commakozzi

4 месяца назадdiscuss

I've been using Apple since 1995 on System 7.5 then through OSX to MacOS & iOS. MacOS/iOS/iPadOS 26 and Liquid Glass do not bother me one bit. I rather still enjoy using my devices running these operating systems and think that the interface is great. I also know i am not the only one.

commakozzi

5 месяцев назадdiscuss

unless you're Yoda or Luke Skywalker, you're not "feeling" a 4-year old walking behind you in your blind spot.

commakozzi

5 месяцев назадdiscuss

IMHO the HP 15C RPN is the best calculator ever made. I still have the original with the slip case and manual. However, more often these days i just use my phone's calculator without RPN (i don't need to do a lot of complicated math for mechanical engineering -- we use tables for most stuff). I reached a point/decision several years ago to protect my HP 15C for posterity.

commakozzi

5 месяцев назадdiscuss

I disagree. They need an Xbox 180... get it?

commakozzi

7 месяцев назадdiscuss

i'm confused: if they were on final and lost power, why not just glide to the runway??

edit: nvm, i found my answer in the actual report.

commakozzi

7 месяцев назадdiscuss

Yeah, great analogy. Thanks!

commakozzi

7 месяцев назадdiscuss

Just get a Steam Deck. it's an incredible value for what you get and for what it can do. I'm no expert, but I do pay as close attention as I can to what's going on with gaming hardware because of my limited budget, and I'm guessing Steam Deck 2 is more like Q1 2028, not any time sooner. I'm ok with that. I play all the games I want on my Steam Deck OLED, and I see plenty of life left in it, even this "late" in the game.

commakozzi

7 месяцев назадdiscuss

I used to understand/agree with this point, but over the past few years i've transitioned to my ipad pro for mobile usage and it has become my daily driver for mobile computing. When i need macos for anything, i typically will use Jump to connect and do something real quick, but that's rare. I'm starting to not understand why i wouldn't just want an ipad pro running a touch friendly (and i mean it would have to be VERY touch friendly) version of macos. again, i would have normally agreed with you, but that line is starting to blur for me...

commakozzi

7 месяцев назадdiscuss

Games are not a weakness for Apple. They have all the gaming revenue they seem to care about with mobile. They just don't have proper/immediate motivation to apply that effort to desktop. I'm not sure i even care anymore. I'm a valve fanboi at this point, until Gabe leaves and they go corporate.

commakozzi

7 месяцев назадdiscuss

I dropped my Game Pass sub immediately after they upped the sub price and unplugged my Xbox Series X. I have a Bazzite machine, but I've had issues with the NVidia drivers and not enough patience to deal with it. So i'm currently ONLY using my Steam Deck OLED for gaming. When i want to play big AAA games at my desk (SD in docked mode), i'll use GeForce Now and all of it has been a wonderful experience, even the online "competitive" FPS games like BF6. Much better than my experience on either Windows or Xbox. I'll never go back... and i'm impatiently waiting on my Steam Machine!

commakozzi

7 месяцев назадdiscuss

Came here to find this comment. It is NOT about matchmaking and/or "protecting the incomes" of competitive players AT ALL! It is solely about protecting these games' in-game shops and associated economies. The real comp scenes are all done on LAN anyway, with entirely different anti-cheat setups.

commakozzi

8 месяцев назадdiscuss

It's my daily driver. I have zero problems with it. I don't mind the Liquid Glass UX. I'm not blindly anti-Apple though, neither am I a fanboi. I've just legitimately not had any problems. There have been minor bugs, etc., but nothing broken. Definitely night and day from Win11....

commakozzi

8 месяцев назадdiscuss

And it most definitely does NOT look worse than previous Battlefields. OP has a problem with his setup.

commakozzi

9 месяцев назадdiscuss

I agree with you, and i would add that morals are not objective but rather subjective, which you alluded to by identifying a moral subject. Therefore, if you believe that lying is immoral, it does not matter if you're lying to another person, yourself, or to an inanimate object.

commakozzi

10 месяцев назадdiscuss

It does feel like it has to be real. I've noticed it since chatGPT with GPT-3.5, once it hit big news publicly and demands were made on "censoring" its output to limit biases, etc. (not inherently a problem to do this with LLMs as a society, but it does affect the output for obvious reasons). Whatever workflow OpenAI and others have applied, seems to be post-release somehow? i'm ignorant and just speculating, but literally every model release i've noticed it. Starts strong, ends up feeling less capable days, weeks, months after. I'm sure some of it could be in the parallelization of processing that has to occur to service the large amount of requests. and more and more traffic are spreading it thin?

commakozzi

10 месяцев назадdiscuss

I think there are way more than dozens of us.

commakozzi

10 месяцев назадdiscuss

It was sad to me watching that battle unfold. Maybe i was ignorant (and maybe i still am), but I learned most of what i know about web dev on Netscape sitting in a mac lab at university viewing source code. I HATED when IE started to takeover and eventually won that first battle. I miss Netscape :-(

commakozzi

10 месяцев назадdiscuss

Except many of us not having the problems you are having. I don't have LLMs "fail so spectacularly".

Interestingly, I have friends who aren't coders who use LLMs for various personal needs, and they run into the same kind of problems you are describing. 100% of the time, i've found that it's that they do not understand how to work with an LLM. Once i help them, they start getting better results. I do not have any need to anthropomorphize an LLM. I do however understand that I can use natural language to get quite complex and yes ACCURATE results from AI, IF i know what i'm doing and how to ask for it. It's just a tool, not a person.

commakozzi

10 месяцев назадdiscuss

Exactly, thank you.

commakozzi

10 месяцев назадdiscuss

I really don't understand the hallucination problem now in 2025. If you know what you're doing and you know what you need to get from the LLM and you can describe it well enough that it would be hard to screw up, LLMs are incredibly useful. They can nearly one shot an entire (edited here) skeleton architecture that I only need to nudge into the right place before adding what I want on top of it. Yes, i run into code from LLMs that i have to tweak, but it has been incredibly helpful for me. I haven't had hallucination problems in a couple of years now...

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