foobarchu (u/foobarchu)

foobarchu commented on Advent of Code 2025: The AI Edition – By Peter Norvig github.com/norvig/pytudes... · Posted by u/vismit2000

segmondy · 11 days ago

It's quite foolish of you to make that assumption. To begin with, with my timezone and when I could get to it, I was starting 12 hrs after the release so the leaderboard was useless. I was writing about it openly on the internet, pointing out the huddles I faced and how much effort it took to get the LLM to generate the correct solutions.

foobarchu · 11 days ago

> it's quite foolish of you to make that assumption

To have assumed that you didn't submit to the leaderboard? I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt on not ruining the competition for everyone else. You can do whatever you want on your own time.

If you were submitting, despite as I recall AOC specifically saying not to submit ai solutions, then you know exactly why people were upset. If you weren't, them you're being aggressive at me for no reason.

foobarchu commented on Advent of Code 2025: The AI Edition – By Peter Norvig github.com/norvig/pytudes... · Posted by u/vismit2000

segmondy · 12 days ago

Last year I used LLM to solve AoC, to see how they could keep up, to learn how to steer them and to see how the open models will perform. When I talk about it, quite a bit of "programmers" get upset. Glad to see that Norvig is experimenting.

p/s, anyone who gets upset that folks are experimenting with LLMs to generate code or solve AoC should have their programmer's card revoked.

foobarchu · 11 days ago

Did you make it clear that you weren't submitting to the leaderboards? I of course assume you weren't.

Most of the hubbub I saw was because AI code making it into those leaderboards very clearly violates the spirit of competition.

foobarchu commented on Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas arstechnica.com/ai/2025/1... · Posted by u/OptionOfT

stingraycharles · 14 days ago

Don’t attribute to malice that which can equally be contributed to incompetence.

I think you’re over-estimating the capabilities of these tech leaders, especially when the whole industry is repeating the same thing. At that point, it takes a lot of guts to say “No, we’re not going to buy into the hype, we’re going to wait and see” because it’s simply a matter of corporate politics: if AI fails to deliver, it fails to deliver for everyone and the people that bought into the hype can blame the consultants / whatever.

If, however, AI ended up delivering and they missed the boat, they’re going to be held accountable.

It’s much less risky to just follow industry trends. It takes a lot of technical knowledge, gut, and confidence in your own judgement to push back against an industry-wide trend at that level.

foobarchu · 14 days ago

> if AI fails to deliver, it fails to deliver for everyone and the people that bought into the hype can blame the consultants / whatever.

Understatement of the year. At this point, if AI fails to deliver, the US economy is going to crash. That would not be the case if executives hadn't bought in so hard earlier on.

foobarchu commented on Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism lux-magazine.com/article/... · Posted by u/eustoria

WalterBright · 19 days ago

Weeelll, I don't find Ansel Adams's work very interesting. I have several coffee table art books, some of which have old west landscape pictures, and it's the people in them that make it work.

Something I do with my friends is look at Annie Liebovitz portraits and try to recreate the ones we like.

foobarchu · 19 days ago

I would amend the idea to include artifacts that suggest people activity and wildlife that can easily be personified

foobarchu commented on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels bringbackdoors.com/... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap

eru · 21 days ago

Have you considered closing the lid?

foobarchu · 21 days ago

Have you just been trolling this thread for a few hours posting this copypasta to anyone who thinks not having bathroom doors is gross? This is the third or fourth one of these I've seen, and that's a pretty weird battle to fight, is all I'm saying.

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kadushka · a month ago

Would you rather not have LLMs?

foobarchu · a month ago

Absolutely. They have dramatically worsened the world, with little to no net positive impact. Nearly every (if not all) positive impacts have an associated negative that that dwarfs it.

LLMs aren't going anywhere, but the world would be a better place if they hadn't been developed. Even if they had more positive impacts, those would not outweigh the massive environmental degradation they are causing or the massive disincentive they created against researching other, more useful forms of AI.

foobarchu commented on Core Devices keeps stealing our work rebble.io/2025/11/17/core... · Posted by u/jdauriemma

ycombinatrix · a month ago

>Core took Rebble’s work, added to it, and then paid us back by putting a more restrictive license on their contributions and wrapping a closed-source UI around it.

Is that legal?

foobarchu · a month ago

It is, Amazon in particular is famous for this. It's a big part of the ride of "business source licenses" (see recent hububs around redis and hashicorp)

foobarchu commented on A new documentary about the history of forced psychiatric treatment in Spain bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/binning

arp242 · a month ago

Yes I agree, which is probably why we should treat 18-year olds more as children than adults (although obviously they are in-between the two). Brains continue to develop to the age of about 25.

foobarchu · a month ago

The brain does not fully develop until 25, 18 is simply one of many thresholds where we've decided (in the US) to start officially transitioning children into adulthood. Others include 14-16 (driving), 21 (drinking), and 25 (car rental).

So if 17 can't be called a child, what can? You have to draw the completely arbitrary like somewhere. Do you chose the legal 18 (in the US)? The Hebrew 13? Some other metric?

foobarchu commented on 'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately techdirt.com/2025/11/13/n... · Posted by u/speckx

nikanj · a month ago

"It's not stealing if you refuse to sell it to me" is a pretty sketchy line of thinking in my opinion

foobarchu · a month ago

I normally agree, but in this case the three companies in question aren't refusing to sell, they're threatening to sue if someone does anything with something that they have no idea if they even have rights to.

If nobody has the de facto rights, them there's nobody to steal it from.