- >"Gemini 3 Flash demonstrates that speed and scale don’t have to come at the cost of intelligence."
I am playing with Gemini 3 and the more I do the more I find it disappointing when discussing both tech and non-tech subject comparatively to ChatGPT. When it comes to non tech it seems like it was heavily indoctrinated and when it can not "prove" the point it abruptly cuts the conversation. When asked why, it says: formatting issues. Did it attend weasel courses?
It is fast. I grant it.
- Russian wooden spoons, Khokhloma style in articular are pretty much food safe. One can find a finish recipe for those online.
- >"Only one of them is renewable, and hence the only sustainable way for the human species to live"
Irrelevant for spoon making, too few of those ;)
- I've read many very positive reviews about Gemini 3. I tried using it including Pro and to me it looks very inferior to ChatGPT. What was very interesting though was when I caught it bullshitting me I called its BS and Gemini expressed very human like behavior. It did try to weasel its way out, degenerated down to "true Scotsman" level but finally admitted that it was full of it. this is kind of impressive / scary.
- >"You probably know that social media is no longer about free speech, It’s a targeted advertising machine"
Youtube for one is an advertising machine. On the other hand it is one of the few places where one can find some amazing educational and entertainment content. Prohibiting it I think is a crime.
Besides, lately Politicians stick their noses everywhere. It is just way too much.
- Not talking allocations, more like actual borrowing, aliasing, passing as parameters.
- My current project is C++ backend. I do a lot of debugging but all of it concerns business logic, some scientific calculations and the likes. In this situations having Rust will give me exactly zero benefits. As for "safety". I am a practical man and I pay my own money for development. Being able to use modern C++ I have forgotten when was the last time I had any memory related issue. My backends run for years serving many customers with no complaints in this department. Does not mean of course they're really really safe but I sleep well ;)
- >"My understanding is the primary reason Linus gave Tanenbaum for the monolithic design was performance, but I would think in 2025 this isn’t so relevant anymore."
I think that unlike user level software performance of a kernel is of utmost importance.
- >"Rust isn't unlike C either. You can write a lot of it in a pretty C like fashion."
I think that with all of the Rust's borrowing rules the statement is very iffy.
- Love the design and programming (tested on Brave browser)
- I stopped paying for MsOffice as soon as they've introduces Office 365. I saw where the ball was going. Sticking with the alternatives
- >"Microsoft's entire business model for decades has been to shove shoddy products down people's throats."
I remember this one. In the 90s MS reps would come to our company and sing about how their Visual Basic was superior to Delphi. When pointed to countless features that proved the opposite all they were able to say is that the MS has bigger dick.
Their recommendation was to have 2 developers instead of one we had. One would code GUI / front end in Visual Basic and the other write DLLs that would do all the meat.
- I've read many very positive reviews about Gemini 3. I tried using it including Pro and to me it looks very inferior to ChatGPT. What was very interesting though was when I caught it bullshitting me I called its BS and Gemini expressed very human like behavior. It did try to weasel its way out, degenerated down to "true Scotsman" level but finally admitted that it was full of it. this is kind of impressive / scary.
- You were asked pretty precise question. Instead of addressing it directly your proof is that China in general does do economic espionage. So does fucking every other developed country, US including.
- For starters ChatGPT was pretty much trained on "stolen" data. However I actually do support it. I think both cases - ChatGPT preying on world wide data and Deepseek using such data by partially "borrowing" it from ChatGPT are fair game.
- Her point about exceptions vs error codes was that one failed to catch exception of particular and and things went south meanwhile if we instead "catch" error code all will be nice and dandy. Well one might fail to handle error codes just as well.
That is of course not to say that exceptions and error codes are the same.
- >"Everyone calculates the CO₂ footprint of a moving vehicle — nobody calculates the CO₂ footprint of a vehicle that is constantly broken and creating waste."
Did anyone think politicians are there for a common good? They are there to turn us unto sheep to shear. Their primitive lies and propaganda and us being idiots are their main instrument
- Half joking. Point is there is enough alternative offerings, including ones from China. Personally I've never used Arduino and their IDE. Was doing C/C++ on Teensy and some other MCUs and that worked just fine for my projects
- I believe that by now patents have transformed from a tool to protect little guy and encourage research and creativity to a dick wielded by big corps to stall the rest of the world.
If it was up to me I would probably eliminate patent enforcements against small entities completely. If they grow over some certain size then sure, let 2 big gorillas fight each other
Give them a little time. They'll catch up. Comparatively to what the UK used to be it is sliding down, more and more. One should be more concerned about what is happening in their country rather than consoling themselves that there are worce places.