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coke12 commented on Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring theregister.com/2026/02/1... · Posted by u/benji8000

folbec · 23 days ago

I think it is also fairly similar to the kind of discourse a manager in pretty much any domain will produce.

He lacks (or lost thru disuse) technical expertise on the subject, so he uses more and more fuzzy words, leaky analogies, buzzwords.

This maybe why AI generated content has so much success among leaders and politicians.

coke12 · 23 days ago

Every group want to label some outgroup as naively benefiting from AI. For programmers, apparently it's the pointy haired bosses. For normies, it's the programmers.

Be careful of this kind of thinking, it's very satisfying but doesn't help you understand the world.

coke12 commented on U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025 nbcnews.com/business/econ... · Posted by u/ceejayoz

JohnMakin · a month ago

This never happened with the switch. I am not kidding. 2023 I was trying to buy one for my sister, and it took me months of waiting for target to open and beating the resellers to it, because I didn't want to overspend online (plus online stock frequently sold out). It was released in 2017!

Nintendo is notorious for under producing their consoles vs demand in recent years - the worst example was the mini NES or whatever they called it, they could not keep it on shelves for that one either.

coke12 · a month ago

Anecdotally I have bought 2 switches over its lifetime and never saw any of this ever. Just clicked “buy” on Amazon.

coke12 commented on What Is Ruliology? writings.stephenwolfram.c... · Posted by u/helloplanets

meindnoch · a month ago

Wolfram's eulogy will be titled: "A life wasted on cellular automata"

coke12 · a month ago

I don’t know, I’ve been involved in computer science for several decades now and cellular automata hasn’t really lost its charm. Seems like a cool thing to dedicate your life to!

coke12 commented on CSS now has an if() conditional function caniuse.com/?search=if... · Posted by u/aanthonymax

mikestorrent · 3 months ago

How hard would it be to have a response header that tells the browser "don't display anything at all until we ask you to from JS when we're ready"?

Considering the kinds of crap that have been done with headers...

coke12 · 3 months ago

Many sites do something like that in practice. The problem is the extra 500ms of parse+eval time for your JS bundle influences user behavior a lot on the margin, so it’s better to not force the user to wait.

coke12 commented on Samsung Family Hub for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem news.samsung.com/us/samsu... · Posted by u/janandonly

cyanydeez · 4 months ago

"Give some other monopoly rulr over your attention"

coke12 · 4 months ago

Ultimately the choice of platform is about trust rather than capability. Apple has been a much better citizen historically than any of the smart TV companies.

coke12 commented on Accelerated Game of Life with CUDA / Triton boristhebrave.com/2025/09... · Posted by u/BorisTheBrave

IncreasePosts · 6 months ago

Did you confirm the improvements are actually real?

coke12 · 6 months ago

The description/assessment of tasks is all plausible, but agreed, some of the execution can be surprisingly boneheaded :)

Case in point, I am building a cellular automata-based physics system, and there is seemingly nothing I can do to affirm that row 0 is "down" and row 255 is "up". The system just cannot grok it on a consistent basis. It has the ability to take screenshots, write unit tests, etc, it's just blind to the kind of intuitive logic we get with our human world model. So the code frequently regresses and gravity starts going in the wrong direction.

coke12 commented on Accelerated Game of Life with CUDA / Triton boristhebrave.com/2025/09... · Posted by u/BorisTheBrave

coke12 · 6 months ago

Coincidentally I am also writing a cellular automata simulation. I've blindly given your article to my software architect subagent, who has identified several architectural improvements that it can make and has converted these into tasks to farm out to other subagents. Thanks!

Just a glimpse from building software in 2025.

coke12 commented on AI might yet follow the path of previous technological revolutions economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/mooreds

hn_acc1 · 6 months ago

So basically, the "ideal" state of a human is to be 100% active driving agents to vibe code whatever you need, based on every movement, every thought? Can our brains even handle having every thought being intentional and interpreted as such without collapsing (nervous breakdown)?

I guess I've always been more of a "work to live" type.

coke12 · 6 months ago

Consider that a subset of us programmer types pride themselves on never moving their hands off the keyboard. They are already "wired in" so to speak.

coke12 commented on Robin Lakoff has died nytimes.com/2025/08/15/us... · Posted by u/drankl

alex_young · 7 months ago

In case anyone else is wondering - Robin is the ex-wife of another prominent linguist, George Lakoff.

Somehow GPT-5 got this badly wrong when I first asked:

  Yes — George Lakoff and Robin Lakoff are related. They are siblings.

Er, no. They were married once and divorced 50 years ago according to their Wikipedia pages.

coke12 · 7 months ago

What a fascinating semantic mistake. Is it possible being long-divorced is more similar to being siblings than we realize?

coke12 commented on I've seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI twitter.com/KeithSakata/s... · Posted by u/fortran77

parpfish · 7 months ago

i think it's more likely that it sounds technical but allows space for woo-woo ideas to flourish. the keyword used "vibrations". then "quantum".

coke12 · 7 months ago

Other words they like are "reflection", "expansion", "compression". These are fundamental, abstract, semi-monadic terms that allow the user to bootstrap an abstract theory. A little bit of "insight" (aka linguistic rearranging) and I've got a theory out of nothing. How does it work? Well, reflection and recursion of course. None becomes one becomes many. Can't you see the structure?

It feels a lot like logical razzle dazzle to me. I bet if I'm on the right neurochemicals it feels amazing.

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