zaroth

Joined 15 years ago

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Some of my endeavors; - Founder of TapLink, now called BlindHash - 2nd prize winner at MassChallenge 2016 - Co-Founder of Club Benchmarking and Dynamic Benchmarking - Bitcoin contributor (inventor of Micropayment Channels and first implementation of Stealth Addresses) - Operating an honest Tor Relay

Reach Out: jspilman at blindhash dot com

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Comment · 1 year ago
> The Service’s mandate allows it the wide-ranging ability to enter any government agency and access its software or technical systems with the goal of helping to streamline or reform existing systems.

That’s actually cool they have that ability. I’ve always been a huge fan of USDS, I think they just got massively supercharged, and look forward to watching them achieve this mission.

Comment · 1 year ago
Whatever you think a “rug pull” is, this ain’t it.

FOSS owes you literally nothing. Go build what you want for yourself, geez. Oh, and feel free to give it away to the world… OR NOT!

Comment · 1 year ago
Exactly what DeepSeek3 is doing.
Comment · 1 year ago
Tell me you haven’t used the latest models, without telling me you haven’t used the latest models?

They do hallucinate at times, but you’re missing a lot of real utility by claiming they are basically bullshit engines.

They can now use tools, and maintain internal consistency over long context windows (with both text and video). They can iterate fully autonomously on software development by building, testing, and bug fixing on real world problems producing usable & functioning code.

There’s a reason Microsoft is putting $80 billion dollars on the line to run LLMs. It’s not because they are full of shit!

Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe by the time it’s doing a trillion dollars a year of useful work (less than 10 years out) people will call it intelligent… but still probably not.
Comment · 1 year ago
Downvoted for… too conclusively proving OP wrong?
Comment · 1 year ago
I wish it were so! That was true until they turned this feature on by default.
Comment · 1 year ago
Everything about what they did was absolutely fantastic and amazing, until they turned it on by default.
Comment · 1 year ago
That doesn’t mean the first phone is waste! There’s nothing wrong with wanting to buy a new phone.

The law won’t reduce smartphone ewaste. It will just satisfy the people who want removable batteries over sleaker design.

The battery is serviceable and it can be done quite easily and cheaply. In fact it’s done billions of times over.

Really just nanny state regulation, which as typical, will not bring any benefit and impose tremendous compliance costs and actually make some products worse.

Comment · 1 year ago
I don’t even use iCloud Photos and this was on by default. Very bad move by Apple to ship my photos off my device, without my permission, in any shape or form, I don’t care.
Comment · 1 year ago
It’s not even advice, and it’s not wrong.
Comment · 1 year ago
They literally spent months trying to work out the bugs. It’s an absolute admonishment of AMD’s software stack.

Just look at their market value and it says everything you need to know about how much “better” AMD is than NVIDIA.

Comment · 1 year ago
You should not give these sites the benefit of rendering their own HTML.

Ask your agent to convert the URL to markdown, and read it in VS Code or whereever.

Comment · 2 years ago
That’s not, in fact, what Apple is saying.

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