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Likely he pissed off multiple people by having dirt on them. People with infinitely more power than him, who will literally make a snuff film of you if you annoy them. So they got fed up with him, locked him up, had him murdered (on camera) and now they’re releasing some of the dirt in a way that serves their interests.

When… when would I ever need Chromium?

Yeah, I think it’s fascinating to read Claude’s transcripts while it’s working. It’s crazy how you can give it a two-sentence prompt that really is quite complex task, and it splits the problems into chunks that it works through and second-guesses until it’s confident (and usually correct).

It’s literally just a sidebar that lets you do queries to your LLM of choice. It’s not even in the way. If you don’t want to use it, you just don’t use it.

You’re trying to tell me that we need an arms race of taller cars, so we can see past the cars in front of us? For road safety?

Nah man I can actually get on board with this. I used to hate Times New Roman but it’s streets ahead of the scourge that is Calibri, and with modern monitors serif fonts look fine.

Yeah, for sure. There’s an element of failing to grasp basic concepts of physics here, intertwined with a psychology of not wanting to feel small I suppose. I tried to explain to my sister that you don’t actually see more of the road when you sit higher up, it’s just that the road takes up a larger portion of your field of view. You actually see less of the road because the part directly around your car (the most important part) is obscured. She thought I was twisting words and got angry. If we lived in the USA her 150 cm ass would be driving an F-150.

Contra still holds up very well, really fun to play with a friend.

“I can see better” says so much about a person’s psychology.

If it makes you feel any better, McDonald’s genuinely feels like the safest space when you’re rock bottom. It’s safer than church.

We’re polar opposites. I’m in northern Europe and sleep with an open window, thin blanket, and rocking 20.

Exactly. The problem isn’t moving part of production to some other facility or buying a part that you used to make in-house. It’s abdicating an entire process that you need to be involved in if you’re going to stay on top of the game long-term. Claude Code is awesome but if you let it do even 30% of the things it offers to do, then it’s not going to be your code in the end.

Books. The models were trained on books. And it’s terrifying that 90% of people think you’re not real if you use a semicolon correctly.

That’s on him. He’s not the first person to walk or bicycle across West Asia, Iran included.

It would be so fucking funny if this is the last straw for Americans and they finally rise up.

Alright you know what, I’m not going to argue. You do you. I just know that I’ve been underwhelmed with conventional search for about a decade, and I think that LLMs are a huge help sorting through the internet at the moment. There’s no telling what it will become in the future, especially if popular LLMs start ingesting content that itself has been generated by LLMs, but for now I think that the improvement is more significant than the step from Yahoo→Google in the 2000s.

I think you’re underselling it a bit though. It is far better than a modern search engine, although that is in part because of all of the SEO slop that Google has ingested. The fact that you need to think critically is not something new and it’s never going to go away either. If you were paying real-life human experts to answer your every question you would still need to think for yourself. Still, I think the C-suite doesn’t really have a good grasp of the limits of LLMs. This could be partly because they themselves work a lot with words and visualization, areas where LLMs show promise. It’s much less useful if you’re in engineering, although I think ultimately AI will transform engineering too. It is of course annoying and potentially destructive that they’re trying to force-push it into areas where it’s not useful (yet).

I can see the ridges that cut across each segment in the rings of a fingerprint. And the fibers that make up the threads in a piece of cloth.

I’m very near-sighted. Also means I have a built-in microscope.

I’m not very sensitive to bright lights. But I can also see better in low-light conditions than anyone I know. Not sure how that works.