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I thought it went without saying that GPT 5.6 Sol is the wrong model to use for things like filtering tweets. Apparently not?

Almost never do software companies even attempt to design secure systems. I'm not sure this requires new fundamental research so much as slightly giving a shit.

Bullshitting is how LLMs work . It doesn't require active encouragement. All it takes is a machine without consciousness or physical access to the world and an actually-lived life.…

When Apple Sherlocks something, aren't their implementations usually worse? Typically the thing being Sherlock'd is very mature and featureful, and Apple's implementation is much l…

To be clear, this does technically meet the very minimal commitment[1] they gave when announcing the acquisition: > In the coming weeks, we will relicense all of our source-availab…

Writing better exams, even if they're more expensive to grade, and removing homework from grading as far as possible addresses this problem well wherever it's applicable. Senior-le…

Whether things like "intelligence", "cognitive ability", and "aptitude" (some of which may be synonyms depending on your view) are innate vs. learned or fixed vs. variable over tim…

IQ is about aptitude and credentials on specific topics are about knowledge and skills. It's the wrong thing to optimize for. Besides, high-IQ students can still underperform for m…

You can't make people more knowledgeable by not attempting to measure their knowledge. You can maybe try to improve things for subsequent generations. But issuing a false credentia…

https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14293%2FS... The average university attendee's IQ is virtually indistinguishable from the average person's IQ. People don't go to…

I love the Asahi project and I'll probably keep my oldest M-series Mac around to continue to play with Asahi. But even for the oldest Macs it supports, the feature list is not quit…

I was seduced by Apple Silicon after experiencing the exceptional battery life and performance. Those things are great, as are the screens and the speakers. But I'm still excited a…

Thanks! Love the game as a whole :)

I got "overblocked" for this one: rm -rf node_modules && npm install but actually if you're only removing `node_modules` and you have a working package-lock.json already, what you …

> It surprises me because I'm often asked why I knew X or Y odd perhaps esoteric fact or design pattern. Usually it's because I came across it in a book interested in something els…

When I wrote the comment you replied to here, I of course had Sabayon in mind. Sabayon had some loveliness beyond that surface level, too. If the distro still existed (MocaccinoOS …

That's great! Thanks for informing me. :D

Kinda surprising that this doesn't support Linux. Podman can transparently start microVMs instead of local containers via libkrun as well, which does support Linux: https://josecas…

SARIF is kinda nice for security-oriented linters imo, since lots of tools know how to speak it. It avoids lock-in that way, which is otherwise/previously pretty common, with every…

That's exactly the kind of flashy, gaming-forward distro I was drawn to as a teenager. Good times :)

I think internal organizations of employees of various shapes (unions, affinity groups, "employee resource groups") can be useful for diversity and inclusion issues. But you also n…

The FSF's purpose in writing the GPL is the protection of end-user freedom , including the freedom to inspect and modify the code (or paying someone else to do so) of whatever soft…

IANAL > Someone reverse engineered the plug-in and put it into orca slicer and then claimed that the plugin should have been GPLed to begin with which I find dubious. I don't reall…

GitLab isn't open-source. It's "open-core". Third parties hosting GitLab instances don't have access to the same range of features that GitLab-the-company does.