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stevesimmons commented on LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted   old.reddit.com/r/mildlyin... · Posted by u/bj-rn
Neywiny · 2 days ago
As a proud member of the LGTV community (yes I'm making 2 of those kinds of jokes back to back, fight me), and an occasional reddit user, I'm both horrified by the notion of getting this update and thrilled people are still using old.reddit.com. The new layout, which isn't even new anymore, still falls very short for it I'm looking something up and it's buried in a comment thread where ctrl-f can't find it.
stevesimmons · 2 days ago
Am I going mad or do some of those old.reddit comments slope downhill?
stevesimmons commented on Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry   stohl.substack.com/p/excl... · Posted by u/FreeQueso
stevesimmons · 17 days ago
> The Outlook is Superficially Stable, defined here as “By outward appearances stable unless, you know, things happen. Then we’ll downgrade after the shit hits the fan.”
stevesimmons commented on Mixpanel Security Breach   mixpanel.com/blog/sms-sec... · Posted by u/jaredwiener
macki0 · 18 days ago
If you are EU based (or other equivalent country with decent data protection laws) there may be a GDPR complaint with them not deleting your data after closing your account under the right to be forgotten
stevesimmons · 18 days ago
Really only if you ask for your data to be deleted too
stevesimmons commented on Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board   cnbc.com/2025/11/19/larry... · Posted by u/koolba
SilverElfin · a month ago
Like I said - it’s reprehensible. I’m not minimizing the crime but pointing out there are bigger problems. Focusing on this instead of inflation or housing or healthcare means a lot more people will suffer than there are victims of Epstein. We have to prioritize. If too much attention and energy goes to this, bigger problems will be left unaddressed. The things I’m listing are occupying virtually none of the national focus right now, for example.
stevesimmons · a month ago
Why do you think the current government would be the slightest bit interested in solutions to housing, inflation or healthcare if Epstein wasn't an issue?
stevesimmons commented on Gemini 3   blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/preek
stevesimmons · a month ago
A nice Easter egg in the Gemini 3 docs [1]:

    If you are transferring a conversation trace from another model, ... to bypass strict validation in these specific scenarios, populate the field with this specific dummy string:

    "thoughtSignature": "context_engineering_is_the_way_to_go"
[1] https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/gemini-3?thinking=high...

stevesimmons commented on Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]   storage.googleapis.com/de... · Posted by u/virgildotcodes
risyachka · a month ago
It looks more like a strategic decision tbh.

The may want to use 3rd party or just wait for AI to be more stable to see how people actually use it instead of adding slop in the core of their product.

stevesimmons · a month ago
In contrast to Microsoft, who puts Copilot buttons everywhere and succeeds only in annoying their customers.
stevesimmons commented on Z3 API in Python: From Sudoku to N-Queens in Under 20 Lines (2015)   ericpony.github.io/z3py-t... · Posted by u/amit-bansil
stevesimmons · a month ago
It's worth noting these notes are 11 years old. The first give-away was the comment that in Python 3/2 is an integer, which is indeed true in Python 2 but not in Py3.

For modern users of Z3, you'd want to do `pip install z3-solver` rather than use `Z3Py` mentioned at the very bottom of this doc.

stevesimmons commented on UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales   bbc.com/news/articles/c05... · Posted by u/ksec
jayflux · a month ago
I’m sorry I struggle to understand your comment, but I’ll have a go.

> Saying “nuclear can handle the easy part” doesn’t help.

That’s literally how baseload works, look at France’s energy mix for an example, they have nuclear handle the bulk of their demand (at least the very minimum it will ever be) and renewables + transfers handle the rest, if renewables goes up they export it or lower their nuclear output (yes, their nuclear output can be modulated).

> You still need 20GW of extra capacity to cope

The goal isn’t to replace the entire energy mix with Nuclear, the goal is to add enough nuclear in the mix so that we don’t need gas being generating all year round (gas sets the price in the merit order so we don’t want it on 24/7). If you added just 6GW of nuclear you’d be achieving that on some days.

stevesimmons · a month ago
> gas sets the price in the merit order so we don’t want it on 24/7

I never quite understood the logic for this. Sure, if you overlay a simple upward sloping cost curve on a downward sloping demand-price curve, the market-clearing price is where they intersect, and that in practice much of the time is a gas generator.

But there must be a million other aspects that can affect what price needs to be paid to secure the capacity below that point. Surely only part of the total area under that market-clearing price needs to accrue to the generators?

And if generators are getting windfall profits, can't the market rules be adjusted so more of it can given to the consumers in the form of lower energy prices?

Can someone explain this? Maybe that is what actually happens, just it is too complex for the mass media.

stevesimmons commented on Meta Replaced the Native WhatsApp for Windows 11 with a Shitty Web App   daringfireball.net/2025/1... · Posted by u/SoKamil
alephnerd · a month ago
Absolutely in US and Canada, and partially true in Israel, India, and China.

The *nix and DevTooling community is better for MacOS compared to Windows, and a large portion of the software industry is iOS native apps, which requires a Mac to develop on.

stevesimmons · a month ago
WSL gives a pretty great Linux dev experience under Windows.

As for "a large portion of the software industry is iOS native apps"... How about plugging in some assumptions here and then multiplying them together:

1. Mobile app share of total software development. 30%

2. iOS share versus Android: 30%

3. What % of iOS app dev is native apps? 40%

My assumptions here give something like 4%. You should put whatever numbers you feel are right here, and I'm pretty sure it won't be close to "a large portion".

stevesimmons commented on Baffling Microsoft ad shows Copilot incorrectly identifying Windows 11 setting   windowscentral.com/artifi... · Posted by u/d3Xt3r
stevesimmons · a month ago
Surprised their ads don't show customers getting pissed about a huge, distracting Copilot icon right in the middle of their Word document, with no ability to turn it off...

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Previously did military research; was a management consultant; ran marketing, profitability, credit risk, and operations for credit card companies; built trading systems and ML platforms for investment banks.

BE/BSc in Math/Stats/Physics/ElecEng; PhD in Elec Eng, MBA.

World champion programmer, a long time ago (ICPC, 1992), together with Andrew and Craig. Python programmer since 2000. Find my PyData and PyCon UK talks at PyVideo.org.

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