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Matl commented on Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers wired.com/story/grammarly... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

dolebirchwood · 4 days ago

> it all starts with our EAGER values

Sounds like something I'd expect to see on a banner in an elementary school classroom.

Matl · 4 days ago

Many CEOs treat their employees like kids in elementary school to make themselves feel smarter.

Matl commented on Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery liliputing.com/the-new-jo... · Posted by u/heresie-dabord

muhehe · 4 days ago

I really wish them success, but I just can't see it anymore. I had the first version and it seems it didn't move much forward from that time. And there were also many screwups, as poisonborz reminded a bit earlier.

Their UI looked novel, but wasn't that great in practice. It wasn't stable (hopefully that changed) and the lack of real apps was killing it before and now even more, as more banks/govs require some "trusted" apps

Matl · 4 days ago

I had Sailfish on XPERIA and it was no less stable than Android/iOS in my experience. But that wasn't the first version I don't think.

Matl commented on I'm Getting a Whiff of Iain Banks' Culture probablydance.com/2026/03... · Posted by u/ibobev

soupfordummies · 4 days ago

Can someone ELI5 how Cluade is/was being used for Venezuela & Iran?

"Hey claude, tell me how the US can abduct Maduro. Your response should include all details regarding times, local places as well as blah blah blah"

Matl · 4 days ago

I can only guess but I'd think maybe it's more for playing out scenarios i.e. in such and such situation, if x, y and z are true on the ground, how would you expect this to play out, while playing with x, y, z and then maybe working to get x, y, z as close to be what we roleplayed on the ground before going in, rather than an exact 'how to'.

Matl commented on I'm Getting a Whiff of Iain Banks' Culture probablydance.com/2026/03... · Posted by u/ibobev

jrowen · 4 days ago

> This behavior predates Trump. He's just an accelerationist of where this sort of behavior was always bound to go.

Idk if I agree with this. First off, your initial verbiage is distinctly Trumpian. Second, I think Trump, like Hitler, activates latent sentiments that are largely kept at bay with "normal" post-WWII world leader politics. I think it's anomalous and once we get out of it things will normalize.

But really, my main point was that the politics and the "whys" of these decisions (capture Maduro, bomb Iran) are outside the scope of the article. It assumes that the decisions have been made and is looking only at the impact of specific technology on the operational outcomes.

It seems like a lot of the commenters are responding as if the article is making the point that "the US is like the Culture" but it's much more narrow and specific than that.

Matl · 4 days ago

> It seems like a lot of the commenters are responding as if the article is making the point that "the US is like the Culture" but it's much more narrow and specific than that.

Right, however that narrow point of essentially (overwhelming) technological superiority and 'efficiency' can be made using a very large number of science fiction. The Culture explores specific themes that make it what it is. If you completely dismiss them, I am not sure you are left with even a whiff of Iain Banks' Culture.

And to be clear, the point I am specifically making is that a lot of what the US is currently doing is not exactly rational, or even a supper efficient way to achieve their stated goals and a lot of it seems to be made up as they go along.

That does not feel like The Culture to me.

Matl commented on I'm Getting a Whiff of Iain Banks' Culture probablydance.com/2026/03... · Posted by u/ibobev

jrowen · 4 days ago

The analogy is about technology aiding operational efficiency. It ends there. You basically made a dramatic statement about Trump.

Matl · 4 days ago

This behavior predates Trump. He's just an accelerationist of where this sort of behavior was always bound to go.

But he does perfectly demonstrate that you can't have operational efficiency if you're ignorant about your enemies because you're being advised by religious fanatics, if your goals are constantly shifting and your motives are purely selfish.

Matl commented on I'm Getting a Whiff of Iain Banks' Culture probablydance.com/2026/03... · Posted by u/ibobev

Matl · 4 days ago

I perhaps get where the author is coming from at a very surface level, but the US is acting like a drunk Culture where the Minds face credible accusations of all sorts of abuse, are named something like 'I Got Small Dick, Wannu Make Everyone Think Is Big', have no goal beyond self-enrichment and ships that dump their human passengers into empty space with the promise that if they somehow survive the next time they come onboard, everything is going to be even more BIG, GREAT and BEAUTIFUL!

So not sure I buy the analogy.

Matl commented on Something is afoot in the land of Qwen simonwillison.net/2026/Ma... · Posted by u/simonw

user34283 · 9 days ago

This thread is largely pointless political back-and-forth were predictably the comments with a more positive opinion on current US immigration enforcement will be flagged.

To get back to the original point, personally I doubt sentiment on US immigration enforcement would be so significant a deterrent for Chinese talent, who may not share the political views of the American left for whom this is a big concern.

Matl · 9 days ago

> pointless political back-and-forth were predictably the comments with a more positive opinion on current US immigration enforcement will be flagged

Given the tactics employed by ICE, it's a true shock and horror that most people have more humanity than that.

But I guess a person who can't form a grammatically correct sentence is an example of the sort of people who can rest easy,

Matl commented on MacBook Neo apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/dm

evilduck · 9 days ago

That's just a broken, compromised Windows laptop. A true "master of nothing" device. Windows is a miserable tablet OS and a tablet that uses a kickstand makes it a pain to use in desktop mode.

Matl · 9 days ago

Windows is a miserable OS, period. But these devices are rather well supported by Linux.

Matl commented on MacBook Neo apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/dm

SaltyBackendGuy · 9 days ago

I might be a dinosaur but I just can't stand laptops that have touch screen...

Matl · 9 days ago

Touchscreens can be disabled in software.

Matl commented on MacBook Neo apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/dm

xtracto · 9 days ago

I was recently in the lookout for a new laptop. I wanted something BEEFFY! Specs wise but 13 inch at most.

I literally couldn't find anything on the PC side. I wanted an x86 because I prefer Linux Mint as my OS (didn't care about windows) , but it was impossible to find a good laptop with good GPU , more than 64gb ram and decent build materials (ive got a thinpad and the platic build is just terrible. The screen bends when pulling it to open the laptop).

So, if settled for a 128gb ram M4 max Macbookpro. It has been pretty solid so far. I'm a power user, so the RAM is used quite a lot (one of the reasons I wanted x86/Linux was to avoid virtualization overhead in docker/podman).

Macs are way more expensive than other laptops, but their level of tech sophistication is miles ahead of anyone.

Now, if only Asahi was more complete.

Matl · 9 days ago

What about something like [1].

1 - https://rog.asus.com/laptops/rog-flow/rog-flow-z13-2025/