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avarun

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About avarun

Varun Arora, varun [at] varun [dot] codes

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/varunarora; my proof: https://keybase.io/varunarora/sigs/wKOHSwQ2CrIeEblomNw37xlU4pIRclWlhWkPfSoEEE4 ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49077576

    How do people publish these websites that are full of Claude-isms and slop-writing and feel proud of themselves? A single cursory read of this page with fresh eyes would tell you t…

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    Comment #48983867

    Unfortunately, Apple made the decision to have that be an opt-in flag for developers, and so the vast, vast majority of iPad apps don't allow themselves to be used on macOS.

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    Comment #48983791

    Sure, but the fact that you can just install Sodium completely obviates the need for the Bedrock version to exist at all.

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    Comment #48983777

    And also it has worse performance than Java if you just install a basic optimization modpack like Adrenaline on Java, which many players do. There's effectively ~zero reason to use…

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    Comment #48852932

    GPT-6 is supposed to be using a much larger base model that just finished pretraining so the "dump another chunk of all written language" approach is still going strong.

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    Comment #48852911

    This has absolutely nothing to do with the comment you replied to.

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    Comment #48779653

    I get 6% back instead of 5% with my Amazon card which is more than enough to incentivize me in many situations.

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    Comment #48768532

    As long as this is actually about "sale" of data and actually imposes strict limits on data brokers and all the nefarious actors out there, I am all for it. If it's more similar to…

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    Comment #48681135

    This is reddit-tier analysis that is commonly repeated and completely incorrect. The Democratic Party in America has policy positions that are significantly to the left of left-win…

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    Comment #48679643

    Your passkey login doesn't even work. I think the nature of Claude usage here goes a bit beyond "some polish". (For reference, signing back in with a passkey seems to be impossible…

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    Comment #48679446

    Yes. It is, significantly. More people die every year of heat waves in Europe than gun deaths in the US, and it's not even close. Youth unemployment in many European countries is e…

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    Comment #48679378

    I'm not sure what charts you guys are looking at, but this website clearly agrees that Grok is not right wing. Go look at the Worldview tab, filtering by United States. Each model …

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    Comment #48656711

    Extremely poor reasoning to assume that an author, upon reading his own primary writing once, is guaranteed to catch a typo of this nature.

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    Comment #48607065

    There's plenty of incentive if it causes your users to churn.

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    Comment #48564493

    Every single employee who joined prior to this year will make 8 figures+ off this exit.

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    Comment #48544934

    They've tripled on "cloud servers" (shared hardware) as well.

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    Comment #48544924

    Buried multiple links and scrolling deep, but looks like they're tripling prices for cloud servers in the US. What's the next best option now?

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    Comment #48458046

    There is no substance to the article to tackle. Ed Zitron is a clown that makes seven million dollars a year writing unsubstantiated bullshit on the internet. He has been consisten…

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    Comment #48451294

    Has to be a fuckup. watchOS 26 supported the Series 6 onwards. I don't think Apple has ever cut 3 generations of devices with a single yearly OS upgrade unless there's an underlyin…

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    Comment #48449888

    You didn't say seemingly.

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    Comment #48449851

    It is literally not. They clearly said that it uses their cloud.

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    Comment #48449832

    Wait what? Where did you see this? It would be crazy if the Series 9 doesn't get updated to the next watchOS

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    Comment #48449752

    Agreed, but seems like we're the odd ones out. I keep hearing how Liquid Glass is ok on iOS and terrible on macOS, but I actually think it's (slightly) better on macOS than on iOS.…

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    Comment #48449654

    1Password has been able to do this for five+ years. Frankly, it doesn't even really need agentic AI, although a talented team could probably make it perform better with agentic AI.…