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Consumers would buy bread with sawdust and then, upon learning about it, expect the sawdust to come out and the price to stay the same

They will monitor and if "too many" people are still doing normal software installs (I refuse to call it "sideloading" when that properly refers to pushing software from a differen…

Marketing types have started subbing in "Operating System" for "Platform" lately. And, because it feels bold and fresh to them, they often name whole product an "OS" when they do t…

Yup. Adopting a month-old Postgres release is quite aggressive. It's much more prudent to start considering adoption after it's had six to twelve months of battle testing. Adopting…

That's fine, but it should still have the same technical availability level

That's another problem Google have: they won't stand behind their products until they are outdated. That can work in the B2C space but it's horrible in B2B.

Sounds delightfully like something the Chongqing Punk would say

Models don't even agree with themselves in terms of returning identical results

It frankly doesn't matter how much human effort went into finding the vulnerability, it just matters if it exists, how severe it is, and how easy it is to exploit.

It sure is suspicious that both Anthropic (adaptive thinking) and OpenAI (Avoid generic brevity instructions) both seem to be suggesting that the best way to improve outcomes is to…

The backfiring is baked in, if you think about it: This program is going to die in just a few days, while Sony is going to continue selling physical games for years.

Something I haven't been able to figure out.... How are you supposed to actually get an API key to use quota from your subscription? The terms of service still forbid using OAuth a…

While the gist of what you say is true, it is hard to get very good at treating them as instruments when they keep getting replaced with new, ostensibly-better versions every few m…

I believe this is an attempt to try out a possible answer to the problem of "If AI makes it non-viable for individual companies to pay junior devs, there will be no junior devs". T…

So, the author gave the model single sentence prompts like "Balatro, but for the game of coin flips" plus generic encouragement like "make it better" three times ended up with netl…

In the age of AI, perhaps it will be more common to see major forks of open-source projects emerge, with the upstream back-porting a few of the larger features themselves because t…

Essentially every keyboard key is mechanical. Most "mechanical keyboards" are using Cherry MX or Cherry MX-like key switches. The key switches in these are as different in design f…

In the second half of last year, I found that agentic coding with proprietary models (≈ vibe coding) reached the point where it actually speeds up my ability to deliver useful code…

| Technically, once a model is initialised, that's it. That is a model. If released, that would be, even for the most pedantic absolutists, undoubtably open source. That is true. B…

I know it comes off as pedantic to point this out but: Those are open weight models not open source models. Closed weight models are the equivalent of SaaS. Open weight models are …

Models not being able to reliably know if they are out of their depth is a foundational limitation of the currently generation of models, though. Best they can do is to somewhat re…

I believe they're referring to the fact that if almost all of your code is written by junior developers without mentorship, you will end up wasting a lot of your development budget…

They kind of actually are, though. Not because they use CSV's but because, as an industry, they have not figured out how to reliably create, exchange, and parse well-formed CSV's.

It depends. On its own, UBI puts a downward pressure on the value of money. Some other things (e.g. setting low interest rates) also put a downward pressure on the value of money. …