Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 5

@foone React is one of the biggest piles of crap I’ve ever seen.

Even the basic premise of it (kind of “let’s build a browser in the browser”) is deeply flawed.

@ra6bit LLMs are bad at writing anything because they don’t and can’t write; they can only generate long chains of tokens…

@arakin yes!

I guessed my first Mac (1Ghz G4) was 50 times slower than my current Mac (M1 Max) and I was probably in the right ballpark

(I get that this is a somewhat hard problem because of various fuckeries that benchmarks and compilers do.)

Is there single/multicore benchmark for CPUs that makes current-generation CPUs comparable with stuff from say the mid-90s onwards?

I'd like to specifically compare how fast a G4 (e.g. PowerPC 7455) is versus current Apple M5.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116246612067267661

oh no the replies

@stevenray you can’t see the rings with a phone camera (not enough focal length), also Saturn is nowhere near Orion right now and very close to the sun in the sky

You can and should say no to demands to work on unethical shit.

I want to stop hearing tech people whining about how they don’t get to pick what their employers want from them and it’s not their fault their employer requires them to work on evil projects

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/ice-dlr-group-detention-corecivic-contract-worker-resistance-trump/

@tpaau17db @kaito02 too real

#memes

@theeclecticdyslexic probably yeah

@paulca TIL

@joshsusser fair

“Sometime in the last twenty years, our possessions came alive.

Not all at once. Not dramatically. One by one, the objects in our lives opened their eyes, found our faces, and began to need us.

Your thermostat has opinions now. Your television requires a login. Your car updates itself overnight, and sometimes when you start it in the morning, the interface has rearranged itself, as if someone broke in and reorganized your dashboard while you slept.

Your earbuds won't play music until they've updated their firmware. Your refrigerator wants to be on your Wi-Fi.

None of this is broken. This is the product functioning as designed.”

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116245455485134341

jfc the horse armor controversy was fucking 20 years ago

Gonna age myself

@ainmosni But yeah, I'm prepared for any eventuality.

@octothorpe just a type of keyswitch :)

@ainmosni I mean the MacBook Pro is essentially solid metal, it's pretty good at that too