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justincormack

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    Comment #49215603

    Databricks will be using the API anyway, thats all you get with an enterprise agreement.

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    Comment #49200758

    2001 did have an original score, but it was thrown out and replaced with classical music

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    Comment #49165881

    I think the interesting thing is that within 25 years or so of the invention of the "bicycle proper" the bike engineers (the Wright brothers) had already invented the airplane.

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    Comment #49158737

    I find most of the time it would be fine on its own, but every now and again you avoid a really bad degradation through guidance. Some kinds of big change definitely problematic.

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    Comment #49143375

    Yeah, or cryptographically secure non guessable addresses.

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    Comment #49132709

    The London version of this is Spiegelhalters, in the middle of the ornate facade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickhams_(department_store)

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    Comment #49131861

    But only 5Gb not 10Gb

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    Comment #49101930

    Its likely written in Java, so memory safe.

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    Comment #49101921

    That is the threat model, that is supposed to be safe isolated access in a vpc that isolated applications can access but it has external access.

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    Comment #49069533

    re "An LLM also pointed that out, so I guess it must have been a different one which implemented it?" - no, there is no correlation between whether the same LLM is used and whether…

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    Comment #49068316

    You can rent one in the cloud to try it

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    Comment #48961786

    The output of Anthropic's models is not Anthropic's IP, as that would destroy their market, if Anthropic owned all the software it generated, and all the content. So distillation, …

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    Comment #48904329

    The codebase is large because its a complex problem and its around 75% tests. Have used various tools to find duplicates and they arent there to any significant extent.

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    Comment #48904010

    Use Secretive so your ssh keys are stored in the secure enclave. Keeping private keys in files is the 1990s security…

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    Comment #48893651

    No its fine. The problem is trying to read all the code. Reading some is fine. I tend to focus on public APIs, and key areas. But not the thousands of lines which arre tests or wil…

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    Comment #48893585

    At 600k lines of Rust, not finding those issues yet. You can search for different versions of same concepts, I mean you need to refactor a lot anyway.

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    Comment #48874699

    Thats not true. Almost no consumer systems ship with SGX.

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    Comment #48779511

    Micron have sold RAM for the next 4 years at current prices, so there are buyers expecting this to stay the same.

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    Comment #48706093

    The machine only has pcie4x4 so 50Gb bandwidth, pcie3 would halve that to 25Gb Thats the problem with these AMD laptop class cores, they have very little IO. They have been saying …

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    Comment #48705265

    They can exploit binaries too eg see this vulnerability in github https://www.wiz.io/blog/github-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-38...

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    Comment #48690080

    I didn't post it 3 hours ago, it must have gone through the magic HN re-up process.

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    Comment #48685457

    Not software developers, they were already flocking to Apple M series machines with more RAM and cores before LLMs.

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    Comment #48685097

    It won't be out of the public eye if it is part of Linux Foundation, it will be open.

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    Comment #48685078

    The corporate environments were here too, most companies used to run on Windows server. 20 years ago companies used to pretend they didnt use Linux, but they were, it was just intr…

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    Comment #48673000

    At least 3 years maybe more.