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I tried getting any sota llm (GPT 5, Opus 4.6, Deepseek V4 pro, glm-5) to write a Metal 4 shader for a bottle usdz and none of them got it right. They screwed up the normals and textures , total mess. I tried it to do it in Metal 3 and still crappy.

Oh god I feel old. I remember being an excited schoolboy thinking how magic this was when it debuted.

I also remember being amazed, and did a forehead slap, when an old army bomb disposal man explained how, what I thought was an innocent device, was used by the IRA in bombs.

Ha. When I was a teenager I used to build 555s into timers for the same purpose using a no PCB rats nest construction.

Though surprising the family at dinner with a small explosion was a much more innocent purpose.


For me that is blue leds.

Yes! I remember thinking "damn you band gap physics, if we only had blue leds we could do colour displays with LEDs, but that can never happen."

Haha, for me it was "LEDs".

Up until I was about 10 or 12 we only needed to dial 4 digits.

"rareleds" on Instagram is fantastic. Vintage LEDs set to apex twin and so on

BC109 for ever!


I did the same using the mlx version on an M1 Macbook using LMStudio integrated into XCode. I had to up the context size I ran it a against a very modest iOS codebase and it didn't do well, just petered out at one point. Odd. Pretty good chatbot and maybe against other code it'll work but not useful with XCode for me


hmmm, interesting. .... address? Can I get an account?


https://eternal-september.org/

Not the one you were replying to, but this is free for anyone for text based Usenet (no binaries).


I'm sorry, it's only for people I know personally. Also, it only holds minor Usenet hierarchies like the vestigial dk.*.

It's not too difficult to set up INN2, and it's easy to get an external feed. It uses minimal resources, and there is hardly any maintanance once it has been installed and configured.


Does anything happen in the dk. hierarchy anymore. Last time I check, probably 10 years ago, it was either spam or one crazy person.

It's a bit of a shame, I really want something like dk.city.copenhagen and dk.city.copenhagen.noerrebro to replace Facebook groups. That's probably never going to happen, it's seems like a missed opportunity.


I had one, hella cool. Had a funny flat battery I think? Regret not keeping it when it broke


Same and not to mention reames of weird .Net errors that were never fixed and hard to understand or speculate about


Pffft, that's the budget for the paperclips to hold the meeting notes together


You guys have budgets?


Wow, you still need to even ask questions.


Get down to A&E quick, you've clearly drunk a potentially fatal amount of Elon KoolAid. Musk is a buffoon. Clever? yes by all accounts, genius? Hardly. He's had luck, made good judgments mostly offsetting the bad ones. Most of all he has enough money to power through errors that would bankrupt thee & me.


If you're British then that is a majestic fail. My children are taught that in primary school.


If you’re British then that is a majestic fail in reading English. Perhaps they taught you some other language in school?


Jesus. Do you perform in public too?


Read again closely.


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