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by efficax 2mo ago
Glamorous Toolkit is built on Pharo, which I think is a fork of Squeak or shares lineage with it.
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by efficax 2mo ago
Not a word in here about accessibility, of course. If you’re blind you’re blind to the canvas as well without a lot of work, it’s much more straightforward to make the DOM accessible
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by efficax 2mo ago
at least!
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by efficax 2mo ago
writing code is hard. building a successful product is harder, and is only sometimes a consequence of the code.
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by efficax 2mo ago
well sure, but i mean realistically speaking, we cannot step debug an llm's output to find out what happened given the way we currently execute inference
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by efficax 2mo ago
llms are not strictly deterministic in the sense that even if you had the RNG state, context, and prompt you would likely not get an identical output even if there was no other randomness involved, because the concurrent scheduling of the m
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by efficax 2mo ago
Every model that comes out comes with a bunch of people saying "this one is actually dumb they were smart before" and I don't really get it. The models since Opus 4.5 have all been basically the same to me. Sometimes they do
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by efficax 2mo ago
They're called "pak"s for quake :)
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by efficax 2mo ago
Not surprised, DeepSeek v4-flash is basically free right now. I've been using it for a custom agent that is more about orchestrating a lot of the "chores" of using a computer (calendar checking, reading slack channels for me,
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by efficax 2mo ago
it's a big honking trillion some parameters model. it's not cheap to run
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by efficax 2mo ago
> Today, we bring it back. > I have acquired securityfocus.com and the Bugtraq name. Not to build a museum - to restart the conversation. The mission is unchanged: full disclosure, researcher-first, no corporate filter. This has the
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by efficax 2mo ago
> Why is every company seemingly trying to re-implement agents themselves rather than making their product work with the existing ones? You can't raise a $50 million series b on making a nice terminal. we already have lots of nice t
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by efficax 2mo ago
only writes and honestly that’s a bit overblown they last a long time
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by efficax 2mo ago
i dunno how searxng avoids it but i've been using it regularly lately with a custom agent, and i've never had a blocked search
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by efficax 2mo ago
well the boards have been laid across the two shores, and the enemies are now climbing the walls, i guess is what i'm saying. if they had a moat, it's been breached
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by efficax 2mo ago
unfortunately the alibaba cloud does not seem like it can keep up with the demand caused by this announcement, i'm just getting endless timeouts
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by efficax 2mo ago
This looks like an interesting project but reading these AI slop web pages is so exhausting. At least turn your brain on long enough to explain what your project does
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by efficax 2mo ago
compute is not a moat, it's a rapidly depreciating physical asset. buying up all the shovels in a gold rush does not give you a moat, it gives you a slight advantage for the time being. someone else will just start making shovels. and
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by efficax 2mo ago
fine tuning runs of models the size of gpt 5.6 are absurdly expensive. I'd guess at least $100k in cloud gpu time for a single run, and you have to do a few iterations to get things right
50.
by efficax 2mo ago
add a few grand to get a new breaker panel and a new circuit put in to power it
51.
by efficax 2mo ago
there aren't a lot of the obvious AI glitches but it still looks wrong , stiff and unnatural, eyes aren't right, faces move weird, it's all in the uncanny valley still to me
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by efficax 2mo ago
That's funny because so many of us in my PhD philosophy program would say: I should've been a physicist, philosophy ruined my life. I had a physics prof who told me it was foolish to go into philosophy when I could've been a
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by efficax 2mo ago
"tautological games". All proofs are a form of tautology, you have to end up back at the point your theorem proposed. Math is games of logic. That's what it is.
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by efficax 2mo ago
pricing page does not at all make clear what isn't included in the free version. you have to pay a monthly subscription for "language support"? does that mean it doesn't "support" languages in the free version?
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by efficax 2mo ago
is it? i don't know how we measure these things, but here's one measurement that says v4 pro is better than luna: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/comparisons/gpt-5-6-lun... presumably it's a mu
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by efficax 2mo ago
"too cheap to meter" and Luna is still more expensive than deepseek-v4 pro
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by efficax 2mo ago
it's not a ponzi scheme either. in a ponzi scheme the top of the funnel gets rich off the funds of new investors who are expecting a return. my taxes are not an investment secretly used to make some people rich by fooling newcomers, th
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by efficax 2mo ago
none of those things, except maybe smoking, are explicity "harm yourself" instructions. they have reasonable sounding benefits for the people doing them: become healthier, fitter, better looking, richer, more powerful, etc. Even s
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by efficax 2mo ago
where is the analog for hiding instructions in a document that tell the human to please injure itself and the person just says 'oh ok, injuring myself as requested'
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by efficax 2mo ago
things look different from Billionaire Island than they do to us plebs down here. it's crazy to expect such people to do the "right" thing, they're too far gone.

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