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axlee··on He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice
"Crema catalana: Three of four models called it “creme brulee” 100% of the time. Only Gemini 3.1 Pro got “crema catalana” — in 3.4% of queries."

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Wikipedia for Crema catalana:

Crema catalana (Catalan for 'Catalan cream'), or crema cremada ('burnt cream'), is a Catalan dessert consisting of a custard topped with a layer of caramelized sugar.[1] It is "virtually identical"[2] to the French crème brûlée. It is made from milk, egg yolks, and sugar. Crema catalana and crème brûlée are made in the same way.

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Oh no, my AI can't detect that an obscure clone of a famous dish is indeed the obscure clone, and not the commonly know version.

axlee··on NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power
Can't they point these dns records to working servers meanwhile to avoid degradation?
axlee··on I ditched Docker for Podman
>It becomes a pain point when the IT team never heard of docker

Where do you work ? Is that even possible in 2025?

axlee··on Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor
I'd recommend changing names, nitro is already a semi-popular server engine for node.js https://nitro.build/
axlee··on Show HN: Magnitude – Open-source AI browser automation framework
Using this for testing instead of regular playwright must 10000x the cost and speed, doesn't it? At which points do the benefits outweigh the costs?
axlee··on Recreating Daft Punk's Something About Us
Especially back then, in the time of vinyls and cassettes (browsing music wasn't exactly as easy as pressing "play"), it shows the amazingly deep musical culture of these artists. The samples they use are from all over the place, and their songs are often built around a handful of seconds from obscure b-sides.
axlee··on How I use LLMs as a staff engineer
What's your stack ? I have the complete opposite experience. LLMs are amazing at writing idiomatic code, less so at dealing with esoteric use cases.

And very often, if the LLM produces a poopoo, asking it to fix it again works just well enough.

axlee··on No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard (2024)
Thus, a problem in search of a solution. Who has asked for that exactly ?`It's been more than a decade and still no one has found an actually useful real-world application for blockchain besides gambling and money laundering.
axlee··on Why the Getty Center Is the Safest Place for Art During a Fire (2019)
Note: while this is a 2019 article, the Getty Center has not burned during the 2025 Palisades fire.
axlee··on Boltzmann brain
The difference between this concept and, let's say, Descarte's evil demon, is not the philosophical skepticism but its explicit grounding in physics and thermodynamics. It basically attempts to answer the question "Where would that evil demon come from?". It materializes Descarte's thought experiment and shows that it could actually happen within the confines of our scientific knowledge, unlike malicious demons.
axlee··on Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites
Could be a swede who meant "GDP" (BNP = BruttoNationalProdukten = Gross Domestic Product)
axlee··on The FBI created a coin to investigate crypto pump-and-dump schemes
Wash traders are the ones breaking the law.
axlee··on Concord had a dev culture of toxic positivity that halted any negative feedback
And Sony doesn't ?
axlee··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
I mean Israel is behind Pegasus, so it's not exactly a secret that they can get into any cellphone. Israel didn't need to infiltrate Hezbollah, they just needed publicity.
axlee··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
All the terrorist market suddenly boycotting them, I'm sure they're losing sleep over it.
axlee··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
Looks pretty discriminate to me, only the pager holder was affected. I've seen multiple videos with very close bystanders completely unharmed. And whoever holds a pager from Hezbollah is a member of an armed terrorist group officially at war with Israel.
axlee··on How old is your globe? [pdf]
You're dating the data source used by the globe, not the globe itself. But it guarantees a lower limit of age on any globe.
axlee··on Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage
You want your antivirus to be autoupdating.
axlee··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
Windows Update has nothing to do with it.
axlee··on Tour de France riders are inhaling carbon monoxide in 'super altitude' recipe
Them and cross country skiers (for VO2Max domination)
axlee··on The economics of the Birkin handbag
We're far from the 2018-2021 levels of ridiculousness though, the hypebeat market has taken a big hit. Grey market watches as well.

Birkins haven't.

axlee··on SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined
Once that is said, does OSS move forward? Not an inch, good luck getting any change upstream
axlee··on Janky Apple ID Security
Really? The "Apple ID" (and subscriptions) section in the settings in so janky and doesnt feel native at all.
axlee··on Ask HN: One-person companies—how do you manage it all and stay sane?
> Sure, but what do I do, if that service just closes tomorrow?

You're far more likely to die tomorrow than Notion to close abruptly tomorrow.

axlee··on End of the Line? Saudi Arabia to scale back plans for desert megacity
> Let's not gloss over the fact that we in the west do the same. Only we hide the slaves in sweatshops so our sensibilities aren't triggered.

Totally: Norway and Saudi Arabia are exactly the same in terms of humanism, it's just a matter of optics, right?

axlee··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
If only we had a word for this behaviour, for example some nordic folklore creature ?
axlee··on Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO's private jet
Well, what kind of world-class engineers could he get for $1.7M a year? How many salespeople ?

Seems like the CEO's comfort when travelling should be a lot lower in the company's list of priorities, as it's losing hundreds of millions a year.

axlee··on Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO's private jet
> But hold on, this same CEO has spent over $230 million(!) buying Canoo stock from his personal funds [2], so he is significantly in the red no matter how much he gets reimbursed for air travel.

He's not the only shareholder. I am not sure the others appreciate paying for the CEO's lavish lifestyle when his company is on the brink of failure, even though the CEO is also in the red. And as you say, if he really wants to travel private, he can always use his own plane and not charge anything for it. The other shareholders are basically bankrolling his plane.

axlee··on Cutting a 700 carat rare valuable gemstone [video]
I'd have thought that the bigger the gem, the larger the markup.
axlee··on Mathematician who made sense of the universe's randomness wins Abel Prize
The Fields medal is there to encourage further work, per Fields himself.
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