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cowboy_henk

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    Comment #49152197

    In the 1800s most families only had a single provider, so this percentage may have been higher back then than it is now.

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    Comment #49111528

    A 36% success rate on screwing in a light bulb means there's probably something to LeCunn's take that VLM/VLA models aren't going to be the thing powering tomorrow's robots, but on…

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    Comment #49058940

    Twitter is the “hype machine”. It’s basically the advertising arm disguised as a social media company. At SpaceX’s valuation, even a 1-2% increase in share price due to some astrot…

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    Comment #49018888

    We're also shareholders in all other publicly traded stocks (assuming you're referring to pension schemes etc), which means competition in the AI model market is better than a few …

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    Comment #48965940

    6USD per year adds about 0.016USD per day. Definitely more, still pretty cheap.

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    Comment #48739313

    The obvious response is the realization that spending trillions on training LLMs is not a viable business model if they can be distilled for a much lower cost.

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    Comment #48696680

    Especially if thinking is hidden now. No way to know if the model plotted against you until it’s too late.

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    Comment #48684424

    The main reason for adding a daily puzzle (or really the seeded RNG) is that part of the game loop is retrying the same seed to find the best lines for that map. Since all pieces a…

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    Comment #48683214

    Just fixed this, let me know if you run into more issues.

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    Comment #48682993

    Admittedly some of the auxiliary features were made with Claude's help, but I'd argue that's not what makes this interesting. The game (core loop, sprites, etc) were all made by ha…

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    Comment #48678474

    It was a matter of time I suppose. Would love to see the solver!

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    Comment #48678370

    There is some polish with Claude over the past few weeks, but we wrote the engine over 10 years ago actually. Each piece moves using a modified version of A* to simply find the sho…

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    Comment #48566631

    TNO literally stands for "Dutch Organisation for Applied Scientific Research" (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk).

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    Comment #48062838

    Pretty sure salaries at large tech companies are way higher in places like London, Zurich or Amsterdam than in Warsaw or Prague for example. Berlin may be closer to the eastern cou…

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    Comment #47949562

    Agreed, this is the main reason why I keep switching back to other editors.

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    Comment #47612183

    Isn't it much simpler than that? Dividends and profits are taxed. Reinvesting to grow revenue isn't. That's why you see companies doing stock buybacks; prevents them from paying ta…

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    Comment #47411076

    This only holds if you understand what's in the tests, and the tests are realistic. The moment you let the LLM write the tests without understanding them, you may as well just let …

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    Comment #47398204

    > sorry if this was not clear It's easy to make that mistake reading your post because of sentences like > I want to convince you that all of these things (except true master-less …

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    Comment #46657921

    That's a cynical take, but a more positive interpretation is that pivots are needed if your company isn't actually solving a problem. Otherwise people would pay for it, and the fou…

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    Comment #46276330

    If Apple started routing all iPhone/Mac traffic through some anonymizing VPN by default, services that block it would absolutely lose lots of customers.

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    Comment #46191622

    But wallets aren't associated with a real person by default, unless it's created through some service that does KYC. If you can get anonymous tokens in an anonymous wallet, who car…

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    Comment #45938201

    UIs made in the HyperText Markup Language are, in fact, text.