Balinares

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by Balinares 6mo ago
Do you have examples? I'm curious.
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by Balinares 6mo ago
Kind of idly wondering what the financials of pure-inference players like Synthetic look like since model development is supposed to be the money-guzzling part.
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by Balinares 6mo ago
People are dying in US detention camps right now. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/at-largest-ice-... https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/23/ice-det
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by Balinares 6mo ago
Quite curious how well real usage will back the benchmarks, because even if it's only Opus ballpark, open weights Opus ballpark is seismic.
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by Balinares 6mo ago
I don't understand what you mean. The team I currently work with is 100% git while I only use jj anymore, and I've had zero issues?
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by Balinares 6mo ago
I'm glad to hear you never encountered the kind of quagmire that can occur around e.g. non-trivial conflicts while rebasing a chain of git commits. On large enough codebases, those can be common.
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by Balinares 6mo ago
I've had good success in both high-skill teams (in one case, almost half the team's engineers ended up at Google at some point or other) and... teams that were still in the process of skilling up. I've found people generally
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by Balinares 6mo ago
I mean, Switzerland and North Korea both call themselves democracies but the specifics matter. The specifics matter! These discussions are always fascinating in a sort of baffling way to me because I've only had great experiences with
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by Balinares 6mo ago
In sort of the same way juggling apples is better than juggling hand grenades: it's mostly the same in the simple cases, but once you start doing the really fancy stuff, one of the two will get you a lot fewer messy explosions. (Your q
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by Balinares 6mo ago
"Legitimate interest."
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by Balinares 6mo ago
Isn't that exactly how draft models speed up inference, though? Validating a batch of tokens is significantly faster than generating them.
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by Balinares 6mo ago
It's well known that mathematicians have a long tradition of naming theorems after the second person after Euler to discover them. Jokes aside, I wonder even more how many there are who died in a sweatshop or a cotton field, and whose
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by Balinares 6mo ago
Sorry, hard disagree. Bad faith entirely precludes debate because debate is about updating and improving a position through exchanges of views, and that starts with the ability and willingness to budge from said position in the first plac
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by Balinares 6mo ago
Greece defaulted after the previous, right wing government falsified the country's accounting, but by all means, don't let reality get in the way of your ideology.
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by Balinares 6mo ago
Going ahead without asking is a sure recipe for having the client tell you "Sorry, that's not at all what I want" and then having to start over again. Your creatives ask questions for a reason . What is it that made you pick
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by Balinares 7mo ago
I don't know about AWS or the rest of GCP, but in terms of engineering, my experience of GCE was at least an entire order of magnitude better than what the article alleges about Azure. Security and reliability were taken extremely seri
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by Balinares 7mo ago
Agreed, though only up to a point. Companies that need software to run their business, need that software to run . When your operations are constantly hampered by Azure outages, and your competitors' are not, you're not going to
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by Balinares 7mo ago
Absolutely hilarious that Qwen 3.5 had a far better clock than Opus 4.6 each time I looked.
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by Balinares 7mo ago
Interesting. I hope this catches on -- it's tough to visualize poverty in concrete terms, but assessing how long it takes a population to make a given unit of purchasing power in average is a clever idea. It's sobering to realize
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by Balinares 7mo ago
Yo, just because you can't tell when Claude is wrong, doesn't mean it's right. I do agree that the Q1 2026 models in general have passed a threshold, but goodness almighty Opus 4.6 still screws up a lot.
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by Balinares 7mo ago
Most recently: Opus 4.6 screwed up using a common and well documented API (Qt), then when asked to debug the observed issues, blamed "a Qt bug" and wrote a whole layer on top of the API to work around the issue caused by its incor
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by Balinares 7mo ago
I'm not seeing where the content you linked is supporting your argument.
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by Balinares 7mo ago
Per my sources in there, Amodei does not believe in hiring SREs. In case you were, for some reason or other, wondering.
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by Balinares 7mo ago
Interesting! Thanks for taking the time to write down the explanation, I appreciate it.
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by Balinares 7mo ago
I mean, yes, trivially? That only hinges on two factors: what share of a fast food business' overall expenses actually go to labor costs, and, y'know, how much extra demand is enabled by ensuring even the poorest workers make enou
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by Balinares 7mo ago
Did we just reinvent webrings 25 years later? :) (Not a diss. Webrings were cool.)
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by Balinares 7mo ago
What makes these cases unambiguous?
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by Balinares 7mo ago
This absolutely fits my observations and it's got to be one of my favorite secret things about the industry. More generally, the higher the skill level at a given org, the more trans furries you'll find, it seems like. There was a
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by Balinares 7mo ago
Union. Now. The specifics depend on your country, but your union should have labor law attorneys who can tell you what to do to maximally discourage holding your diagnosis and its consequences against you. In most civilized countries, discr
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by Balinares 7mo ago
I swear to god they trained Claude to say "good point" or "good question" instead to avoid the stigma. It says that all the time now.

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