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by abraxas 4mo ago
Just because Anthropic chose to implement it like this. But the directive specifically targets non-US nationals.
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by abraxas 4mo ago
It's not about cutting edge or not. Fable was able to tear through stuff and always diligent about its own work. In terms of output quality and completeness it was in a league of its own. It will be missed.
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by abraxas 4mo ago
Ah, so US citizens are so pure of heart that they can have access it's just the smelly ferigners that must be locked out?
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by abraxas 4mo ago
Working on my codebase (~100KLoC across multiple Python modules) I felt that Fable was head and shoulders above 4.x series. It was just relentless and always hell bent on testing and proving its own work. It just tore through problems like
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by abraxas 4mo ago
Pure vendetta by the capricious king wannabe. The US is so fucked.
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by abraxas 4mo ago
I think this says more about "modern" UI than it does about AI slop. The awfulness of all this comes mostly from the fact that widgets no longer have consistent shape, theme or interaction behaviour ever since desktop paridigms an
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by abraxas 4mo ago
We have the "social media" companies to thank for this innovation. They introduced these stupid patterns primarily to keep users locked into their walled gardens and the rest of the industry followed them to the bad place like lem
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by abraxas 4mo ago
No it won't. Everyone knows their favourite film director. Virtually nobody has their favourite app developer.
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by abraxas 4mo ago
Right and ready for the new season of "Black Mirror"
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by abraxas 4mo ago
I'm sorry but sometimes performance is not everything. Apple silicon - great except you are now in the Apple walled garden with all the consequences of it. Not to mention perpetually subpar developer experience without the rich Linux&#
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by abraxas 4mo ago
You're absolutely right - and I should have tempered that behavior. When the next version lands you get much better responses. Not just trite analogies. Really well spoken responses that earn their keep.
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by abraxas 5mo ago
No other LLM has made as much child porn as grok so there is that...
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by abraxas 5mo ago
Streamlit seems very much alive. I used it on and off in the past. Went to their website and it looks very much alive. Ditto for Weights and Biases.
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by abraxas 5mo ago
if the index updates are your bottleneck you can often get away with using a much lighter index (for example BRIN) at a cost of slightly slower queries. This is very often a great and much overlooked tradeoff.
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by abraxas 6mo ago
On custom colour themes. I have no good ideas. I just know when I like a theme and when I don't. The deafaults in the game, are.... not great for me. Especially the light theme (I generally prefer light themes). I use the dark theme in
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by abraxas 6mo ago
my biggest ask would be for custom colour themes? And maybe a one-time paid app to avoid any future ads (if you are thinking of going down that road). An app or a game with ads and no way to pay my way out of them is an instant uninstall. S
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by abraxas 6mo ago
Thank you for this. Tiled Words is a morning ritual for me now. It's a brief part of my day when I sit down with a coffee and solve it just before starting my work. It's a part of my day I most look forward to. Thank you again. ED
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by abraxas 6mo ago
I'm recycling below a comment[1] I made a few days ago very similar in tone to what the article conveys in a longer form. Unlike the author I believe that the LLM revolution is indeed the most transformative change in technology that m
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by abraxas 6mo ago
Yeah, those didn't count either. AOL and compuserve were not even available outside the USA in the late nineties. With AOL I'm quite sure nobody considered them to be a part of the web. Their pages didn't have URLs early on b
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by abraxas 6mo ago
Yeah, it's quite sad where we landed. Circa 2004-2006 while the internet was mostly open and accessible I mentally grouped "the internet" into two buckets. There was the real web plus usenet plus email and then there was &quo
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by abraxas 6mo ago
Yes, lots of money and no taste. And by lack of taste I don't mean McMansions. The entire country is a little bit of a corporate dystopia. It's the end result of capitalism running with very little restraint. Sure, lots of people
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by abraxas 6mo ago
This is not terribly informative until expenses and safety nets are taken into account. Someone living in the Netherlands may have that 20% lower median income but being able to rely on public healthcare and get around without a personal ve
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by abraxas 6mo ago
As someone born in 1975 I always felt until the last couple of years that I had been stuck in a long period of stagnation compared to an earlier generation. My grandmother who was born in the 1910s got to witness adoption of electricity, ma
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by abraxas 6mo ago
I've been working with it for the last couple of hours. I don't see it as a massive change from the behaviours observed with Opus 4.6. It seems to exhibit similar blind spots - very autist like one track mind without considering a
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by abraxas 6mo ago
Yes, no denying this. Now in time this will change too. I'm slowly letting Claude do some target maintenance work in AWS in non-critical environments. Over time I will let it perform reversible operations in production but that time ha
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by abraxas 6mo ago
But it did. What used to be unworthy of building is now totally doable. I can roll out one off ad-hoc UIs for our customer to navigate their bespoke data sets without having too much worry about expending a lot of development time to throw
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by abraxas 6mo ago
Your advice beautifully reinforces OP's case. We now have to use auxiliary apps with more predictable behaviour because designers made such a mess of things.
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by abraxas 6mo ago
This fascinates me because I tend to use Claude Code in _very_ long sessions, driving it until its context window is exhausted at which point I grab most of the session history from the terminal window and paste it right back into the conte
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by abraxas 6mo ago
However, when fed source material into the context they will lie less, right? So at this point is it not just a battle of the nines until it's called "good enough"? I also wonder if I leave my secretary with a ream of papers
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by abraxas 6mo ago
Not to mention that it would then make some hedge fund with a better backtesting harness or more AI scrutiny more successful thus keeping the financial market work as designed.

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