minutillo (u/minutillo)

minutillo commented on Is 2026 next year? google.com/search?q=is+20... · Posted by u/kjhughes

minutillo · 21 days ago

This demonstrates three problems, in order of severity:

1) The answer is hilariously wrong.

2) The LLM doesn't (can't) know the answer is wrong - it happily spits out garbage.

3) Not one single person at google who can influence this gives a shit. Complete nonsense is now at the top of the screen on every search.

minutillo commented on 3,200% CPU Utilization josephmate.github.io/2025... · Posted by u/atomlib

Ntrails · 10 months ago

I remember a project to get us down from like 1500 build warnings to sub 100. It took a long time, generated plenty of bikeshedding, and was impossible to demonstrate value.

I, personally, was mostly just pissed we didn't get it to zero. Unsurprisingly the number has climbed back up since

minutillo · 10 months ago

Step 1: get it to zero

Step 2: -Werror

Step 3: there is no step 3

minutillo commented on Toyota completes phase 1 construction of futuristic city www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/e... · Posted by u/1970-01-01

duxup · 10 months ago

> The city will eventually be home to about 2,000 people.

More like a small town?

A hotel?

minutillo · 10 months ago

To be fair, 'Daisuke Toyoda, an executive in charge of the project from the automaker’s founding family, stressed it’s not “a smart city.”'.

minutillo commented on Sublinear Time Algorithms people.csail.mit.edu/roni... · Posted by u/gone35

dataflow · 10 months ago

> There are problems for which deterministic exact sublinear time algorithms are known.

I can imagine silly examples (like "find the minimum element in this list under the assumption that no more than O(sqrt(n)) elements exceed the minimum"...), but what's an interesting example of this?

minutillo · 10 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_string-sea...

minutillo commented on Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2 go.dev/blog/compat... · Posted by u/philosopher1234

blackoil · 2 years ago

This happened at Java SE 5(1.5) after 1.4. This was at much a marketing decision.

minutillo · 2 years ago

It goes back ever further, Java 1.2 was marketed by Sun as "Java 2".

https://web.archive.org/web/19991010063140/http://java.sun.c...

minutillo commented on eSignature Beta for Google Docs and Google Drive workspaceupdates.googlebl... · Posted by u/rc00

rvnx · 2 years ago

Inside Google, you usually get more easily promoted if you launch new products, than if you just maintain products.

Let's see the moment when Google launches Twitter-bis. It's a matter of time before it's done.

minutillo · 2 years ago

Google Twitter-bis was called Google Buzz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz

minutillo commented on Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real? scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/... · Posted by u/mutant_glofish

saberdancer · 2 years ago

Pretty sure I read this comment somewhere else (not attributed to Max Planck Institute), I think it was a guy on reddit.

Maybe they are the same but could be just copy paste from Reddit.

minutillo · 2 years ago

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/159jojs/scienti...

minutillo commented on The ‘Threads’ App Is Filled with Deceptive Dark Design Patterns yankodesign.com/2023/07/0... · Posted by u/legrande

cratermoon · 2 years ago

> it isn't collecting "location, health data, or financial data" from your device

How can you be certain?

minutillo · 2 years ago

On iOS you can easily check what permissions an app has in Settings. For instance I can see I have granted Instagram access to location, microphone, camera, photo album. Threads has none of those. I don't use Health and I'm not sure what financial data would mean, Apple Pay? That's approved per each use.

If threads has figured out a way to collect those things without having permissions, then yes, that would be the darkest of dark patterns.

minutillo commented on The ‘Threads’ App Is Filled with Deceptive Dark Design Patterns yankodesign.com/2023/07/0... · Posted by u/legrande

autoexec · 2 years ago

> 8: As far as I can tell completely wrong. Threads doesn't have access to my location, health data, or financial data?!

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

    Health & Fitness
    Purchases
    Financial Info
    Location
    Contact Info
    Contacts
    User Content
    Search History
    Browsing History
    Identifiers
    Usage Data
    Sensitive Info
    Diagnostics
    Other Data

source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-an-instagram-app/id644...

minutillo · 2 years ago

Previous discussion on this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36640720

minutillo commented on The ‘Threads’ App Is Filled with Deceptive Dark Design Patterns yankodesign.com/2023/07/0... · Posted by u/legrande

sdflhasjd · 2 years ago

> 10: False, there is a read-only website. It is very limited but it supports permalinks to threads, and from there you can navigate to user profiles, other threads, etc.

I keep hearing this, but I've literally never seen it. threads.net just gives me a "download the app" landing page with a QR code.

minutillo · 2 years ago

Does this link work for you?

https://www.threads.net/t/Cu2Ps0mJ4Hv/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA...

u/minutillo

KarmaCake day379July 19, 2009View Original