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Unpopular opinion: User-facing Software Updates are Bad

3 points·by seniortaco·9 miesięcy temu·3 comments

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seniortaco
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
I think a big part of the reason is that there is only one wireless option -Bluetooth- and it is a terrible product from a user experience perspective. It's 2026 and I still can't move through my world with earbuds in without my audio randomly switching to my wife's car in the driveway or our Bluetooth speaker that is on upstairs.
seniortaco
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
You know you can clear your cookies right?
seniortaco
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
From an evolutionary perspective, it makes sense that the body would explore all possible ways to increase intelligence, with neurons located anywhere in the body and with chemical in addition to electric signals. It's not like a car or something that was designed with specific functions for specific components.
seniortaco
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
"drone"
seniortaco
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
The title is disgusting click bait with the hopes to falsely make the reader believe that Solar covered 61% of the total annual power need and not just the YoY delta.
seniortaco
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
+1 they don't even try to hide the amount of bias in the study.
seniortaco
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
This author has lost the plot.
seniortaco
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
Are they naked photos you've seen before?
seniortaco
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
For some reason when I read this font in the digital samples, it feels a bit Soviet? I subconsciously expect the text to be in cyrillic.
seniortaco
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
My thought as well. Nuclear weapons are also horrifying.

And with LLMs, it's difficult to prevent the proliferation to bad actors.

It seems like we're racing towards a world of fakery where nothing can be believed, even when wielded by good actors. I really hope LLMs can actually add value at a significant level.
seniortaco
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Jump point search is obscenely fast. It's technically an optimization of A* but the behavior and runtime looks nothing like it.
seniortaco
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
"artificial intelligence recursively improving itself until we become subservient to it."

Hmm, the cultural zeitgeist is about LLMs.

Are LLMs improving anything (in the sense of optimization)? I think LLMs are enabling us to automate tasks which are tedious and don't really add value (eg, compliance tasks). And they are helping us create art, content, and ads. I'm not aware of LLMs optimizing systems, let alone themselves. But I'm not very tuned in to all the applications.
seniortaco
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
That's fantastic. It used to be you had to restart the whole PC after a driver update.

If someone could do this for the Web Browser, I could see that potentially being a strong enough feature for users to switch from say Chrome to Firefox. "Never need to close your tabs with In Place Updates."