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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
He's got control of the executive branch. So he's safe, for now. His plans for when someone else inevitably has control of the executive branch boggles the mind. Does he have no foresight whatsoever? I've come across other
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
> Any iDeal receiver will need to have at least a Dutch bank account, Which makes it somewhat less than iDeal for anyone who isn't Dutch. The magic of Visa and Mastercard is they enable commerce between two people, even if they ban
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
> Realistically, how much "vetting" can they do? That's an open question for models produced in the USA. But for models produced elsewhere, the answer is pretty clear.
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
Something like a Hailo-8 would have no trouble doing this [0]. No helmet, handkerchief or other disguise is going to help, particularly if it is given an IR camera. They are about $50 in quantity. The surprise isn't that isn't h
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
> what appeared to be a moderate-low risk attempt. It looks like it appeared that way to Trump. But you make it sound like it appeared that way to most people. As one of those "most people", I can say that's wrong. The
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
> Once past IPO, I suspect the 70% -> R&D must shrink, right? I mean, to keep the stock afloat long term P/E must come down right? I dunno. Yes, the stock market dictates they get a return. But the return they get on that R
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
You can ask an AI what it costs to produce an Opus token. The answer I got was $0.216/M Token. That takes into account hardware cost, power, cooling and hosting. Others have posted links here saying inference is about 30% of Anthropic&
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
I use bitwarden, but it not being able to share a single secret is becoming an issue. In my search for alternatived I stumbled across https://passbolt.com/ AGPLv3 and does support sharing single secrets, but no free hosted
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
> So, Ukraine cant produce what USA sells ... but USA is refusing to follow its contracts. Interesting. So Urkaine and the EU have been denied USA weaponry, and yet Ukraine is turning the tide of the war anyway. I guessing this isn'
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
They are already rolling it out in Chrome: https://www.pcmag.com/news/chrome-is-quietly-downloading-4gb... It won't work on a Chromebook with 4GB of RAM, so they need beefier hardware.
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
I suspect Europe is looking at Ukraine mass producing enough $2K drones to bring the Russia to its senses, and thinking the worlds next big advanced arms supplier is right next door. And unlike the USA, is grateful for the EU's contin
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
> So, I'm only slightly trying to be a smartass here, but... Who is this for? The primary difference between a Chromebook and a Googlebook appears to be the ability to run LLM's locally. The requirements were spelt out at Googl
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
Apple was given a free run by Intel's fab issues. I'm hoping Panther Lake laptops together with Dell's CAMM2 will make Linux on amd64 highly competitive with Linux on the M-series, so maybe months and months - not years and
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
> I know why they are useful. I am arguing they are waste of time for effort involved. Not being reproducible is a bug. There is no reason for a build to not be reproducible, but somehow we let the built binaries become infested with tim
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
> If tech-savvy people can't be bothered to understand how this works You underestimate your own abilities. Tech savvy doesn't mean they think much about crypto. To get a feel for this I asked Gemini "If you were to surve
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
>> A law in the vein of HIPAA prevents collusion > > No need if you use cryptography. True for age verification, but not true in general. If you have something that can be used illegally, it's very handy to allow firms to r
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
That link reads like an autobiography about his love affair with Rust and subsequent breaking up after pushing the relationship a step too far: into gaming. He has been using Rust much, much longer than me, but I rekcon I already hit most o
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
WWE has been a successful business model for a long time now, and shows no signs of dying out. I haven't listened to those podcasts, but from Kate's description the recipe is the same as WWE. They appeal to the senses using only b
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
From this video's synopsis: > Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, joins Sequoia partner Lauren Reeder at AI Ascent 2026 to talk about where coding goes from here. He explains why he hasn't written a line of code
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by rstuart4133 5mo ago
He made a lot of assertions beyond the one in the headline: "Tests force better structured code" and "Mutation testing makes the LLM produce code with fewer bugs" are two examples. Most sounded plausible. But the deliv
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by rstuart4133 6mo ago
> For a calculator, I can only hold myself accountable. However I cannot hold myself accountable for not knowing something I dont know. I thought I could let this fly through keeper, but the idea keeps bugging me. If the programmer does
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by rstuart4133 6mo ago
Others are disagreeing with you here, and I do too. The difference is profound, and takes more than a couple of days to get your head around the implications. I'd summarise it as: "if you give a computer the same input it always
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by rstuart4133 6mo ago
> SF has always been a wretched hive of ads and dark patterns. No, as others have said it wasn't always that way. And more importantly it's not that way now. But yes, for a while there it was the epitome of enshittication. H
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by rstuart4133 6mo ago
> Most (if not all) of these issues do not matter at all outside the scope GNU utils run in. I suspect that attitude is how we got ourselves into this mess. You have to assume you ultimately don't control what scope your software ru
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by rstuart4133 6mo ago
> No, it's because Elon understands the model of selling cars for humans to drive will be dead by the end of the next decade. Yes, that's Elon's claim. I own a Tesla with FSD (hardware V3, so despite Elon's promises i
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by rstuart4133 6mo ago
> 1MW of 500W solar panels is 2000 panels, for example. Or conservatively 100m x 100m of panels. About 1/5 of the roof area of a big-box store.
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by rstuart4133 6mo ago
GLM-5.1 exists at 1/5 of the price of Opus (a Chinese open source model), and is almost as good as Opus. Organisations use Opus anyway, because it's only $200/mo. (To me GLM looks to be worse in some areas like finding bugs
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by rstuart4133 6mo ago
> I think generators should have been stabilised first - since all the problems you need to solve to make generators work well (self referential types, return values you can name, etc) are things futures need too. Generators are an inter
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by rstuart4133 6mo ago
The key to understanding is green threads are semantically identical to async - just formulated a little differently. The code I gave left out a lot of details. This: while (char = read()) process_the_character(char); It
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by rstuart4133 6mo ago
Alternative headline: "Bitcoin Dev doesn't understand why people pay money for bitcoin".

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