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CrimsonRain commented on iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=hksVv... · Posted by u/walterbell
noisem4ker · 9 days ago
Google's Gboard completes "i want t" with "to" and "the" for me.
CrimsonRain · 9 days ago
Which is the better option now. But the one he's talking about is the OG windows phone swipe keyboard which would predict next word almost like from a LLM these days. For that reason, you can swipe like a maniac but it'd still type the correct thing.

Apple keyboard is shit. Swype (the one Microsoft bought) is better but still shit. Gboard is ok. But none of them are close to that windows phone keyboard. I still miss it.

CrimsonRain commented on BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive   evclinic.eu/2025/12/04/20... · Posted by u/mikelabatt
jacquesm · 16 days ago
> Often the cars fail official inspections because of rotten br[e]ak[e]s - this happens when your drive carefully and the Tesla is using regenerative breaking instead of the real br[e]ak[e]s.

That's something that they should have taken into consideration when designing the car.

CrimsonRain · 15 days ago
It is not a big deal. Just burnish it once every few months when it makes high pitched sound during low speed braking. https://service.tesla.com/docs/Public/diy/model3/en_us/GUID-...
CrimsonRain commented on Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests   seattletimes.com/seattle-... · Posted by u/dredmorbius
belorn · a month ago
Is it good for society to disable traffic cameras? Here in Sweden, traffic camera is used exclusively to reduce traffic speed on roads where the maximum speed is too fast for installing traffic bumps, with an expected effect of reducing traffic speed by around 20-30%. They are generally only installed on 60-90km/h roads, around road maintenance/construction sites, and in tunnels. They active when the radar detects speeds of 5km above the maximum. (The reduction in speed happens regardless if the camera is functional or not, since it is primarily a psychological effect).

Sweden also have traffic monitors that monitor highways around cities, border exists and tunnels, and also license plate readers for toll roads and bridges (also often used for parking). Those two generally have a much higher privacy cost than traffic cameras.

CrimsonRain · a month ago
Speed cameras help really little with preventing accidents unless we're talking about 200 at 100. Put in cameras that detect tailgating/not maintaining enough distance relative to speed.

Now people can go faster while being safer.

CrimsonRain commented on The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership   openai.com/index/next-cha... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
CrimsonRain · 2 months ago
What happens if someone else achieves AGI first? The way they wrote it, seems like they are damn sure they are the ones who will achieve AGI. A bit too egoistic...?
CrimsonRain commented on Rating 26 years of Java changes   neilmadden.blog/2025/09/1... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
whartung · 2 months ago
I get the attraction to var, but I, personally, don't use it, as I feel it makes the code harder to read.

Simply, I like (mind, I'm 25 year Java guy so this is all routine to me) to know the types of the variables, the types of what things are returning.

  var x = func();
doesn't tell me anything.

And, yes, I appreciate all comments about verbosity and code clutter and FactoryProxyBuilderImpl, etc. But, for me, not having it there makes the code harder for me to follow. Makes an IDE more of a necessity.

Java code is already hard enough to follow when everything is a maze of empty interfaces, but "no code", that can only be tracked through in a debugger when everything is wired up.

Maybe if I used it more, I'd like it better, but so far, when coming back to code I've written, I like things being more explicit than not.

CrimsonRain · 2 months ago
1. Just because you can use var in a place, doesn't mean you should. Use it where the type would be obvious when reading code like

  var myPotato = new PotatoBuilder.build();
not like

  var myFood = buyFood();
where buyFood has Potato as return type.

2. Even if you don't follow 1, IDEs can show you the type like

  var Potato (in different font/color) myFood = buyFood();

CrimsonRain commented on Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed   fortune.com/2025/08/23/ne... · Posted by u/danielmorozoff
xyst · 4 months ago
> The reality is that it’s very hard to see a normal VC level return on the $100M+

Nobody gives a shit about the iNvEsToR rEtUrN on iNveStMeNt. This is a humanitarian project which should be owned by the people, not a select few billionaires or investors to license out and dangle yet another expense, subscription, or ad model.

CrimsonRain · 4 months ago
WHo iS SToPPiNg YoU?

Typical communist attitude.

CrimsonRain commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts   petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece
bevhill · 4 months ago
This is another example of the poor being punished harder. A desperate mother who steals repeatedly will reach felony levels and spend years in prison or face deportation, but a rich teen who steals for fun will stay below felony and get away Scott free.
CrimsonRain · 4 months ago
Rich kid can also keep stealing and face felony. Don't defend stealing.

Also if you're stealing as an immigrant, you should be deported without any questions asked.

CrimsonRain commented on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/defo10
AlecSchueler · 4 months ago
Wait, are you claiming astrology is real and that the moon landings were faked?

No of course you're not, and I'm not claiming anything about a full human replica so please don't put words in my mouth that way.

We're not talking about a replica of a body. We're talking about LLMs. They don't have bodies and can't be moved, which is the definition of emotion.

And I'm not sure what you mean that my context window is a day. That's a strange thing to say. I'm deeply affected by childhood traumas several decades after they happened. They affect the tension patterns in my body every day. An LLM isn't affected even within its context window regardless of its length. They're only affected in the sense that a microwave is affected by setting it to defrost or a calculator is affected by setting it up use RPN.

If you built a perfect replica of a human then it would feel emotions just as a human. But that's not what we're talking about is it? There's a saying in my country: If your granny had balls she would be your granda. We can argue all day about "what if x" and "what if y" but we might be better served focusing on the reality we actually have.

CrimsonRain · 4 months ago
tfa is not talking about AIs of now but of future. Broaden your imagination where we will be in 10/15 years, not 30 days.
CrimsonRain commented on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/defo10
AlecSchueler · 5 months ago
No, it completely misses the point. If you say something very upsetting to me it will genuinely affect me and my day and have negative consequences for myself and the people around me, because I will have an emotional reaction. You can't upset an AI because it doesn't have the capacity to be upset, it can only return some words and then continue on as if nothing happened.

I hope that makes sense. The underlying functionality of my emotions don't matter at all, only the impact.

CrimsonRain · 4 months ago
You continue as if nothing happened even though <insert really bad event from 10 years ago>.

By the way, AI will react and have larger context window soon(ish). Then what?

CrimsonRain commented on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/defo10
jachee · 5 months ago
AI isn’t programmed to have emotions. Merely to replicate a semblance of a simulacrum of said sensations. Regardless of your considerations for the electrical signals, the models are just tab-completion, ad infinitum.
CrimsonRain · 4 months ago
Your emotions are just a tab-completion to God/Creator/or whatever.

u/CrimsonRain

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