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I don't like the UX but the extra controls on ebook rendering was worth the pain for me, since almost all of my time is just reading the ebook anyways.

My assumption is that it exacerbates it, by keeping the primary predator of rats well fed. Are you saying that cats have no impact on rat populations?

When I lived in Chicago I'd see rats and cats eating cat food left out alongside each other. I'm not against helping wild animals as long as it doesn't come with a rat infestation …

Thankfully as of now it appears they're very explicit about what content they share that is sponsored. They might be worried about the legislative backlash if they don't.

Regressions is a meaningless metric to me. Every app has bugs, and most are either rarely encountered or aren't breaking the app. All I care about is interruption of service.

Yeah it's a real catch-22. I think you're right though, LLM tech will keep up just enough to replace that lost workforce, till some day development as we know it will no longer exi…

The difference is that you already learned how to write code. New devs that go straight to genai are missing that.

LLMs are perfectly capable of translating between programming languages at this point. The main bottleneck for them is logic, not language.

You do get a public IPv6 IP, which is fine for most people (and with a simple script on a cron can keep a AAAA up to date, not that it changes often). And like someone else said, i…

Starlink is a problem that solves itself. If enough fiber rolls out that there's no more customers, they'll scale back satellites (since they only last 3-5 years).

Kind of refreshing though that the "throw more processing at it" scaling we saw in the 90s has returned in a different way. For a while we were really bottlenecked in our advances …

Anthropic wants companies that use API billing. Their growth period through hooking individual users who bring it to the business is over.

Lots of small moving parts that build up into a large architected platform, which requires careful design, otherwise you get a big ole ball of "it mostly works when we first create…

This is a genius way to farm ebooks while providing a useful service. I personally just use Google drive though.

That's not what is happening. Claude isn't charging for the tokens it generates from the OCR on its side, but it's still processing the same number of tokens as if you had sent the…

Using only Fable, if I do /usage it will show both Fable and Opus usage, so I don't think it's charging Fable prices for Opus code gen.

This is a misleading statement. The "private data" is still largely publicly produced data that has been curated through private agreements instead of scraping, such as reddit post…

Supposedly memristors would be ideal for this (and it would be reprogrammable), but then again, memristors seem to be the carbon nanotubes of the computing world.

This is signaling to non-US companies that Anthropic cannot provide reliable access to their models.

It also signals that Anthropic is a bad choice if you need stable access to their product outside the US.

It's ironic isn't it? All the marketing of how dangerous and powerful Mythos is and the government went "bet".

The whole point of async/await (besides allowing synchronous style code instead of callbacks) is that it lets you yield the thread efficiently back to the executor (OS threads have…

You're still cutting your annual income in half though. That's pretty big no?

To this day I do not get why Intel doesn't just offer massive memory options for their cards. Just charge what it costs to add the extra memory, no upcharge, and they will never be…