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snoman commented on The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday   campedersen.com/singulari... · Posted by u/ecto
baxtr · 2 days ago
"The end of humanity" has been proclaimed many times over. Humanity won't end. It will change like it always has.

We get rid of some problems, and we get a bunch of new problems instead. And on, and on, and on.

snoman · 2 days ago
It only has to be right once. Humanity won’t end until it does.
snoman commented on Claude Cowork exfiltrates files   promptarmor.com/resources... · Posted by u/takira
rpigab · a month ago
People trust their browser nowadays, I'd expect the attack to be even easier if you just render the markdown in html, hiding the injection using plain old css text styling like in the docx but with many more possibilities.

You can even add a nice "copy to clipboard button" that copies something entirely different than what is shown, but it's unnecessary, and people who are more careful won't click that.

snoman · a month ago
But nobody trusts AI. Whenever I leave my circle of engineering people and am along the general public, I hear nothing but contempt for it.
snoman commented on Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux   github.com/er-bharat/Win8... · Posted by u/edent
jmkni · a month ago
I unironically loved my Windows Phone, it was great to develop for too coming from a WPF background at the time
snoman · a month ago
I honestly think that the windows phone development experience is where Microsoft majorly shit the bed. The sheer volume of breaking changes (and the severity of those breaks) meant rewriting a non-trivial amount of your app from version to version. I know multiple developers that just dropped support for windows phone as a result.
snoman commented on All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)   idiallo.com/blog/all-ai-v... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
tracker1 · a month ago
It's both... I think it can cut both ways... I was largely on your side, as most of the AI stuff I've seen is just annoying more than anything. Then the "Star Wars: Beggar's Canyon" video completely changed my mind. The voice generation is clear and inflection appropriate... the cuts, sequence, and overall effects are clearly put together in a consistent way.

I can only imagine how much work that video was, but is really the first thing I've seen as AI video that gives me hope... and obviously a work of passion and a lot of effort to get such a great final result.

snoman · a month ago
It’s almost like people that use the tools to the best of their ability will produce higher quality outputs. This is a new tool like we’ve never seen before with a low skill floor to use it. We don’t know what the skill ceiling is yet.
snoman commented on The suck is why we're here   nik.art/the-suck-is-why-w... · Posted by u/herbertl
komali2 · a month ago
I strongly recommend "How to Take Smart Notes" by Sonle Ahrens, it gets into how important writing is as a part of the process of thinking and learning.
snoman · a month ago
Maybe you’re the person I’ve been looking for but I’ve yet to find someone that actually maintains a zettelkasten that isn’t a researcher/author and doesn’t come to the conclusion that it’s a huge waste of time and energy.
snoman commented on You can't design software you don't work on   seangoedecke.com/you-cant... · Posted by u/saikatsg
eviks · a month ago
> For instance: In large codebases, consistency is more important than “good design”

But this is exactly the type of generic software design advice the article warns us about! And it mostly results in all all the bad software practices we as users know and love remaining unchanged (consistently "bad" is better than being good at least in some areas!)

snoman · a month ago
My reading of it also violates the Boy Scout Rule. That is to say: if improving some portion of the codebase would make it better, but inconsistent, you should avoid the improvement; which is something that I would disagree with.

I think adherence to “consistency is more important than ‘good design’” naturally leads to boiling the ocean refactoring and/or rewrites, which are far riskier endeavors with lower success rates than iterative refactoring of a working system over time.

snoman commented on A guide to local coding models   aiforswes.com/p/you-dont-... · Posted by u/mpweiher
andix · 2 months ago
I wouldn't run local models on the development PC. Instead run them on a box in another room or another location. Less fan noise and it won't influence the performance of the pc you're working on.

Latency is not an issue at all for LLMs, even a few hundred ms won't matter.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to me, except when working offline while traveling.

snoman · 2 months ago
Less of a concern these days with hardware like a Mac Studio or Nvidia dgx which are accessible and aren’t noisy at all.
snoman commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter
raw_anon_1111 · 2 months ago
So exactly how do you suppose they sync your browsing history and bookmarks between devices if they don’t store the information? And your browsing history is e2e encrypted by keys on your device. Apple doesn’t have access to your browsing history.

You can give Apple any age you want to. It’s not like it checks.

And I have no idea about the other topics you are going off on and what they have to do with Apple..

snoman · 2 months ago
Are trying to say it’s not possible to write terms that give them the ability to sync your history without also letting them mine and sell all the insights from it?
snoman commented on Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas   arstechnica.com/ai/2025/1... · Posted by u/OptionOfT
add-sub-mul-div · 2 months ago
> In the same way as there's no ability to set up Windows without internet connection and MS account

Not true. They're clearly unwilling or unable to remove this code path fully, or they would have done so by now. There's just a different workaround for it every few years.

snoman · 2 months ago
There’s probably some compliance requirement that it’s technically possible to set it up without an internet connection, so they leave it there, but make it unreasonably difficult for a majority to do it.
snoman commented on Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas   arstechnica.com/ai/2025/1... · Posted by u/OptionOfT
themafia · 2 months ago
"after salespeople miss their quotas."

Well.. that's certainly one way to view it. The other is:

"because the company set unrealistic expectations."

I'm sure this will slow down the growth of "AI datacenters." I'm sure of this.

snoman · 2 months ago
Every salesperson will tell you that good products sell themselves and therein lies the real story.

u/snoman

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