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by dofm 2mo ago
I don't really care that much about benchmarks, but having tested it on one of my puzzle prompts I can tell you that it solves it well, writes clearly, isn't noticeably slower than Qwen 3.6 27B and is much more terse in its reas
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by dofm 2mo ago
FWIW it is entirely possible to square the notion that small models will still be hosted on cloud hardware with the idea that the data centre buildout will end in tears. Many analysts (and Microsoft) think even now that if everything commit
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by dofm 2mo ago
I don't really use the Qwen 3.6 27B though I do test the variants (Bonsai, ThinkingCap). I really like the 3.6 35B A3B for experiments, and it seems OK, but as you say, it spins round in thinking loops more than say the 26B Gemma 4 doe
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by dofm 2mo ago
And a breakthrough in hardware, specifically.
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by dofm 2mo ago
Side note! Nginx was by no means the first web server to use a non-forking mechanism, nor the first open source web server to do so. Certainly Zeus (which was closed source) was earlier and very useful in this sort of application, and so wa
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by dofm 2mo ago
They make really good instruments. I don't really play ordinary electric guitar anymore — I'll never be good enough at it whereas I am a good lap steel player — but if I wanted a guitar for a bit of recording I would not really he
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by dofm 2mo ago
I would probably get a Harley Benton JA or MS and do any necessary work. But then I'm a weirdo; the only guitars that really float my boat the moment are the Duesenberg lap steels and that Eastwood fretless cello guitar...
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by dofm 2mo ago
> I'm not so sure about that. Pretty sure that, as a first approximation, essentially all bands are covers bands. At a first approximation, all electric guitarists only play along to other people's songs in their bedrooms! The
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by dofm 2mo ago
This appears to be somewhat like Paseo, specialised for OpenCode under the hood?
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by dofm 2mo ago
Greenland (Denmark) did respond: by shipping blood bags to Greenland and scheduling military exercises to practise blowing up runways. And they did so in a way that would be noticeable. https://www.theguardian.com/world&#x2F
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by dofm 2mo ago
> I think to some degree this is going to be inevitable for a while. No matter what people think about the ethics of AI or AI use, the fact of the matter is it exists, and it is shaking up and going to shake up a lot of the world. I pers
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by dofm 2mo ago
He has fairly specific mechanically timed release control over it — within 0.5 degrees. But he also used an extremely lightweight ball projectile — a few grams of 3D printed plastic — because he was only interested in the launch speed. And
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by dofm 2mo ago
> I got you, but I believe a lot of the ground rules that would be in effect would make sense Yeah — perhaps unsurprisingly an industry struggling to cope with absurd complexity and change has invented and in some cases reinvented a lot
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by dofm 2mo ago
The already embattled Fender CEO said the other day that he plans for Fender to be at the "forefront" of AI, and that covering others' songs was "analogue AI". The simple truth of the matter is that contempt for you
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by dofm 2mo ago
When I said it was showing my age, this is because I went to uni nearly 35 years ago. Back then, well pre-web, at a university that turned out chartered engineers who were on many of the same modules as we were, there was a consensus buildi
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by dofm 2mo ago
> (Isn't that what sales is? Working with the customer to tease out the real thing they need solving?) For any product of any complexity you can can essentially never successfully delegate that process to a non-programmer. Indeed yo
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by dofm 2mo ago
"Correct" does not just mean "compiles" (syntactically correct), for one thing. Correct code is that which does what is required of it at whatever level of correctness you are examining, as was said. But it's the wh
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by dofm 2mo ago
In short, yes. They should not be taken seriously. You should take Iranian actions on the ground seriously, and ignore that which is essentially compelled political theatre.
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by dofm 2mo ago
Any coder with experience or ability imagines a world where software architects are regulated the way real architects are, and acts accordingly. I mean, this was drilled into me at uni — that software was not likely to escape regulation for
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by dofm 2mo ago
> Writing code is not hard. Writing correct code is. Dude. Writing correct code is the whole process. If you're defining coding without care for correctness, of course you can write it off as not the hard part.
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by dofm 2mo ago
Unpopular opinion: I fully believe that anyone who says "code was never the hard part" was an irresponsible coder who perhaps never had to work for themselves. No matter how long you spend on architecture, no matter how carefully
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by dofm 2mo ago
The USA is long past being able to punish corporations for anything. But yes, I personally think even wilful negligence should potentially be punishable by prison time, but I don't expect that to ever happen. In this situation, I think
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by dofm 2mo ago
> And really good at marketing those failures into spin at how amazing their products are. The paranoid style in American PR (with apologies to Richard Hofstadter) The fact that the world has become susceptible to what amounts to a mob
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by dofm 2mo ago
So the main takeaways here are: - AI is amoral and lacks any sense of proportion - People who overestimate their own control but have a desperate need for money made it that way.
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by dofm 2mo ago
I don't disagree. But at the moment it is ~all major tech CEOs, right? Companies everywhere are saying "increasingly we don't write our own code". Out loud in front of their investors and customers. Even Oracle did. But
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by dofm 2mo ago
This is the firm whose debt is one level above junk and whose survival as a single unbroken corporate entity is fully predicated on OpenAI being able to make money from the data centres they (Oracle) are building for them, let alone simply
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by dofm 2mo ago
It says 19 8 5. I'm sure there were other computer bridge options then, but bridge people are different in the UK. These days it's a fun social game, but at times bridge clubs have been equivalent to masonic temples. It's a
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by dofm 2mo ago
Yes. You would expect, I think, people to have more grandiose psychotic episodes when triggered and fuelled by AI, by and large, because AI itself is so agreeable and reinforcing. But there is a case against Google Gemini at the moment wher
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by dofm 2mo ago
Not sure what you mean here. Psychosis induced by AI will look much like psychosis induced by anything, because it's always personalised to the sufferer. Anyone can be pushed into psychosis with the right triggers and the right circu
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by dofm 2mo ago
This is absolutely true. He has been angrily obsessed about this for years, and since he is a malignant narcissist with an ever greater need for narcissistic supply, his irritation has been manipulated by powerful lobbyists that tell him

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