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Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM (Rust rewrite) - Link updated following AI detection in the comments (www.theverge.com)
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Edit: old post is someone is curious: https://dev.to/jamilxt/electron-vs-gpui-what-discords-290-mb-rust-rewrite-can-and-cannot-prove-34b6

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[–] 6 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

I'm getting worse at spotting these. What gave it away?

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  • [–] 16 points 13 hours ago* (3 children)

    Just generally it waffled on, and didnt get to a point.

    That makes this a useful comparison, not a verdict

    Thats the "its not X, its Y" pattern.

    Not so fast.

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  • [–] 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    That makes this a useful comparison, not a verdict.

    Plus all the other constant flip/flop contrasting throughout the text. It's like a comparative decision matrix converted to prose, and exhausting to read.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    Not to mention the ai writing assistant pop up or whatever’s this is upon viewing the page:

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  • [–] 4 points 10 hours ago

    Fortunately I disallow javascript execution by default, so I often don't see this crap. Of course, about half the time I don't see images or the article content either, since delivering text or images is apparently completely impossible without running arbitrary code.

    I seem to vaguely recall we used to have some sort of hyper-text markup language that could do all that, but I guess I must've imagined it.

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  • [–] 15 points 12 hours ago

    LLMs use the wrong language cues. They spend a lot of words emphasizing an utterly mundane point, and it's difficult to read because it's constantly winding you up to reveal some arcane knowledge just to drop knowledge bombs like, make sure you use good names for variables and always handle your exceptions. I've seen them spend two paragraphs when a short sentence would do.

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