fkarg

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Comment · 6 months ago
the lottery of either getting a new supply-chain attack or the fixes from Mythos with every single update
Comment · 6 months ago
Simple, for what I'm doing Opus 4.6 (and before that, Opus 4.5) are just much better at following my instructions and achieve consistently better results.

From what I've been gathering, this split in success seems to depend a lot on the types of tasks, the domains / programming languages / frameworks used, and style of prompting.

I couldn't get 5.2 to follow instructions for the life of me, even when repeating multiple times to do / not do something. 5.3-codex was an improvement and 5.4 while _usually_ decent still regularly forgets, goes on unnecessary tangents, or otherwise repeatedly stops just to ask for continuation.

Sure, I'm paying 3x more per request, but I'm also doing 5x fewer requests.

Or well, used to. Still bummed about them dropping 4.6.

Comment · 6 months ago
You must be from Anthropic
Comment · 8 months ago
Does this include the stock market?
Comment · 9 months ago
Yes, except that in modern infra i.e. WiFi 6 is 1024-QAM, which is to say there are 1024 states per symbol, so you can transfer up to 10bits per symbol.
Comment · 9 months ago
This would help a lot. Many European startups are strongly local (also in talent search), because while moving is simple, share distribution and ownership structures are anything but, and investors usually don't want to bother with local regulation on that they don't even know.
Comment · 9 months ago
I agree. It's funny that this is one of the cited reason for the (relative) value suppression of tsmc, but the same factors should apply to Nvidia too.
Comment · 9 months ago
it's sad that this is not the default behaviour. hopefully the stop killing games movement will put something similar into law with potentially further-reaching side-effects eventually. Because frankly, sunsetting products like this should be common sense, not the exception it currently is.
Comment · 10 months ago
The base material needs to be of a minimum quality for that experience to be enjoyable, I presume. I totally see the value of that, which is one of the reasons to sometimes reduce playback speed below what my default would be. Writings from Tolkien are maybe some of the best suited for that, but I'm not 100% convinced it would work for what I'm reading currently, so I might just try it anyway - the Foundation series from Asimov.
Comment · 10 months ago
I'm not sure what response they expected, but for some reason it makes me think not that.
Comment · 10 months ago
well, this is where being pedantic bites me in the a* again. Our codebase has been mostly pyright-focused, with many very specific `pyright: ignore[...]` pragmas. Now it would be great if ty (pyrefly has an option!) could also ignore those lines. There's not _that_ many of them, but .... it's a pain.
Comment · 10 months ago
yeah it's only correct in 99.7% of all cases, but what if it's also 10'000 times faster? There's a bunch of scenarios where that combination provides a lot of value
Comment · 11 months ago
Personally I just take notes in Obsidian
Comment · 11 months ago
Abstract—WhatsApp, with 3.5 billion active accounts as of early 2025, is the world’s largest instant messaging platform. Given its massive user base, WhatsApp plays a critical role in global communication. To initiate conversations, users must first discover whether their contacts are registered on the platform. This is achieved by querying WhatsApp’s servers with mobile phone numbers extracted from the user’s address book (if they allowed access). This architecture inherently enables phone number enumeration, as the service must allow legitimate users to query contact availability. While rate limiting is a standard defense against abuse, we revisit the problem and show that WhatsApp remains highly vulnerable to enumeration at scale. In our study, we were able to probe over a hundred million phone numbers hourly

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