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by kristjansson 3mo ago
seems like they missed a zero somewhere. its a dollar of usage for a penny and change.
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by kristjansson 3mo ago
The value isn't just in the lack of discussion, but in amplifying the signal to noise ratio of diffs. with ruff or gofmt or whatever, it’s pretty much guaranteed that a change of code is an intentional part of the proposed change. with
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by kristjansson 3mo ago
Among all the claude-isms, i understand the hate for load-bearing the least. It was definitely part of tech argot prior to the LLM revolution.
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by kristjansson 3mo ago
One cannot pound that particular drum enough. "Guardrails" in instructions (and all MD files are just instructions) are like price lists at an unattended farm stand. It'll usually work! There will be some money in the bask
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by kristjansson 3mo ago
> massive publicly available dataset on where the money goes. That existed! The links the various DOGE apparatchik kept posting as 'evidence' were from publicly available databases of spending, contracts, etc. The 'recei
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by kristjansson 3mo ago
GP is correct, books describing, advocating, even instructing crime in the abstract are almost surely protected speech.
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by kristjansson 3mo ago
This can’t be said enough. “Good for Agents” just means self-documenting, obvious ergonomics, save defaults, succinct (or controllable) output, programable interfaces, … all of which support human users too!
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
Seems like the only point of comparison against a competitive k/q runtime is an MBP run? suggestive to be sure, but would be good to see some other machines, esp. an x86. Seems wild that the much-lauded "reference engine" le
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
> Then we do one week of focused work. Before touching anything, we sit down with you and write out exactly what your app does, screen by screen, endpoint by endpoint While the whole thing is clearly a bit in jest … one might suggest tha
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
ah. cheeky.
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
Quite cool, but for a new runtime of an existing language it might make sense to compare to, y'know, the other[0] runtimes of that language? Even if one has to omit the best, closed ones for lack of access / permission to benchma
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
That, at least, needed only to keep out heat and combustion, and could have been extinguished with water had there been enough, and in time. Instead, consider the absolute PITA that is an EV fire, but worse, and floating in an ocean of the
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
I do love GP's excitement about the energy potential of violent exothermic reaction upon contact with water ... and the proposal mere sentences later to ship industrial quantities thereof on creaky old ships
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
I'd suspect it's a transcript of a video on his (excellent) YouTube[0], hence the repetition. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/@TheB1M
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
> We will deliver success through a flatter organization that is built around makers (individual contributors focused on building), player-coaches (leaders who remain deeply involved in the work while developing their teams), and directl
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
Not killed, wounded.
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
How would possession of political material be evidence one way or the other? She can own, read, share, publish, disseminate all the revolutionary literature she wants
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
Go read the complaint[0]. The total nexus is (1) he spoke to a jailed suspect on the phone and (2) moved a box of zines from his parent's house to an apartment. [0]: https://www.nlg.org/wp-content/uploads/2025
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
> The phrase "frontier model" is starting to mean two things. One is a checkpoint. The other is a system boundary. LLM-isms aside, I don't think we want this to be the case? An LLM, for all its complexity, is something tha
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
deprecated last month
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
Be sure you compare inputs tokens to pre-fill rates and output tokens to generation rates.
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
other way around. it's trained to generate long CoT to reason through problems (and does it well!) but has ~no tool calling capability, and ~no ability to manage more than 1-2 messages. see the warning at the top of https:/&#x2F
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
> Nvidia's raster stack is more-or-less complete That was my point. It's not even a pivot! They're still making consumer cards! They've even product-differentiated enough that the consumer cards are still on the she
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
Controversially, Nvidia employs more than one person and so is in fact capable of producing more than one thing at a time.
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
Maybe once the model can administer and operate the service too. For now building the 10% of the SaaS that you need still leaves you operating 100% of a new service/process
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
> no data hallucinations Dangerous thing to assert. It’ll happily run SQL that works, but doesn’t necessarily correspond to intentions or unstated assumptions about the data.
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
SAN vs local. Local NVME (“instance storage“) on AWS is wicked fast too, but live and dies with the instance
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
Emacs is not great software because it has good features. It’s great software because it conforms itself and those features to the user’s needs and preferences. If one of those preferences is short, canned config, we’ve got a way to expres
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
My .emacs.d has been carefully handcrafted over years. My .vim/.vimrc accreted over the same period, bits copied in, commented out, … Claude did my neovim in about 45 seconds, with the instruction “make it work like my vimrc but better
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by kristjansson 4mo ago
Those are just the sounds that animal makes. Live with the animal long enough, you learn how the sounds correspond to its internal states, even if you don’t really know what they mean. I’d be a bit worried if git didn’t heave that particula

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