Check the size and budget of Google iniatives. It’s unlimited
Google basically has unlimited budget and unlimited data. If they're ahead now, which I believe they are, they'll be very very difficult to catch.
Readit Newsakie commented on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Remarkable that it echoes, from a different angle, this post from just a few days ago on HN:
https://martinalderson.com/posts/has-the-cost-of-software-ju...
This last post was largely dismissed in the comments here on HN. Simon's experiment brings new ground for the argument.
The reason is that the post you link to is overly simplistic. The only reason why Simon's experiment works is because there is a pre-existing language agnostic testing framework of 9000 tests that the agent can hold itself accountable to. Additionally, there is a pre-existing API design that it can reuse/reappropriate.
These two preconditions don't generally apply to software projects. Most of the time there are vague, underspecified, frequently changing requirements, no test suite, and no API design.
If all projects came with 9000 pre-existing tests and fleshed-out API, then sure, the article you linked to could be correct. But that's not really the case.
akie commented on Invader: Where to Spot the 8-Bit Street Art in London londonist.com/london/art-... · Posted by u/zeristor
Fun party game: Ask people if they know ChatGPT. When they inevitably say "yes", ask what GPT stands for.
akie commented on Deprecations via warnings don't work for Python libraries sethmlarson.dev/deprecati... · Posted by u/scolby33
Start adding a 500ms delay to every invocation of a deprecated function. Incentives work!
I'm going to assume it's then going to be considered suspicious if you don't happen to have any social media for at least the last 5 years ?
My social media is full of rants about the ongoing trend of bringing fascism to the US and the authoritarian and repressive tendencies of the current president.
Am I not allowed to say that?
It's a shame European energy efficiency rules made 8K non viable. It's a great resolution.
Yeah damn those Europeans for outlawing energy inefficient things
akie commented on E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens spectrum.ieee.org/e-paper... · Posted by u/rbanffy
I love my e-ink tablet.
Regardless of manufacturer (remarkable, boox, supernote…), all e-paper tablets have one major performance problem: quickly scrolling through multiple pages of notes. No idea if the display is the limiting factor, or the cpu, but I’ve hit this issue on all tablets I’ve used. If you like riffling through pages in you paper notebook, you will hit the limit too. I know at least 2 people who stopped using their tablets over time because of this issue.
If this tech helps solve that problem, it’s more important to me than an eink monitor.
Edit: this is mainly important for notes, because sketches, scribbled diagrams and quick notes half-taken in meetings are not really searchable. PDFs and ebooks don’t have this problem.
Their demos most definitely show scrolling through long websites very quickly, and they show playing computer games and playing videos on e-ink displays as well. Amazing stuff really.
akie commented on Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips larstofus.com/2025/09/02/... · Posted by u/samspenc