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Philpax

8,713karma·1,330submissions·October 1, 2013
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For the concrete problem we're discussing, you can hack your competitors out of existence, replace all of your knowledge workers to shed costs, hyperoptimise your logistics, etc. It's not ju…
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It's not really shunned - it's the standard solution for async in Rust - but it's not the right solution for every project, especially if you have specific requirements for how your pro…
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A month with a superintelligence at your hands could be quite impactful, especially if you're willing to break the law / normal operating decorum in the pursuit of protecting what you have. …
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This felt wrong to my intuition, but, no, you're right: (1-0.888) * 12 = 1.344.
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They'd presumably ask for more details and/or references, at which point you would be hopelessly enmeshed in a web of lies of your own making.
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weird grudge to keep for twenty years, man
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they can though https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/geometry_... …
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For context, this is the author of https://craftinginterpreters.com/ , and https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/ , and https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com&#x…
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> Anthropic publicly gaslights their user-base: "we never degrade model performance" is frustrating. They're not gaslighting anyone here: they're very clear that the model its…
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They are planning to release a Mythos-class model (from the initial announcement), but they won't until they can trust their safeguards + the software ecosystem has been sufficiently patched.
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Both. There's the risk of them instructing a user on how to produce a known formulation (the Anarchist Cookbook solution, as you say), which is irritating but not that problematic. The bigger iss…
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That's not what the grandparent poster was saying, but sure. They have been steadily improving across those metrics, as Opus 4.6 / 4.7 / Mythos demonstrate. They're certainly not p…
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The front page is currently home to the announcement of Qwen 3.6 35B, which has comparable performance to the flagship coding models of a few months ago, and can be run at home by those with a gaming …
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1. Pagination with a pager is a reasonable default. See `git log`. 2. The native format would be `jj init`. For precedent, see how uv dealt with its pip compatibility: `uv pip install` was obsoleted b…
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Immediately after that line: > If you're not a Rust developer, please read the documentation to figure out how to install things on your platform Rather selective reading we have here, don…
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This tutorial predates his involvement with ERSC.
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While I agree with you, their system did not start privatised, and the Shinkansens predate privatisation by some time. I don't have the evidence to justify this, but I suspect that you need natio…
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They weren't working for BD, they were working for a company using BD's platforms.
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Adding to the chorus: if you need to apply a solution like this, it's probably time to walk away from the platform. (Well, the right time to walk away would have been years ago, but...)
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Er, what? We've had open models that can outperform ChatGPT 3.5 for several years now, and they can run entirely on your phone these days. There is no metric by which 3.5 has not been exceeded.
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"I could have made that!" "Yes, but you didn't."
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Ctrl+F "OpenClaw". No results. Que?
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It seems to be for the first version, judging by the use of the original names, which is odd because the review's from this year. The rewrite definitely improves on the ending and its delivery, b…
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Happy 15th anniversary of the anime :)
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