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largbae··on Cosmic-ray bath in a past supernova gives birth to Earth-like planets
I think you're right that heavier elements can be made, it's just energy negative to do so. But without a nova they would never leave the inside of the star to find their way into a new planet.
largbae··on Is 2026 next year?
Isn't the conclusion just that the context window doesn't include the current date?
largbae··on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
GFW does indeed have man in the middle capabilities per the recent leaks of Geedge tech used in it. Your laptop might throw a warning for the fake signed cert, but devices in China that trust Chinese root CAs would not.
largbae··on What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality
I think this is true but I don't feel like atrophied Assembler skills are a detriment to software development, it is just that almost everyone has moved to a higher level of abstraction, leaving a small but prosperous niche for those willing to specialize in that particular bit of plumbing.

As LLM-style prose becomes the new Esperanto, we all transcend the language barriers(human and code) that unnecessarily reduced the collaboration between people and projects.

Won't you be able to understand some greater amount of code and do something bigger than you would have if your time was going into comprehension and parsing?

largbae··on Lawmakers Are Rolling Back Food Safety Rules
I love that this is just above the post on https://rein.pk/over-regulation-is-doubling-the-cost

It's almost as if the world is complicated and every issue has multiple perspectives.

Good luck "aligning", AGI.

largbae··on We should all be using dependency cooldowns
Wouldn't this be a great use case of any agentic AI coding solution? A background agent scanning code/repo/etc and making suggestions both for and against dependency updates?

Copilot seems well placed with its GitHub integration here, it could review dependency suggestions, CVEs, etc and make pull requests.

largbae··on Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use
They can still use it to learn your preferences and tighten their profile of you for all the searching and other ad-enabled activities you take.
largbae··on Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]
How do they hold back questions in practice though? These are hosted models. To ask the question is to reveal it to the model team.
largbae··on Radiant Computer
If it doesn't have a browser, how will you visit radiant.computer on your Radiant Computer?
largbae··on Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
Would this not defeat the purpose of responsible disclosure? As a bad actor I could learn of secret vulnerabilities from this channel.
largbae··on Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders
Extradition by tectonic subduction
largbae··on Jujutsu at Google [video]
I've worked with many folks over the years after learning myself...

The feeling of complexity comes from not yet understanding that commits are just sets of changes to files. They are then thrown off the scent by new terms like origin clone vs push and pull, merge vs rebase, HEAD increment notation vs other commit hashes.

Once people start with a local understanding of using git diff and git add -p they usually get the epiphany. Then git rebase -i and git reflog take them the rest of the way. Then add the distributed push and fetch/pull concepts.

largbae··on DJI Removes Video Shot in National Parks After It Raises Eyebrows
It is beautiful, even more colorful than the pictures to me, but it is always covered by steam to some extent.

There are some smaller thermal pools near Old Faithful that have similar colors but let you get a closer look.

largbae··on Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
This is all true. But digital audio and video media has captured essentially all economic value outside of live performance. So it seems likely that we will find a "good enough" in this domain too.
largbae··on I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it
Reminds me to go check on floor796.com (yup still expanding!)
largbae··on Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
The people suppressing the research already have major stakes. What is lacking is any consequence for them at all.
largbae··on Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology? [pdf]
Based on their approach graphs, if it is an intercept probe it seems like the target is Mars.
largbae··on Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding
I've been wondering if Java would have a resurgence due to strong typing even into the error types, and widespread runtime availability. But so far, seems no.
largbae··on At a Loss for Words: A flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019)
Three Cue-ing, the flawed idea is three-cueing (looking for context clues to figure out words you don't know). I didn't read the rest of the article out of infuriation with the number of times they alluded to and discredited the technique before naming it.
largbae··on Telo MT1
Telo vs Slate.... Fight!
largbae··on 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program
I think GP is suggesting that NASA administrators might have an incentive to apply budget cuts to programs that get more public outrage. However I would imagine human spaceflight to be the more visible type of program for the average voter.
largbae··on Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build
The most fun feature of GrapheneOS is the ability to look at the logs of any app at any time from the App Info page.
largbae··on A human metaphor for evaluating AI capability
I feel like everyone who treats AGI as "the goal" is wasting energy that could be applied towards real problems right now.

AI in general has given humans great leverage in processing information, more than we have ever had before. Do we need AGI to start applying this wonderful leverage toward our problems as a species?

largbae··on Cataphract: Medieval-fantasy roleplaying wargame, in the Black-Sea C. 1300
As a recovered EVE Online addict, there is at least one game out there that requires significant time on logistics and operations to win wars.
largbae··on Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole
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largbae··on The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
Generally R&D software developers aren't considered to be poor or disadvantaged.
largbae··on Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023)
GP may be referring to the idea that language is innate like an organ in the body/brain. The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe is a great read exploring Chomsky and other thinkers in this realm. It would have been great to see what he thought of LLMs too.
largbae··on 99% of AI Startups Will Be Dead by 2026 – Here's Why
It might not matter that proprietary models stay ahead of local, as long as the local models are strong enough for your use case.
largbae··on Thoughts on thinking
This feels off, as if thinking were like chess and the game is now solved and over.

What if you could turn your attention to much bigger things than you ever imagined before? What if you could use this new superpower to think more not less, to find ways to amplify your will and contribute to fields that were previously out of your reach?

largbae··on Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
Would this not reveal every importer's gross margin to its competitors? The tariff is only on the importer's "landed cost". If the tariff is itemized(and not just a made up number by the seller), then you can easily work out their gross profit margin and the price they are paying their OEM.

It seems like no seller would want this.

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