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OldfieldFund··on Fuck dopamine, we're voluntarily breaking our own brains
it's a study about flies
OldfieldFund··on Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
You can put food with barely any knowledge, just automating a few things. More true now with vibe coding, not sure in 3-4 years.
OldfieldFund··on Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Impressive evals, but... benchmarks aren't everything.

Put this prompt into qwen3-thinking, and then compare with gemini 2.5 pro:

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As candidates for creators, we should first address chaos. What is chaos? If for a given event X in A, all possible events can occur in B, and if such independence is universal, we are faced with chaos. If, however, event X in A limits in some way what can occur in B, a relationship exists between A and B. If X in A limits B unequivocally (we flip a switch, the lamp turns on), the relationship between A and B is deterministic. If X in A limits B in such a way that after X in A, events Y or Z can occur in B, where Y occurs 40 times out of 100 after X in A, while Z occurs 60 times, then the relationship between A and B is probabilistic.

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You have to rewrite the above acting as David Foster Wallace in 2025. Don't mention the year. Make it postmodern. Refer to current and projected events and trends. AI, robotics, etc. you have full creative control. you can make it long if you wish. change every word. make it captivating and witty. You are acting as a demiurge DFW. You need to pass the Turing test here. Sell it to the reader. Write good, high-brow fiction. Avoid phrases that are typical to LLMs/AI writers.

OldfieldFund··on Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
It's made by Alibaba :)
OldfieldFund··on Itch.io: Update on NSFW Content
So stablecoins are reinventing banks just with less regulation?
OldfieldFund··on Itch.io: Update on NSFW Content
how are cards impractical?
OldfieldFund··on OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August
isn't it Q4 quantized on groq?
OldfieldFund··on Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome
not pregnancies in the traditional sense but IVF, as far as I understand. Many of my friends who are wealthy are doing only IVF to screen for negative genotypes
OldfieldFund··on I drank every cocktail
Unpopular opinion, but I think this is a great idea for alcohol and cigarettes, especially in areas with high rates of alcoholism.
OldfieldFund··on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
Another problem is that you have to click twice:

1. The anchor icon.

2. Then one of the sites that appear on the right (on desktop).

OldfieldFund··on Itch.io: Update on NSFW Content
I think OP assumes widespread adoption of cryptocurrencies, but cryptocurrencies are very impractical for regular use.
OldfieldFund··on Apple introduces AppleCare One
Adding AppleCare to older devices with degraded battery life (as I understand, you will be able to replace them for free if they fall below 80%) is a phenomenal deal, in my opinion. This also includes accidental spill coverage. You can always stop coverage when you're not using them.
OldfieldFund··on Cerebras launches Qwen3-235B, achieving 1.5k tokens per second
I tried the non-quantized version, and it was pretty bad at creative writing compared to Kimi K2. Very deterministic and every time I regenerated the same prompt I got the usual AI phrases like "the kicker is:", etc. Kimi was much more natural.
OldfieldFund··on 12ft.io Taken Down
this shouldn't work due to reverse DNS checks
OldfieldFund··on The vibe coder's career path is doomed
because the most important part of execution is not coding but marketing the idea.
OldfieldFund··on I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again
6 figures is not that much to a company that wants that specific product and it's well-built. It also has a user base with somewhat decent monthly visits.
OldfieldFund··on Gemini 2.5 Paper: Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, Agents
I truncated the title due to its length.
OldfieldFund··on Peep Show is the most realistic portrayal of evil I have seen (2020)
What is an inkwell? I haven't seen the OP mentioning that word. Sorry, I'm not familiar with the vernacular. Is that another word for incels?
OldfieldFund··on What happens when housing prices go down?
HackerNews folks are getting hooked on ragebait recently
OldfieldFund··on Tough news for our UK users
Do Iranian people get the government they deserve?
OldfieldFund··on Beyond Meat fights for survival
The taste of meat repulsed me since I was a kid. I wonder what's wrong with me. The irony is I eat it, because it's good for my IBD.
OldfieldFund··on How Tesla is proving doubters right on why its robotaxi service cannot scale
30 seconds by law: https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-orde...
OldfieldFund··on Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras
And the updates are silent.
OldfieldFund··on OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025
People get very fragile when AI is better at something than them (excluding speed/scale of operations, where computers have an obvious edge)
OldfieldFund··on OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025
The whole community is very questionable, at best. (AI 2027, etc.)
OldfieldFund··on OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025
I'm building with LLMs, and they're solving problems that weren't possible to solve before due to how many resources they would consume. Resources, as in human-hours.

Finance, chemistry, biology, medicine.

OldfieldFund··on MCP security vulnerabilities and attack vectors
This can be easily used to search for seeds/private keys when AI coding agents are in YOLO mode.
OldfieldFund··on Apple bans entire dev account, no reason given
That's true.

My wife swears by the Magic Mouse. I love the idea of a mouse that you can make gestures on, but it doesn't fit well in my palm. I have huge hands. It's just too flat and it hurts my hand. Now, my wife has a backup one in case the battery dies.

OldfieldFund··on Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025
If they give Siri LLMs, there will be headlines that it drove kids to suicide. People really don't need LLMs.

Sideloading is bad for business. Most users don't care. Remember, we, the devs, are not the core target/biggest spenders. They are targeting a large audience of young people who are not tech-savvy.

OldfieldFund··on Apple bans entire dev account, no reason given
MacBook Pro M4 with Pro/Max CPUs are 3-4x faster on multicore benchmarks compared to Air's M4. Air M4 is not enough for my heavy usage of multiple browsers, agents, scripts, and different spinoffs of VS Code at the same time.

What's the problem with your battery life? Check which app is draining your battery in Activity Monitor/Energy.

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