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Am I missing something? A quick search for electric ranges on Home Depot shows simmerstats at every price range. The harder one is induction, where there are lots of touch controls…

I think (outside hobbies) new programming language development is basically dead at this point. The major use cases have been filled, and there are more forces than ever towards us…

Searle* strikes again! * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

This story is shared all the time, but what airport actually did this? I’m not aware of any major US hub that meaningfully delays passenger egress like this.

The difference is nobody is getting loyalty status on their elevator.

Cruft complaints aside, what are people actually doing about this? Claude's prose output is becoming incomprehensible as its coding skill increases, and the concepts it needs to ex…

Is that including cache reads? It seems improbable that (a) you actually filled 1000 1M contexts and (b) OpenAI allowed that in a $100 subscription window.

> Every day, draft two posts and three replies for my approval. Shudders

Personally I tend to assume anyone talking about VTI knows about the risk-free rate.

What is it a license for, though? Copyright? Are model weights even copyrightable?

AI is big in GPU terms but in raw bytes the whole token economy is laughably tractable. Case in point: OpenRouter is serving 60T tokens a week, but this is all human text and code …

I won't claim strong enthusiasm for Sprites, but in my experience (albeit way back in 2021) Fly's support was absolutely top-notch, up to and including Kurt personally working with…

The AI sandbox play also confuses me because (aside from the fractional pay-as-you-use billing) it's trivially implemented on top of any VM/container as a service provider. Given t…

Interesting to see that Gemini (which I assume wrote this entire article and site) has the exact same over-stylized italic serif preference as Claude does.

This brought back fond memories of my favorite kebab cart in college. Looked back at their cart on Google Maps and some of the menu items are just the same image stretched differen…

I wish there were a way to universally ban these embedded browser flows. Aside from oauth they serve no use to the end user and are primarily designed to inflate company engagement…

Looking at these pages reminds me of browsing jellybean components on DigiKey. Amazing for the consumer, but one does wonder: What are all these DotAI infra companies’ plans to jus…

A shocking number of devices are continuously reporting location data over random unencrypted protocols. What’s worse, they’re often sending the data to cloud IPs that aren’t even …

> What are we automating? Human work or human agency? Human tasks or human thinking? I find it's so easy to convince oneself they're doing the former when it's increasingly the lat…

That's not OP's contention though; it's that models are incapable of even surfacing sufficient information. This doesn't pass the smell test. To wit, here is ChatGPT's "superintell…

Am I missing something here? Bike tires are pretty much the easiest tires to change. You don’t even really need irons and it involves a few very basic steps.

Best way to go about this is just blackhole SPF so it never passes, then set your DMARC alignment to strict. This approach prevents SPF from satisfying DMARC on the vast majority o…

It’s pretty common to type check interface implementations in Go using package-level casts.

Severity of the underlying issue aside, it's interesting that the exploitation vector of this prompt injection relies on the human behind the channel themselves being prompt inject…

Do you use rinse aid?