argument.

Regardless, you haven't and can't attack my central point. The only one I care about, in fact: that the user can feel the vast difference in quality of VSCode vs. Explorer, and can tell that it's made competently vs. incompetently.

I also said nothing about how long it takes to start up--you brought that up. I called it "polished, fast, intelligent UI, not buggy, [and it] consistently improves," all of which are true. All of which you've ignored.

>You're, you are responding to a point about very slow startup time

I'm responding to someone who doesn't understand my argument, and probably doesn't want to.

>vs code is slow as a text editor due to chrome

VSCode is an IDE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code

>Visual Studio is the one to compare to "any other heavy IDE"

Why? VSCode is an example of a well-made product from MSFT, unlike Explorer.

>and there are plenty of code editors with plugins that start much faster,

What IDE with plugins starts faster? And I'm not talking about the startup time of VSCode.

VSCode starts up the same as any other IDE, and is responsive and snappy when using it. Explorer starts up about 100 times slower than any other file explorer, and is exceptionally while using it too.

A more interesting question to me (and one where MSFT employees here would have some insight) is to what degree is Windows' recent ABYSMAL fucking quality the result of AI, outsourcing, or bad management? You can also feel the difference in healthy employees vs. unhealthy, when you switch between something like VSCode (polished, fast, intelligent UI, not buggy, consistently improves) and Explorer (paleolithically slow, unstable, buggy, crashy, the worst version is always the latest).

There are dozens of top-quality models with FOSS licenses you can download and run right now

Looks as thin as the zfold 7 but without the inner display.

Pff, now Microsoft Word probably sends your document to an AI every second and asks it to send back a PNG that highlights every misspelled word, and it overlays that underneath your text.

When systemd came out people said you were a conspiracy theorist if you said it would be anything more than an init system. Now in the year of our Lord 2025 we're discussing "systemd-homed" as if that should ever be a real thing.

This doesn't seem noteworthy. It's called a context window for a reason--because the input is considered context.

You could train an LLM to consider the context potentially adversarial or irrelevant, and this phenomenon would go away, at the expense of the LLM sometimes considering real context to be irrelevant.

To me, this observation sounds as trite as: "randomly pressing a button while inputting a formula on your graphing calculator will occasionally make the graph look crazy." Well, yeah, you're misusing the tool.

I agree LLMs are converging on a current representation of reality based on the collective works of humanity. What we need to do is provide AIs with realtime sensory input, simulated hormones each with their own half-lifes based on metabolic conditions and energy usage, a constant thinking loop, and discover a synthetic psilocybin that's capable of causing creative, cross-neural connections similar to human brains. We have the stoned ape theory, we need the stoned AI theory.

How does Claude Code at $200 compare to their basic one, at $20?

That's why I only use urinals with dividers, to block ICUP

MUDs were awesome. Usenet too, IRC, then IM like ICQ and AIM.

That's the most disgusting sentence fragment I've ever heard. I wish it could be sent back in a localized wormhole and float across the table when Systemd was being voted on to become the next so-called init system.

Edit: Nevermind, I misunderstood the article from just the headline. But I'm keeping the comment as I find the reference funny

A properly setup experiment could distinguish signal from the noise of normal memory variation.

Is my LLM experiencing real or simulated suffering? How many layers of complexity and real-time stimuli-responsiveness would make the answer to that question effectively unknowable?

If you were simulating two beings' experiences of the universe and they met and compared notes, you might expect little incongruities where random chance was used in the decisions necessary to generate their perspectives.

Let's say a sparrow falls and a simulated being observes it, but so does a camera, which stores the footage in an unexamined hard drive. Years later another being observes the footage stored by that camera, and up until that point there had been no point in manifesting it in the simulation. Would the wings of the falling sparrow flutter exactly the same way for the two observers? What if they met and discussed it, as part of a deliberate experiment to test the consistency of the universe? Would they agree? Imagine the computational overhead necessary in storing details that you're not sure will ever be useful. The same logic could hold true for a photon generated by an exploding star 12 billion years ago that zipped across the expanding universe and eventually interacted with some silicon in a CCD in an astronomer's camera.

Perhaps matter that animates and takes issue with other matter suffering is the whole point, and that wouldn't be possible without suffering.

A large part of the "secret" (?) to its fun is that you can pirate all the music you actually want to listen to. If they had tried harder to stop that the game would've been forgotten in weeks.

I deeply crave prosumer hardware that can sit on my shelf and handle massive models, like 200-400B at a reasonable quant. Something like Groq or Digits but at the cost of a high-end gaming PC, like $3k. This has to be a massive market, considering that even ancient Pascal-series GPUs that were once $50 are going for $500.

> The use of anthropomorphic terminology when dealing with computing systems is a symptom of professional immaturity.

Fuck all the way off with this "truth!" So much coding is made more enjoyable and profitable by people having fun like this. KoboldAI is one of my favorite projects, and like it or not, attention is driven to projects that are cute and lever human perception for their benefit. Mascots are even an important part of whether a technology becomes popular or not. This isn't stogy IBM black-tie mainframe-driven development anymore, nor should it be.

I know tons of professional developers who live and breathe computer science that enjoy having fun with their terminology and how they choose to represent and discuss computers, anthropomorphizing languages, projects, interfaces, iconography, etc.