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yifanl

1,901 karma · joined May 4, 2018

Not-so-recent graduate, novice developer.
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yifanl··on A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps
It's quite hollow and plasticky on the inside. This is not a bad thing nor a mark of cheapness, but it sounds very roomy and echo-y for a keyboard, so if you like the sound of the clacking on a keyboard, it's quite amplified by the board.

I wasn't around to use an actual C64 to compare the sound against that, but I suspect it's an intentional choice as a retro keyboard to mark itself apart from the foamy modern keyboards that tend to dampen the keyboard.

yifanl··on Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
Can you use more than 2 words in your explanation next time? Reciting known talking points offers little.
yifanl··on Attention is all you have
The solution is simple, if unpalateable: No restrictions, but if its ever detected you are running a bot, you are punished in a way that ruins your life, without exception.
yifanl··on I Don't Like LLMs
It isn't, but the history of profitable software has been repackaging the same data in different UIs.
yifanl··on An update on Wayback Machine access
It's almost as if moral values aren't assigned universally.
yifanl··on VC isn't VC anymore
What's the difference between the two exactly?
yifanl··on ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage
Ads are the hacking of attention. Without attention, ChatGPT cannot exist.
yifanl··on AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it
We're way too far down this current UIUX disaster to pretend "sane defaults" is a nice-to-have.
yifanl··on AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it
You can't, as that removes the main value add of the AI.
yifanl··on Delta
Sublime
yifanl··on Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
Nintendo would be the big publisher who still largely releases games the same way, but they aren't American.
yifanl··on Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD
They did it on permissively licensed code would be the difference.
yifanl··on DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says
You don't get to decide how you're hated is the point.
yifanl··on Taste Is All That's Left
Thank you, I take great pride and effort in compressing as much emotional weight into as short a statement as possible.
yifanl··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
I agree that if things were different, things would be different, but I'm not sure what this adds to the conversation.
yifanl··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
And then what happened?
yifanl··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
> For the most-dominant military power in the world to "whoopsy" run out of weapons because of a low-stakes engagement isn't readily believable.

This is a concerning statement, as it implies it'd be impossible for the United States to lose an engagement regardless of any and all evidence.

yifanl··on 'My life's screwed': Korean investors stress out after AI bubble bursts
They set off circuit breakers for KOSPI twice in two days.
yifanl··on Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word
We're back to Von Neumann architecture in the worst way possible.
yifanl··on Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
They have authority over you, therefore all interactions must be taken under that context.
yifanl··on Worse on Purpose
What running shoes are you buying that last 2-3 years?
yifanl··on It's getting harder to focus every day
Can I have LLMs replace my GLP-1?
yifanl··on OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future
Only truly exceptional executives can be SBF or Elizabeth Holmes.
yifanl··on LLMs aren't remotely like compilers or power tools
Its true that things change, but it's also true that there will eventually be a day when the last programmer is hired.
yifanl··on LLMs aren't remotely like compilers or power tools
There's actually zero difference between a bottle of water and a river reservoir if you think about it.
yifanl··on Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
Rule's maybe too strong a word, but knowing that you have all the good ideas and wanting to structure everything to support those good ideas... it's not a bad word for it.

Like, it's certainly easy to point out that there are things that aren't being done efficiently, but finding the balance on how to prioritize the right efficiencies is the why society exists.

yifanl··on Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
This is one of the oldest ideas of civilization, wanting society to be ruled by philosopher kings (who happen to be people just like me!).
yifanl··on Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors
If they gave the engineers appropriate severance packages, then they're at least out that much as a stupidity tax, but that's probably the most we can expect as far as consequences for the exec suite.
yifanl··on Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040
This is good to keep in mind, but we'd need a substantial proliferation of nuclear before we get into a position where over-standardization is a problem.
yifanl··on Jobs and Software Is Fucked
I don't doubt there are exceptional people working at BigCo at any role you or I can name, but by definition, it isn't possible that _everyone_ working there is exceptional.
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