Wow that worked shockingly well on my cheap Moto phone!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rockstarga... has been available since 2012! The only difference here is some web browser overhead, which isn't much anymore...
Readit Newsstriking commented on You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser dos.zone/grand-theft-auto... · Posted by u/Alifatisk
striking commented on Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer unsolicited-opinions.rudi... · Posted by u/speckx
Is it just me, or does anyone else use AI not just to write code, but to learn. Since I've been using Claude I've learned a lot about Rust by having it build things for me, then working with that code. I've never been a front end guy, but I had it write a Chrome plugin for me, then I used that code to learn how it works. It's not a black box to me, but I don't need to look up some CSS stuff I've never used. I can prompt Claude to write it and then I can look at it then "Huh, that's how it works". Better than researching it myself, I can see an example of exactly how it's done, then I learn from that.
I'm doing a lot of new things I never would have done before. Yes, I could have googled APIs and read tutorials, but I learn best by doing, and AI helps me learn a lot faster.
I do agree this is where AI shines. If you need a quick rehash of something that's been done a zillion times before or a quick integration between two known good components, AI's great.
But the skills you describe are still skills, reading and researching and doing your own fact finding are still important to practice and be good at. Those things only get more important in situations off the beaten path, where AI doesn't always give you trustworthy answers or do trustworthy work.
I'm still going to nurture some of these skills. If I'm trying to learn, I'll stick to using AI only when I'm truly stuck or no longer having fun.
striking commented on My payment agent is named George, not stripe-agent blog.kestrelsnest.social/... · Posted by u/fortyseven
I appreciate the writer actually taking the time to explain why `george`. I have worked in some projects where some thing-a-majing or another is called `valhalla` or `thor` or something or another but there is no documentation as to why it is called that and the people who were responsible for naming them so have already ridden into the sunset. If I ever meet him, I "just want to talk" to this CTO who named US East region 2 as "eu2".
It's the sequel to EU. EU 2.
striking commented on Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges news.bloomberglaw.com/ban... · Posted by u/nreece
So the FTC blocked Amazon's acquisition of iRobot in January 2024 and now China gains control of the assests for a bargain? Another stupid application of antitrust.
From Bloomberg:
> Earnings began to decline since 2021 due to supply chain headwinds and increased competition.
I know that there's a slight difference between Chinese-state owned enterprises and Amazon, but isn't a sale to either one worrying?
striking commented on Sacrificing accessibility for not getting web scraped tilschuenemann.de/project... · Posted by u/tilschuenemann
I handed a PDF capture to Opus 4.5 (since web fetch returned a 403) and it was able to crack the cypher pretty quickly. Fun idea, but I think this only prevents humans from using the site.
striking commented on CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechu... · Posted by u/rguiscard
The paternalistic state does not allow you autonomy over your own body.
e.g the amount of backlash thought emporium got when he genetically engineered himself to remove lactose intolerance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY
Risky, but it's his body!
It's a cool video but it's formatted almost like a tutorial, with folks in the comments appearing excited to actually try it on their own bodies with lab equipment they have access to. It's pretty irresponsible given that I don't think he fully expressed the risks of doing this to your own body.
The latest of the big three... OpenAI, Claude, and Google, none of their models are good. I've spent too much time monitoring them than just enjoying them. I've found it easier to run my own local LLM. The latest Gemini release, I gave it another go but only for it to misspell words and drift off into a fantasy world after a few chats with help restructuring guides. ChatGPT has become lazy for some reason and changes things I told it to ignore, randomly too. Claude was doing great until the latest release, then it started getting lazy after 20+k tokens. I tried making sure to keep a guide to refresh it if it started forgetting, but that didn't help.
Locals are better; I can script and have them script for me to build a guide creation process. They don't forget because that is all they're trained on. I'm done paying for 'AI'.
What's to stop you from using the APIs the way you'd like?
Rhe Androidmkeyboard is jusr fine roo.
SwiftKey was actually good. I could pound out a solid 30WPM without even trying, no typos. But then they added a "Ask Bing" context menu item to all my selections after an update and after leaving it on principle I've been suffering ever since.
striking commented on The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy ceodinner.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/LordAtlas
> it's not X (emdash) it's Y
No, no, no! Stop that! The em dash is an wonderful little punctuation mark that's damned useful when used with purpose. You can't turn it into some scarlet glyph just because normal people finally noticed they exist. LLMs use them because we used them, damn it.
For god's sake, are we supposed to go back to the dark ages of the double hyphen like typographic barbarians in the hopes that a future update won't ruin that, too? After all the work to get text editors to automatically substitute them in the first place?
What's funny is that, when people first started noticing that LLMs tended to like the em dash, I'd mentioned to a friend that I hoped—rather naively—it might lead to a resurgence and people would think to themselves "huh, that looks pretty useful." Needless to say, I got that one wrong. Are we really going to sacrifice the poor em dash just because people can't come up with a better signifier for LLM text?
Oh, no thanks. The emdash is lazy writing, through and through, for the same reason a parenthetical expressed any other way might be. LLMs overuse them the same way humans do: to pack in context where it doesn't belong. I'd happily lay the emdash and all its terrible cousins upon the sacrificial altar to see a renaissance in editing and proper sentence construction.
striking commented on The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy ceodinner.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/LordAtlas
I'm excited for the AI wildfire to come and engulf these AI-written thinkpieces. At this point I'd prefer a set of bullet points over having to sift through more "it's not X (emdash) it's Y" pestilence.