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ggus commented on The MacBook Air 2025 Is Now Cheaper Than a Random Mid-Range Windows Laptop kotaku.com/apple-is-going... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

hyperhello · 2 months ago

I don't know what I would do with that much SSD, and it makes me wonder if they're using cheap stuff or if it's all on one PCI lane.

The RAM size is barely an issue because the OS has had excellent efficiency from coming from phone engineering. I've had 16 gig for years and never had a problem.

ggus · 2 months ago

for me 16gig is definitely not enough.

I'm on a 36gb M3 and I have to reboot it every three to five days to have it behave again.

I have normal dev apps open: a browser with jira, another with testing, another with documentation, an ide, teams, calendar, zoom.. it adds up very, very quickly. 16gigs are gone in the blink of an eye

ggus commented on From Hackathon to YC producthunt.com/p/april-y... · Posted by u/rmason

dirkc · 4 months ago

I love having deep conversations with fellow passengers while driving long distances. I've never felt like it distracted me while driving. I'd be curious to see any research to the contrary.

My hunch is that the moment some form of technology gets involved there is some form of interaction that has a detrimental impact. Maybe pushing a button or glancing at a screen or something else?

ggus · 4 months ago

adults passengers can adapt the conversation to your needs, keeping quiet and even helping with decisions. screens, kids, dogs, people on the phone, etc can't do that

ggus commented on So you think you've awoken ChatGPT lesswrong.com/posts/2pkNC... · Posted by u/firloop

sjsdaiuasgdia · 5 months ago

Maybe "idea evaluation" is just a bad use case for LLMs?

ggus · 5 months ago

Most times the idea is implied. I'm trying to solve a problem with some tools, and there are better tools or even better approaches.

ChatGPT (and copilot and gemini) instead all tell me "Love the intent here — this will definitely help. Let's flesh out your implementation"...

ggus commented on So you think you've awoken ChatGPT lesswrong.com/posts/2pkNC... · Posted by u/firloop

Chloebaker · 5 months ago

Good that someone is writing about Chat gpt induced psycosis, bc the way it interacts with people’s minds there’s a kind of mass delusion forming that nobody seems to be talking about. Because AI like ChatGPT function as remarkably agreeable reflections, consistently flattering our egos and romanticizing our ideas. They make our thoughts feel profound and significant, as though we're perpetually on the verge of rare insight. But the concerning part of this is how rather than providing the clarity of true reflection, they often create a distorted mirror that merely conforms to our expectations

ggus · 5 months ago

It's very hard to have ChatGPT et al tell me that an idea I had isn't good.

I have to tailor my prompts to curb the bias, adding a strong sense of doubt on my every idea, to see if the thing stops being so condescending.

ggus commented on Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling news.samsung.com/global/i... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

razakel · 5 months ago

"Sorry, your subscription has expired and now all your food is mouldy. If you have any complaints, call 1-800-FUCK-YOU and we'll just laugh at you."

ggus · 5 months ago

Even worse: If you have any complaints, call a number we won't publish anywhere on our site and a robotic voice will just laugh at you.

ggus commented on Someone at YouTube needs glasses jayd.ml/2025/04/30/someon... · Posted by u/jaydenmilne

matsemann · 8 months ago

What kills me with the autoplay (at least on mobile), is that the video continues from where it was when you click it. But the autoplay had no sound, and I probably didn't watch it closely. So I always have to scroll back to the beginning, as I've just now been put in the middle of a sentence a bit into the video. Especially for channels which actually gets straight to the point (like Numberphile) it's annoying. Such a stupid design.

Additionally there's a bug on the Android app that it sometimes doesn't show video titles (or the worlds worst A/B test?), so scrolling through I just see talking heads (since it autoplays instead of showing the video thumb) and have to force restart it to actually understand what's going on.

ggus · 8 months ago

My YT mobile pet peeve is that when you toggle the captions, an useless "Subtitles/CC Turned ON" is shown for 5 seconds.. OVER THE CAPTIONS!

Most useless message ever, placed exactly where you do not want it to be.

ggus commented on Mario Vargas Llosa has died nytimes.com/2025/04/13/bo... · Posted by u/funkaster

briandear · 8 months ago

Fairly biased article:

“In 2018, he celebrated Lula’s imprisonment in Brazil on dubious corruption charges, and the following year exulted in the right-wing coup that deposed Evo Morales in Bolivia. Since then he has voiced his support for far-right candidates such as José Antonio Kast in Chile and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil…”

“Dubious” charges against Lula? — He was convicted of accepting a seaside apartment as a bribe for helping the OAS construction company get lucrative deals with state oil firm Petrobras.

Did Lula not do that? The claim is that Lula was targeted to keep him out of the election. Seems exactly the motivation for the various charges against Trump. Are charges dubious only when the right does that against the left? Marine Le Pen is another recent example of “dubious” charges being ok as long as it’s only going left against right.

Also Bolsonaro was termed “far right,” but Lula not called “far left?”

Does anyone actually do any neutral reporting or analysis? It seems that anyone to the right of JFK is “far right” while anyone to the left of Marx is “left leaning.”

More importantly, does anyone care any more? Seems like tribalism has gotten much worse over the past few years. The truth is, in the example of Lula is that is is/was very corrupt, but that he’s a leftist seems to excuse that.

ggus · 8 months ago

Bolsonaro termed "far right" seems to be on the mark though. The guy praises military dictatorship, with many military figures in his government. He targeted the press and judiciary as enemies of the nation, and so on.

Lula hasn't nationalized industries, hasn't seized wealth, or even tried to, so "far left" doesn't seem to be as fitting. Where are the burnt churches?

Now, about corruption, I'm pretty sure neither shine, but that's Brazil for you. Wasn't the Bolsonaro family found to have bought around 50 properties in cash? Smells about as corrupt as the other side, sadly.

ggus commented on EU to impose counter tariffs on $28 billion of US goods reuters.com/markets/europ... · Posted by u/adam__smith

LordHeini · 9 months ago

I am sure most people in the European parliament don't know or care what a red state is. It's one of those American things that is opaque to Europeans.

I guess they tried to find stuff to tax which does not hurt the bigger European populace.

The US biggest export is oil and they certainly want that to be cheap so no tariffs there.

And they are incapable of putting tarifst on online services and digital products.

ggus · 9 months ago

> And they are incapable of putting tariffs on online services and digital products.

This would be interesting. And worrying. Laws are easy to write, regardless of applicability.

ggus commented on A 10x Faster TypeScript devblogs.microsoft.com/ty... · Posted by u/DanRosenwasser

pseudopersonal · 9 months ago

The post title is a bit misleading. It should say a 10x faster build time, or a 10x faster TypeScript compiler. tsc (compiler) is 10x faster, but not the final TS program runtime. Still an amazing feat! But doom will not run faster

"To meet those goals, we’ve begun work on a native port of the TypeScript compiler and tools. The native implementation will drastically improve editor startup, reduce most build times by 10x, and substantially reduce memory usage."

ggus · 9 months ago

Agree. TypeScript is primarily a programming language. Did they make the language faster? No. Hence, the title is misleading.

ggus commented on Why I Wrote Data Science for Crime Analysis with Python (2023) crimede-coder.com/blogpos... · Posted by u/apwheele

Vaslo · a year ago

The only people responsible for reoffending are the reoffenders. It really is that simple.

ggus · a year ago

Of course it is not that simple.

The more frequently you are stopped by the police, the greater the chance they will find something to charge you with. Since people of color are stopped more often by police, they face a higher likelihood of being charged.