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noah34

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About noah34

currently writing software for one of my nation's largest commercial insurers

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    Comment #48594372

    the website is still up, but has been read-only since 2006. the site does not support https, so please use caution.

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    Comment #48541723

    not surprised about the power user gap section. In my org we have some devs who burn their token allotment in the first day of the month, and never write code by hand, as well as o…

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    Comment #48541623

    I always feel like there are gaps between benchmarks and real-world performance on all models, but especially open models as of late. I've used deepseek and kimi (albeit 2.6) exten…

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    Comment #48541564

    i've been wondering recently if defense against prompt injection is more reliant on system prompt + fine-tuning and reinforcement training, or if it is simply how smart your model …

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    Comment #48541529

    to be honest i forgot chromebooks exist and now that you mention them i think they're the best solution for anyone whose computer is simply a medium to access a web browser

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    Comment #48536068

    i've lost track of which agreement we are on

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    Comment #48535399

    crazy that they send me emails for all kinds of other bullshit but not this

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    Comment #48535363

    to many people, Windows, IS "computer"

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    Comment #48535349

    good luck getting ol' grandma to flash her desktop with Fedora/equivalent

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    Comment #48535333

    must be all those damn openclaws

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    Comment #48535279

    good intentions or not, they are letting people have their money back - not that this would put a dent in current enterprise spend anyways

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    Comment #48533780

    they've been offering refunds for people specifically because of the Fable situation