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- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 4 days ago:
So our generation will be the first to have to teach both our boomer parents AND our millennial offspring what “RAM” is?!
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 4 days ago:
It’s like if batteries got stupid expensive and they tried to tell us 200km of range is what you get in a touring EV these days. But the distances between all the places haven’t changed…
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 4 days ago:
So RAM costs them more now, and they need to pass those costs onto customers. However, it seems like they’re also trying to redefine what “mid-range” means to us all, as if we aren’t fully aware of what computers are capable of and what amount of memory is good vs not. Making the various ranges cost more is intuitive. Enshitifying the ranges to sell them at the same price is just antithetical to the whole concept of the ranges…
- Comment on I alternate my days. Some days I use this and on the others I use the Magic Eight Ball 2 weeks ago:
No no, it’s an app where you literally talk to Jesus H. Christ over e2e chat.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 weeks ago:
Y’know they sell honey in squeezable bottles like ketchup and other condiments, right? This stupid wooden barrel on a stick solution seems like a recipe for a sticky mess. Also, do you just leave it in the jar, making it impossible to put the lid back on? Take it out, covered in honey, and wash it for later?
My disdain for bad tools is irrational, I know.
- Comment on Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined 2 weeks ago:
Not until their Internet is offline. Then shit’ll get real. Or maybe not even then.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 weeks ago:
This poster calckey.world/notes/afzolhb0xk is more articulate than my post.
The difference between this “spec-driven” approach is that the entire process is repeatable by AI once you’ve gotten the spec sorted. So you no longer work on the code, you just work on the spec, which can be a collection of files, files in folders, whatever — but the goal is some kind of determinism, I think.
I use it on a much smaller scale and haven’t really cared much for the “spec as truth” approach myself, at this level. I also work almost exclusively on NextJS apps with the usual Tailwind + etc stack. I would certainly not trust a developer without experience with that stack to generate “correct” code from an AI, but it’s sort of remarkable how I can slowly document the patterns of my own codebase and just auto-include it as context on every prompt (or however Cursor does it) so that everything the LLMs suggest gets LLM-reviewed against my human-written “specs”. And doubly neat is that the resulting documentation of patterns turns out to be really helpful to developers who join or inherit the codebase.
I think the author / developer in the article might not have been experienced enough to direct the LLMs to build good stuff, but these tools like React, NextJS, Tailwind, and so on are all about patterns that make us all build better stuff. The LLMs are like “8 year olds” (someone else in this thread) except now they’re more like somewhat insightful 14 year olds, and where they’ll be in another 5 years… Who knows.
Anyway, just saying. They’re here to stay, and they’re going to get much better.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 3 weeks ago:
Untrained dev here, but the trend I’m seeing is spec-driven development where AI generates the specs with a human, then implements the specs. Humans can modify the specs, and AI can modify the implementation.
This approach seems like it can get us to 99%, maybe.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 3 weeks ago:
Sounds over-engineered, unless your “poop counter” is nine brown smears on the toilet lid.
- Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers 3 weeks ago:
This might be true in Canada too? I thought the death rate was related to the size of the vehicles preferred by the drivers in the measured region. And nobody likes ‘em bigger than Americans. And may Canadians, from what I’ve seen.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 3 weeks ago:
I’d love to see a Japanese fan style phone 🪭 Maybe it folds up into a reusable straw?
- Comment on Ever see something and think maybe you didn't die soon enough 5 weeks ago:
Bro… Your nipples… Bro…
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, where’s this headline?
- Comment on Pure contentment 5 weeks ago:
Another classic, creepily thirsty Mickey7 post…
- Comment on I'm cooked, chat. 1 month ago:
You might be Benjamin Button-ing!
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales 1 month ago:
I rage quit this game after a bunch of hours. Pretty annoying how pretty much every action gets a bounty put on you and then you’re bankrupted trying to pay it off so you can just get back to playing the fucking game without being harassed by every NPC.
Pretty, though.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 1 month ago:
Um, Americans also realize they’re ABDUCTING people without their consent too, right? And have been, for like months now?
- Comment on chicken meal 2 months ago:
This is whooshing me ☹️
- Comment on Holy moly 2 months ago:
You gotta work 40 in-game hours a week to save for a piece of shit rust bucket, then work up from there. The realism is next-level!
- Comment on Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong? 2 months ago:
I think it’s because they vacuum air from a public restroom and blow it all over your hands.
- Comment on Executions in Florida and Missouri as 4 days of state-sanctioned killings begin 2 months ago:
Executions are just another form circus to distract people from the crimes of those in power. We all know who should be on Death Row right now, and it’s not some nobody murderer.
- Comment on BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said America could dodge a ‘retirement crisis’ by encouraging people to work longer 2 months ago:
I want so much more than to slap billionaires…
- Comment on TikTok’s Algorithm to Be Secured by Oracle in Trump-Backed Deal 2 months ago:
You can just say “American platform”.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Trump and his whole dumb fuck cabinet are guilty of “malicious communications” pretty much every time they speak…
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 3 months ago:
There could be if people had / acted in accordance with any kind of principles of self respect. They’re ants in some rich mega douche’s ant farm, donating their time and energy to their captor, but refuse to make the fucking 6-inch journey to a free ant hill beside them.
Almost all of us are here because of the API bullshit. Those who stayed did us a favour, I reckon.
- Comment on How Saturday night ended 3 months ago:
Why is the weather app significant?
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 3 months ago:
It did in the Alpha stages, but when they turned it on, it destroyed itself.
- Comment on Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida. 3 months ago:
Probably for the best… No child should have to live in Florida.
- Comment on [Video] Billionaires gather to praise Trump 3 months ago:
Christ I’m surprised the building didn’t float away with all the hot air in that room.
- Comment on Environmental Damage 3 months ago:
You should have paused for a moment and questioned whether any of this was worth it.