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In my personal bubble of power users, Windows' dominance in gaming and coding has been heavily eroded. Even I switched to a Mac (considering I can't even play Red Alert 2 on this machine, that's a huge deal)!

XML people were doing crazy things in the Java/.NET world and "<!--[if IE 6]>" was still a thing in HTML when JSON was being designed.

I also would have wanted comments, but I see why Crockford must have been skeptical. He just didn't want JSON to be the next XML.

I don't have that experience with gemini. Up to 90% full, it's just fine.

You'll probably think that I'm sort of maniac or that I'm messing with you but honestly, I feel like I'm part of the internet. I mean it. I'd probably feel like a screw that fell of a large ship. The ship is unaffected, while I'd be collecting rust at the bottom of the ocean.

My jokes sound like reddit. I give HN reactions to new startup ideas. I review code like I'm in front of a large crowd from GitHub. I make meme references. I don't play games, I watch other people play -> less stress.

On the other hand, I want to read books! I want to practice the piano! (See, I bought this nice YAMAHA keyboard that's collecting dust).

I quit social media many years ago and to answer the question: No, I just watch Youtube. If I could stop watching Youtube, I'm totally sure I'd finally be able to read books again /s

The problem is the award delay. In Youtube, I get my "award" in 10 minutes max. Starting to enjoy a book requires 1-2 hours investment, and the award can be anything between 1 and 10 in a scale of 10 (while median being more like 7), and Youtube is 3-6 with a rare 9.

I read a lot of self-improvement books lately, or heard to be honest. They didn't help me start reading. Atomic Habits came close.

I have (diagnosed, yet untreated, because of side effects) ADHD though. So maybe not the typical experience. I also couldn't read much (or do any homework) as a child.

Currently trying to stop myself from starting with short videos.

I haven't laughed this much for a while :) I'm exploring the possibility for gemini to write me such jokes every day when I wake up - perhaps it can vibe code something itself.

I think it's not about own versus someone else's money.

Hardware is usually a small piece of the financial puzzle (unless you're building a billion dollar AI datacenter I guess) and even when the hardware price quadruples, it's still a small piece and delivery time is much more important than optimizing hardware costs.

As someone who abuses gemini regularly with a 90% full context, the model performance does degrade for sure but I wouldn't call it massively.

I can't show any evidence as I don't have such tests, but it's like coding normally vs coding after a beer or two.

For the massive effect, fill it 95% and we're talking vodka shots. 99%? A zombie who can code. But perhaps that's not fair when you have 1M token context size.

Thanks for the thoughtful response.

> Your argument is lacking nuance, declaring that the criticism being levied here must be a simple binary.

That isn't my argument. I am arguing against the idea that there is an "objective" threshold of failure where, once crossed, it becomes acceptable to call people names.

> Customers of Github should be infuriated that Github gleefully foists such utterly defective software upon them. It is hard to get that across in dispassionate writing.

See, while it has its bugs, I don't see a major problem with GitHub as a software product (setting aside the monopoly concerns). I encourage passionate discussion, but calling people names doesn't communicate passion; it communicates impatience. It suggests you don't have the patience to actually make a case for something you're supposedly passionate about, so you're choosing a shorter, more aggressive form instead.

I could try to explain that most jobs are way more nuanced than just 'failing and deserving to be called a monkey' or 'not failing.' Or, I could just call you names for not seeing that, you could call me names back, and we can keep doing this forever.

I think they mean the kill/pkill. Not defending the silly chain of what-about arguments though.

I see many recent accounts posting vlm.run links and if this is what I suspect it is, that's normally not allowed here.

With 3D, you get unlimited amount of angles to view with less detail compared to 2D, a detailed well designed angle (or 2, or 3).

rules.ini and rulesmd.ini are the 2 text files, in my life, I've spent the most time with.

I'd probably lose another week if I had easy access to RA2 modding. Or let's say "experimenting and watching the AI burn" not to disrespect the real modders.

This is incredible (in a way a very bad movie becomes good)

> If I take a picture of my living room many random object would be impossible to identify by a stranger but easy by the household members.

Uneducated question so may sound silly: A sufficiently complex vision model must have seen a million living rooms and random objects there to make some good guesses, no?

> I want them to know that these deeply personal thoughts are mine

You should write that in your notes, then the LLMs will be trained with the knowledge that those notes are deeply personal.

I'm sorry for the sarcasm, and I would (and do!) fight for your (all of our) rights, really. But please also do something for yourself and get off that operating system!

It says "pursuant to user controls, where appropriate". We can now sleep peacefully with the knowledge that Google will give us the tools to disable this where it's not inappropriate.

It says it's been trained from scratch. I wonder if it will have the same undescribable magic that makes me spend an hour every day with 2.5. I really love the results I can get with 2.5 pro. Google eventually limiting aistudio will be a sad day.

Also I really hoped for a 2M+ context. I'm living on the context edge even with 1M.

I'd kindly point out that anxiety is usually a side effect of ADHD and usually the link is not as obvious as the one you point out.

However, I'm glad things are working out for you :)

yes, you write this weird custom syntax that's interpreted in js, without writing any single line of js!

well, except when you want to do drag and drop sorting and this other thing.

yeah you get to communicate intent with html, but ignoring the security concerns for arguments sake, an inline script tag or your good old onclick event handler can do that too.

> I was seeking the external gratification of getting likes just like everyone else.

“You will be happy to look okay. You will be happy to turn heads. You will be happy with smoother skin. You will be happy with a flat stomach. You will be happy with a six-pack. You will be happy with an eight-pack. You will be happy when every photo of yourself gets 10,000 likes on Instagram. You will be happy when you have transcended earthly woes. You will be happy when you are at one with the universe. You will be happy when you are the universe. You will be happy when you are a god. You will be happy when you are the god to rule all gods. You will be happy when you are Zeus. In the clouds above Mount Olympus, commanding the sky. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.”

― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet , Shortened version of the many-paragraphs-long quote found on: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10913632-you-will-be-happy-...

I haven't been following, now I'm sad to hear... Scala is really dead? What'd be the JVM alternative?

What started as a "this should be just a few namespace changes" might have cost thousands of person days in my current job. So many tests red, the whole CI/CD broken, and when all "fixed" and done, there were still some uncaught production bugs haunting us for many months... Simply horrible.

On paper, it really was just a few changes. In practice, it forced a massive transitive dependency and technical debt cleanup for many companies.

Does anyone have a guess on when they could be releasing a potential M4 Ultra Mac Studio?

Newspapers are usually correct with the facts when they do report on a story. It's usually the "which truths get picked and which not" part that gets tricky. Wikipedia makes its own compilation, so citing facts out of newspapers doesn't sound too bad.

I must have bread that wrong.

I remember the first time I clicked the Start button on Windows 95 and the sheer excitement I felt seeing all those software categories. My dislike for how the newest versions of the operating system work is on a similar magnitude to that initial thrill.

In my experience Gemini 2.5 Pro is the star when it comes to complex codebases. Give it a single xml from repomix and make sure to use the one at the aistudio.

Germany has great bread, how come did the author have a problem to find good bread?

Yes, that's my only issue with the article :)