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Filligree··on Everything you do is being recorded
The word means what it does. I’m not changing my use of language just because some people misunderstand the dictionary definition.
Filligree··on Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection
Isn’t it MIT-licensed?

That’s not theft. The author explicitly told people he wants them to do this; the company is just taking him up on the offer.

Filligree··on No one can afford to make Myst games anymore
> The strange part is that nearly all the decently large publishers seem to be completely unable to predict when a game will be successful, because they seem unable to determine when a game is actually fun to play. So they will dump hundreds of millions into a game that nobody wants to play, get close to zero sales, and end up shutting down the game, laying off the studio, and having to find another way to make back the $100m+ they just burned.

I know a guy who works with one of those publishers.

According to him, almost nobody at the publisher actually games. The ones who do, limit themselves to gacha games or Bejeweled-tier games. Gaming, at least at that one, is considered childish.

Filligree··on I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them
Haven’t ever seen a warning like that in KDE.
Filligree··on Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun
I want to learn if it would one day be possible to engineer something like that. Unfortunately I think that even the theory is post-singularity territory, so... maybe in the 2030s?
Filligree··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
Their stock price won’t matter once OpenAI launches the paperclippers.
Filligree··on Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
Not everybody uses squash and merge. Regular merge, I imagine, would work fine.
Filligree··on Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
Read the tests.

Doing a pass where you just ask the AI to sanity-check the existing tests (against rules like “test against the spec, not the implementation” can also help.

Filligree··on Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
Will, it depends on the AI. Anthropic used to have a lecture-length system prompt for their models to explain this stuff—part of the secret sauce for Claude Code—and famously found that the 5 series models no longer need it.

As usual, if you use anything but the best model available I’m going to state that the better ones do better. If you do use the best model available, then I’ll just mention that Fable still has limits and still needs some guidance.

One thing it does not do is deliberately build tests which test nothing at all, or which restate the code under test. I mention this because certain other models absolutely would.

Filligree··on Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition
Using a third-party launcher (e.g. Prism) mostly fixes that nonsense, at least.
Filligree··on Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition
Less efficient but faster, which is a fun combination. At least they seem to have improved FPS.
Filligree··on AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy
It’s not about the LLM being modern or not. 3.5 Flash is fairly new, but it’s also a flash model. It’s not designed to be knowledgeable.

People keep doing this. Pointing at the known limitations of cheap/fast LLMs and pretending they’re universal is not, in fact, valid reasoning.

Filligree··on TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years
Yeah, we’ve seen that as well.
Filligree··on The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
Though the graph is ten years old. Why is it so hard to find recent data? :-(
Filligree··on Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
25 years isn’t that long, but it’s more about the material. If you have metal studs inside a plastic handle, then the metal expands in the dishwasher and cracks the plastic.

If the handle is wooden… everyone knows wood won’t survive a dishwasher.

If it’s metal, then yeah, that can work. That is, fortunately, easy to spot when you’re buying them… but the kitchen store in my city doesn’t have any knives that are all-metal and hold a decent edge.

(Except some overpriced Japanese ones I skipped over on basis that the metal is so hard it would be easy to damage them by accident. And I don’t need to do the “cut paper in half by dropping it” trick.)

Filligree··on Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
Please don’t run them through the dish washer. Limited heat tolerance is common even for the really good ones.
Filligree··on Engineering for Bounded Cognition
Seven plus-minus two, but the definition of “thing” is incredibly vague and depends on your life history to date.
Filligree··on Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California
They do, but as usual with those, it wrecks all the decently mixed videos by making everything the same volume.

Though as those are rare as hen’s teeth, perhaps you might as well.

Filligree··on How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
Not all fields interact with all other fields. You can think of them as a loosely coupled graph…

There might be any number of graph components with no connectivity to our fields at all, and we’d never know. Assuming, of course, that we’re including gravity in this logic.

There’s also might be any number of arbitrarily complex components which are only connected through gravity. That’s a decent candidate for what the dark sector actually is.

Filligree··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
No, that’s mostly because there’s no capital market for building mid-sized businesses.

Anthropic is past that. They’d have no trouble moving if they wanted to, except the USG could stop them.

Filligree··on Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates
Great for the americans. What are the rest of us going to do?
Filligree··on The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
The Norwegian way to eat cod liver is “squished between two flatbread, mixed with boiled potato and also cod”.

Which is absolutely delicious, even for a kid; it’s one of the meals I still remember loving. You should try it!

Filligree··on Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
There is. In Texas, if a field worker has a heart attack on a hot day it’ll be reported as a heart attack.

In France, the same exact situation would be reported as a heat casualty leading to heart attack.

Filligree··on .gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git
It’s too much code. Maybe companies are able to handle this, but as a solo dev it’s completely infeasible.

I could just not use those deps, but then I won’t be able to build anything interesting. The software industry has historically relied on being a high-trust society; I don’t know what will happen if that is changing.

Rewriting every dep with Fable for every project, maybe.

Filligree··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
What does the linear no-threshold model say about air pollution from coal plants, anyway?
Filligree··on The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy
Mythos and Fable are not the same model.
Filligree··on ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content
But I thought Fable was the dangerous one?
Filligree··on Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society
Yes. There’s not really any doubt about it.
Filligree··on US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks
I don’t have the emoji handy, so just imagine the most savagely doubtful-looking emoticon that anyone has ever made.
Filligree··on The White House Is Ratcheting Up Its War Against Anthropic
You’d hope fixing code is allowed. Otherwise what’s the point?
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