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I've been writing my own, out of curiosity, with gemma4. I've been surprised how far I'm getting.

There's another problem here which is that there isn't enough content. I've on multiple occasions now thrown various news perspectives into AI and asked it to research what the act…

Multimodal models are trained knowing how to understand encoded images. It really is magic. Base64 image data is a binary-to-text encoding scheme that represents image bytes as a p…

These sound like security nightmares.

How does security and isolation work? If someone else's account is compromised, how do I know I won't be? If instant is compromised, how do I know I won't be?

When a political party controls the science, you end up with say, Trump pushing one set of results, and Biden pushing another. It then becomes either pick the science that agrees w…

Every few days I would log on. I was only 10-14 years old. It spread by word of mouth, and I just happened to have access to my dad's computer that had a modem. I'd hop on and play…

Google for nonprofits is extremely generous. It's really not that bad in the end, and you only set it up once for a lot of benefit.

The trial and error was fueled by capitalism, trying to get the best product possible. If it goes into a codified state system, it's regulated, resulting in a lack of motivation to…

-ish. I often keep md files around and after a successful task. I ask Codex to write the important bits down. Then, when I come around to a similar task in the future, I have it st…

I think that's not wrong. Same principle, different sin... it looks like gambling, or the occult, or...

As a devout Baptist minister, this is likely about one of two things, avoiding the appearance of evil (gambling, 1 Thess 5:22 - Abstain from every form of evil), and giving up some…

Sure, but let's say you do EKS, you set it up once and then it's mostly done, including security, etc. You set up your own, then you upgrade every 6 months manually.... this is a c…

This takes time and effort, thus, lost opportunity cost. The thing that makes these providers worth it, is that it lets the business focus on their core competencies and just add-o…

Missed a link?

I found this pretty interesting, but would love to either see external inputs (news feed), or perhaps give the models more space. It seems like they might start collaborating more …

I'm curious if running them at slightly lower voltage would fix it or if it's a software thing.

or (3) get a battery

My first thought was why would someone halt their socials? Too much holiday time? Then I realized this was social media :-P. Socials to me are precisely NOT social media. Is this a…

Large software projects are an interesting use case because once you get large is precisely when the framework becomes valuable. A large enterprise project will need security, test…

We have format commits so that we have separate non-logic commits that don't have to be aggravated over if we find files are all off.

California refineries are set to shut down and it has huge implications for the state: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/business/energy-environme...

It's like the invention of the washing machine. People didn't stop doing chores, they just do it more efficiently. Coders won't stop being, they'll just do more, compete at higher …

Well, and I think the future of LLMs is not just in the pure LLM, but the agentic ones. LLMs with deterministic tools to ferret out specifics. We're only starting here but the resu…

As someone who's sat on both sides of the table, getting tickets done is incredibly valuable. I don't really think an engineer is worth their salt if they can't do this. However, t…