DominikPeters (u/DominikPeters)

DominikPeters commented on Prism openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

mturmon · 14 days ago

Getting close to the "why Dropbox when you can rsync" mistake (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224)

@vicapow replied to keep the Dropbox parallel alive

Yeah I realized the parallel while I was writing my comment! I guess what I'm thinking is that a much better experience is available and there is no in-principle reason why overleaf and prism have to be so much worse, especially in the age of vibe-coding. Prism feels like the result of two days of Claude Code, when they should have invested at least five days.

DominikPeters commented on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/bigwheels

twa927 · 15 days ago

I don't see the AI capacity jump in the recent months at all. For me it's more the opposite, CC works worse than a few months ago. Keeps forgetting the rules from CLAUDE.md, hallucinates function calls, generates tons of over-verbose plans, generates overengineered code. Where I find it a clear net-positive is pure frontend code (HTML + Tailwind), it's spaghetti but since it's just visualization, it's OK.

DominikPeters · 14 days ago

Are you using Opus 4.5? Sounds more like Sonnet.

DominikPeters commented on Prism openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

DominikPeters · 15 days ago

This seems like a very basic overleaf alternative with few of its features, plus a shallow ChatGPT wrapper. Certainly can’t compete with using VS Code or TeXstudio locally, collaborating through GitHub, and getting AI assistance from Claude Code or Codex.

DominikPeters commented on We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports curl.se/.well-known/secur... · Posted by u/latexr

chrisjj · 20 days ago

Only on surface. The difference is the LLM doesn't know it doesn't know. An LLM provides the best solition it has regardless of whether that solution is in any way fit for purpose.

DominikPeters · 20 days ago

If you inspect the Chain of Thought summaries, the LLM often knows full well what it is doing.

DominikPeters commented on HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023) info.arxiv.org/about/acce... · Posted by u/el3ctron

DominikPeters · 2 months ago

As an arXiv author who likes using complicated TeX constructions, the introduction of HTML conversion has increased my workload a lot trying to write fallback macros that render okay after conversion. The conversion is super slow and there is no way to faithfully simulate it locally. Still I think it's a great thing to do.

DominikPeters commented on Eliminating contrails from flying could be cheap sustainabilitybynumbers.c... · Posted by u/K2L8M11N2

DominikPeters · 4 months ago

Given that the warming impacts of contrails are short-lived (roughly a day), I think it is a good idea to do research now on the weather forecasting needed to avoid producing contrails. But I don't really see a reason to actually start avoiding them now, with the associated costs in terms of fuel, CO2 emissions, and time. We can start avoiding them in a few decades when it might have become urgent to have cooling.

DominikPeters commented on Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP support.google.com/mail/a... · Posted by u/sumanep

bound008 · 4 months ago

I'm not one to defend google, but it seems that they are only ending support for POP accounts, and retaining support for IMAP/SMTP. Seems like a reasonable deprecation for 2025, although they could have given more than a quarter to let people handle the change.

DominikPeters · 4 months ago

They have worded things dishonestly to make you think that POP can be replaced by IMAP. The IMAP support is only available in the mobile app (not gmail.com) and isn't a "fetch" that integrates fetched emails to your Gmail inbox. It's kept as a separate inbox.

DominikPeters commented on Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP support.google.com/mail/a... · Posted by u/sumanep

pbreit · 4 months ago

IMAP, which is MUCH better at doing the same thing, is still supported.

DominikPeters · 4 months ago

It is not supported. You can only add an IMAP mailbox on the mobile app and not on gmail.com. The IMAP account is then displayed as an inbox completely separate from your gmail inbox. There is no pull and no integration.

DominikPeters commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd

nicetryguy · 6 months ago

Yeah, they sure clicked away from it very fast and kept adjusting the scrollbars. It was confusing what it was trying to display. Furthermore, the prompt contained "Canvas" and "SVG" while as someone with webdev experience these are certainly familiar concepts, i wouldn't consider those in the "casual lexicon" for a random user trying to help a middle schooler with homework. I'm not impressed...

IMO Claude 3.7 could have done a similar / better job with that a year ago.

DominikPeters · 6 months ago

Claude 3.7 was released in February 2025.

DominikPeters commented on Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month theverge.com/news/713125/... · Posted by u/mobilio

jedberg · 7 months ago

I have only given this a moment's thought, but why not just publish the URL map as a text file or SQLLite DB? So at least we know where they went? I don't think it would be a privacy issue since the links are all public?

DominikPeters · 7 months ago

It will include many URLs that are semi-private, like Google Docs that are shared via link.

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