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by nikcub 6mo ago
Stunning results at the top of the field. Some interesting takeaways on both fuelling and shoes. Maurten spent months working with Sawe and other runners getting their gut capacity trained so they could absorb and burn 100 carbs per hour[0]
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by nikcub 6mo ago
Airlines are down there amongst cinema chains and video game retail stores in terms of being terrible businesses
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by nikcub 6mo ago
Amazon and Google get discounts because they bring more than just cash and help solve a very immediate problem for Anthropic Great position to be in if you're Amazon and Google
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by nikcub 6mo ago
Google cloud also need to be able to offer Anthropic models on Vertex otherwise they just won't be competitive. Microsoft is in the same boat with Azure.
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by nikcub 6mo ago
compartmentalize. I do development and anything finance / crypto related / sensitive on separate machines. If you're brave you can run whonix. The issue is developers who have publish access to popular packages - they really
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by nikcub 6mo ago
and then released a model that didn't really leave a mark with code performance
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by nikcub 6mo ago
it's not dollars it's X bucks
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by nikcub 6mo ago
> hand out free top end model coding access for a bit and you'll very rapidly have developer data They tried this - grok was free on openrouter for a while
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by nikcub 6mo ago
knee-jerk is that it's weird, but makes sense: * X will have a total of ~2GW of GPU sometime this year largely not doing much outside of 'grok is this true' * despite no longer being in vogue with consumer devs Cursor still h
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by nikcub 6mo ago
Claude Code defaulting to a certain set of recommended providers[0] and frameworks is making the web more homogenous and that lack of diversity is increasing the blast radius of incidents [0] https://amplifying.ai/research&#
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by nikcub 6mo ago
he's completely ripped that post from the person who originally found it on breach forums. absolutely shameless. https://x.com/DiffeKey/status/2045813085408051670
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by nikcub 6mo ago
Department of War timing on picking fights couldn't be worse
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by nikcub 6mo ago
ugh, strong ai slop vibes with comments like this
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Anthropic, OpenAI and Google sharing Intel to block Chinese distillation(bloomberg.com)
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by nikcub 6mo ago
a) llms are good at writing typescript b) typescript fixed a lot about javascript and is somewhat decent c) multiple fast and performant runtime engines d) deployment story is php levels of easy that's it.
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by nikcub 7mo ago
interesting that you only need ~150 stars on a project for it to be in the top 1%
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by nikcub 7mo ago
the fact that somebody was able to fork it and remove behaviour they didn't want suggests that it is very open that #12446 PR hasn't even been resolved to won't merge and last change was a week ago (in a repo with 1.8k+ open
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by nikcub 7mo ago
This is analogous to when Google launched Gmail with 1GB of storage and then a bunch of third-party apps cropped up that took advantage of it to use it as a generic online file storage drive. There was GMailFS[0] and Gmail Drive[1] - this i
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by nikcub 7mo ago
the $20 pro plan would also have double offpeak limits - just set it to sonnet and you'll get a reasonable level of output
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by nikcub 7mo ago
thank you!
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by nikcub 7mo ago
I can't find a github or email for Hannah - if you're reading this i'd like to add Australian energy price data via Open Electricity[0] to the data (reach out via my profile) [0] https://explore.openelectricity.org
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by nikcub 7mo ago
chatgpt use should be in the default set since energy use of ai is so often in the news now - and more often in social media
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by nikcub 7mo ago
so we're all going to hold onto sequoia like we did snow leopard. only reason i'm not buying a new mac at the moment is because it would force me to upgrade. the situation is absurd .. fwiw switching to the sequoia beta channel in
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by nikcub 7mo ago
> Claude Code this morning was about to create an account with NeonDB I had the same thing happen. Use planetscale everywhere across projects and it recommended neon. It's definitely a bug.
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by nikcub 7mo ago
from my understanding Anthropic are now hiring a lot of experts in different who are writing content used to post-train models to make these decisions and they're constantly adjusted by the anthropic team themselves this is why the sta
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by nikcub 8mo ago
prompt caching - big part of the reason why they can economically offer claude code plans. one of the ant team explain it here: https://x.com/trq212/status/2024574133011673516
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by nikcub 8mo ago
> they say they use heuristics and usage patterns. cache hit rate alone would stand out
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by nikcub 8mo ago
it's gone a bit unnoticed that they've stopped support for response prefilling in the 4.6 models :/
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by nikcub 8mo ago
I assume that's why this is gated behind a request for access from teams / enterprise users rather than being GA but there are open versions available built on the cn OSS models: https://github.com/lintsinghua&#x2F
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by nikcub 8mo ago
> What we've found is that giving LLM security agents access to good tools (Semgrep, CodeQL, etc.) makes them significantly better 100% agree - I spun out an internal tool I've been using to close the loop with website audits (

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