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walthamstow··on Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3
I'm skeptical about nerfing. Are we saying they are instructing AWS to nerf the version of the model they're running on Bedrock?

If they did, there's no way that remains a secret.

If they didn't, Anthropic would be making their own service noticeably shitter than AWS Bedrock

walthamstow··on Earliest evidence of cannabis use found in ancient Siberian tomb
Wallhop is great by the way. Thanks for introducing me to it by way of a post on another article I think.
walthamstow··on A lack of male protagonists is making it harder to get young boys into books
Somehow you've shoehorned the word "only" in there when the parent said nothing of the sort. Ironic in a thread about reading.
walthamstow··on Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi
The MacOS one has a dreadful startup time as well. I can have the website open in ms but the app takes 7 or 8 seconds
walthamstow··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
> I've never met a mother who wanted to be in work full time.

This is as daft an argument as me saying "my wife is one so all women must be"

walthamstow··on Conductor is joining Meta
100%. I'm seeing it as a repeat of the VS Code fork wars. Funnily enough, nobody won that war. The paradigm disappeared entirely.
walthamstow··on Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)
You'd never know that from the way that Germans and Austrians will stand at a red crossing signal on a completely clear road
walthamstow··on US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures
Why do you say that? TARP was extremely unpopular yet still happened.
walthamstow··on I dumped Apple’s word list
Surely the first HN user to be named after a Brummie drag queen
walthamstow··on Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE
At that point might as well take off the pads and play rugby union with everyone else
walthamstow··on Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
These days I would just vibe my own. There's nothing special about any of these software.
walthamstow··on Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws
Devices that broadcast wifi illegal except when the FCC says so. Damn government with their thumb on the scales.
walthamstow··on Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News
I wouldn't mind a dark mode but otherwise agree. I do occasionally flashbang my baby by opening HN while he's asleep on me in the dark
walthamstow··on Scaling Git at OpenAI
What does it say?
walthamstow··on SOML – A Config Format for Humans
Love the Fincher quote. That escape hatch thing is such a Claudism.
walthamstow··on Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
I was surprised to find after using dictation heavily all year that I actually talk a load of rubbish when I'm speaking, using all kinds of cliches and fillers and saying way more than was needed.
walthamstow··on WTF Ubuntu?
All the people working at Canonical have gone through the Canonical hiring process, which is quite possibly the worst in the global industry and I can't imagine anyone competent getting through it.
walthamstow··on Japan's trains are great. Why is booking one so hard?
I found that out before I went, so I took an iPhone specifically for the job. The ease is gives you makes it worth carrying. As for northeast of Tokyo, very few visitors do that, sadly.
walthamstow··on Japan's trains are great. Why is booking one so hard?
Suica on an iPhone, job done? If it's shinkansen then use Smart Ex to load the ticket onto the card.
walthamstow··on HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
SmartTube for your TV, NewPipe for your phone
walthamstow··on GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode
Your last sentence mirrors my model choices recently. Opus can do things very well but Sol can do them well for less than 1/4 the price.
walthamstow··on I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy
Harrogate by any chance?
walthamstow··on Herdr has released native app
I've been using a Collie on Android to connect to my herdr server, it's very good
walthamstow··on Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?
It won't be long before the best devs are working and the shit ones are not
walthamstow··on The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months
Rude and cowardly. If you've got a problem, talk to me directly, not about me to other people.
walthamstow··on The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months
Presumably this is only capacity connected to the grid, and doesn't include isolated data centre builds?
walthamstow··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
In a previous job, in whiteboard sessions, one of the team would always refer to something as the "final solution" and I could never tell whether he was doing it on purpose or not
walthamstow··on Anthropic S-1
I think it's bollocks too but I don't think a forecast can be truth or a lie
walthamstow··on OpenAI CLI
claude -p has never actually been charged as extra usage. They announced a plan to do so then shelved it quietly.
walthamstow··on Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer
I am the parent claim mate, and I said "I think" not "I provably know for sure". Either way, I see no cause for your little rant.
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