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My recently-purchased Google Pixel 10 Pro has an unlockable bootloader. (Although it may be locked if you buy it through a provider). And, for a nominal one-time payment, you can r…

Silly theory for why minor sounds sad: Say "ah", like you've just discovered something interesting. Now say "ah" like you've been told something sad. Notice the pitch difference? A…

I've done that for transpilation from SAOL (an MPEG 4 historically curious language) to C++. It does make it incredibly easy to write the compiler. The big drawback that I never ma…

Claude 4.6+ seem to work fine with my React/typescript apps.

No thank you.

Written by a human != correct.

Twitter posts never die if you never post to Twitter in the first place.

Harry Potter would have posted the original video to YouTube instead. It seems like a tragic irony, and perhaps a sign of danger, that OP posted the demo video to the website of He…

Those are both extraordinarily low profit margins. Good on them!

I'm wondering how "everything just costs twice for exactly the same thing because it's Apple" factors into the equation.

Is this actually new? Looks like a standard US export restriction for encryption technology to me. These sorts of restrictions have been around since the '90s. Let's Encrypt become…

Which one?, out of curiosity.

https://arxiv.org/html/2510.05179v1 16 frontier models from multiple vendors all showing significant "alignment" issues, and tendencies to act "unethically" when threatened with sh…

... and to answer your question directly. No. I don't think claude could do it unless you guide it very carefully through the process. You need to have a pretty good idea of what n…

Current state of the art in guitar emulations are Neural Amp Modeler Core A2 plugins, which are dramatically better than Line6 amp emulations. (See the results of large scale liste…

Also not getting the downvotes. It's not a rhetorical question; it's a question looking for an answer. If somebody could explain why "Scope" gets should get precious space in the t…

Yeah,don't use GPT for that. It really can't do basic arithmetic. Try Claude, which can.

I'm not mostly Claud-ing it. Perhaps I should. But in the difficult bits, it never ceases to amaze me what these tools are able to do. Yes, if it matures, it will go open source. N…

I'm not getting why "scope" gets any priority at all. Are filenames not attached to a commit for those exceedingly rare cases where you're looking for which files are thrashing?

Working on a Spice compiler to convert schematics for classic guitar pedals into real-time executable code. I provided a reference to a The Spice Manual 2nd ed. a page number and a…

You are oversimplifying. They do produce one word per cycle. But they can also have context buffers carrying up to two million tokens, which is most definitely larger than your mea…

I point of sorts. Assuming that is true (I don't think it is), the big question that urgently needs to be addressed is what happens when we DO give LLMs tools to interact with the …

Millenia, in fact. The big difference, of course, being that we now have experimental philosophy machines (aka computers). So we can actually put some of these theories to the test…

The false conclusion that's being drawn is "therefore LLMs could not be good models of consciousness" (consciousness being a cognitive capacity). Plus, I suppose a subtle implicati…

The "some cognitive capacity" that's relevant to the current discussion is "consciousness".