Ampersander (u/Ampersander)

Ampersander commented on YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers piunikaweb.com/2026/01/28... · Posted by u/croes

kurito · 13 days ago

What a waste of resources. Imagine employing some of the most brilliant engineers on the planet and allocating man-hours towards artificially worsening the experience for your userbase in order to blackmail them into paying you, and giving them back what they had in the first place.

At least this is a loosing game for Google, since this is client side behaviour.

Ampersander · 13 days ago

Aren't they going to win in the long run with remote attestation?

Ampersander commented on The Influentists: AI hype without proof carette.xyz/posts/influen... · Posted by u/LucidLynx

int32_64 · a month ago

Perhaps nobody wants to have the uncomfortable conversation that AI is making the competent more competent and the incompetent less competent, because it would imply that AI provides brutally unequal benefits. The AI haters don't want this discussion because it would imply AI has any benefits, and the AI lovers don't want to have this discussion because it would imply the benefits of AI aren't universal and will increase inequality.

Ampersander · a month ago

"Not only were the colours and patterns unusually fine, but the clothes that were made of the stuffs had the peculiar quality of becoming invisible to every person who was not fit for the office he held, or if he was impossibly dull."

Ampersander commented on The Moat of Low Status usefulfictions.substack.c... · Posted by u/jger15

AceJohnny2 · 7 months ago

Tangentially, I've been applying something similar, but actually thinking of it as the privilege of high status.

As a very senior member of my team, which has a lot of new college grads, I've been asking the "dumb" questions, the "irritating" questions, intentionally speaking up what I believe others may be thingking, specifically because I figure I can afford the social (career) hit.

Ampersander · 7 months ago

Sufficient status entirely changes how the act of asking dumb questions is perceived by others. A person with a small title is seen as asking dumb questions because they are dumb. A person with a big title asks dumb questions because they are smart. Of course it's not just title but also age, gender, race, appearance, etc.

Ampersander commented on Nvidia's CUDA Monopoly matt-rickard.com/nvidias-... · Posted by u/ingve

DeathArrow · 3 years ago

I wonder if ROCm is 100% CUDA compatible.

Ampersander · 3 years ago

It's not 100%. CUDA for example has math functions with special rounding modes, but HIP does not.

Ampersander commented on Ironically, Zoom tells employees to return to office for work nypost.com/2023/08/05/zoo... · Posted by u/sh_tomer

aaomidi · 3 years ago

Then go to the office. Mandating return to office is the problematic part.

Ampersander · 3 years ago

There needs to be other people at the office for there to be a point in going there.

Ampersander commented on Emacs-like editors written in Common Lisp cliki.net/cl-emacs... · Posted by u/ducktective

pvinis · 3 years ago

I'm really curious: do people consider common lisp to be the go-to lisp today?

if yes, that's awesome, I'll look into it.

if no, what is the go-to? and is there an emacs-like using that lisp?

Ampersander · 3 years ago

Clojure is the biggest lisp by far if we measure by amount of programmers getting paid to write it.

Ampersander commented on Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more? · Posted by u/sirjaz

Ampersander · 4 years ago

There are many reasons web applications are more attractive. Web applications can't be pirated as the user does not receive the program. Users don't want desktop applications, as it's more convenient to login to a web application with a Google or Facebook account than it is to install a native application. A web application works on any device and most people only have a smartphone.

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