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pbronez
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Comment #49263533
Aren’t they already separated? Max is an inference runtime, written in Mojolang, which uses the MLIR compiler chain to target diverse accelerator hardware.
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Comment #49262348
Interesting that the pricing is "Cursor Ultra" and "Cursor Premium Teams." This very much feels like the Code --> Cowork product iteration.
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Comment #49242522
WWZ the movie takes almost nothing from the book beyond the title. Huge missed opportunity. The book uses a future history format and digs into practicalities. For example, people …
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Comment #49222086
Cool how they integrated both huge machine-scale data and smaller human-curated data for this project. > The model was co-trained on two distinct data modalities: global weather dy…
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Comment #49222053
Insightful paper, thanks for sharing. Two things stand out to me. First, it reinforces that you want methods that get better with more data. It emphasizes that the current approach…
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Comment #49204312
It’s tricky to compete with your own suppliers. For example, see Microsoft’s dance with Dell & HP when they launched Surface. How do you plan to keep the CMs happy while you’re ope…
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Comment #49204293
Some financial engineering could help here too. That abandoned inventory is useful to somebody, but warehousing can be non trivial… how do you get liquid and reroute the parts? The…
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Comment #49204234
Credit based on a SBIR is a great idea. Seems like something the Small Business Administration should offer.
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Comment #49172207
Because most forges sell private repos as their primary business model. I encounter Codeberg as a forge first, then have to dig in to discover that it's a highly opinionated servic…
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Comment #49168644
There are many search APIs available, I like Kagi's. Microsoft and Amazon both provide web snapshot services that purport to give you a kind of agent-first internet archive. You ca…
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Comment #49163551
Yeesh how bleak
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Comment #49155368
And this is fine! This is the whole point of living in a civilization. Master your craft, get useful, trade with people who know other useful things, everyone is better off. You co…
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Comment #49155212
I once had a customer threaten to reject a delivery over a CVE. I dug into it. The CVE was that an Ocaml PostgreSQL client didn’t implement an authentication feature. I convinced t…
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Comment #49082203
Pretty extreme solution… you can get Claude models from AWS Bedrock and Google Model Zoo. These are both very helpful for compliance and security, but do require you to have a clou…
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Comment #49082147
Yes. Fine tuning is an optimization. Like all optimizations, it’s downstream of figuring out your problem, implementing a naive solution, scaling the naive solution, and getting fr…
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Comment #49057078
Cool idea. Hard problem. To do this properly you need access to all communications of all family members. iMessage and email would be needed for my family to really take advantage …
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Comment #49050861
How do you get the flashing LED synced up to the spinning pinholes? Maybe the motor provides some positioning feedback so you just have to line it up once…
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Comment #49022586
This prompted me to revisit my own decision to avoid Codeberg by re-reading their Terms of Use[1]. A few things stand out: - They explicitly require all hosted software to have a F…
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Comment #49021161
Nice use of regression analysis to understand your experimental dataset > But again, some combinations might be just harder to draw than others. > To account for that, I fit a fixe…
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Comment #49020853
Great article… been worrying about this one quite a bit: > If these tools demand expertise, yet the tools can actively circumvent the friction that cultivates expertise, then what …
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Comment #48997531
How does "standard Bolt" relate to OpenCypher? Does Bolt support imply OpenCypher support?
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Comment #48906323
The medium is the message! Well written.
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Comment #48893358
Feels like a reaction to the Fivetran/DBT merger. That was announced October 2025 but operationally is just getting some steam. Airbyte is probably also part of the story.
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Comment #48831566
Yes it’s an add for a book but it does provide a sample chapter: https://nostarch.com/download/samples/automate-excel-with-py...