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boxedemp commented on We mourn our craft   nolanlawson.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/ColinWright
Fraterkes · 6 days ago
I've seen a hundred ai-generated things, and they are rarely interesting.

Not because the tools are insufficient, it's just that the kind of person that can't even stomach the charmed life of being a programmer will rarely be able to stomach the dull and hard work of actually being creative.

Why should someone be interested in you creations? In what part of your new frictionless life would you've picked up something that sets you apart from a million other vibe-coders?

boxedemp · 6 days ago
You may be mistaking some ai dev with non, because it doesn't have tell tails
boxedemp commented on We mourn our craft   nolanlawson.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/ColinWright
arduanika · 6 days ago
No true programmer is excited for the future.
boxedemp · 6 days ago
And no true scotsman puts sugar in his porridge
boxedemp commented on Why I Joined OpenAI   brendangregg.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/SerCe
UltraSane · 7 days ago
I use it as something to talk to about incredibly nerdy and/or obscure things no one else would be willing to talk about.
boxedemp · 6 days ago
Same. I have a lot of ideas I like to explore that people find boring or tedious. I used to just read, but it's pleasant to have the option to play with those thoughts more.
boxedemp commented on xAI joins SpaceX   spacex.com/updates#xai-jo... · Posted by u/g-mork
edhelas · 11 days ago
"Technically challenging", a nice way to say "impossible"
boxedemp · 11 days ago
Just like rockets landing themselves
boxedemp commented on The RAM shortage comes for us all   jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/speckx
notatoad · 2 months ago
anybody care to speculate on how long this is likely to last? is this a blip that will resolve itself in six months, or is this demand sustainable and we are talking years to build up new manufacturing facilities to meet demand?
boxedemp · 2 months ago
Pure speculation, nobody can say say for sure, but my guess is 2-3 years.
boxedemp commented on Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k   gamesindustry.biz/japanes... · Posted by u/zdw
halapro · 2 months ago
Have you seen the output of LLMs lately? It's not perfect, but I bet that with enough refinements they can create "art" just as well.
boxedemp · 2 months ago
The latest Nano Banana is pretty good, but it's not perfect yet. And many font use cases demand perfect.

Maybe the next major update will be able to do it.

boxedemp commented on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off   businessinsider.com/ibm-c... · Posted by u/nabla9
boxedemp · 2 months ago
Nobody really knows the future. What were originally consumer graphics expansion cards turned out useful in delivering more compute than traditional CPUs.

Now that compute is being used for transformers and machine learning, but we really don't know what it'll be used for in 10 years.

It might all be for naught, or maybe transformers will become more useful, or maybe something else.

'no way' is very absolute. Unlikely, perhaps.

boxedemp commented on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting   kevinboone.me/fingerprint... · Posted by u/ingve
lipbetfox · 3 months ago
I still haven't found a method that can fingerprint simple Firefox containers. I use automatic temporary containers as a rule, and rules for specific sites where I want to keep persistent sessions.

I don't understand how temporary containers are still not a built-in Firefox feature, it seems like such a no-brainer solution for privacy.

boxedemp · 3 months ago
Open question,

If you're on a VPN and using Firefox containers, is the only way to identify me to look at my mouse movement and correlate it?

boxedemp commented on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting   kevinboone.me/fingerprint... · Posted by u/ingve
ekjhgkejhgk · 3 months ago
The core of the problem is that we've made this behavior of "run javascript that pulls more javascript and then run that too" the default. Stallman was right, as always.
boxedemp · 3 months ago
The older I get the more I see that RMS was right about so many things.

When I was young I used to think of him as that eccentric pedantic mit guy but now I see him as a true warrior for freedom.

boxedemp commented on Nvidia pushes hotfix after Windows 11 October update tanks gaming performance   theregister.com/2025/11/2... · Posted by u/Bender
boxedemp · 3 months ago
I'm actually impressed with windows 11. I've been using win since 3.11. 95, 98, 98se, 2000, XP (the dream), 7, and 10.

And finally after a lifetime of windows, 11 finally got me to switch my desktop OS to Ubuntu!

So 11 achieved something for me that no other Win release could: get me to abandon Microsoft OSs. Though, I admit to having a W10 VM instance with GPU passthrough.

u/boxedemp

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