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elAhmo

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elAhmo··on Hello, me. It's been a while
Silence during driving is not really a good thing, you should be aware of the surroundings and other participants, hear your car for weird noises, etc.
elAhmo··on Only 2.6% of the most visited websites have fully valid HTML
I always assumed all tags should be closed.
elAhmo··on Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
I wish they solved the issue happening for years on MacOS where Docker keeps up eating all available free space and ends up requiring restart of the whole machine, instead of Gordon and other useless shit.
elAhmo··on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
For majority of people, especially children, book is an authoritative source. Virtually no one outside of research fields and very excited enthusiasts will check sources in depth to see whether what is shown in the book is true or not.

So, I think the point OP is making is that most people don't really check sources while learning things 'the conventional way'.

elAhmo··on Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium
This is not viable long term, but cool to ride the train while the outsourcing lasts.
elAhmo··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
They were busy buying open source frameworks and teams behind those.
elAhmo··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
DeepMind is just a part of Google which does research stuff, and Google is a massive company that does loads of things but mostly sells ads.

OpenAI and Anthropic are in a completely different game, their primary business model is making a product out of advancements that come out of DeepMind and co.

elAhmo··on AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
You can't cater to every single person out there. The author comes as quite entitled.
elAhmo··on Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
This is not slightly comical, it is very comical. Side projects are not mandatory, if you are using them to learn something, asking LLMs to generate and for you to type it makes no sense - just do it on your own. If you want to offload tedious boilerplate part to LLM, then by definition no need to learn it as it is tedious, so typing it out is useless.
elAhmo··on New Framework Desktop Option with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 and 192GB Memory
You literally answered what is wrong with the name.
elAhmo··on Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public
Losing credibility means someone had it. I don't think anyone thinks Flock had any credibility. This was known from the beginning.
elAhmo··on The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel
People without EU citizenship also enter EU.

Recent changes to EES system have been a disaster, and as op has pointed out, people do have to scan their biometrics more than once coming from a non-EU country. In some cases even if you are a EU resident in case the airport has no specific queues.

elAhmo··on Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
I use handy.computer and it is pretty much everything I want from a transcribing app.
elAhmo··on DOGE is done. What happened to its records?
Yet there are people still giving money to Musk, using X, Grok and other products which are run by a guy who decided to kill millions of kids worldwide.

I know your acquaintances are on X and it is 'ecosystem that is hard to leave', but sometimes it takes a bit of courage to stop contributing to vicious people. And by using his platforms, you are directly doing that.

elAhmo··on How to Read More Books
There are other apps too, such as Overcast, and ads on podcasts are really easy to skip.
elAhmo··on GPT-5.6
> Use shorter prompts: In internal evaluations, replacing long, explicit system prompts with minimal prompts improved scores by roughly 10–15%, while reducing total tokens by 41–66% and cost by 33–67%.

A shorter prompt results in half as much tokens spend? I find this very hard to believe.

elAhmo··on EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
This might get this control out, but people's anti-EU stance will just be increased by this and long-term this is a terrible move.

Just fueling material for right wingers who will take advantage of this and push for secessionist stuff.

EU is in dire need to have VERY POPULAR measures among people, not idiotic stuff like this which is a step in a wrong direction.

elAhmo··on Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips
You fail to understand that Apple investing in China is in their best interest - and then returned back to millions of shareholders. If investing in the USA would be a better ROI, there would be no need for any measures like this to force companies somewhere.

People in favour of tariffs make it seem like the best and wealthiest economy in the world is in a bad shape, and it is completely opposite, while failing to address the inequality issue with the wealth distribution.

elAhmo··on Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
It is quite inevitable that things like this happen whenever a big, soulless corporation ends up buying people who unique set of skills and talent.

Similar thing is happening in other areas of the industry, where companies like Vercel, Anthropic, OpenAI just keep buying companies and it is really hard to find a case where things turned out well.

elAhmo··on GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday
I know a few of my comments are related to this, but these new names are horrible. Why introduce ANOTHER layer of confusion and drop the mini, nano suffixes that people got used to?

How does this go through so many layers of management at a trillion dollar company without who has a say raising this? I simply can't believe how stupid the naming scheme from OpenAI was and continues to be even after they acknowledged it earlier.

elAhmo··on Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC
What pages?
elAhmo··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
This is such a sad state of the industry that a reply to a tweet is now considered like an announcement by the company.

No context, nothing, just a title and a random link to a tweet, which has a seemingly relevant response from someone who works at OpenAI I guess.

elAhmo··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
Back to terrible naming from Open AI.
elAhmo··on Organic Maps
https://www.openstreetmap.org/ has a good web client :)
elAhmo··on Organic Maps
e-Residency is most likely the main reason for this 'run' from Estonia.
elAhmo··on The Safari MCP server for web developers
Network request access is really helpful!

When having access to both backend and frontend, and then seeing what actual code is requesting and returning can really help with hunting bugs or doing basic QA.

elAhmo··on This blog is written in en-GB
Same as in Balkans. We literally used coursebooks from Britain.
elAhmo··on ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2
With Musk buying Cursor, it is good to have more alternatives on the market.
elAhmo··on Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
Of course they will convert. Not all, but even a single person buying the game at full price is better than dozens of reselling transactions where Sony makes no money and is actually losing money as those people are not buying new games.

Not a fan of this of course, just saying it’s a calculated move they just copied from other industries. People complain and minority ends up following their principles, but similarly as with streaming, nearly everyone just has Spotify and that’s it.

elAhmo··on Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
Great find! I would just add that trust is indeed in the boring parts, but with gymnastics like this trust can be irreversibly lost. Then, no matter how boring tool is, there is no going back.

Anthropic has become a choice for many developers because of Claude Code, but in the recents months with "small things" like this and whole Fable fiasco they are *actively* pushing people to both competitors and local alternatives.

And if someone spends a significant amount of time and money to switch, it will be really hard for Anthropic to get those people back.

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