Feyd
@Feyd@programming.dev
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 1 week ago:
“While these mechanisms were often used to bypass Microsoft account setup, they also inadvertently skip critical setup screens, potentially causing users to exit OOBE with a device that is not fully configured for use.”
Lol sure. If that was the real reason they’d simply let you create a local account. The audacious lying is just insulting.
- Comment on Common inhalers carry heavy climate cost, study finds 1 week ago:
Did you even read it?
But the vast majority of people could use dry powder or soft mist inhalers,” Feldman said, noting that countries such as Sweden and Japan use alternative inhalers without any loss in health outcomes.
Feldman emphasized that the goal of the research is not to blame patients but to highlight the need for policy and pricing reform.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 weeks ago:
Hallucinationsbullshit - Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 weeks ago:
Trusting it to have not fucked with your data while formatting it is pretty bold.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 weeks ago:
They are so much better than using a search engine to parse web forums and stack overflow,
The hallucinations (more accurately bullshitting) and the fact they have to get new training data but are discouraging people from engaging in the structures that do so make this highly debatable
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 weeks ago:
You’re assuming honesty and they’ve earned the opposite.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 weeks ago:
Even that description is vastly overselling it’s usefulness. Every time someone says it’s like a junior dev I just sigh, because literally the only reason I like junior devs is because they turn into not junior devs. Never once has assigning something to a junior dev made my job easier. The entire goal is to train them to the point they make PRs that I don’t have to walk them through reworking.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 weeks ago:
It remains to be seen whether the advent of “agentic AIs,” designed to autonomously execute a series of tasks, will change the situation.
“Agentic AI is already reshaping the enterprise, and only those that move decisively — redesigning their architecture, teams, and ways of working — will unlock its full value,” the report reads.
“Devs are slower with and don’t trust LLM based tools. Surely, letting these tools off the leash will somehow manifest their value instead of exacerbating their problems.”
Absolute madness.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 weeks ago:
But we already had tools that gave us 90%
More reliable ones.
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 3 weeks ago:
People tell me the hallucinations aren’t a big deal because people should fact check everything.
- People aren’t fact checking
- If you have to fact check every single thing you’re not saving any time over becoming familiar with whatever the real source of info is
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation. 4 weeks ago:
If it’s like the last few trails game, it’s not really “you chose whether to play a action or turn based” but “play action mode to build up a meter to get an advantage in turn based node when you switch” and you only spend 10 seconds ago in action mode, and also bosses don’t even have an action phase.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 5 weeks ago:
🤣
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 5 weeks ago:
it’s trivial you’ve saved time, if not, you can pull up that documentation, and reason and step through the problem with the LLM
Insane that just writing the code isn’t even an option in your mind
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 5 weeks ago:
“Stack overflow engineer” has been a derogatory forever lol
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 5 weeks ago:
Did you think executives were smart? What’s really heartbreaking is how many engineers did. I even know some that are pretty good that tell me how much more productive they are and all about their crazy agent setups (from my perspective i don’t see any more productivity)
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 5 weeks ago:
Yes? metroid.retropixel.net/games/…/metroid3_map.gif
Notice how there is always one close to each boss.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 5 weeks ago:
“Nintendo hard” isn’t about difficulty it is about entire games being based around knowledge checks, like having to remember to pre-swing when you jump particular gaps or get knocked into the gap in og ninja gaiden for instance.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 5 weeks ago:
Since when do metroidvanias not have save points right outside boss rooms? That’s been the standard since symphony of the night at least…
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 5 weeks ago:
I actually said I like the mega man version. I think the dark souls version is boring and doesn’t do anything of what you’re saying. I don’t even remember run backs from when I played half of hollow Knight because I didn’t even think the game was hard. It just wasted time in so many ways that I decided I’d rather play a different game that didn’t, but if people had to deal with the time wasting design that I remember and also do dark souls boss run backs then I’m not surprised they’re irritated.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 5 weeks ago:
The other day, I fought the boss of the abyss in the dark souls 1 dlc. It took me 5ish attempts, and I changed my gear to have more magic resist after I got further in the fight and got merked by magic attacks. All spending 2 minutes between each attempt running back to the fog gate did was make me zone out and wish I could just get right back to it.
Btw, the original runback was mega man, where you get to try the boss until you run out of lives then you have to do the entire level again. Still way more interesting than running past everything in souls games.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 5 weeks ago:
I’ll admit I don’t even remember doing runbacks in hollow Knight (or even having to fight any boss in the part of the game I played more than one or twice), but in other games where you have to run to the boss you normally just run past everything without fighting it and go into the boss with full resources. No challenge - just running past everything, which not only wastes time but also totally breaks immersion for me.
In any case, my overall discontent is with all the time wasting added together than any specific thing.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 5 weeks ago:
It’s true that I’d prefer it in no games, but it’s also less frustrating in straight soulslikes. The problem with HK is that it is a synthesis of metroidvania and soulslikes in the most time-disrespecting ways possible. Really most of my frustrations are with map design, and then they add not getting maps until you find the map guy (in samey environments I can’t remember well enough without a map).
What made me put it down was playing for an hour going through multiple zones without finding either a map guy or a bench somehow then dying. I’m pretty sure just being able to see the map would have been enough to keep me playing.
For this new fangled soulsvania genre there are numerous better entries that I thoroughly enjoyed. Ender Lilies and Blasphemus are the first 2 that come to mind.
- Comment on Wrong Groomers 5 weeks ago:
Usagi drop is kind of a weird one because the final act with the romance was out of left field and is pretty much universally reviled. The entire rest of the story he was just being a dad. Also they didn’t adapt that part to the anime.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 5 weeks ago:
A lot of comments tying runbacks to difficulty, when they have nothing to do with each other. I haven’t playing silksong but I played about half of the original and uninstalled it, despite the fact it is so many people’s favorite metroidvania and metroidvania is one of my favorite genres.
Not putting checkpoints close to boss fights is not difficulty. It is disrespectful of the player’s time, which is a problem hollow Knight was full of.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 month ago:
Taking Google at their word for a moment
And why should we do that?
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 1 month ago:
But on a fundamental level, aren’t we just adding an incontrolable step of noise injection in a decent time-tested information flow?
Yes.
- Comment on What is the first electronic device kids get these days? (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Game consoles?) 1 month ago:
Every kid born in the last decade that I’m aware of which they got, got a tablet first. Small sample size though
- Comment on OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn 1 month ago:
Isnt the premise of AI that you can do everything just with natural language, everybody already knows how to talk/write about what they want.
Yes but also “you have to start using AI now or you’ll get left behind”. You expect grifters to be consistent?
- Comment on UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action 1 month ago:
They should be more like the Italian dock workers.
- Comment on Atlassian acquires The Browser Company, creators of Arc browser 1 month ago:
Neat maybe another well supported browser will be good for the landscape.
The enterprise software company believes that an AI-enabled browser is needed as it can be “optimized for the SaaS apps where you spend your day”, meaning it understands the context of what you are doing in Jira or Google Docs instead of treating every tab the same.
Oh nvm…
