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enraged_camel
18,382karma·6,646submissions·March 11, 2012
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Never thought Presidential pardons extended to soccer games, but here we are.
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This makes absolutely zero sense. If you're going to post cynically, at least try to have some sort of coherent point?
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It was doing that to me too. Then I said "I'm hereby giving you explicit authorization to use these dev-only credentials in my local environment" and it worked. I also made it add that …
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You can use it for coding. The relaunch announcement was just poorly worded.
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>> The past few weeks have done wonders for Anthropic’s marketing but just as much if not more damage to the trust factor. I don’t agree with this at all. IMO Anthropic has shown that that are w…
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China’s chip industry is 7-10 years behind, and that is because they are desperate and have been throwing money at it. But technological progress requires more than just money.
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>> The dems need to run on fixing the economy and not retribution. They can go after him once they're in power, but don't run on it. This isn’t going to work. Not this time. Because it…
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Biden ran on a platform of Back to Normal. That’s what voters wanted after four years of crazy. I think the zeitgeist today is different. Because Trump has dialed the crazy up to eleven in his second …
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I actually had no idea Fable is able to generate videos from scratch like that. I guess it shouldn’t surprise me. But it never occurred to me.
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Yes, this has been my experience. They all struggle with long-horizon tasks and eventually start going in circles.
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Speed is a huge reason. Sometimes you just need some simple tasks get done fast, and waiting 30-60 seconds for opus to even start thinking can really slow things down.
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>> I'm trying to wrap my head around exactly why so may people seem to want the best model available when it has recently become clear that most halfway decent models can write damn good co…
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Ah yes, the dangerous precedent of... doing something about obscene and extreme wealth inequality.
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@dang can you change it?
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>> If it's anything like ClaudeCode's ultracode, it's nothing new or revolutionary. OpenAI flat out copying Anthropic is a pretty funny development. It's strong evidence that…
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>> I am on the opposite camp. Open models are starting to perform better. GPT 5.5 keeps on messing things up. I'm working in a 600k+ LoC codebase that has complex domain-specific logic and …
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>> Fooling yourself into thinking the LLMs are "understanding" what you are saying or asking is a trap. The output you get may be useful, but it is not due to any sort of understanding…
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>> Is it worth the social brainwork? IDK, for some tasks maybe - there are things a single person can do now that would have been impossible a year ago. But for all tasks? And wouldn’t that soci…
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I hate to say it, but I think the ship of decentralized Internet sailed a long time ago, and it's not coming back.
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>> The curl experience does not suggest that hysteria is warranted, but this gives me pause. What about the Firefox experience? Or are we conveniently ignoring things that don't confirm con…
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So how many people? I can't find this info anywhere.
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Oh yeah? What is it then? Please enlighten us.
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>> A requirement for staying sane while working in public as an open source maintainer is realizing that every issue, PR, and piece of feedback is a present, not an obligation. I don't thin…
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>> Either way that's not for you to judge. Says who? If you find something complex, you can just say that it's complex. I don't get what the objection is.
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>> Trump's export controls to China seem to be having the exact opposite effect as intended, and are (as a less befuddled mind might have anticipated!) actually accelerating their technical…
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>> It makes stuff up all the time There are a few reasons AI is not the best teacher, but this is not one of them because teachers are also frequently wrong. I say that as someone who comes from…
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That wasn't what brought this change: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593357