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by vidarh 4mo ago
I actually started an "x12" in Ruby (yes...) It took Claude less than a day to get it to the point where Firefox runs and plays YouTube videos at decent speed - modern x apps does mostly client side rendering so the X11 server is
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by vidarh 4mo ago
If it were to get to that point, they are already inside your house, paid for by you.
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by vidarh 4mo ago
It's the classic issue that centralisation moves the efficiency of an organisation toward the efficiency-level of the top of the organisation, for both the good and bad. From a risk management perspective, I'd argue that's ge
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by vidarh 4mo ago
It takes longer than people tend to think before kids learn to infer things well at all, and so being explicit about causal chains tends to make kids more likely to take advice. E.g "put your coat on" might not lead the child to t
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by vidarh 4mo ago
I had it debug why Firefox crashed on my prototype X11 server and got a refusal when it started digging into what exact payload triggered the crash. But that's the only refusal I managed to get.
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Btw, since this morning it's fixed another 200+ crashing test cases.
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by vidarh 4mo ago
I might have written a comment similar to yours maybe a year ago. Yes, some skills will atrophy, but the learning curve for LLMs is also steep and you will acquire new skills that will pay off the costs many times over. We see this in d
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by vidarh 4mo ago
The cheap models are cost-competitive if you are running them in long-running agentive tasks. But they take a lot longer to reach the same goal for complex tasks, so the difference is still very real, and the cost-savings are still very m
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by vidarh 4mo ago
> I don't think they're a net gain if you're a skilled senior I've had Claude Code running a /loop for the last week driving down complex crashing bugs in a prototype compiler entirely unilaterally. I occasiona
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by vidarh 4mo ago
I can't remember the last time I got a new PC because the old one broke, vs. because I wanted one that was better. As for being wasteful, sure, but it adds up to an insignificant rounding error of my total energy use so it's not s
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Not having to stop sessions of all kinds of things and restart them for no good reason. It doesn't require it to stay up, and if things were better at retaining state across restarts I would care less, but it's a nuisance to hav
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by vidarh 4mo ago
As a Linux user, it pisses me off whenever I am forced to reboot, and I'm very disappointed if my laptop uptime is measured in less than months. Needing to shut down to me indicates something is broken.
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Rest time of a couple of days is good. I'm not talking about that. But more than a week and you'll typically need to deload to avoid DOMS. More than a few weeks and it will start taking significant time to work back up, and a lot
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by vidarh 4mo ago
For the next 30 years, probably not, but mostly because you can get really strong really quickly, as most adults are really weak. It's not that unusual for people to pick up e.g. powerlifting past 50 and still get to levels well beyo
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by vidarh 4mo ago
The average user is familiar with games.
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by vidarh 4mo ago
And this lies at the heart of the problem. We expect computers to be consistent despite running programs that are not designed to be consistent. This despite the fact that we have lots of experience of programs running on computers that p
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Plenty of setups defaults to lower values than 1.0.
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by vidarh 4mo ago
It's not that hard. What is hard is making it truly deterministic and retain high throughput .
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Their aggregate margin is typically around 30%-40% based on Amazon financials, but that reflects a lot of cost they have as a provider that you as a user wouldn't, e.g. cost of sales and the complexities of managing a multi-tenanted se
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by vidarh 4mo ago
You can order bare metal servers delivery time in minutes from any number of hosting providers and the cost difference is so huge you can afford to keep excess capacity and still come out ahead.
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Even as a small customer it's easy to hit quotas or hit availablity constraints of more unusual instance types.
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by vidarh 4mo ago
If you succeed at changing your habit, it works. However, all the evidence is that the vast majority of people fail at changing their habits in ways that produce lasting weight loss, so it does not generally work as advice for reducing your
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Given that we know that diets and changing habits doesn't have lasting effects, what doesn't sit well with me is to risk my health to avoid taking a drug that helps.
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by vidarh 4mo ago
I went on them because I started boomeranging back after a long and very successful diet. It was pretty much the plan - I wanted to get as far as I could "naturally" and then use GLP-1's to bring me the rest of the way and ke
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by vidarh 4mo ago
It'd presumably help a lot, but also when you use their endpoint they get more training data.
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by vidarh 4mo ago
> Compared to Anthropic who are celebrating in fixing a flickering issue in a terminal app which took months to fix. It's funny, because if you ran Claude Code on a slow terminal, the cause of the flicker was obvious: They kept dump
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by vidarh 4mo ago
I'm not sure I'd put Google in that list, but either way: Because they think they have enough capital that they can catch up and don't need the reputational boost of this.
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by vidarh 4mo ago
It will just mean US providers will rapidly loose their moat. Their moat is already shrinking. If they can't release their best models, it'll shrink a whole lot faster...
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Hetzner is still cheap compared to AWS.
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Europe is nearly 50 different jurisdictions, spanning multiple very different legal traditions. But it is mostly not very murky. Moral rights and commercial rights are distinct in a wide range of jurisdictions. You can generally waive comme

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