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9cb14c1ec0··on The two Christian saints who are the Buddha
> Writing Jesus into the canon 2000 years later as a seperate but equal entity was bound to be fraught with continuity issues.

If you pay any attention to Christian history, you would know that this goes back to the very founding instead.

9cb14c1ec0··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
Not necessarily. You might want to rate limit bots instead of disallowing them.
9cb14c1ec0··on The moral panic over data centres is foolish
> "sweeten" the deal for the local towns where they are building

Yes. And datacenter companies have to foolish to slow-walk doing this. When you are building a 10 to 50 billion dollar construction project, it may be worth giving the local town 100 million (plus 10k directly to every resident) to do with as they please, and it would certainly grease the wheels.

9cb14c1ec0··on IBM Bob
Does anyone actually care about what IBM's skill files say?
9cb14c1ec0··on US Military disables ad trackers on troops' phones
Just throwing this link out into the void:

https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ad...

Wonder why it took the Pentagon so long to take the ads risk seriously.

9cb14c1ec0··on US Military disables ad trackers on troops' phones
Oh, this is an old trick the US has used for a long time:

https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ad...

9cb14c1ec0··on Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended
This is the solution. Implementing auth isn't that difficult.
9cb14c1ec0··on I don't have a smartphone or at least I wish I didn't
This is why Google's war on sideloading is so terrible. It does very little to make people safer, and it restricts user's ability to make a free market choice about which companies they transact with.
9cb14c1ec0··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Sonnet, Opus, and Fable are pushing so much revenue growth right now that it makes more sense to keep growing the expensive models than growing the cheap models.
9cb14c1ec0··on Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days
Have you heard of these things called LLMs are that are quite good at reversing changes in closed source binaries?
9cb14c1ec0··on Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days
I guess I often don't know how good I have it as the owner of my own tech company. We've been busy fixing bugs and tackling tech debt, and I couldn't be happier.
9cb14c1ec0··on Small Models Have Arrived
> I'm just saying that I have a couple 3090s

This is tunnel vision. The percentage of people who could afford the hardware you could at the time you back it so vanishingly small. I do not know a single non-tech person who has multiple graphics cards in a single computer.

9cb14c1ec0··on Small Models Have Arrived
Yes, the tunnel vision around local models on this site is crazy. The percentage of people in the world who can afford the hardware is extremely low.
9cb14c1ec0··on My Friend Aaron
Prediction markets are a very powerful concept (and reality). With great power comes great responsibility.
9cb14c1ec0··on English ↔ Claudish Translator
Is it possible Claude's distinctive style is intentional on Anthropic's part, as a sort of water-marking scheme?
9cb14c1ec0··on The August 17 outage
At my company, we are using AI to clean up huge amounts of technical debt that would have just hung around otherwise, so yes. I'm not sure that your average user would notice, but we do without a doubt have a much better product now.
9cb14c1ec0··on Git at any scale
Just imagine the deluge of inbound sales pitches Cursor is now getting from every S3 vendor out there.
9cb14c1ec0··on Cerebras CS-4
Just a reminder for everyone that we are only several years and 3 or 4 iterations into hardware being optimized for LLMs. We should all expect orders of magnitude improvement in speed and/or cost over the next 5 years. Then we can have fun conversations about "unlimited" "intelligence" and about what the price wars and profit margins of consumer AI products are when your average ChatGPT user costs the company $0.10 per month.

> CS-4 delivers more than 1,000 tokens per second on models exceeding 10 trillion parameters

Wow!

9cb14c1ec0··on GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
No, this is OpenAI doing the discount, not Openrouter by themselves. OpenAI is crushing it with their 5.6 models, and they probably decided there was no better time to grab as much market share as possible.
9cb14c1ec0··on Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
He hasn't been right on everything, but he definitely has been right repeatedly when it comes to the MOUs. Clueless is a bit strong.
9cb14c1ec0··on Credit card debt rises to $1.26T, nearing all-time record
Technically, people who always pay the statement do have credit card debt until they pay, it's just free debt.
9cb14c1ec0··on RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland
That's what BetterDesk is for: https://github.com/UNITRONIX/BetterDesk
9cb14c1ec0··on Gemini 3.7 Flash
Claude Sonnet 5 is such a garbage model, so not sure what that says about Google's new best model.
9cb14c1ec0··on Gemini 3.7 Flash
Model card: https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-7-flash/

Somewhere in the same neighborhood as GPT 5.6 Tera and Sonnet 5, depending on the bench.

9cb14c1ec0··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
Other those who prioritize profits over providing good customer service.
9cb14c1ec0··on Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
> I think they will pull ahead with cheaper tokens similar intelligence

They obviously have a huge token cost advantage of the AI labs they are renting compute to, at least for now while they can charge current crazy rates for GPU compute.

9cb14c1ec0··on CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York
You are correct, but New York also apparently sees their jurisdiction as nationwide when the thing being wagered on has some proximity to the state. If you read the petition, it has language like this:

> New York also prohibits sports wagering on events in which New York college teams participate

Ultimately, this suit is about protecting state gambling taxes and incumbent casinos. I guess I don't feel a particular love for either side.

9cb14c1ec0··on Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
Not a bad marketing strategy. Vendor lock in matters a lot less to some people than it does to me.
9cb14c1ec0··on June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more
Does anyone actually use Servo for anything?
9cb14c1ec0··on AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
I think the revolution is more of a gradual thing than an overnight one. New features and more complex apps in days or weeks instead of months. I think the world will be a much different place in 10 years than it is now, but it will be a gradual change rather than the overnight switch flip some AI maximalists would have you believe.

At my company, AI has had a huge positive impact in helping us manage technical debt that we just didn't have time to deal with before. This simple thing will have a compounding efficiency and profitability effect over the next several years.

The other thing that we have found is that AI coding abilities can crank out features faster than we can provide human support to our customers using said features. We have feature PRs that have been open for months without being merged because our company does not have the human bandwidth to provide support for them. In case you can't tell, we prioritize human support and individual connection with our customers. We actually value them.

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