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No one's even clicking anymore, everything implores me to tap or swipe these days, and everything is optimised for humans with one eye above the other.

Then I press the X to close the all-caps banner commanding me to install the app, upon which I get sent to the app store. Users of the website refer to it as an app.


I was at Lionhead for a while and he was very highly regarded even among wizards like Alex Evans.

> While I certainly have my doubts, I think pointing to Microsoft's previous failures as an indication for what might become of GitHub is inaccurate.

Time has not been kind to this comment (reply in the thread).


I wouldn't call my $2k Strix Halo computer "massively expensive", and it runs e.g. Qwen 3.6 27b brilliantly, with tons of memory to spare and is a full x86 powerhouse pulling 120w at absolute max.

IMO the programming world is far too myopic about / insistent on using laptops, especially macbooks. Just because a crappy deal exists doesn't mean everyone is forced to take it. Local AI is a high performance computing problem and laptops are fundamentally a crappy form factor for it; buy an efficient desktop computer and be surprised at what's possible even with today's crazy prices.


The article seems to repeat its thesis almost verbatim three times.

Thanks. Glad I'm not the only one who felt that. I think the author just learned the word panopticon.

It doesn't have the usual giveaways of LLM text (except for the rather prominent dashes) but definitely has a similar verboseness and repetitiveness. Human writing can be like that too, if its author wanted to pad it out to a word quota.

I have no idea how she generated the text, but whether LLM or not, it isn't a recounting of direct experience. The author graduated high school in 2019 and never experienced the Internet of the 90s and doesn't remember pre-2006 because she was a toddler.

That's not necessarily disqualifying. One can be a historian even if not a reporter.

Every article on the Roman Empire is written by people too young for direct experience.


And the title/concept seems mostly copied from this YouTube video from a mouth earlier: https://youtu.be/oYlcUbLAFmw?si=T1AIE4w49qF1u7ul

I think about that video quite often


I am deeply saddened that it was developed by the hero of modern rendering, Eric Veach.

I honestly can't imagine a stronger indicator of somewhere I don't want to be than it having 400m Kim Kardashian fans

I suppose that's a very effective way to stem the tide of pesky educated libruls. Not so smart now, are you?

Just another day of America getting exactly what they twice voted for.


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It's a term much like freedumb, mocking their celebration of ignorance, not their accent.

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In my opinion the people who are deliberately destroying science and education should be prosecuted for literal textbook treason, not merely mocked.

These are the "fuck your feelings" people whose feelings you're worrying about.


It's the feelings of uninformed people who don't yet know what's going on that I'm worrying about. Saying things like "libruls" and "freedumb" makes it harder to build the coalition which we'll need to prosecute the perpetrators.

Eh, they’re probably too busy molesting their younger siblings to take notice or offense.

> who are deliberately destroying science...

But this is subjective. What you call as "Science" might be pseudoscience for someone else. As an example, some decade back, following and trusting peer reviewed research was "scientific", but even back then I thought it was a stupid, unscientific thing to do. Today the problems with peer review process is pretty widely acknowledged. But back then I would have been considered unscientific to not fully trust peer reviewed research. People also used to say things like "Science is settled" and "Trust the experts", which is the most unscientific thing that one could possibly say.

So since there is a lot of unscientific things that is being called "science" these days, I think this is very subjective.


It's almost as if electing a notorious conman to the highest office, for a second emboldening time, isn't such a great idea.

I'm sure America will learn from this and elect responsible leaders in future.


"I'm sure America will learn from this and elect responsible leaders in future."

Assuming you are not being sarcastic, I would expect actually the opposite.


I was in the same boat until last few days, where just a handful queries were enough to saturate my 5h session in about 30 mins.

Recently I've gotten Qwen 3.6 27b working locally and it's pretty great, but still doesn't match Opus; I've gotten check out that new Deepseek model sometime.


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