Benchmarks optimize for fundraising, not users. The gap between "state of the art" and "previous gen" keeps shrinking in real-world use, but investors still write checks based on decimal points in test scores.
Readit NewsSurceBeats commented on Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... · Posted by u/pseudolus
SurceBeats commented on Dark mode by local sunlight (2021) ctnicholas.dev/articles/d... · Posted by u/gaws
Nice! We considered this exact approach but never shipped it in the end. The geolocation permission is probably unnecessary friction and probably an overkill imho... Timezone + rough location (country-level from IP) would get 95% accuracy without the prompt. Most users will bounce on that permission dialog.
Solid work though, especially the twilight transitions. Loving it!!!
Suffered that back in the day with an Electron desktop app. Not to mention that the notarization and signing integration itself is completely broken. The first time you submit a binary it can take DAYS to process, and setting everything up to work properly with GitHub Actions CI/CD is absurdly time-consuming. It's ridiculous, and if you add this new notarial verification policy on top of that... In the end it's just Apple being Apple.
Google used to proudly say "Don't be evil"... But they just forgot to add "let us take that part".
When tech giants start deciding what technical knowledge is too "dangerous" for users to access, we've crossed into a different kind of territory. Installing an OS on your own hardware is now physical harm? That's some creative interpretation of their policies. The irony is that this kind of censorship just validates why people want to bypass these systems in the first place, nobody wants corporations deciding what they can and can't do with their own machines.
SurceBeats commented on Some software bloat is OK waspdev.com/articles/2025... · Posted by u/senfiaj
Yes. Too many people seem to forget the word "premature." This quote has been grossly misused to justify the most egregious cases of bloat and unoptimized software.
Yeah, somehow it went from don't micro optimize loops to 500MB Electron apps are just fine actually hahaha
SurceBeats commented on Some software bloat is OK waspdev.com/articles/2025... · Posted by u/senfiaj
The article is kind of right about legitimate bloat, but "premature optimization is evil" has become an excuse to stop thinking about efficiency entirely. When we choose Electron for a simple app or pull in 200 dependencies for basic tasks, we're not being pragmatic, we're creating complexity debt that often takes more time to debug than writing leaner code would have. But somehow here we are, so...
About time... I guess
SurceBeats commented on Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again jsteuernagel.de/posts/usi... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
This really resonates. Sometimes the best reason to switch tech is just to feel that spark of learning again. I build self-hosting platforms and have spent years trying to make it “easy”, even getting it to work on Windows/macOS. But honestly, the magic isn’t in convenience. It’s in that figuring it out phase imho...
SurceBeats commented on We reduced a container image from 800GB to 2GB sealos.io/blog/reduce-con... · Posted by u/untrimmed
Fascinating deep dive into OverlayFS CoW behavior. The 11GB btmp file getting copied 271 times is a perfect storm scenario. Did they consider mounting /var/log outside the image layers? Seems like that would prevent any log file from causing this amplification. Also interested in image-manip... Does it handle metadata differently than
docker export/import?
And also building as a hobbie a procedural universe generation engine that simulates galaxies, solar systems and planets in real-time. Everything is generated from a seed with actual orbital physics, seasonal changes and so... Built with Python/Flask backend too but Three.js for 3D visualization and React instead of Vue3 as in the prior one. Think No Man's Sky vibes but as an explorable simulation engine really D: