danpalmer

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by danpalmer 2mo ago
I think it's mostly about the characters. GTAV was, in my opinion, much lighter-hearted than this is looking. Trevor was a hoot, Michael's marital problems were made light of, even Franklin as probably the most serious character s
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
It looks like Rockstar have nailed a solid 2026 update to previous releases, everything looks great. But is that enough? It should be, but given the billions spent on development I think there's an expectation of more. It also looks li
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
The vocabulary truly is load-bearing, without these words the model is less able to think. Where a human can understand a concept without words, an LLM plainly cannot. This is based both on the technological limitations and based on the evi
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
Well that $120k is also likely at a huge profit margin, at least accounting for COGS. That's already most of the $115k difference gone. Again, I don't really disagree with your general point here, but I think it's just a bit
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
Yes Occam does quite literally state that – the option with the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct. Assuming that someone is lying is an extra assumption to make over what they are claiming to do. Malicious acts from large corp
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
That's up to you, but occam's razor would suggest the most likely thing is that they are in fact just doing what they say they do in their T&Cs.
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
According to public material, Google does not train Gemini on Gmail or Docs: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/gmail/pr... https://proton.me/business/blog/google-do
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
This is exactly it. When I worked in a ~10 person team I just didn't get it, PRs worked quite well (with some basic discipline, they're not perfect). When I moved to a... much larger company... I don't know how PRs would work
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
Lots of talk about engineering his game, lots of talk about how this game is exactly what he wants, no talk of play testing. Is there any world in which this is going to be a good game?
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
I don't disagree with you, but I would clarify that it's not $120k of tokens, it's $5k of Claude subscriptions. And also I suspect he would consider "affordable" to be "as a well paid software engineer". S
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
Agreed. It's hard to learn unless you have access to quite high end hardware, and even paying by the hour is expensive. There's a low ceiling on what you can learn without doing training runs. You can however learn everything you
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
Is this OpenAI or Claude?
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
The article cites two people who say they didn't receive fair warning, and one who acted on it to renew their subscription to avoid the data loss who lost everything anyway, so seemingly: no.
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
That's good, but this article explicitly covers this with multiple people citing not receiving any contact.
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
Hyperbolic, but I'm seeing hints of this – Models refusing to do pair work with an engineer and trust their input, instead mandating having full control over something. Friends switching back from Fable/Opus 5 to Opus 4.8 just so
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
I remember when people knew the posting guidelines. > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
What do you like about them? I disagree, but so many people seem to like them that I assume I'm missing something. The main one I've heard before is that they work nicely over SSH, but I assume there must be more?
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
There's a subtlety to (1), in that people can be incompetent at things that don't matter, but competent at things that do, and people often latch on to the wrong incompetence. For example, a software engineer might be fairly medio
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
I have a blog post that I've been meaning to write about why I moved from Fastmail to Gmail. I love Fastmail as a product, but I realised it wasn't what I wanted anymore from my email. I think there's a tension between explic
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
In my experience the models perform substantially worse if asked to create small PRs or commits. They lack the ability to sequence work and understand dependencies efficiently enough to manage it – it's not that they can't do smal
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
I've never seen someone with only solar, basically everyone is still connected to the grid, so you don't stop getting electricity, you just start getting a bill. If you look at your solar stats or battery stats every day, then yea
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
That prompt is unrealistic. Shops already have opening hours, prices, locations, etc. If you leave all those up to the model then there's no correct answer and the models will perform better – the less you constrain them the more they
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
Glad this got found and fixed, but I continue to be astounded at the amount of work people put into making SQLite do things that would be much simpler with other systems.
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
It's hard to get past the beginning of this article and take it at all seriously. The quote someone who missed a sunset because they asked google and supposedly got the wrong time... but they didn't think to look at the sun or lac
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
I think this depends on perspective. Compared to an Electron app, it's significantly better. Compared to a hand-optimised app implemented in a low level language it's not great. I've not done a lot of Swift/iOS/macO
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
Nice find and summary. Of I'm not surprised to see the ~75MB for the high graphical fidelity of the app. I am however surprised that 10MB is Swift language runtime - with ABI compat this is supposed to be shared, and that the weather d
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
Apple weather is fully native from what I understand. I suspect the 250MB comes from the video backgrounds they play. Arguably that would be a reasonable thing to sacrifice on low memory systems, you'd barely notice.
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
So can a chiropractor!
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
Is it? Seems to work for me?
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by danpalmer 2mo ago
Exactly, this issue was really solved by the mid 2010s. Twitter had a much longer run (10+ years) of solid reliability than they did of spotty reliability (2-3 years?).

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