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I’m not sure we are at the top. Swarmed lower tier models appear to scale up in competence. So something like a Fable swarm running at 100x the speed might provide surprises. But ”…

I don’t think average user _needs_ to solve frontier challenges. ”Call to Jane”, ”turn on the lights” and ”what’s the weather this afternoon” is more like it I would guess. Ofc if …

Weird - I would have expected Disney of all streamers to respect IP better given how dependent they are on IP.

To me "explosive" means it comes unannounced and evacuates bowels within few seconds, ovepowering any sphincter resistance. If that's your normal poop maybe seek medical advice.

Whoa the acceleration from the start surprised me. It’s huge and it just … zipped off the pad like a bullet (ok not real bullet but still).

Hmm I never could get the DWARF debug information to hook up properly, must give this a try next time I need to return to the topic. If you don't mind - what's your specific setup …

" it's cross-platform" Nothing in real time graphics _actually_ is cross platform. You are always programming a vendor hardware. "Cross platform" really has no value in graphics pr…

"The "universal" nature of WebGPU with the "web" focus feels a lot like the graphics API equivalent of WASM" Having shipped non-trivial WASM code in two projects That's not a posit…

TBH to me she reads as high performing idealist, not naive. Different things, may give similar signals.

"insufferable and very naive." IMHO she is just not from US. US culture _is_ totally foreign to anyone not from there. Read the part where she describes her interactions with New Z…

If you loved Catch-22 you will love ”Careless people”! I warmly recommend a read. Not to support Sarah necessarily - just because the book is great! It’s not really a spill-the-tea…

”Web compilers are dime-a-dozen” Oh didn’t know that! What is the best for ”compiles to wasm in browser” featureset?

I came to the comments exactly for this ("wait I thought we 'knew' this already"). I'm so happy we have HN with likeminded people and no noise.

Hiit training can use any type of exercise that allows quick change of pace. The routine in Tabata’s original HIIT work was just cycling. Crossfit afaik is a more complex affair th…

"hiit also causes a lot of damage in a lot of ways" Oh! I didn't know about this. Are there any references you could quote?

There is no bad publicity! I wonder if OpenAI explicilty asked for this.

I could read this as black comedy. "Take him to a psychologist" was standard playbook in soviet block to silence dissent. Everyone knows of the gulag archipelago but just declaring…

No, read the post. This is directly copying another product. "Vibe coding" which may or may not have happened is not the point here.

If you need this stuff in production I recommend getting a good computer graphics textbook. These cheat sheets are convenient _if you already know what you are doing_ and _are conf…

"The boss" is not who says what is good enough. Ultimately it's the customer. In many industries it seems good enough is not very good. Then there are industries where the customer…

On the topic of public engineering projects overall, I'm wondering are there better books on this topic than Robert Caro's "Power broker"? Which is basically "Soul of a new machine…

I guess they can say "Made in China, designed by Apple in California" in the packaging but at least they still take pride in the design. With AI it sounds you are disavowing also t…

"Founding cannot be a commodity. If it is, you have no moat or point, meaning you instantly collapse again, because you are an interchangeable commodity." IMHO you still need to fi…

This! The only way to get to a stable system at least with c/c++ source, where you can hunt bugs, is to have a fairly large unit test coverage. When something fails - add that as t…

"has already replaced several software engineers. " I think this is incorrect, unless your friends employed software engineers, or would have employed software engineers.