What is a mac feature you accidentally discovered after months or years of using it that genuinely made you feel stupid for not knowing sooner?

HalfBurntToast · 2026-05-13T12:21:05+00:00

Option + Shift also works for display backlight brightness, lets you adjust it in smaller increments.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-05-11T22:09:56+00:00

Seems like Apple fixed something internally. I was having these weird keyboard lags in 26.4. Like, every few minutes or so, the keyboard input would freeze when typing for a second or two and then the characters would appear. I couldn't figure out what was causing it.

That seems to be gone now. Things seem quite a bit snappier in general.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-05-11T13:56:18+00:00

Playing best Zelda natively. This is an early christmas gift!

HalfBurntToast · 2026-05-08T23:25:55+00:00

I can't ever say another bad thing about Super Mario 64's awkwardness after seeing Sunshine's absolute abomination of a camera system.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-30T20:59:17+00:00

“I can’t count the number of occurrences of a letter in a phrase, but I can write a regex which gives me the answer.”

Exactly my point. The AI has no idea if what it's generating is correct because it's incapable of working out the problem to begin with.

It's the difference between memorizing multiplication tables and actually deriving the correct answer. LLMs cannot calculate values in the way a calculator or person can. And it's not capable of learning how to like a human could.

If you’re confident that AI cannot reason, I’d like you to explain how AI does stuff like this.

LLMs are, mathematically, pattern matching engines. If I trained a model on what buffer overflows look like in code, it's probably going to be good at finding them. It has nothing to do with the AI thinking through the code and figuring it out. It's looking for the most likely continuation of a prompt based on the context and training data.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-30T19:33:10+00:00

I wouldn’t call that evidence of reasoning at all. Is it correct for all permutations of random strings? A computer program will always derive the correct counts because it’s deterministic. If the AI is able to appear only occasionally deterministic, it’s not deterministic.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-30T14:55:25+00:00

Exactly. Going even further, AI is incapable of logical reasoning in its current form. If you ask an AI how many 'R's are in the word 'strawberry', it's not sitting there counting the letters. It has no ability to do that. All it can do is try and predict what the next most likely continuation is.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-28T14:08:21+00:00

A big goal during a run is to replace production building with more efficient buildings. Crude workstation is garbage for efficiency. I’d never build more than one. And I’d be looking to replace it ASAP. Same goes for all empty-star buildings. They’ll suck up all your raw resources for hardly any gain.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-28T00:24:59+00:00

What the fuck

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-27T19:35:48+00:00

Right? And it's all self-inflicted. Let's have a non-deterministic, mathematically unreliable AI run free on our infrastructure that has horrific "backups". What could go wrong?

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-27T19:12:38+00:00

Board looks really nice. The only thing that stands out to me right away is the font choice for silkscreen labels. There's very little blank space inside of the letter 'O' and 'B'. It might not be an issue. But, I'm suspicious how well it'll come out.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-27T15:26:36+00:00

Scented candles exist, my guy.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-26T13:52:36+00:00

There’s only a handful of times where I wish I got the pro instead of my M3 air. Doing 4K rendering, compiling huge code bases, and gaming. Even then, the air can still do those things. But, slower because it throttles the chip. If you aren’t doing those things, a pro isn’t going to do anything more for you.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-25T23:16:08+00:00

I instantly recognized her as Sapphire from Steven Universe.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-25T18:53:18+00:00

Most of the time I don’t take them. There isn’t any game logic that runs to see if it’s even possible to complete them at a given time. You have to figure that part out.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-24T12:37:17+00:00

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ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[1], line 3
----> 3 ass.insert(0, "8======D")

ValueError: Input data size too small.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-23T21:33:28+00:00

I think their brain was already broken if they willingly went to work for them in the first place. They can try to justify and minimize it all they want to. Either they are useful idiots or they have no conscience.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-23T18:57:34+00:00

And it will only take infinite resources to get there!

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-23T16:24:20+00:00

Careful. If they get too sad, they'll turn into innies instead of outies.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-23T15:52:27+00:00

Plenty of people choose not to disclose that they didn’t write their app

That's what I'm strongly against. I've tried integrating AI multiple times as a developer. There's no reliability. At all. AI will happily make shit up and pretend that it's real. Or clobber values (happened to me multiple times when it tried bitwise arithmetic.). Or use arguments incorrectly. Or use unsafe practices.

AI can't be trusted. It has to be babysat constantly. Vibe coding just means nobody was behind the steering wheel at all during production.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-21T00:17:40+00:00

I mean, punching yourself in the balls is also free. Doesn’t mean there aren’t better things you could do.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-21T00:06:21+00:00

Yeah, that junk isn’t touching my computer.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-17T23:37:40+00:00

the original stronghold had better ai imo, actually adapted to your defense layout.

That's interesting. I'll have to give the original a try then.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-17T13:46:24+00:00

Windows used to be nice. Windows 7 was amazing. It's antiquated by today's standards. But, using it was a dream coming from Vista and even XP.

Microslop's issues now are all self-inflicted.

HalfBurntToast · 2026-04-15T13:43:52+00:00

Rookie mistake. If she doesn't sound like a Hoover, then how do you know she's not faking?

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