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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
Totally agree. It is more of a rant than reasoning. Anyone who claims to know how this will end (good or bad) is extrapolating beyond their own knowledge and is vastly oversimplifying what is likely to be one of the most transformative tech
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
Very thorough write up. Clearly a lot of performance improvements across their stack. As if it wasn't detailed/long enough already, I would have loved to see some application-level benchmarks that gave a hint of the cumulative per
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
Could a company that won't let delivery drivers stop to pee possibly be pushing their pilots that hard? Yes. Yes, they could.
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
I was trying to teach a co-worker some agentic stuff today, and this is totally true. Especially if they are using gimpy tools like Github Copilot. The harness matters. None of my super-powered CLI + skills stuff worked like how it does in
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
Who should we believe? People who say AI scaling makes it a more dangerous threat than thousands of nuclear warheads? Or the ones who, whenever a new model comes out say "AI has already peaked. Not any better than Opus 4"? Both pa
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
AGI doesn't mean it'll be top 5% in everything. Half of people are below average intelligence. Most people couldn't profitably run a business. We could get to AGI and still have something that is as dumb as the average person
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
That seems like even more downside risk, expenses, and maintenance that don't generate any revenue for you the vehicle owner.
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
One problem in your analogy, for McDonalds, the franchisee is the one who actually operates the business. For the Cybercab, Tesla is the one operating it via "Full Self Driving", their app, and the Tesla rideshare network. As the
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
Looking at their charts, Democrats and Independents clearly think corruption is up a lot since 2024. But Republicans think corruption is down from 2024. The polarization of the electorate in the U.S. is pretty incredible.
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
I wasn't disagreeing. I even upvoted your comment. I was just clarifying which kinds of free I was intending. Your previous comment said that PDN is not "the other type of free" without defining or clarifying what kind of fre
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
Select orgs first, as in today. They said it will roll out to all of the paying consumers and businesses over the next few days.
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
If the numerous benchmarks in that post are to be believed, Astra is really next level. I can't wait to try it out!
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
English only has "free". PDN is gratis, free as in beer. While the free software platforms (WINE, Linux) are libre, free as in speech. I still think the argument holds though that people who have maybe used PDN but haven't
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
For those that are interested, this inspired me to create a tool just for exporting images and PDFs of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Check out the repo below, or if you have uv installed just run `uvx office-export skill install` or `u
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
Cool project! I'm playing around with some similar stuff, but via uv/Python. Impressive you aren't leveraging any other existing libraries for OpenXML parsing, editing, or rendering. Any especially tricky gotchas you've
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
The backlash is so completely unwarranted. This is a piece of free software where the creator is making it easier to use on free software platforms. If you don't want PDN on Linux because you hate AI no matter what, then don't use
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
This can absolutely be done programmatically. I just added the ability to do that using PowerPoint for Windows yesterday in my uv/python tool `markdown-pptx`. Codex added the functionality in less than 5 minutes. https://git
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
Is that what it is using to render and manipulate MS Office documents? That'd explain the poor rendering of some of my files. Bundling all of LibreOffice seems like a pretty huge dependency.
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
This is rendering my files really well! I'd love to see Codex adopt this for its Office file rendering. I've been working on a markdown-to-pptx tool lately, and certain things like tables or specific master slides don't quite
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by pseudosavant 2mo ago
Basically, Windows has been installing monitor drivers for a very long time automatically. Usually a single INF file. Recently, companies like LG have discovered and abused that by instead of just that single INF file, they are installing s
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by pseudosavant 3mo ago
Even if it is 5 or 7 years, houses last decades. Even cars last longer than GPUs. GPUs are a highly depreciating asset. They'll last longer than 3 years, but might not be very cost effective (tokens per Wh) compared to the latest AI ac
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by pseudosavant 3mo ago
It is a good question. Luna is definitely a very capable model. Much more capable than the top SOTA models from 12 months ago. It definitely isn't at the same level as Sol, but you get 20x the tokens for the cost, and it has a much
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by pseudosavant 3mo ago
1. The massive amounts of GPUs being purchased have far shorter valuable lifespans than a house. 2. A model's value seems to be depreciating at an unbelievable rate. The most expensive top SOTA models (GPT-5, Opus 4.1) a year ago are f
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by pseudosavant 3mo ago
Except that the settlement includes making YouTube and TikTok implement the same stuff. The settlement amount stops by a third if the states don’t make their competition make the same changes.
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by pseudosavant 3mo ago
That is a great xkcd comic! Sums up my feelings well. I honestly can't stand writing Python by hand (whitespace as syntax??) but here I am flying!
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by pseudosavant 3mo ago
Exactly. Meta basically got out of this without any meaningful penalty or deterant for the future. Paid out to the 50 states, it only averages $36M a year per state. I can't believe all of the state AGs signed on for this no-op.
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by pseudosavant 3mo ago
I've never become a fan of the language syntax, but otherwise I've become quite smitten with the total Python ecosystem. The Agents/LLMs + uv combo have made Python so useful and productive for me. My CLI tools publish from G
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by pseudosavant 3mo ago
Definitely my favorite version of that song!
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by pseudosavant 3mo ago
Not really. In my experience, the average human written commit messages were almost always useless 1-3 word "Should work non" kind of messages. The agents had a low bar to clear.
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by pseudosavant 3mo ago
It’s funny how the quality of the average commit message has gone up, now that we rarely read or write them directly anymore.

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