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571.
by baq 6mo ago
GPT started to ‘wire in’ stuff around 5.2 or 5.3 and clearly Opus, ahem, picked it up. I remember being a tiny bit shocked when I saw ‘wired’ for the first time in an Anthropic model.
572.
by baq 6mo ago
It’s even worse than that… you can hard lock a system with significant freeable memory left if you have insane vm.dirty_* settings (which is of course the case by default)
573.
by baq 6mo ago
If they’re running any sort of a vm (which they probably do with this amount of ram) they absolutely should and also should consider pre-reserving them.
574.
by baq 6mo ago
TLDR of the LMKL thread: 120GB RAM postgres with hugepages=off, lock contention went from terrible to abysmal. nothing to see here except that amazon for whatever reason runs DB tests with huge pages disabled. (hope I'm not paying for
575.
by baq 6mo ago
What's French for 'goblin'...?
576.
by baq 6mo ago
when in doubt, copy astral's exit strategy and get bought out by a foundation model lab. (yeah n=1, but that's still greater than 0 ;))
577.
by baq 6mo ago
gittorrents were talked about and built at least 15 if not 20 years ago. the issue isn't mirroring of data, this is a solved problem. everything else that a forge does is a problem - issue tracking, PRs, reviews, CI/CD, authn, aut
578.
by baq 6mo ago
something reliably breaks 7 am PST (sometimes earlier) if you're using anything more than the git command line and sometimes (not too often, true) even the git protocol breaks.
579.
by baq 6mo ago
openai, anthropic, google and a plethora of chinese models all end up pushing code into github. you can discuss whether gpt 5.5 is better than opus 4.7, but for github it doesn't matter: they'll be receiving the code no matter whi
580.
by baq 6mo ago
Sounds like an opportunity to build a shenzhen i/o prequel
581.
by baq 6mo ago
A nation state is a corporation with a monopoly on violence
582.
by baq 6mo ago
First time interacting with a totalitarian government?
583.
by baq 6mo ago
> Generally speaking this seems bad for Chinese companies, though. Anyone who has ever thought otherwise was just naive. This is anything but news. If you’ve had an impression that China capital market is free and western-like, you were
584.
by baq 6mo ago
s3 is kinda hard to replace if you actually use it; the rest is manageable with varying levels of pain
585.
by baq 6mo ago
AGI in the common man's world model is ASI in the AI researcher's definitions, i.e. something obviously smarter at anything and everything you could ask it for regardless of how good of an expert you are in any domain. also, I&#x2
586.
by baq 6mo ago
citation needed, Tao certainly is on record using Lean and that carries some weight. also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon... i.e. there's no reason it should be as you say.
587.
by baq 6mo ago
It's a risk, but since they have training expertise they should be able to distill the best open source models to reach at least approximate parity comfortably. Frontier model territory looks increasingly out of reach for anyone withou
588.
by baq 6mo ago
Amazon has its own hardware in the pipeline, Microsoft would be stupid to not work on one, so best to assume they are at the very least a buyer of such a thing from AMD/Intel.
589.
by baq 6mo ago
And do what? Quit and have someone else execute the query for something that’s in the grand scheme of things irrelevant?
590.
by baq 6mo ago
> Why would anyone have a sight longer than a quarter? I mean how does long term thinking help the execs get their compensation this quarter? Vesting schedules, conditional grants, contractual equity ownership requirements
591.
by baq 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification 101
592.
by baq 6mo ago
maybe you could surface an expected cache miss to the user
593.
by baq 6mo ago
> rebase workflow is ergonomic enough for the amount of splitting or rewording anyone realistically needs The point is this is perhaps true for you but most definitely not for others. there’s a Jevon’s paradox-like mechanic at play here
594.
by baq 6mo ago
Ah, the Dropbox comment. You don’t even need git for that matter, you can switch between filesystem snapshots. The point is, ergonomics matter. Rebase is not ergonomic for splitting commits.
595.
by baq 6mo ago
and now git owes jj a couple ergonomic improvements. this is a net win for both.
596.
by baq 6mo ago
it is true. some history is marked immutable by default; in git, everything is mutable by default and you have to add branch protection on the server side. (granted, you can change what is immutable in jj relatively easily, so you shouldn&#
597.
by baq 6mo ago
what has one to do with the other...?
598.
by baq 6mo ago
in jj the history has mutable and immutable commits.
599.
by baq 6mo ago
autoformatter and autofix linter results can be committed and pushed by CI into the PR branch itself. this is a pain sometimes, but as a repo owner it should protect your sanity.
600.
by baq 6mo ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if the glasswing thing comes with an NDA akin to what the NSA wants you to sign when you join. That would be the Anthropic-optimistic interpretation of the sound of crickets from participants - and ‘responsible discl

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