Speculation is gambling masquerading as investing.
I think gambling purely on luck (i.e. playing the roulette) is not exactly the same as speculation, and speculation may become less risky the more information you have.
Readit Newsmagic_hamster commented on Losing Money Is the Point zachholman.com/posts/losi... · Posted by u/pbardea
Apple's definition of "sleep" is unique, to put it mildly. My MBP may be "sleeping" but it will still aggressively connect to any wireless interface. Sometimes when passing by with my Bluetooth headphones, the MBP will often steal my current connection.
When a device goes to sleep, I don't expect it to interact with anything, even if I didn't deliberately turn off all wireless communication.
Apple is the only one doing this. I've had dozens of linux and windows devices by now, and Apple are the only ones to aggressively maintain or connect to wireless while sleeping.
I’ve been working on 3D modeling and 3D printing for Warhammer, and me and my friend thought it would be really cool if we could easily create custom landscapes or buildings. That’s what sparked the idea for Amodeling.
ran into a lot of breakdowns along the way, but we’ve managed to fix most of them. There are still a few issues with the download feature, though.
How is this better than some of the other 2D to 3D AIs out there? Once you have a 3D model, you can just send it to any shop for 3D printing..?
Did you understand the implementation or just that it produced a result?
I would hope an LLM could spit out a cobbled form of answer to a common interview question.
Today a colleague presented data changes and used an LLM to build a display app for the JSON for presentation. Why did they not just pipe the JSON into our already working app that displays this data?
People around me for the most part are using LLMs to enhance their presentations, not to actually implement anything useful. I have been watching my coworkers use it that way for months.
Another example? A different coworker wanted to build a document macro to perform bulk updates on courseware content. Swapping old words for new words. To build the macro they first wrote a rubrick to prompt an LLM correctly inside of a word doc.
That filled rubrik is then used to generate a program template for the macro. To define the requirements for the macro the coworker then used a slideshow slide to list bullet points of functionality, in this case to Find+Replace words in courseware slides/documents using a list of words from another text document. Due to the complexity of the system, I can’t believe my colleague saved any time. The presentation was interesting though and that is what they got compliments on.
However the solutions are absolutely useless for anyone else but the implementer.
The LLM is the solution.
magic_hamster commented on The daily life of a medieval king medievalists.net/2025/07/... · Posted by u/diodorus
This is less historical record than medieval propaganda piece.
I get that it was written as such but even the article at the beginning pretends it’s an accurate representation of what the king got up to and then towards the end tacitly admits it’s an idealized representation of how a king should behave.
This basically brings into question all of the actual details.
Did he go to church every morning ? Maybe it was deemed proper that he did but as the king he just skipped it - we’ll never know.
Likewise listening to commoners- maybe this was done for show with some well cleaned up subjects every so often , or maybe it was a genuine practice , we don’t really know.
I agree, and I will also add that the entire post is just basically quoting from another source, and adding zero original thought. Just point us to the book so we can read it, it's really good enough to say "hey, if you want to know what a medieval king's day to day was, check out this really cool book".
magic_hamster commented on I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer lifehacky.net/prompt-0b95... · Posted by u/tombarys
There have been quite a few skeptic blog posts recently about LLM. Some say they won't use it for coding, others for getting creative ideas, and others won't use it for editing and publishing. However, the silent issue all these posts have in common is that resistance is futile.
To be fair, I also don't like using Copilot when working on code. In many cases it turns into a weird experience when the agent generates the next line(s) and I basically become a discriminator judging if the thing really understands my problem and solution. To be honest, it's boring even if eventually it might make me turn in code faster.
With that said, I cannot ignore that LLMs are happening, and this is the future. The models keep improving but more importantly, the ecosystem keeps improving with things like MCP and better defined context for LLM tools.
We might be looking at a somewhat grim prospect. But like it or not, this is the future. Adapt and survive.
magic_hamster commented on LLM Inevitabilism tomrenner.com/posts/llm-i... · Posted by u/SwoopsFromAbove
I think two things can be true simultaneously:
1. LLMs are a new technology and it's hard to put the genie back in the bottle with that. It's difficult to imagine a future where they don't continue to exist in some form, with all the timesaving benefits and social issues that come with them.
2. Almost three years in, companies investing in LLMs have not yet discovered a business model that justifies the massive expenditure of training and hosting them, the majority of consumer usage is at the free tier, the industry is seeing the first signs of pulling back investments, and model capabilities are plateauing at a level where most people agree that the output is trite and unpleasant to consume.
There are many technologies that have seemed inevitable and seen retreats under the lack of commensurate business return (the supersonic jetliner), and several that seemed poised to displace both old tech and labor but have settled into specific use cases (the microwave oven). Given the lack of a sufficiently profitable business model, it feels as likely as not that LLMs settle somewhere a little less remarkable, and hopefully less annoying, than today's almost universally disliked attempts to cram it everywhere.
There are pretty hidden assumption in this comment. First of all, not every business in the AI space is _training_ models, and the difference between training and inference is massive - i.e. most businesses can easily afford inference, perhaps depending on model, but they definitely can.
Another several unfounded claims were made here, but I just wanted to say LLMs with MCP are definitely good enough for almost every use case you can come up with as long as you can provide them with high quality context. LLMs are absolutely the future and they will take over massive parts of our workflow in many industries. Try MCP for yourself and see. There's just no going back.
magic_hamster commented on Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025 mbh4h.substack.com/p/neur... · Posted by u/keiferski
> I found that Gibson’s prose felt almost identical to the placeholder Lorem Gibson text I had used—so dense with jargon and terminology that my mind kept slipping off the sentences.
This is why, despite being great conceptually and story-wise, ultimately I did not like Neuromancer. Plenty of other novels have tons of in universe jargon but don't feel as exhausting to read as Neuromancer. For instance, Tolkien invented multiple fictional languages and his books tend to have 100+ pages of appendices explaining everything, but his prose flows so naturally.
Perhaps Neuromancer would benefit from an ebook edition incorporating a recent CRPG video game innovation, where in universe terms in text are highlighted and you can click/tap on the highlighted terms to get a little tooltip box explaining what the term is.
Comparing anyone to Tolkien is massively unfair. Tolkien was a seasoned linguist and he worked on LotR for about a decade. It is going to be extremely hard to match these expectations for other authors.
magic_hamster commented on Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker timsh.org/claude-inside-d... · Posted by u/timsh
Honest question: why do people prefer developing code inside a docker? I get the benefits of docker as a deployment unit, but wouldn’t configuring a dev container and using it a hassle nonetheless, compared to not doing them at all?
Separation of dependencies and ability to easily interconnect containers.
A bigger UX problem (on Linux) imo is the multitude of clipboards, we have x11, vim... Those can be synchronized or not, they manifest different behaviors...
And btw while apple is often offered as some golden standard for key bindings, I think the situation there is much (MUCH) worse: apps often intercept and handle common combinations on their own, with unclear precedence, which leads to non-deterministic behavior and a complete mess if you want to override any standard combination.
While I grew to accept some advantages of my Mac can't be easily replicated in other platforms, I think it is severely lacking in basic features, user experience and it's still occasionally infuriating even in 2025.
I do have a very long list of Mac gripes, as is probably deductable from this comment.