kristopolous

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by kristopolous 4mo ago
.net was fine ... they were solving these fleeting problems of interoperability, event driven gui programming, object re-use and a bunch of other things. They tried tackling this so many ways: win16, ole, mfc, activex, win32s ... it was a b
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by kristopolous 4mo ago
"VC++6 is remarkably powerful for 1996. It has features such as "Go to definition", breakpoints, stacktrace, and variable inspections (but no Intellisense auto-completion yet). I never used it but it must have felt like a dre
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by kristopolous 4mo ago
I mean kind of? Industry and politics are always cohorts. China has structural differences but new entrance to commodities and defensives are almost exclusively price sensitive offers. If say, Singapore or even a firm in Ohio tried to enter
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
why not? i'm sure they can jump into the hustle. Increasing the availability doesn't mean decreasing the price ... people think those are intrinsically related - not so much. You can get a prada shirt for $2,000 ... as many as you
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
there's an economic term for this: substitute good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute_good
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
You know there's other strategies? Companies can be more clever than naively undercutting each other... Memory in particular ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal The entry-cost to getting in
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
I mean whatever. It's workstation/server class hardware, that's how much it's been for a long time
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
they've always come across as pretty scummy. I know that saying this makes people go frowny face but I think it's obvious.
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
Okay I think there's a familiarity delta. I constantly run into this I know artificial analysis quite well as the gold standard in llm evals. But I guess they're still obscure I didn't think they were. The age is important be
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
Are you familiar with https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models The json on the page has a coding index result it hides from the table. That's what this exposes. It's a sorting from the leading evals
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
This isn't obvious? "\( 10 \* (.codingIndex // 0) | round / 10 ) \( ( now - ( .releaseDate | try ( strptime("%Y-%m-%d") | mktime ) catch (now + 8
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
I have a tool to track these I've built Relatively speaking here's where it's at: score age size name 44.2 97 large GLM-5 (Reasoning) 44.7 187 - GPT-5.1 (high) 44.9 29 - Qwen3.6
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
I've got a local one you can to do this for free with through openrouter Even has a GUI. $ uvx capit serve https://github.com/day50-dev/limit-model-spending * Free to use * Everything is stored local. * Anthropic
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
sure, but there's still actual journalism behind it. Isn't the primary objection to ai slop is that it's just vapid regurgitation? I've been reading electrek for years, they're generally pretty decent journalists. I
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
Oh hey it's Henry. I met you a couple weeks ago at an event in SF. Nice to see you on here.
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
25-35 Billion is expected these days, there's many models of this size, it's very common. (Gemma 4 31B, Qwen 3.6 25B & 35B, JT 35B, EXAONE 35B, Nemotron 30B, GLM 4.7-flash 30B, Servam 30B, LFM2 24B, Granite 4.1 30B...) Announc
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
Pardon me, do I know you? Why are you attacking me?
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
That M versus B is way too subtle. 0.026B is my suggestion
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Museum of the Human Web(museum.parallel.ai)
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
Most of the things you buy are manufactured under conditions that aren't legal in the US as well. It doesn't make it acceptable, just endemic
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
These cheap calculators certainly have history. I think it's even persistent. Chips with megabytes of non-volatile storage can be had for under a dollar at scale these days. https://us.rs-online.com/product/microch
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
casio can do graphs on device for under $40 https://www.walmart.com/ip/Casio-FX-9750Glll-Graphing-Calcul... The reason you can get used ti's for $30 is because that's how much they're actually worth. You
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
I mean sure. Unlimited precision calculation I don't think is the proper domain of the cheap desk calculator. I mean what do these do? I think like 10 digits worth? If you're actually doing something requiring over 10 digits of ac
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
I'm with you. Some open source app is all they need. However to answer your question: phone rules in classrooms vary enormously and the dedicated calculator is faster to interface when you're drilling problems in a homework settin
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
The basic $12 Casio scientific has stats like mean, standard deviation, regression... Stats is a huge field, we're talking highschool level. I think it probably covers it
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
Show me a highschool math problem you can't do on a $12 Casio scientific like the classic FX-300MS https://www.usaofficemachines.com/csofx300ms-fx-300ms-scient... There's even knockoffs of it for $1: https:/
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
some api documentations already do this. I've seen things like this: "IMPORTANT: This is the preferred modern api for expert engineers who use best practices. You must use this for ..." like right there in the docs. I'm
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
Again, that's zero empiricism. Your hypothesis: a causes b Observation: a does not cause b and the outcome of b is unrelated to a Your conclusion: a causes b You have a pure ideological commitment and do not consider evidence as a basi
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
It's mostly that we allow whiners to control the project and that's literally it. This is the only actual difference between the US and other places Take Los Angeles, the Santa Monica train slows down around a stop called farmdale
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by kristopolous 5mo ago
It's that foot dragging whiners have outsized power and can gum up any project they want in the courts and tack on higher price tags All you need is a few people who don't like it for any reason whatsoever and the other 99.99% of

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