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solumunus··on Clojure Hosted on Go
Gosh this is exactly what I’m looking for, would love for this to become mature and popular.
solumunus··on There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing
That’s close to what I want Claude but just make it good! Hilarious.
solumunus··on Making Claude a Chemist
No they don’t.
solumunus··on Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible
It depends on the evidence available.
solumunus··on Fox to buy Roku
I’ve had one for maybe 4 and mine has always been pretty buggy and unreliable. Restarts aren’t uncommon.
solumunus··on Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch
How is this relevant or possible here.
solumunus··on Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?
They really shouldn’t.
solumunus··on GLM 5.2 Is Out
Because he’s running a racket. If you don’t cozy up to Trump you will suffer and it’s as simple as that. This administration is a mafia.
solumunus··on Mmorpg World of ClaudeCraft, vibe coded with Fable 5
Extraordinary cope.
solumunus··on EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war
Oil usage being subject to supply shocks is nothing new, it’s completely inevitable. Moving to renewables is an obvious upgrade, this recent crisis is just bringing that into the light for folk.
solumunus··on EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war
What should be happening to prepare for it?
solumunus··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
You’re completely overrating these benchmarks and it’s landing you at a nonsense opinion. Just actually use the models and you will see that the gap is significant.
solumunus··on What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]
That they don’t experience anything would be a more shocking revelation to almost everyone, I think.
solumunus··on Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?
100% agree. People talk as if they were paid to tap keys - not think, research, plan and provide and measured solutions to problems. I’m doing more engineering than ever, just less pointless tapping.
solumunus··on Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows
We can’t, it’s simply too addictive in comparison. It produces more dopamine, more quickly and consistently and there’s no way books will ever compete. Really it’s not even technology that is the problem, it’s specifically just algorithmic driven social media. We have to actively avoid the addictive algorithms and it’s really difficult.
solumunus··on Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows
You’re underestimating how many people almost entirely just doom scroll videos, especially young people.
solumunus··on Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows
Well it’s just cope. It’s the same way in the UK where drinkers will sneer at non drinkers, or meat eaters at vegans. You will get criticised for losing weight or making dietary changes. People imagine that someone else may feel superior to them for making better choices, and they absolutely hate this.
solumunus··on Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public
You’re getting lost buddy it’s definitely ridiculous.
solumunus··on What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]
We don’t know, in the same way that we don’t know that there is no God… It’s far more likely than not that they do experience things.
solumunus··on OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users
Not to mention Google Cloud.
solumunus··on OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users
Because they gained a HUGE amount of “normal” users and I think they feel desperate to monetise that. It’s their potential massive edge on competition, they just haven’t found any way to realise it and I suspect they won’t.
solumunus··on Claude Fable 5
Just treat it like an employee with infinite energy. You can never really measure the productivity or ability of employees, it’s just pretty obvious when one is better than another. You’re asking them to do things and they’re either coming up with the goods or they aren’t. You can’t really expect much more from agents either but I’m not sure why you need anything more.
solumunus··on xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab
There’s a good chance physical humanoid robots will always be more expensive than humans, especially in this new hypothesised reality where there’s an enormous labour surplus.
solumunus··on Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity
This. It’s simply much easier to be homeless in California, one of the easiest places imaginable. Do people think if the state was red that suddenly all those homeless people would become homed? A ridiculous notion.
solumunus··on GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
I’m sorry but your citizens are treated far worse by authorities than UK citizens and it’s not even close.
solumunus··on How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
I like it, but then again my hair was never great to begin with. It’s certainly one less thing to think about.
solumunus··on Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
> It’s pretty rare that I run into a bug in production that a type system would have caught.

Well yes, surely because you’re not designing your system around the type system. You need to architect your project to lean heavily on types, pattern matching, etc to actually gain the benefits. If you move a JS project to TS and just rename the files, yeah there’s going to be no difference, you must reengineer the entire codebase to leverage the type system.

Personally, after moving to TS I’ve been completely sold on types and am currently planning to migrate my app to F# so I can gain even more benefit.

solumunus··on Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release
Still no support for high resolution monitors though?
solumunus··on Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
What is the risk for Meta? They will continue to be a social media company that prints money regardless. I'm arguing that they NEVER need to join the AI market, not try and jump in late.
solumunus··on Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
An alternative strategy would be to stack insane amounts of cash while every other competitor is blowing theirs, putting you in an incredible position to deploy capital whenever this bubble pops. This seems so much more obvious, to me at least. I think AI is the future but it’s far more likely than not that the current phase of the market is a bubble and unsustainable. What even has Meta produced with all this AI spend? I’m not even sure what race they’re in. It just seems like a big AGI or nothing gamble. Personally I would be watching all my competitors make that bet and laughing all the way to the bank as my financial position constantly improved relatively. A lot of your competitors are basically practising self harm right in front of you and you’re joining in? Maybe I’m the idiot who is missing something, but I just don’t get it.
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