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samtheprogram··on 56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience
Reminds me of YouOS. RIP
samtheprogram··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
Could be Intel specific -- the writer has a touch bar.
samtheprogram··on macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review
It doesn't seem much worse to me if at all. Not a noticeable difference. That said, the laptop is only a year and a half old, with the battery cycle count at 314.

I also wonder if I'll have a "oh, the battery life _is_ much worse" moment soon, but not yet!

samtheprogram··on What About Rails?
Yet to be determined if they actually ship or do stuff at a reasonable rate. It only has any notoriety because of the subject matter and jumping on the hate-DHH train.

I guess they've been "laying the groundwork" of a fork that claims to just want to rename things and do little else for over a month?

samtheprogram··on What About Rails?
In the current/legacy market, people accept bugs in software because software was expensive and the alternatives are often few for that same reason.

Tomorrow's software will need to be _perfect_, or else it won't differentiate from "Claude, build a basecamp-style project management tool for my team".

samtheprogram··on Grok 4.7
Probably the same reason as oh-my-zsh, you don't need 90% of it. Further compounding the problem in an agent harness is that you are polluting the context window by throwing the kitchen sink at it.
samtheprogram··on macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review
Unfortunately I don't know yet because I updated for Xcode 27 + iPhone dev, so having an iPhone plugged in 24/7 is heavily spewing the results towards "much worse".

If I can still reply mid-to-late next week I'll let you know.

samtheprogram··on A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos
Per the article, that's the price OpenAI is willing to pay for an exploit that covers any account or integration one connects to their OpenAI account. Let that sink in.

I don't think the other commenters mentioning how server-side vulnerabilities aren't as lucrative in the black market are making that connection.

samtheprogram··on macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review
Maybe macOS 26 was lot bigger... but I went straight from Sequoia to Golden Gate and freed up like 30 GBs. I didn't have enough disk space to download the update prior, so the extra 30 GB wasn't that... but could've been caches I guess. I assumed it was dropping Intel?
samtheprogram··on There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet
They already knew to drain the basin. Control-F in a PDF is way less annoying than watching a 9 minute long (for the algorithm) YT video.

Sure, you can search the video transcript... but all the YT video is doing is regurgitating the manual.

samtheprogram··on There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet
Did you not catch the emphasis? They did end up writing about it.

Sure, not for the same reason, but... got'em.

samtheprogram··on Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify
Tailwind is so pervasive it's 100% in pretraining _and_ RLHF.

I've done several Tailwind projects and rarely did models from various providers need to reference Tailwind documentation.

samtheprogram··on Mistral raises €3B
> go after profitable niches and avoid unwinnable fights

If you know Apple's history, this should stand out to you.

samtheprogram··on Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
I desperately miss their old XULRunner app. No longer worked through the API as of ~3 years ago and was a sad day for me.
samtheprogram··on Muse Spark 1.3
He didn't say 90% of the coding jobs. He said LLMs would write 90% of the code. As in be LLM generated.
samtheprogram··on Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
If you've ever been confused about which turn is which with top down navigation, then this is for you. While driving a car, being able to at a glance know exactly what turn is what would have saved me countless wrong turns, my parents probably doubly so.

One classic: there's a fork in the road on the way to my parents. One side is "straight", the other side is an exit. I took the wrong, exit side of that several times while my app said to go straight before I just knew the route and didn't need GPS at all. Top-down isn't as good in these cases because of densely packed roads and back to back exits.

That said, it's "good enough" and I doubt this takes off.

samtheprogram··on Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
I had to login the other day to use it. Probably getting slowly rolled out.
samtheprogram··on GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks
If you just want it to generate UI out of nothing, the benchmarks aren't really for that.

If you want to generate a UI based on specific user input of some kind, then they are.

I'd suggest using one model for UI and another model for tacking onto that UI. LLMs are great at pattern matching, and benchmarks don't really capture one-shotting desirable UI.

That said, benchmaxxing is a thing and your experience with models is a thing. Benchmarks are fuzzy and should be taken with a grain of salt.

samtheprogram··on Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
> designed

What?

samtheprogram··on Choose Boring Technology (2015)
That's an insane take. Anything?!?
samtheprogram··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
That's solely so that you burn more money. It's totally unnecessary to assume the parent model. Sure, it could be upgraded from Haiku if there was a solid reason to, but...
samtheprogram··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
> None of my GOG games run on Linux, while most of my Steam games run on Linux.

Stop spreading misinformation. Even if you're a non-techie you can add non-Steam games to Steam's launcher (my extremely tech illiterate friend just did this) and they'll run with Proton.

It comes down to a game by game basis, and it's still extremely rare (outside of recent 2025/2026 anticheat AAA title stuff) that any game would have a Linux specific/impacting patch.

samtheprogram··on qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work
I disagree with this. If agents are doing asynchronous work, it's really an artifact anyone should be able to look at.
samtheprogram··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
Check my last submission on this site -- same news story (different site). I agree with them, and it's distracting and damaging to the cause.

You're also essentially saying the same thing I did, because I'd argue most people already have a non-neutral stance on the subject.

samtheprogram··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
Calling border patrol "thugs" doesn't really bolster your argument to anyone except people who already agree with you.
samtheprogram··on Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16
You wrote "port", perhaps you meant "maintain"?
samtheprogram··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
Abortion? Permissive drug laws? Immigration? Homelessness policies? Vaccines? American AI gave me these examples, and they're not really so cut and dry. Do you have a better example that's being left out (no pun intended)?
samtheprogram··on I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs
Passing "{}" handles most sane cases including spaces. If I'm doing bash that needs to be robust (rare and/or dotfiles) or know the folder/dataset has weird filenames, sure.
samtheprogram··on I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs
Literally just use xargs with -I {} and quotation marks?
samtheprogram··on DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety
Let's ban weed and alcohol from recreational use too, if there was any benefit a doctor would prescribe it. /u
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