mattlondon

Sometimes old code comes with its own problems that are not the code but the ecosystem they depend on or run in.

E.g. some critical security vulnerability that is not backported to the library/compiler/runtime you are using in production, or you can't get spare parts for your servers any more so need to upgrade to something newer but you can't run your old OS version on new hardware so you have to upgrade the OS too and now it's dropped support for foo etc etc. Lots of things pile up.

Why do people doing a rewrite need to have read the tests?

If you have good test coverage, and the tests are reliable, then what's the problem?

If your engineering culture is bad already and you don't have good test coverage or they're flaky or whatever then that is different. If that is the case, it is probably from smart-ass attitudes like yours asking these "clever" rhetorical questions to derail people trying to improve things that led it to be like that. Do everyone a favour and keep your mouth shut and let people fix things.

Does anyone actually want these kinds of devices I wonder? Feels like VR headsets all over again - lots of hype from the manufacturers and obscenely expensive devices, and .... no one wants them or even cares?

I go past a Mac store in London frequently. It is usually very very busy ... apart from their VR headset table that has exactly zero people at it. Its become a bit of a joke for me now to see if there is ever a single customer there. Seems like more than 15billion USD well spent!

Maybe no one is keeping them?

Same reason no one uses Wikipedia anymore - it's become a theifdom to the editors who have staked a claim on "their" territory and woe betide anyone who wants to contribute without paying prior deference to the emperor - you contributions will be deleted/removed/rolled-back instantly (often automated) for the flimsiest of reasons (if any reason is given at all).

Or my favourite entire IP ranges or whole ISPs blocked because eighteen years ago someone used a sock puppet account from their and there is no recourse because the High Doge has decreed it from their throne in Moderator Palazzo - you can appeal but the lord chief's decision is FINAL, and they're all too busy infighting and empire building to care about such trivia as users anyway

I see a lot of BYDs in London (even the busses are BYDs). MGs Jaecoos some GWMs. Not as many as Teslas or EV BMW Merc VWs but quite a lot.

There are Tesla's everywhere around my way in London. They are very very common. Maybe people have stopped buying them since Elon went crazy, but there are still a lot on the roads.

It's performative stuff to try and appear like they care about alignment and safety.

"Hey we are launching this thing but we've got to let the safety folks see it first".

So they look like they care about alignment etc.

To be honest there is a lot of rage on here about it being announced before being able to access it. I don't understand why people are getting so upset about this - like no one gets into a rage because they see a movie trailer before it is released?

Agreed. I was really looking forward to 4 Flash. 3.8 Flash has been my favourite model and daily driver for a little while now.

But to be honest I am now not sure if Argon was the flash model and this Carbon is pro? It's very confusing.

From what I've heard they have been using it since at least Opus 4.6, if not earlier

So Argon was 4.0 Flash effectively? Interesting that there is such a small gap between their new Pro and Flash tiers

Sooo... Is Carbon 4.1? Or is it different to Argon 4 somehow? Different model? Or point update?

Is Argon "pro" and Carbon "ultra"?

Is Argon obsolete now? Does Carbon replace it or live alongside of it?

Very confusing naming!

> If you are going to hyperlink, maybe make sure that your model is actually on the page.

It's on my screen. Try asking your agent to refresh the page.

Because it's not been reported, but this has.

Vast majority of cameras in the UK are privately owned and not hooked up to the police thought crime system.

Getting good quality dragon POV flight data for SFT must be really hard.