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I suspect it depends a lot on the llm/harness being used. But when I use Opus/cc or sol/codex, at the end of the turn everything compiles, passes tests, and passes lint. I never ev…

Ive been amazed at how well LLMs are at writing Gleam[1] and Lustre[2]. Compared to a mainstream language, there is basically zero gleam code in the training data. I have no eviden…

I’m assuming the data for Europe is largely correct, but a lot of the per country data doesn’t pass the smell test to me. Afghanistan (35 days), Libya (45), Yemen (46), etc. what p…

I would highly recommend https://diysolarforum.com/ and Will Prowse on YouTube. Thats how I made my solar/battery system. And it passed city inspection.

If 3.8 max goes open weight, what are the odds they retroactively open weight the earlier releases?

$28m actually seems worse. If I wake to a $100b bill, that’s obviously a mistake. If I wake up to a bill in the millions then my first thought would be “oh no what did I do wrong, …

The current taalas chip is for a 3.1B param model. I’m hope so much that they can get that up to the 30B range. Just imagine Gemma 4 or Qwen 3.6 at 17k tps.

I believe they got rid of the smaller battery. Before the tax credit was removed, they were sourcing a more expensive battery. After the credit was removed the switched to a cheape…

I was browsing Amazon and I found one “author” with over 100 published in the last 12 months. And they weren’t cheap either. Most were $50 or more for the paperback version. It rea…

> Under this commercial agreement, Meta will provide funding to support the deployment of the Natrium plants, with delivery of initial units as early as 2032 The wording there impl…

> Unlike our interventions for cybersecurity, biology and chemistry, and distillation attempts, these safeguards will not be visible to the user. Fable 5 will not fall back to a di…

For sure not everyone can self host (though I suspect most tech and tech adjacent companies can). But all the existing “safe/trusted” cloud providers will offer cheaper models. The…

> but most of them will just pay 10 or 20 times or more for AI than they used to pay until now. At my work, after the GitHub price hike, we all got the option of 1. Keep using Gith…

I just did an install to add solar and batteries to my shed to power lights and an AC. It was pretty easy. Hardest part was flattening the ground since I did a ground mount system.…

The best part of a quiz everyday is that in addition to the testing effect, you can easily fit in the spacing effect and interleaving effect. It’s a rock solid combo, that is well …

Apparently there is a way to solve this without brute forcing all the combinations. It has to do with looking at how many even an odd numbers there are, and taking into account the…

Hmm, they misspelled Gleam. In seriousness, Go is a good choice. Or at least it’s not a bad choice, I’d definitely pick go over many other languages. If go had a better type system…

I’m trying to use my phone less and less. Ideally I’d like to even switch a dumb phone. But tactics like this will make that nearly impossible if every website starts requiring a Q…

List is missing OpenAI’s Sora.

> 95% of Uber engineers now use AI tools monthly with 70% of committed code originating from AI. Well, that’s to be expected when using AI tools becomes relevant in your performanc…

I tried zed sometime ago, and the limiting factor was devcontainer support. It looks like they’ve made some progress there https://zed.dev/docs/dev-containers

I’ve never worked with SmallTalk professionally, so I could be mistaken. I know you can write/compile SmallTalk source code. But my understanding is that this wasn’t the way it’s i…

I’ve very slowly been trying to do the “99 problems” list in each of these languages groups. It’s been a fun experience seeing the differences. Though I think I would need a larger…

> Fiberhood coop sells a 16kWh battery for $1800 Is that available in the US? Can you share a link? That’s an amazing deal. I’ve been recommending server rack batteries (5kwh for $…

> But I keep wondering if they could integrate at a lower-level than the source code. I’m sure they could, but targeting go source code has the benefit of giving early adopters an …