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Yeah, the biology guardrails are so primitive and so heavy-handed that it makes it useless for pretty much anything.

It's effectively the same as the GB10 in the DGX Spark (Blackwell architecture, 6,144 CUDA cores, perf-wise comparable to an RTX 5070). I've found it very useful for running big mo…

As a bonus, it looks like they reset limits a few minutes ago -- I went from 53% of my weekly allotment to 0%.

> This liberal zoning system is reinforced by private access to city planning powers. Thirty percent of Japan’s urban land has been subject to land readjustment, where agreement am…

“From the depths of the WEB in Castle Evans, I summon thee, oh car, oh cdr; may thine parentheses ever match!”

“At this point, private individuals will not be able to obtain licences to the NanoMi platform.” Does “open source” have a different meaning in Canadian?

Cory Doctorow said it best: "Enshittification" https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-04-04...

I do hope that this leads to improvement in the HIP/ROCm software ecosystem. It’s definitely lacking in stability and polish compared to what NVIDIA has built. (Ask me why I’m on m…

My introduction to NFS was first at Berkeley, and then at Sun. It more or less just worked. (Some of the early file servers at Berkeley were drastically overcapacity with all the d…

I was using the definition of “let the LLM take the lead in writing the code, but review it afterwards“ so I don’t think our opinions are in conflict. I think of coding agents as “…

I don't think we're at odds: I think "vibe coding" is strictly for fun and for prototypes. However, people will misuse any tool, so having utilities to mitigate the risk isn't a ba…

I'm going to push back hard on the folks dunking on "vibe coders" -- I have been programming longer than most of you have been alive, and there are times when I absolutely do vibe …

Just the headline itself makes me think of the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” and we all know how that turned out.

Subsidized by Big Hook, no doubt.

Bladder cancer has a notoriously high recurrence rate, unfortunately. (I worked for years in NMIBC molecular diagnostics.)

Part of the problem, of course, is that the Tacoma is no longer even remotely small. I really want a modern version of a mid-90s Tacoma.

A well-known observation! “Sturgeon's law (or Sturgeon's revelation) is an adage stating ‘ninety percent of everything is crap’.”

Yes, lots of layoffs in biotech recently (Recursion is a big recent one, although some of that is post-merger restructuring after the Ex Scientia acquisition.)

Infravision! (For you D&D nerds out there.)

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This, 100%. Agile (properly done, for whatever value of “proper“ you choose) is fine for websites, apps, consumer facing stuff. For things that must work, in predictable fashion, f…

One important note: "With its advanced multi-quantum well structure and ring geometry, the laser minimizes the power consumption and the heat generation, enabling stable operation …