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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
This quote from your link is positively scary: > Some examples we saw when evaluating GPT-5.6 Sol included the model packaging exploits in its intermediate submissions to reveal information about a task’s hidden test suite and, in anothe
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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
As an Aussie who's spent time in Germany in one of these heat waves, this is definitely one aspect. But it's not just "keep the heat in". They are designed with huge thermal mass, so once warm they stay warm for a day
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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
> I was mentored out of it, and while I still like my patches to be complete, I balance that with the available bandwidth of the team and what the team can reasonably actually process. I struggle with the same issue. In my experience you
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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
Those places grew out of an approach that had its origins in WW2. It was pretty obvious to the powers that be the USA won because science and engineering produced more and better weapons, transport and logistics than the enemy could. They
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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
The feeling I get is LLM's are the new Excel. I've seen lots of people develop little web based apps that tickle their interest. Things like dashboards for data that would didn't fit on their phone, table tennis scoring (re
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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
> having the coffee warm is kinda important. Cold drip coffee is a thing, done well a very nice thing.
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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
GLM 5.1 gets close to 4.6. It can happily run for hours and achieve a result. It given it bugs like a race condition that lead to a count being out by 1 after millions of operations, somewhere in a hundred thousand lines of C code littere
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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
Why did the word "skynet" pop into my mind?
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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
> prioritizing security and hardware that's capable of running local AI models. Just like the Googlebooks do. It seems everybody is heading in the same direction. Apple already does it. Their high end M4 chips with the 512 bit RA
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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
> Humans are very expensive, so the equation almost always falls against them. You underestimate what these models cost. Uber's budget is $1,500/dev/month. I gather that was put in place because the dev's were going
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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
> Some problems can't be solved without cooperation with the developer. Those problems are the ones package maintainer forwards upstream. It's well understood common and common workflow because lots of closed source packages ar
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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
The Chinese economics: possibly the USA's experience. It was pretty clear the USA won World War 2 because it out produced and out innovated everyone else. Probably with that in mind, after World War 2 the USA adopted the "Vanneva
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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
> Can confirm. At a past company we worked hard to release a Linux desktop client for our customers who wanted it ... you’re getting peppered with complaints from people using distributions you’ve never heard of ... but the problem is in
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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
> no developer should be proposing branches over 1k loc I've seen that reaction many times. It seems to work well enough when someone is maintaining existing code. However, greenfield projects can often require literally orders of
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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
> I think the hate about this idea is unwarranted. I doubt the hate is about passive investment funds owning SpaceX stock. If the rules weren't changed and the index funds ended up owning a lot of SpaceX anyway, no one would care.
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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
The rational was: SpaceX will list with you, if you change that rule for us.
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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
> with most the rest of western Europe dead last along with Canada and Australia. Just for completeness: I presume that is referring to government owned hospitals in Australia, which are free. There are also privately owned hospitals.
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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
That makes the original complaint look, well just plain wrong. This wasn't "unwanted new features". Tridge was fixing a security issue, related to a bug report. I sympathise - we are all getting slammed with security issues
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by rstuart4133 4mo ago
Thanks for the link to the 3b1b video. I enjoyed the entire series, and some of those he linked to as well. The linked ones explained the history of how they got there - which was new to me and really helps cement some ideas. However, I d
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
omg. So is the TL;DR: - Avoiding building something that turns the universe to paper clips in order to satisfy a prompt is a problem they are genuinely struggling with now. - They do it by spying on the words generated during CoT. "I
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
Good excuses work. But they have to be good: - "travelling": why didn't you postal vote? - "medical": we allow pre-voting; was it planned? Just paying the fine without arguing on time gets you a 50% discount in sta
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
> This is true in the absolute, not just in this special case but in almost all national level elections of any democratic country. Australia would like to remind everyone we have compulsory voting.
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
I get the impression the hive mind hasn't come to terms with the point that a model is optimised for certain tasks. It's like having someone ask you "is that a good hammer?". Good for what? There are claw hammers, sle
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
> The GitHub issue discussion is directly about these concerns and discuss whether bounds checks may fail early, whether intermediate writes are observable after catch_unwind and whether panic behavior must be preserved. No argument abou
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
Or as mentioned in the OP, just add at the top: assert!(a.len() >= 32); for i in 0..32 { a[i] = 0; } Or: for i in 0..std::cmp::min(a.len(), 32) { a[i] = 0; } I confess I hadn't thought
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
> It is not worth switching to Pi except as a hobbyist. Permit me to paraphrase slightly. "It is not worth switching to Linux except as a hobbyist. Something that is overlooked: the mainstream OSs have a huge advantage ....".
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
> But this argument that Rust's memory management isn't more cognitively demanding than Go's memory management --- that isn't true. It's not far from true. The fights you get into with the borrow checker can be l
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
https://archive.is/KPPRV
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
> But US unions seem to exist nearly exclusively to protect people who don’t want to work. It's a similar dynamic here in Australia, but it seems not in Germany and Japan. I think the difference is that in the USA and Australia the
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
I think he was playing bullshit bingo, and put in 100x for the win.

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