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We need to see DeepSWE scores. SWE Bench Pro is junk.

Where did you get that idea? It uses mini-swe-agent, same as SWE-Bench. https://github.com/datacurve-ai/deep-swe

I don't know if DeepSWE is genuinely a good benchmark. It's more important that their analysis demolished the validity of SWE-Bench Pro, objectively: it is being mismarked. I think…

Given DeepSWE just blew apart the SWE-Bench Pro benchmark and handed a 14-point lead to GPT-5.5, it looks pretty bad that they've listed SWE-Bench first in the model release and no…

From a lot of game jam games with custom engines, I have a pretty standard approach: I set the game clock to zero timestep, and push a pause gamestate onto the gamestate stack, whe…

Are you using Stop hooks to keep Claude running on a task until it completes, or is it doing that by itself?

It's written by AI. I have made LLMs adopt the same tone by prompting to be engaging. Short sentences. Every point intended to land with impact. Artificial gravitas. I consider tha…

Finally, the "AI" turns out to be 700 Indians. We now have the full loop of humans asking machines asking humans pretending to be machines. Civilisation collapses

I'd argue this is the wrong design goal: correctness is more important. I'm in the UK but my work PC's Internet exit node is in New York due to enforced use of corporate proxies, s…

I don't think that is incompatible at all. It's a restatement of the same thing: If someone is right a lot they are likely not making assertions about things that they know nothing…

> > Nobody in their right mind would want to learn programming in BCPL > I agree, but that's not what the author thinks: The author of this document is Martin Richards, the creator…

What we call cornflour in British English, and cornstarch in US English, is flour heavily processed to remove everything except starch, giving a flavourless thickener. If you use w…

Also pipx isn't reproducible - it re-resolves dependencies so you may end up with different versions over time or in different places, eventually causing something to break. If you…

The finance industry mostly uses floats for currency, up until settlement etc. "What would I get for this share?" can be answered with a float. "What did I get for selling this sha…

> However the following is fine: > > case $a in > > No field splitting occurs here This kind of bullshit is how I made a career rewriting people's buggy shell scripts in Python

In reality it will just be a petrol car but they'll cheat on the emissions test.

Good. As someone who is a paid up OpenAI user I absolutely don't agree that there should be a role for a team screaming to put the brakes on because of some nebulous, imagined "exi…

Or just keep options open for the time being.

> Most popular solutions like Zip, gzip, tar, RAR, or 7-Zip are near or more than three decades old. If I can't extract .pack archives 3 decades from now, the use of SQLite 3 will …

> I would be interested in examples of code that users believe require cancellation-specific async code, though. This happens all the time. For example, cancellation in the middle …

Python imports are much more principled than sourcing bash though. They are executed in a new namespace, and subsequent imports reference that namespace directly instead of re-eval…

If you cannot do that you have Aphantasia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

Please don't use "word" to mean 16 bits. In an era when machine words are generally 64 bits, we're not talking about an anachronism from the previous generation, but the one before…

Mu uses the QScintilla editor from https://pypi.org/project/QScintilla/ , which is GPLv3.

I've heard that they will be available commercially next year through partners, but won't be distributed free to all students again.