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Corporations are already pulling back from using expensive SotA closed models. The buffet is open weight. Just look at Databricks as an endpoint provider for both open weight and c…

I had created my own chat tool that can render html responses directly in the chat interface, if needed. It is very handy for when I am needing rich(er) responses dealing for mathe…

Ask yourself what monks did when scribes were replaced by the printing press. If I was a scribe at the time I’d be thrilled because of all that extra time available to work on beer…

About 20 years ago I maintained a shop floor control client/server application. I asked my manager why we didn't have any independent Q/A. He said we didn't need any testers becaus…

Coverage of Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing has focused almost entirely on software vulnerabilities. That is where the demos are and where controlled releas…

Microslop? Its more like they are taking a Macro-crap.

Ugh, memories. I'm so old my first web browser was Mosaic and I think I saw this. I used a provider called Texas MetroNet that served up dial-up PPP connections for $45 a month on …

On a related note, when the sales and popularity of the automobile really started to take off, some farmers and rural residents would deliberately block roads with wagons and refus…

Per Anthropic’s RCA linked in Ops post for September 2025 issues: “… To state it plainly: We never reduce model quality due to demand, time of day, or server load. …” So according …

Ask this question in the 1940s and they would tell you it’s math. We are making machines that do math to kill Nazis. Now take this vacuum tube and plug it in over there and then go…

Three words to solve this problem: direct mail marketing. Just kidding, that just goes into my RL trash can.

It is like SQL injection. Probably worse. If you are using unsupervised data for context that ultimately generates executable code you will have this security problem. Duh.

HeidiSQL is written with Lazarus/FPC.

It was kind or that way in early days of high end personal computing. I remember seeing an ad in the early 90s for a 486 laptop that was $6,000. Historically prices have always gon…

Yeah, the problem is if you don't understand the problem space then you are going to lean heavy on the LLM. And that can lead you astray. Which is why you still need people who are…

I’m seriously thinking about getting a custom made bumper sticker with the following text: ‘; select 1/0;

DRY is more about support and maintenance than anything else. I see a lot of attacks on DRY these days, and it boggles my mind. Maybe it is being conflated with over-engineering/pa…

Note to self: invest in a used book store ASAP.

I experimented with cc65 and wrote a simple game that ran on my actual C64 hardware. It was a lot of direct memory access, unrolling loops, and avoiding stack usage. A fun time ove…

OK MS. The first thing I'll do is rebind it to run llamafile.exe

That is correct. I have lived in Tornado Alley for a half century. Serious tornadoes have landed all over my local area over the years, but I have also never even seen so much as a…

The thing about learning in general is that it inherently introduces biases. I imagine you could train up a genocidal maniac LLM with the right data sets.

Tic-80 is what you are looking for.

Low code has been a thing in ETL data integration space for a long time. Anecdotally the most consternation I have experienced lately has been supporting buggy low code implementat…

Ernie stating Nixon as its favorite president is not really surprising. This is a common opinion among those in mainland PRC. Nixon and Kissinger are perceived as good guys that he…