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basch··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Can any one run a check of the word masterclass against all the models when describing a clever idea?
basch··on Gemini 3.7 Flash
clicking the add buttons and scrolling the menu is just much better in Opus 5. It feels like an actual website vs a simulation of one.
basch··on Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data
From the article: It's not clear if the channel has backups of its data, but based on its determination, we suspect not. This is strange, though, especially for a major organization, as one can easily purchase a six-bay NAS on Amazon and populate it with the best HDDs. This also goes against the 3-2-1 backup rule, which says you should keep three copies of your files stored in two different mediums, with one of them running offsite. Hopefully Nine PBS will implement a better backup system once it regains access to its data.
basch··on I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program
My main concern would be being labeled a “bad customer” that only buys $2 10 piece nugget or $1.49 fry or $2 breakfast sandwich. Same with the $5.99 Crunchwrap meal at Taco Bell. Or that using two phones and waiting 15 minutes gets you four coupons (which is easy when you’re next door and at a sporting event for an hour.)

Hopefully being a low profit customer makes me a cost of business vs someone to be deterred. I can imagine a someday where the person who ordered a $2 10 piece nugget gets the stale ones and the fresh ones go to the guy infrontof me who paid full price.

basch··on Gemini 3.7 Flash
Depends on the definition of friction. If someone is in the Google ecosystem, why would they reach out of it.
basch··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
If they were substituting glyphs for identical ones people would be able to reverse engineer it.

Theres no way that’s what they are doing.

basch··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
How is a perfect transcription of an image watermarked?
basch··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
It wasn’t a company.

Do you not understand sarcasm? He wasn’t actually offering the information out to people.

basch··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
He would have to be using the social security numbers for some nefarious purpose for it to be exploitation.

He was merely commenting on the ridiculousness of their availability. If you don’t see that, you’re reading your bias and postconcieved notions into the situation.

basch··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
It has nothing to do with exploiting them. It was about them turning over personal information to a nobody.

It can be insightful and curt at the same time.

basch··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
It was an insightful comment at the time he made it.

His point wasn’t that he couldn’t be trusted, it was that he could be anyone and people had zero awareness or concern for their privacy. It was eye opening to him how little people outside tech circles cared about security, and he was both flippant and accurate.

basch··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
No. Opening it is to commoditize and reduce the price to use. This increases participation and creates new consumers and demand. Demand creates justification for further creation.

All the participants know it’s both a race to the bottom and a competition for premium tier at the same time. It’s two different games, meta in only really playing one of them successfully.

basch··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
Intention might be giving too much credit. If attention seeking “give the people what they want” is the goal, it’s a completely headless out of control cobra, not sinister well thought out objectives to control society.
basch··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
As much as everyone wants to pay accomplished celebrities, all of these companies have young nameless geniuses that are about to make one for themselves. A guard passing torch can be opportunity.

Now, whether Google is the right environment to nurture, that’s its own quandary.

basch··on Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America
LLM's also came at a time of search decay. Getting google to surface good results was approaching impossible, (although the new ai categories somehow are even worse as they are adding strange terms or location data to create new unrelated searches.)

Hopefully there is a middle ground, where I can explain to my crawler which results look good, which dont, what it got wrong, and it adapts. A return to crawler/surfacer agents that work to find and retrieve would be a step in the right direction.

basch··on Our position on open-weights models
is it export if they take control of the entire island manufacturing it.

banning export is short sighted and doesnt address any problem at a scale longer than months or maybe at most a few years.

basch··on Using an open model feels surprisingly good
the writing should have been on the wall when meta did it with llama. it was very apparent that one or two entities could release a "good enough" product into the wild commoditizing the frontier of yesterday.
basch··on Kill The Cookie Banner
Cookie control always should have been a browser control. The legal route always should have been to force it to be built into browsers that provide sane defaults, and make it illegal to circumvent what the browser declares as far as fingerprinting etc.

any sort of elevation prompt, IF I allow them to be popups or an icon in a toolbar, should always be in the same place and not cover the page.

basch··on Should DayQuil Be Legal?
>4-6 500mg tablets within a 24 hour period

On top of that daily use brings it down to 3-5, preferably 4 or less of those a day. And they last less than 6 hours.

The 8h extended release is 650mg a tablet, and you can have 3-4 a day daily. And if you have any experience taking them you can feel the first half of the extended dose wear off before the extended one kicks in, which leads to basically NEEDING 4 a day, and staggered start times.

basch··on Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions
>you can just do it yourself anyway.

But not with official branding.

> manage merge conflicts, and as the codebases diverge

not if you dont care if the sandbox diverges, and you just let the slop be slop.

basch··on Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions
Precisely. Cherrypick nuggets from poo. It's there if you care to wade into it. May occasionally strike gold.
basch··on Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions
All these projects should seamlessly run a fork in parallel that accepts AI and has AI for review and approval. Both camps are happy.

Basically a play sandbox for contributors to not get jaded. A honeypot to contain the verbosity vomit, while also serving as positive public relations by keeping young contributor morale from starting in the basement.

Everyone has been that person once early in their life who is told they aren’t welcome and never comes back. Maybe it was SourceForge or IRC, maybe it was Wikipedia.

basch··on Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner
I’d almost say the opposite.

For a simple website it’s overkill.

For a serious website there’s not much else that has the extensibility. Woocommerce is nearly unrivaled. There isn’t another ecosystem like it. I would think this community would lean towards the open source leaning products to the shopifys.

basch··on What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis
We shouldn’t ignore grocery stores and marketing.

Aisles and aisles of sugar drinks and colorful sugar packaging.

The way society leaves it up to people to make their own decisions creates the problem at scale.

Society essentially has to take weekly injections to avoid the temptation of coca cola.

basch··on Honesty gets Emacs patch rejected
doesnt mean the lawyers arent wrong. the lawyer stance is to err on the side of caution even if wrong.
basch··on GTA 6 Physical Copies Won't Include a Disc, Will Just Be a Code in a Box
Ive figured as much. Possibly also some kind of security too so games dont get disassembled and modded or have textures removed for parts?
basch··on Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast?
definitely a lot of misinformation from the get go, from not needing masks, to waring masks to protect oneself (vs protecting others), to most of the scientific world needing to redefine airborn because of a bad assumption that permeated all of literature.

I remember VERY early on in the covid timeline, I believe it was in germany, a study came out that said it wasnt surviving on surfaces, and we still oversanitized for eons instead of focusing on not breathing each others air.

basch··on Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast?
it was blood clotting, not cardiac
basch··on Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast?
J&J was not an mRNA vaccine either. the J&J vaccine gave further evidence that mRNA vaccines are the safer path.

it was blood clotting issues.

basch··on Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast?
epidemiological risk of myocarditis from COVID-19 infection is from seven to over forty times higher than the risk associated with receiving an mRNA vaccine.
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