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piyuv commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01

JoshTriplett · 4 hours ago

Jitsi handles this very well.

I personally would advocate the combination of Zulip for text chat plus Jitsi for calls and screen sharing.

piyuv · an hour ago

Jitsi has audio rooms like discord?

piyuv commented on Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective sciencedirect.com/science... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

throwaway713 · 9 hours ago

> Fluid intelligence, which peaks near age 20 and declines materially across adulthood [...] while fluid intelligence may decline with age, other dimensions improve (e.g., crystallized intelligence, emotional intelligence)

As someone well past "peak" fluid intelligence at this point, I always hate reading research like this. "Crystallized intelligence" and "emotional intelligence" are the consolation prizes no one really wants.

I'd rather we instead perform research to identify how one might reverse the decline of fluid intelligence...

piyuv · 9 hours ago

YMMV, but I was too horny to actually make use of my superior fluid intelligence in my 20s, so I’m content with the tradeoff here.

piyuv commented on Swift in the Browser with ElementaryUI (Swift FOSDEM 2026 Talk) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=OmQ88... · Posted by u/CharlesW

bnchrch · 7 days ago

Swift has all the things I want in a language

- Strong Typing

- Great Performance

- Actor Model Concurrency [0]

- Modern Ergonomics

- Corporate Backing

- Performance

- Functional Style

- LLMs perform well with it [1]

- Usable across iOS, Android, Web, and Browsers [2][3]

The only thing its missing is adoption outside of the iOS space.

I'm not sure it will be able to make that leap, but the ingredients are there.

If it does I'd be happy to make it my primary language.

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[0] https://www.hackingwithswift.com/quick-start/concurrency/wha...

[1] https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/AutoCodeBenchmark/blob/ma...

[2] https://www.swift.org/blog/nightly-swift-sdk-for-android/

[3] https://vapor.codes/

piyuv · 7 days ago

You listed “corporate backing” as a good thing and “no adoption outside Apple ecosystem” as a pain point. Why would it get adopted outside Apple ecosystem if Apple decides what happens to it?

piyuv commented on Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023) nmn.sh/blog/2023-10-02-sw... · Posted by u/behnamoh

nomel · 9 days ago

First sentence of the wiki page [1]:

> Swift is a high-level general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language created by Chris Lattner in 2010 for Apple Inc. and maintained by the open-source community.

As the article repeats, it is not Apple specific.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)

piyuv · 9 days ago

Swift being maintained by the open source community is an illusion. The community was very against function builders. Apple went ahead and did it anyway because they needed it for SwiftUI. The open source community just provides discussion, and Apple gets its way either way.

piyuv commented on Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant github.com/clawdbot/clawd... · Posted by u/KuzeyAbi

akmarinov · 15 days ago

Peter Steinberger is a well respected developer that started out in the mobile dev community. He founded a company, then made an exit and is set for money, so he just does things for fun.

Yes, he AI generated all of it, go through his articles at https://steipete.me/ to see how he does it, it’s definitely not “vibe coding”, he does make sure that what’s being output is solid.

He was one of the people in the top charts of using Claude Code a year back, which brought around the limits we know today.

He also hosts Claude Code anonymous meetups all over the world.

He’s overall a passionate developer that cares about the thing he’s building.

piyuv · 15 days ago

Being a well respected dev and being active on Twitter are contradictory

piyuv commented on How I estimate work seangoedecke.com/how-i-es... · Posted by u/mattjhall

chrisfosterelli · 16 days ago

I agree. Software engineering is basically the only industry that pretends this is professionally acceptable. Imagine if government staff asked when a bridge would be done or how much it would cost and the lead engineer just said "it's impossible to estimate accurately, so we wont. It's a big project tho".

Estimating in software is very hard, but that's not a good reason to give up on getting better at it

piyuv · 16 days ago

Not a good analogy. Once you build a bridge, it’s done. Software nowadays is never “done”, and requirements constantly change. It’s more akin to building a rope bridge and trying to upgrade it to accommodate cars while it’s in active use.

piyuv commented on Bugs Apple loves bugsappleloves.com... · Posted by u/nhod

piyuv · 17 days ago

I’m using native mail app of iOS/macos and search bar works for me. However, iOS has a persistent issue of not fetching new mails, even from iCloud, which has support for push updates. I inadvertently build a habit of opening mail app and refreshing.

piyuv commented on Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant media.mit.edu/publication... · Posted by u/misswaterfairy

sdoering · 19 days ago

This reminds me of the recurring pattern with every new medium: Socrates worried writing would destroy memory, Gutenberg's critics feared for contemplation, novels were "brain softening," TV was the "idiot box." That said, I'm not sure "they've always been wrong before" proves they're wrong now.

Where I'm skeptical of this study:

- 54 participants, only 18 in the critical 4th session

- 4 months is barely enough time to adapt to a fundamentally new tool

- "Reduced brain connectivity" is framed as bad - but couldn't efficient resource allocation also be a feature, not a bug?

- Essay writing is one specific task; extrapolating to "cognition in general" seems like a stretch

Where the study might have a point:

Previous tools outsourced partial processes - calculators do arithmetic, Google stores facts. LLMs can potentially take over the entire cognitive process from thinking to formulating. That's qualitatively different.

So am I ideologically inclined to dismiss this? Maybe. But I also think the honest answer is: we don't know yet. The historical pattern suggests cognitive abilities shift rather than disappear. Whether this shift is net positive or negative - ask me again in 20 years.

[Edit]: Formatting

piyuv · 19 days ago

None of the examples you provided were being sold as “intelligence”

piyuv commented on OLED, Not for Me nuxx.net/blog/2026/01/09/... · Posted by u/c0nsumer

cheema33 · a month ago

I have been using a 48" LG OLED TV as a monitor for about 2 years. I thought I would love it. But I hated it. Text looked horrible. I was going mad and then Google'd a bit to see if others hated it too. And found that they did. But luckily there are settings that can be changed to turn it into an excellent computer monitor. Once I changed the right settings, it was love. I have 3 monitors on my desk. 32" LG LEDs on the side, 48" OLED in the middle. All 4K. I love this setup. I do occasionally think about replacing the LEDs. I just need the OLED pricing to drop a little more.

piyuv · a month ago

How close are you sitting to those monitors?

piyuv commented on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app xdaforums.com/t/discussio... · Posted by u/Magnusmaster

Fiveplus · a month ago

So, if you cannot cryptographically prove to a remote server that your device is running essentially unmodified, vendor-signed software, you are locked out of the economy?

The irrefutable part here is that the security model works. Locking down the bootloader and enforcing TEE signatures does stop malware. But it also kills user agency. We are moving to a model where the user is considered the adversary on their own hardware. The genius of the modders in that XDA thread is undeniable, but they are fighting a war against the fundamental architecture of modern trust and the architecture is winning.

piyuv · a month ago

“Irrefutable part” is easily refutable. Malware ran by governments and agencies is still malware.

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