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by gnfargbl 3mo ago
> After 15 minutes of confusion, it turned out Cloudflare had put a crazy robots.txt on my site without my consent (Cloudflare, love you guys, but this needs to stop). That's a hard one for Cloudflare, no? They got to where they a
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by gnfargbl 3mo ago
I don't disagree, but remember the lesson of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 -- historically, people have been willing to pay for convenience.
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by gnfargbl 3mo ago
To me it seems like a first-year physics scaling laws problem. To get linear improvements in capability, you appear to need need exponential (or at least superlinear) increases in model size. We have no technical nor business solution for t
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by gnfargbl 3mo ago
You're not using them wrong at all. Part of the reason LLMs are good at writing code is that they're good at understanding code. You're just not using the full menu of capabilities -- which is totally fine.
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by gnfargbl 3mo ago
You're looking at the status quo and ignoring the trajectory. The best current open models are about as good as closed models from ~1.5 generations ago. The rate of improvement of all models is converging to zero. It follows that in a
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by gnfargbl 3mo ago
Working regularly with AI is like managing a small team of unbelievably knowledgeable, very smart, and occasionally crashingly naïve junior developers. Because they're so knowledgeable and smart, they can get a lot done very quickly. B
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by gnfargbl 3mo ago
That article says calendar ageing was the dominant ageing mechanism for batteries in their test vehicle, because said vehicle spent 96% of its life stationary. Unless I'm missing it, the article doesn't put a number figure on the
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by gnfargbl 4mo ago
I think we can't rule out the explanation that all the ideas of space data centers could have been connected solely to a desire to pump SpaceX's IPO.
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by gnfargbl 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
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by gnfargbl 4mo ago
If the leadership of a company aren't the right people to make decisions about what that company does, who is? Are you advocating for legislation? How would that work?
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by gnfargbl 5mo ago
Ah yes, Pierre will surely have no issues paying for his baguette et croissant by filling in the boulangerie's IBAN on his mobile phone and waiting 15 minutes for them to check receipt.
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by gnfargbl 5mo ago
Is BYD beating Kia here in the UK? It's hard to tell from the SMMT figures [1] but it looks to me as if Kia sold just under twice as many vehicles as BYD. Given that so much of Kia's lineup is now BEV, I'm not sure who is win
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by gnfargbl 5mo ago
That statement from La Liga is nothing short of embarrassing. Raving about child pornography, in a simple copyright infringement case? And the repeated focus on "IPs" is incredibly disingenuous; Cloudflare's multiplexing of h
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by gnfargbl 5mo ago
Where is the Land Rover supposed to sit on this scale? There are current Land Rovers with market positioning suggesting they're "better" than Mercedes, and there are historic Land Rovers which were arguably not much better th
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by gnfargbl 5mo ago
I'm also enthusiastic, it's not often you see people find a genuinely underserved niche and you have. I don't know if I would pay £19 for a general state-of-the-area report. I would almost certainly have paid £100-300 for a s
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by gnfargbl 5mo ago
Deterministic scrapers are almost certainly the right answer for this task, because once those special snowflakes have paid for their bespoke IT system, they'll never change it. On the grind, why not get an agent to help you build the
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by gnfargbl 6mo ago
As a political post the formulation in the article is crass in the extreme, misrepresenting both the motivations of red and blue voters and also the and the long-term consequences of those parties' policies. There's no progress to
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by gnfargbl 6mo ago
Is there actually a real-world version of this game, that the author is alluding to buy not explicitly mentioning? Otherwise all I'm taking away from this article is that people don't think deeply about survey questions before ans
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by gnfargbl 6mo ago
Unfortunately, if your employer uses a "scheme" then the middleman creams off the 15% that the employer would save, then jacks up prices well beyond the market because they have a captive audience. If the employer leases the car t
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by gnfargbl 6mo ago
This only works for business leases. The employee sacrifices part of their salary in return for being provided a lease car, and both the employee and employer save tax on that money (up to 45% employee, ~15% employer). For an ICE car the go
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by gnfargbl 6mo ago
> Apparently, when Steve Wozniak first got his hands on an ACE 1000-series machine, “he felt that Franklin had even copied the circuit-board layout, right down to how the chips were arranged.” Reviewers were even able to pull cards out
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by gnfargbl 6mo ago
> A contract is toilet paper It isn't, but you can't get blood from a stone and squeezing costs money. It sounds like the entity that the contract is with has no real assets and/or is based in a jurisdiction which is hard
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by gnfargbl 6mo ago
That's likely, but only if it's possible to materially articulate some specific negative ways in which age verification data is actually being used. You and I can strongly suspect that there's a significant downside to these
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by gnfargbl 6mo ago
Age verification is highly unpopular amongst heavily online users, but the voting population overall is in favour: https://yougov.com/en-gb/daily-results/20250731-91334-2
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by gnfargbl 6mo ago
The NHS's actual current annual budget is £195.6B in 2025/2026 [1]. The contract value declared at the link given above is £182M over 5 years. So: 100 × ((182/5)/196000) = 0.019% Which, to me, still seems too high a numb
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by gnfargbl 7mo ago
> Access is not conditioned on approval. The Zen Koan of T&C's.
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by gnfargbl 7mo ago
Which does nothing to block 4chan, because everyone knows what a VPN is and how to get one.
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by gnfargbl 7mo ago
Speaking as a UK citizen: you're exactly right. If the UK wants to prevent 4chan from being imported into the UK then it needs to block it at the border as it would for physical goods. The fact that's technically hard to do (at le
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by gnfargbl 7mo ago
For anyone else wondering why the article ends in a non-sequitur: it looks like the author wrote about decompiling the Claude Code binaries and (presumably) discovering A/B testing paths in the code. HN user 'onion2k pointed out t
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by gnfargbl 7mo ago
Presumably the idea is that you put the relevant parts of the list in your thesis. You need to convince your examiner that you understand the background to the original research you did, and a solid reference list (with supporting text in t

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