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Comment · 22 days ago
I've had zero problems with Youtube on FF for I don't remember how many years. I'm on Mac though.
Comment · 27 days ago
At least it’s AT&T, not Huawei :)
Comment · 3 months ago
In reality it got me 30% there.
Comment · 3 months ago
You could have free education, for instance. I think that would be preferable to any sort of student loans.
Comment · 4 months ago
I don’t get it. How much do AC units cost in EU? I can buy one for, like, $200-300.
Comment · 4 months ago
Why not?
Comment · 4 months ago
Surely git’s source is already in LLM’s training corpus. So this is far from clean room approach.
Comment · 5 months ago
You wouldn’t get one if you followed the law and released the server.
Comment · 5 months ago
I find that most “techniques” are basically user hallucinations. Simple plan-write-refactor loops and trivial CLAUDE/AGENTS.md, generated by the harness itself, work nicely. Maaaaaaaaaybe write a skill or two, but usually it’s better to just write a script.
Comment · 5 months ago
I can’t compare raw intelligence of these models, and I certainly can’t say anything about their advances in mathematics (without repeating press releases). But, erm, does it really matter? It’s not like some engineer somewhere will vibe-calculate how much weight a bridge can hold.

Well, yes, someone probably will do that. But I’m pretty sure there will be consequences for the engineer errors in this vibe-calculations.

Comment · 5 months ago
I’ve used DeepSeek 4 Pro through Claude. It’s fine. Plans are similar to what sonnet/opus make. Same massage-the-plan -> massage-the-code loop. Maybe the code is a bit worse, but that’s the “months behind” thing.

The thing is, vast majority of code tasks aren’t a venture into the unknown. We as an industry for the most part build CRUD interfaces and dashboards. That can be achieved, with supervision, with frontier open-weights models quite well.

Comment · 6 months ago
The economy, not the workers :) It feels like pretty soon white collar workers will be in a “You have nothing to lose but your chains” situation. Except we are not as fit as the proletariat of the past.
Comment · 6 months ago
Look, it is calming to think that Trump is somehow a Russian agent, and not a sign of collapsing political class, but let’s be realistic here.

If it is indeed true, then Russia managed to put its puppet as The President of the United States of America. Twice. Without triggering any red flags from a dozen or so of US TLAs. That would be the best intelligence operation in the history of everything. At that point, USA should just put the chairs away and turn down the lights.

Epstein files yes, I grant you that.

Comment · 6 months ago
IP is what, four layers of protocols lower than OAUTH?
Comment · 6 months ago
Doesn't USA do that all the time with .com and such?

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