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by tcdent 5d ago
A dense model (up to the amount of memory available) actually does make the most sense on unified memory architectures. But when you hit the limit of what you can hold in memory, you reach the limitation of the platform. Whereas a hybrid ar
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by tcdent 6d ago
A query parameter on a GET request is actually data written to memory. So this idea that any HTTP verb somehow provides context or enforcement of read versus write totally misses the point.
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by tcdent 7d ago
So many different theories on why this is. First, I think comprehensibility is a major part of why certain products grab the interest of the mainstream portions of the market. The 75% of posts in your feed are not from people who evaluate p
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by tcdent 8d ago
It's essentially taking output schemas as we've been using them and applying them to specific classification tasks. So not using them to generate structured content which incorporates generated text, but using them to generate str
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by tcdent 9d ago
I don't think I quite valued the Open Source PHP ecosystem at the time as much as I should have. I have a project that still grabs a ton of installs for some reason (3+ million to date and apparently growing) which is way beyond anythi
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by tcdent 11d ago
I reached out to their chatbot after my battery life tanked a year-or-so later and it sent me a replacement no questions asked.
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by tcdent 12d ago
Is this "pacing the frontier"?
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by tcdent 13d ago
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2XcNSSgKvlE
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by tcdent 14d ago
This is the part I find being left surprisingly hand-wavey. If you extrapolate it out, you see that it has a high likelihood of inciting physical force (read: military action) as a means of enforcement, so perhaps that's why nobody pro
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by tcdent 14d ago
Read other writing by Anthropic about potential future financial implications of AI. [1] IPO is a vehicle for future wealth distribution. It leverages existing financial frameworks in order to span the gap from before-to-after without havin
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by tcdent 16d ago
OP has practically observed the effect of the Ego via software, but hasn't quite arrived at the ability to quantify it. Read back through and apply every example given through that lens. It is possible that we're in an industry th
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by tcdent 16d ago
But here's the thing, across operating systems the products should not be identical. When you get to the point that your have a significant enough number of users across multiple platforms, generalizing everything into a shared UX does
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by tcdent 18d ago
Came here to say this as well. It's the obvious all-encompassing free office document processing suite and LLMs know how to utilize it well. Codex bundles it with the desktop app as well for the same purpose.
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by tcdent 19d ago
I had an LLM reverse engineer the API protocol of LADBS and extract the content I wanted. Wether that scales from one property to many (rate limits for one) I don't know, but I didn't encounter anything in the thousands I extracte
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by tcdent 19d ago
I did a project recently where I extracted every Los Angeles building permit record for a property and was able to look at the evolution of its infrastructure and tenancy over time by embedding the permit documents into an image-based embed
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by tcdent 21d ago
V8 as a runtime goes far deeper than just webpages.
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by tcdent 26d ago
> Developers can port existing Cocoa applications with minimal changes. I wonder how big the actual gap between close to Cocoa App compatibility and full app compatibility is? Being able to run MacOS apps natively would unlock a huge bar
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by tcdent 29d ago
HTTP/3 is fundamentally a different architecture than /2. To fully embrace it requires rethinking backend design significantly; just bumping a version number on HTTP without utilizing the intention of the spec is incorrect. HTTP&#
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by tcdent 1mo ago
I think the stranger thing is that people spend tens of hours doing analysis like this to hit an inevitably-expiring hype cycle that will give us a definitive answer shortly.
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by tcdent 1mo ago
What most people leave out of the conversation is the element of time. We are early. The technology continues to improve. Is it perfect now? Absolutely not. Will it continue to get better at a surprising pace? Absolutely yes. So, just adjus
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by tcdent 1mo ago
People assemble projects from a collection of buzzwords these days without understanding the underlying technology. Did he need to use tailscale to interact with the box remotely? No. But, it's what a google search will tell you to do.
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by tcdent 1mo ago
Oh, that's just a garden variety memory leak. Most applications these days are very good about that; you likely have just a single app that you use regularly that leaks. If you kill the process the memory will be recovered, save for so
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by tcdent 1mo ago
Wait, how does literally no one in this thread mention swap? IME, many default installations in recent years don't configure swap by default. Dedicate a few tens-of-gigabytes on your hard drive and memory overflows there instead of bor
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by tcdent 1mo ago
Isn't today's graphics stack moving in the direction of dynamically-optimized meshes (ie. Unreal's Nanite)?
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by tcdent 1mo ago
This feature is born out of the same government that created the cookie laws, so it makes sense to me that it would follow similar politically-valuable but practically-questionable set of beliefs. Really, Anthropic (and the other labs that
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by tcdent 2mo ago
Ah yes sandbox it because Docker has never experienced a CVE. Also you admit your own failure points: restricting access to the home dir, when a user needs access to the home dir, will just result in users exposing their home dir. Defense a
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by tcdent 2mo ago
Agents wrote the code, agents tested the code, agents reviewed the diff, a human reviewed the diff, agents verified it made it to production correctly. But when the pipeline fails (bugs happen that's fine) re-running the exact same pro
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by tcdent 2mo ago
Coupled with the fact that free VM is marketing, nothing more, it's odd people would feel any other way. The idea that a company would give compute away for free without one-or-more underlying motives is incredibly naive. The users of
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by tcdent 2mo ago
What happened in July 2025 and January 2026? If that can't be explained in a concise way this entire dataset is vibes at best.
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by tcdent 2mo ago
Completely agree. This posture is applicable while we ease out of what I'm calling the "golden era" (loose restrictions on access with limited consequence) but one of the reasons I am pedantic and bearish about solutions like

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