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Comment on Why doesn’t Anthropic use Claude to make a good Claude desktop app? in ~tech
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Comment on Why doesn’t Anthropic use Claude to make a good Claude desktop app? in ~tech
vord Link ParentFor that exact reason I mostly just won't use any GTK applications until I've tried literally every other QT option I could find. Though the look and feel integrations between the two have gotten...For that exact reason I mostly just won't use any GTK applications until I've tried literally every other QT option I could find.
Though the look and feel integrations between the two have gotten exponentially better within the last 5 years.
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Comment on Why doesn’t Anthropic use Claude to make a good Claude desktop app? in ~tech
vord Link ParentYou've hit the nail on the head with my two biggest gripes with Electron. The duplication of resources, paired with the security risks of perpetually outdated Electron libraries. Having a...You've hit the nail on the head with my two biggest gripes with Electron.
The duplication of resources, paired with the security risks of perpetually outdated Electron libraries. Having a system-level Electron that could be hooked into would help.
But web UIs suck. It feels even worse than running a mish-mash of Gnome and KDE apps side by side. While a couple of fair standard patterns emerge, it's up to each individual app to do simple things like work with the existing OS theme.
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Comment on My personal AI assistant project in ~tech
vord LinkI very much like the theory of being able to have random people cobble together personal interoperability tools which would allow them to abstract from the underlying service providers. Especially...I very much like the theory of being able to have random people cobble together personal interoperability tools which would allow them to abstract from the underlying service providers.
Especially if it can be done in a way that means said providers will have to think twice before having to deal with PR backlash against making this hard for people.
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Comment on Ladybird chooses Rust as its successor language to C++, with help from AI in ~comp
vord Link ParentI don't know Rust that well, but based on everything I've heard, it's entirely possible it's well-suited to AI code generation if you could insure the AI was never allowed to use the unsafe...I don't know Rust that well, but based on everything I've heard, it's entirely possible it's well-suited to AI code generation if you could insure the AI was never allowed to use the unsafe keyword.
My gut says that the best-possible code generator is specifically trained on a single highly opinionated language which favors 1 way to do things.
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Comment on Why doesn’t Anthropic use Claude to make a good Claude desktop app? in ~tech
vord (edited )Link ParentClaude Code is Coding by Stackoverflow at scale, with all the pros and cons that are implied by that. It's at its best when it's searching through code already written for potential issues to...Claude Code is Coding by Stackoverflow at scale, with all the pros and cons that are implied by that.
It's at its best when it's searching through code already written for potential issues to resolve. It does pretty decent at spitting up random tools for small things.
Example:
Have a web-based vendor application, want to script out test cases. Claude with the Chrome extension grabbed 95% of the relevant data to script out API calls by following a user entering a test case. Having it crawl the vendor's docs fixed the vast majority of missing pieces. Building a tool to do this all from scratch would have been a massive PITA.
It can genuinely flip an awful lot of things into the 'useful' section of the chart.
The problem boils down to the small wins giving false confidence for big things. And it's hard to tell in advance if prompting and refining was a good idea, or if using your grey matter from the beginning would have saved a lot of headaches.
It did spit out a custom SQL formatter for dbeaver with like 30 seconds of work. That alone was worth the price of admission because most standard formatting methods are illegible hot messes when queries get complex.
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It also is quite adept at searching and combining instructions from said documentation into user-followable steps.
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Comment on Lithium plume in our atmosphere traced back to returning SpaceX rocket in ~space
vord (edited )Link ParentAnd the cheapest solution will be a conglomerate of half-assed shortcuts, poor labor conditions, a reckless disregard for the environment, duplication of efforts, and further consolidation of...And the cheapest solution will be a conglomerate of half-assed shortcuts, poor labor conditions, a reckless disregard for the environment, duplication of efforts, and further consolidation of power by the handful of billionaires on the planet.
This precise problem is uncontrolled reentry, which is a non-0 part of why SpaceX and Blue Origin can cut costs. It's the rocket equivalent of dumping toxic waste in a river because it's cheaper than processing it properly.
Speaking of, it's also a problem primarily because they're populating an area with thousands upon thousands of satellites where this is an ongoing and perpetual problem courtesy of needing to replace these satellites as they also burn up after a few years.
There are just under 16,000 satellites in orbit. About 11,000 are Starlink. Space X is developing a solution for a problem they caused, like the tobacco industry inventing "healthier" cigarettes.
There's no real reason this couldn't be done with public funds and 0 proprietary trade secrets. The only reason NASA can't is because they've been intentionally bled dry to leave room for the private space race.
Cooperation over competition.
Edit: And to stem the inevitable 'but regulation fixes that,' regulation usually only comes after huge damage has already been done. And the companies needing the regulation will bribe their way to not needing to follow it.
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Comment on Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft/Xbox in ~games
vord Link ParentTo emphasize: I'm surprised they made it good. They tries as hard as they could to ruin it though, between the horrible naming conventions and the whole 'Kinect' debacle.To emphasize: I'm surprised they made it good.
They tries as hard as they could to ruin it though, between the horrible naming conventions and the whole 'Kinect' debacle.
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Comment on Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft/Xbox in ~games
vord Link ParentGyro is what sold me on controllers being remotely fun for FPS fames.Gyro is what sold me on controllers being remotely fun for FPS fames.
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Comment on Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft/Xbox in ~games
vord Link ParentHonestly, I'm shocked it lasted as long as it has. Xbox easily ran for what feels like 10x longer than any of their other prior services.Honestly, I'm shocked it lasted as long as it has. Xbox easily ran for what feels like 10x longer than any of their other prior services.
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Comment on Flu shot: US Food and Drug Administration will review Moderna’s mRNA vaccine, company says in ~health
vord Link ParentThey're so conditioned to voting against their own interests that their reaction to actual benefit is like an autoimmune response. Also like alcohol withdrawl literally killing an alcoholic. So...They're so conditioned to voting against their own interests that their reaction to actual benefit is like an autoimmune response.
Also like alcohol withdrawl literally killing an alcoholic.
So drunk on propaganda that the withdrawl would kill them.
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Comment on Flu shot: US Food and Drug Administration will review Moderna’s mRNA vaccine, company says in ~health
vord Link ParentWhen given an olive branch that could have turned the tide away from a competitive world to a cooperative one, America snapped the branch and screamed "Fuck you, pay me!"When given an olive branch that could have turned the tide away from a competitive world to a cooperative one, America snapped the branch and screamed "Fuck you, pay me!"
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Comment on The mega-rich are turning their mansions into impenetrable fortresses in ~finance
vord Link ParentTo elaborate: I consider roughly 500sqft per person + 400 a reasonably sized house. Family of 4 gets roughly a 2400sqft budget. Unless Buffet has like 8 or 9 kids, I put him in the same bucket,...To elaborate:
I consider roughly 500sqft per person + 400 a reasonably sized house. Family of 4 gets roughly a 2400sqft budget.
Unless Buffet has like 8 or 9 kids, I put him in the same bucket, the same way that 0% and 59% are still an F. Or having 10 cars or 100.
Heck, hoarding billions while living humbly is almost worse. Like a king sitting on a pile of grain as his people starve.
He could write a check to pay all student loan debt in the country and still have $100,000,000,000.
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Comment on The mega-rich are turning their mansions into impenetrable fortresses in ~finance
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Comment on AI fails at 96% of jobs (new study) in ~tech
vord Link ParentMicrosoft has had a huge uptick in broken updates the same year they declared 30% of their coding is done by AI.Microsoft has had a huge uptick in broken updates the same year they declared 30% of their coding is done by AI.
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Comment on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to spend $38 billion on warehouse conversions in ~society
vord (edited )Link ParentBased upon how things are going, it's probably going to be an unconditioned concentration camp. They'll just let their victims wallow in filth in the heat and cold. We have a moral imperitive to...- Exemplary
Based upon how things are going, it's probably going to be an unconditioned concentration camp. They'll just let their victims wallow in filth in the heat and cold.
We have a moral imperitive to stop this.
Some choice quotes:
I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country.
‘They’re not humans, they’re not humans. They’re animals.’
It was and it is Jews who bring the Negroes into the Rhineland, always with the same secret thought and clear aim of ruining the hated white race by the necessarily resulting bastardization, throwing it down from its cultural and political height, and himself rising to be its master.
Hitler was only deporting the Jews after all.
Edit: sources
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-immigrants-are-poisoning-blood-country-biden-campaign-liken-rcna130141
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-expected-highlight-murder-michigan-woman-immigration-speech-2024-04-02/
https://archive.org/stream/AdolfHitlerMeinKampfENGLISH/Adolf%20Hitler%20-%20Mein%20Kampf%20ENGLISH_djvu.txt -
Comment on archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog in ~tech
vord Link ParentIPFS + Wayback Cannot speak to effectiveness, esp since IPFS has some serious flaws...but what doesn't. -
Comment on archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog in ~tech
vord Link ParentThis is a mildly relevant tangent. My local city's cameras are all owned and operated by a 501c non-profit NGO, creating a strict firewall between law enforcement and survielance data. The footage...This is a mildly relevant tangent.
My local city's cameras are all owned and operated by a 501c non-profit NGO, creating a strict firewall between law enforcement and survielance data. The footage is deleted within a month unless a judge-signed subponea has been submitted.
This is the kind of approach that needs to be taken for most things: A publically accountable organization whose only incentive is to serve the public with their stated goal to their best ability.
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Comment on archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog in ~tech
vord Link ParentAt this point I'll take the archive.is guy, or perhaps a rabid squirrel manging anything over Trump and his handlers/enablers.At this point I'll take the archive.is guy, or perhaps a rabid squirrel manging anything over Trump and his handlers/enablers.
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Comment on The AI vampire in ~tech
vord LinkI've started a new job, and I'm giving Claude Code an honest-to-god try. I'm simultaneously more and less impressed than I thought I'd be. I still think that the fundemental assumption of...I've started a new job, and I'm giving Claude Code an honest-to-god try. I'm simultaneously more and less impressed than I thought I'd be.
I still think that the fundemental assumption of significant proctivity boosts are a mirage. Even at the most basic tasks, it's performance relative to 'coding by stackoverflow' is marginal. In part because I can search, read, find the correct answer, and adapt if far faster in aggregate. Claude will happily spit out the wrong answer over and over for some things, and thus negate any time savings that accumulated over the previous hour. And when you lean on a powerful tool, your muscles atrophy and fixing said problems become exponentially harder.
In other words, Claude isn't making you 10x more productive. Productivity implies sustained persistent improvement, not requiring power naps every time you're not working. It's letting you burn your wick at both ends, making your productivitt a zero-sum game.
This Youtube short feels especially appropo
The biggest problem is that tech workers never unionized when we had all the power. That's how you attain that work/life balance. Not sure how so many words were written without "Tech workers need to unionize to avoid complete inevitable exploitation" becoming the conclusion. That is how you figuratively punch the dollar signs out of the bosses eyes.
Specifically referring to the 'app in a website' model. The kind which, in the before times, would just be a desktop application.