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Comment · 29 minutes ago
Comment · 1 day ago
I started experimenting with more traditional text editors since last spring and am happy to say, that I’m a happy user of Neovim now.
Comment · 2 days ago
Somehow this does not fill me with confidence.
I think I will keep paying my bills manually, thanks but no thanks.
Comment · 4 days ago
Federal reserve does not count salary into Net Worth as far as I can see: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/files/Networth%20Flow...
Since most people’s income comes from salary, it is very easy to read this graph wrong and it is a bit misleading. Say you are some dev who makes $500k per year, but likes to rent, doesn’t drive and is not very bothered with stocks. Their Net Worth - unless I understand this wrong, if I do please correct me - the would around zero, maybe less with student loans, so they would be amongst the poor. Ok, they probably would have a lot of savings in this scenario, but maybe they like to ride on a horse with no name and spend most of their income. Still I would not call them poor.
Does it change the picture? Not really, because Musk et al. are so way beyond everyone else that the graph is extremely top heavy. It is a nice data visualisation regardless.
Comment · 8 days ago
Why would they not release those models, since it would help them become profitable and beat the competition becoming the one company rule them all? Oh yeah, they are so dangerous. Well Anthropic revenue comes from only few big corporate customers, so just make them Golden Partners etc. and give them access to super-models. I doubt Google and Meta wants to crack web security.
Besides, if we start imagining super models US companies have in secret, why would we expect Chinese companies have them? Why would not Moonshot have their own super intelligence hidden in the cellar?
Comment · 9 days ago
Seems Merram-Webster dates the ”lede” coming to dictionaries around 2008, so I would still contest lead being at least as acceptable - and makes more sense imho. English is full of strange spellings which make no sense, so reader is expected to know that we are not talking about Pb, but slinging old newshack lingo. It makes more sense if you know this saying, attributed to William Hearst: ”if it bleeds it leads”, which means yes, sensationalism and gore sells, but as more universal writerly advice that you sould not waste time and start with the most important thing you have to say (ever read those Atlantic/New Yorker -type articles that ramble on for ten paragraphs before you even know what it is about).
Rabbit giving justice to hunters being the lead(ing thought, ie. most important idea in the piece that should go first) is of course me being sarco.
Comment · 10 days ago
I think for few years MS has tried to be a bit more developer friendly. The Windows Terminal (and no, not what opens running Command Line or Powershell, it is a different application: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Terminal) is kinda good actually. It’s not Alacritty, but a lot better than any previous terminal emulator. I have also poked around their developer tools and they do seem to make using windows a little less hellish experience: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/dev-environment/
And PS is pretty good, although I haven’t used used PS7 much (if it is a completely new application, why does it share a version number? And why does it not come as the default shell with Windows? Why do they have to make everything so confusing?). It is probably nicer for extended scripting than bash, but honestly I rather use Python for that. For windows admin stuff it is great, but mostly I work with network stuff and it is way too verbose to my taste for simple commands. ping is a lot easier to remember than Test-Connection. I reach for cmd commands like netsh int set ip rather than tab through the verbose syntax of PS for simple network commands. I know you can set up aliases and bash aliases like ls work, but I still feel it os pretty impractical for quick terminal work.
Using it on linux feels so blashemous that I will not entertain such vile and fevilish thoughts. I use linux to get away from the sinful awful things I must do for my livelihood, I tather not use Win applications on my own system unless I absolutely need to. For any serious scripting on Mac… Maybe just don’t?
Comment · 13 days ago
The title buries the lead: rabbits executing hunters in the Smithfield Decretal illustrations. Seems British humour has a tradition at least to the 14th Century.
Comment · 22 days ago
The next sentence:
>It depends on the task you use them for and how you measure the output. For most tasks you really do not need frontier capability.
Comment · 23 days ago
I struggle to see how a software engineer fails to see that anecdotal evidence does not matter here at all. I can say I built seven fully functioning operating systems last month, or that I am the fastest runner in the world or that my daddy is the strongest man in the world. None of it matters without data. I can say it is warmer in the living room and you can say that no, it is much warmer in the bedroon, without having something definite to measure and something accurate to measure it with, the whole discussion is pointless - just vibes. You haven't even said how you have anecdotally experienced the difference between the older or the open weight models. So excuse me, but then you will fail to convince people on your claims, especially when the whole discussion seems to be in the middle of some bloody information warfare at the moment.
Comment · 23 days ago
Ok so you have nothing, just vibes. Fair enough.
Comment · 23 days ago
Yeah I tried most of this. I exercise regularly, have tried going out to walk in nature after work or in the morning, bright light in the morning, melatonin … it all helps a bit. Maybe it helps some people enough, but in my case you can live almost perfect epitome of health and balanced life… and then you relapse and your brain is mush for a day or two. It is pretty easy to self-medicate, eat complete junk, not sleep/sleep all the time, quit relationships or do other really dumb decisions that might have serious consequences down the line when the crash comes.
So yeah, no. ADHD is pretty serious, let’s take it seriously. Morning jog won’t fix you. ADHD-specific therapy is the most important in the beginning, then you need to find drugs that work. Check out Buprion.
Comment · 23 days ago
If there were open source Dante that actually worked it would be very cool. Don’t know how much usage it would get since the hardware will always lock it in. But for small studios and research it might be cool. Interesting project nevertheless.
Comment · 23 days ago
> These open models still did not beat February's Mythos / Fable 5.
On what task? By who? On what benchmark? How do you measure in you own workflow the “betterness” or “more goodness” of these or any models? If you don’t say those things you’re just writing a bad ad copy.
> It's plausible that open models are 6 - 12 months behind, and there is no "good enough".
Anecdotally, a lot of people - including myself - seem to really notice much difference between the model now or six months ago. So there really seems to be good enough. It depends on the task you use them for and how you measure the output. For most tasks you really do not need frontier capability. Also how do we know how much of these “big improvements” come from the harness and tooling rather than the raw capability of the model?
Comment · 25 days ago
I tried it a bit and I like it! It is very fast via openrouter (significantly better than Kimi K3) on webui. Very verbose and starts to forget instructions after awhile it seems, but it gave me quite a lot of good info during a half an hour chat on C and embedded programming. I think I will keep urimg this as my main assistant for few weeks.
But how these countries use their resources is quite different.