dmazin

Joined 16 years ago

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SRE and computer history nerd.

Currently, I am a "Linux engineer" at a trading company.

You may enjoy my blog (mostly about operating system stuff): https://www.cyberdemon.org.

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Comment · 21 days ago
This was a good reality check about the bat tunnel controversy: https://www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/04/hs2-bat-tunnel-dangerou...

Dunno, if you are dumb enough to try to build a high speed line through an area where endangered species are protected then yeah you’re going to have to avoid killing them.

Comment · 23 days ago
This is hilariously out of wack with my own experience, and my son's. We both have ADHD, and we are both extreme early risers. So much so that I am literally trying to train us both to fall asleep and wake up later.
Comment · 1 month ago
Putting the makers of an OSS harness in the same moral group of Palantir and Anduril is laughably silly.
Comment · 1 month ago
> GPT-6 Luna being half the price of GPT-5.6 Luna is a really big deal.

Is it? It was already too cheap to meter for me. Luna 6 is actually worse on some benchmarks than 5.6. I’d have loved improved performance for 2x the price than ~equal performance for 0.5x the price.

Comment · 1 month ago
Per the benchmarks in the post, Luna 6 is at best a couple points superior to Luna 5.6 and (unless I’m reading it wrong) xhigh has actually degraded in quality?

I was hoping for a serious Luna upgrade. It was already cheap enough. This feels more like a price reduction than an upgrade.

That said, if the new Luna is able to handle ultra mode and subagents v2 in codex cli, then at least that’s a win.

Comment · 1 month ago
It seems like they are. I mean, this is similar in performance to Fable (ish). It seems like more focus on making existing capabilities more accessible.
Comment · 2 months ago
I think this refers to the trial.
Comment · 2 months ago
This feels like a solved problem entirely: Kagi. I don’t know their secret sauce but the results are very high quality.
Comment · 3 months ago
It would appear you are missing the High Barnet branch of the Northern line.
Comment · 5 months ago
Have you considered that he has had to walk back the cuts because of the outcry?
Comment · 5 months ago
The point of a graduation speech like this is to get students hyped up about themselves and their future. Surely you see the merit in, amongst a backdrop of a horrible job market, telling students that they have, inherent in them, the stuff of greatness, just as people did (checks watch) 3 years ago before vibe coding?
Comment · 5 months ago
As a few commenters already pointed out, IME enterprises aren't paying for subscriptions. They're paying per token.

But also... is this shit AI written? I'm so tired of this.

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