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JohnHaugeland··on Nvidia was in 1 in 11 startup rounds over $100M last year
no, circular financing refers to it bouncing through several loops of that. the implication is that it’s system predators working the math, not the business. you should hear it in the same tones that bankers use the word leverage
JohnHaugeland··on Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3
i haven’t heard anyone say they downgraded their car to the children’s toy power wheels and regretted it. all the same, i’m confident that it’s a bad idea
JohnHaugeland··on Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3
it is believed that opus5.5 needs 8x h200 to run (~1t vram)

a dgx spark could never

JohnHaugeland··on Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3
i’m so tired of this

all the measurements always say it isn’t

anyone who grew up playing dungeons and dragons gets that this is just people saying “you don’t understand, these five used to roll high”

every llm space is inundated with rank amateurs explaining at great length how it used to be better yesterday

nobody has the courage to clean out the obvious bullshit, so the drone gets ever louder and the signal gets ever rarer

do you remember what programming was two years ago?

stop complaining so much

JohnHaugeland··on We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
it's fine if they don't want to release open source, but if they're not going to, they shouldn't say that's what they're doing
JohnHaugeland··on If-then-else had to be invented (2020)
it’s a shortening of elsewise, an obsolete phrasing of otherwise

english inherited this from latin

JohnHaugeland··on DoorDash to acquire Instacart
oh no :(
JohnHaugeland··on Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech
oh, hacker news, where someone will act like a ten person shop with a seven million dollar computer might be indie
JohnHaugeland··on Dots: Always-on agents
it’s a headless agent in the cloud that you can task with long running jobs

think of things that need rvent handlers or web hooks

JohnHaugeland··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
i think that people should reflect extremely carefully on whether they want to be the person following this line of logic publicly
JohnHaugeland··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
i don’t like the common programmer behavior of doubting things we don’t want to face while requesting speculation on easily available data

making a list like this is hard in ways that most of us will never understand

if you aren’t a victim then you’re the guy who loudly doubts victim self defense

JohnHaugeland··on Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to
“we can force them to pay for free”
JohnHaugeland··on iPhone Duo
my beloved surface duo has returned <3
JohnHaugeland··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
wow, in 150 years we find a handful of things much smaller than what has happened in the last 2 years

the whisky ring is definitely relevant to a discussion of today’s problems

this isn’t a ridiculous padded list of whataboutism

JohnHaugeland··on Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
i’m a day or two from releasing my programming language’s new mcp
JohnHaugeland··on Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"
if it does, that fork is dead by the end of the year

i don’t think you understand just how niche you already are

JohnHaugeland··on Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"
notice how mainstream those projects aren’t
JohnHaugeland··on Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"
this article is about the flood of junior developers who are producing enormous prs they’ve never seen full of untrustworthy code that a human hasn’t evaluated

arguing that it’s possible to make them by hand isn’t just missing the point; it’s missing the entire discussion

JohnHaugeland··on Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers
it seems to me like we care about absolutely anything other than the one really important thing right now
JohnHaugeland··on OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future
in 1992 middle management was 9.2% of the workforce. in 2022 it was 13.1%

use data when you make claims

JohnHaugeland··on Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
slackhubbingface by twitter guy?

every kind of no at once

JohnHaugeland··on Show HN: Make your game multiplayer in one prompt
there’s nothing i want more than to make my game dependent on a tool whose pricing isn’t announced
JohnHaugeland··on Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
just use WINE or docker
JohnHaugeland··on Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
bricks and minifigs is going to lose a hell of a lot more than this 10% in business

regardless of the law, it’s a very stupid move on the company’s part.

if they had half a brain they’d pay double the commission and pretend it aas internal miscommunication. $40k is cheap versus the pr hit they’re taking right now

JohnHaugeland··on AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
the court disagreed
JohnHaugeland··on Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
waterfall doesn’t mean writing down decisions
JohnHaugeland··on Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
it’s not that your point is being missed. it’s that some people don’t agree with you, and the personal attacks aren’t helping
JohnHaugeland··on GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
insults won’t convince people to agree with you

sometimes people just have different belief systems than you, and that’s actually okay

JohnHaugeland··on GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
i don’t really care if my salable work product is banana sourced
JohnHaugeland··on GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
brook’s law is probably not true anymore
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