If they ever do anything again it will be a miracle. Meta is where smart people go to trade in their ambition and morals for stock grants and golden handcuffs.
it's not a bad trade!
Readit Newspercentcer commented on Meta acquires Moltbook axios.com/2026/03/10/meta... · Posted by u/mmayberry
percentcer commented on Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments neosmart.net/blog/recreat... · Posted by u/ComputerGuru
This is one of those things that seems like a nerd snipe but would be more easily accomplished through brute forcing it. Just get 76 people to manually type out one page each, you'd be done before the blog post was written.
Why wouldn't a qualified developer just run the code? Takes two seconds instead of ... whatever you're going for here.
percentcer commented on HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023) info.arxiv.org/about/acce... · Posted by u/el3ctron
Dumb question but what stops browsers from rendering TeX directly (aside from the work to implement it)? I assume it's more than just the rendering
Side question. Is there some kind of benchmark to test the correctness of renderers?
This was the original goal of the Cornell box (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_box, i.e. carefully measure the radiosity of a simple, real-world scene and then see how closely you can come to simulating it).
For realtime rendering a common thing to do is to benchmark against a known-good offline renderer (e.g. Arnold, Octane)
percentcer commented on Matrices can be your friends (2002) sjbaker.org/steve/omniv/m... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
The only thing that ever made this click for me was that the columns can be interpreted as the values for the new, post-transform basis vectors
“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
Honestly sounds like a very cool Science fiction concept.
Not quite the same but check out A Canticle for Leibowitz
percentcer commented on A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers stochasticlifestyle.com/a... · Posted by u/ChrisRackauckas
I like programming. It's fun, and sometimes it even requires creativity. There are plenty of times when it's not that fun, and doesn't require any creativity (because whatever it is has been done by someone else a thousand times over), and you just want a result. Vibecoding is great for _that_ stuff (think little throw-away scripts, shell one liners, tool plugins, etc)
I generally don't get great results from LLM code because most of my work is in C++ (which I'm guessing is underrepresented in the training data?), but when I point it towards some well-worn javascript thing I've had real successes! Most recent example is this little chrome plugin I had it whip up in one shot (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/favicon-tab-grouper...) because I couldn't find the exact functionality I needed in other plugins.
Works perfectly for my needs, took less than five minutes to spin up, and I use it all the time. If you're looking to get started with vibecoding stuff, try making plugins that provide niche functionality for your hyper-specific workflows.
percentcer commented on We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes pavpanchekha.com/blog/9bi... · Posted by u/luu
We just need 3 valued electronics
on, off, and the other thing