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zeryx··on Petered
Why would going back to college help here? You don't need more certification you're already in and proved your value. As an outside and self taught I've always been fascinated. For a subset of people is it actually learn better in college style environments than on their own?
zeryx··on Multiplayer tanks that demolish real buildings from OpenStreetMap
It's art, it's supposed to make you feel uneasy. If this wakes you up by making a faraway concept suddenly seem real to you - I'd say the artist did a very good job.
zeryx··on Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM
GLM 5.3 is far ahead of anything Cohere has ever released, and it's relatively easy to host.
zeryx··on GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode
If one provides it access to the wiki and reddit, if just from within game it's quite cryptic
zeryx··on I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy
Maybe it gives me some pause, but the ceo of ctl or byd isn't actively an antagonist and actively operating as a villain against everything I value, they're just trying to make cool cars and the best batteries. In all honesty I think most people around the world see the US and China unfortunately in the same light - that's not how the world was 5-6 years ago.

You can argue that the actual real on the ground experience is different, but this is how my neighbors and family think.

zeryx··on Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
"effectively" is doing some heavy work in this sentence
zeryx··on Anthropic to receive high 'junk' rating from credit agencies following IPO
It's so fascinating that people think that AGI will be winner-take-all. If anything the Chinese labs have shown us is that being first is almost a handicap as everyone can quickly learn from your released models and distil into open weights quite easily. If the competitive environment continues to exist how it is today, there doesn't seem like a trillion dollar market for anyone.
zeryx··on I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy
Except for the last bit, as an outsider to the US you literally just described the USA as it is today.
zeryx··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
Disassembly and deep inspection of binaries seems like a good example, or rewriting an existing codebase in rust. You can do it yourself but if you don't have the background there's a ton you need to learn.
zeryx··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Or instead of hamstringing your entire way of life and making things immeasurably harder.. we could regulate them too.
zeryx··on EA is shutting down BioWare
The economics of game development is uniquely brutal. You can't just hit it out if the park once or twice and make a classic you can earn residuals from, people move on quickly and you don't earn on repeated playthroughs.

You can make a complete masterpiece, and build it cheaply - but there's no guarantee you can do it again.

That's why there was such a massive push towards live service games and MMOs, or microtransactions - it's quite literally the only way to make one creative effort valuable 1 year post release.

I don't envy folks who make games for a living and I also don't envy the founders and leadership, it just seems do brutally difficult to do well.

zeryx··on DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine
Do they share latency / concurrency figures (aka the deployment shape that gets them that token/s/cluster? Would be interesting if they're using deepEP/WideEP + PP and TP
zeryx··on Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers
If it's wrong just interrupt it and describe how it's wrong, or if you need to brainstorm more on a feature - it's not that hard
zeryx··on Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions
Angel banning is better, 100% agreed on giving it false data that the scraper builders can't easily detect. Give it seemingly correct and useful but totally wrong answers
zeryx··on How employment is changing at Anthropic
Get your own compute, require and force openweights and right to compute. Make sure NV and AMD keep making prosumer hardware that can run Kimi k3
zeryx··on How employment is changing at Anthropic
There was a book I read maybe 10-15 years ago about a world where governments Essentially dissolved and in place there was nothing but mega corp monopoloys - Jennifer Government was the name ( if you ever played the MUD Nation States yk)

I thought that was an interesting idea, but not something that could ever happen..

zeryx··on An ESPN producer who quit because of sports gambling
We've been doing those for a long time, longer than gambling has existed - I'm arguing that just because something is "in our nature" certainly doesn't give us an excuse to give up trying to strive for better.

There are some people who are prone to addictions and there are others (like myself) who aren't, it's genetic - why should we let people prey on addicts?

zeryx··on An ESPN producer who quit because of sports gambling
So is murder psychopathy and enslavement, you want to regulate that?
zeryx··on Ask HN: What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer?
So I'm an SA, but have been working on systems architecture and have shipped large scale changes to very big platforms in prod and maintained them. With fable and astra I tried making a video game together, it didn't work.

The agents have incredible capabilities to develop any bit of code I need and to write good scripts to catch the most basic failure modes, they can even "play the game" by spinning up a VM and using ahk to trigger game state and take screenshots and gifs and use that to understand what it built.

Knowing what to build intuitively to maximise fun, or any other illogical human experience won't be RLable ever. Unless we're at brains in glass jar territory but I don't think we have to worry about that now.

zeryx··on WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload
Honestly the performance hit of WSl even being alive and running in the background of my XPS was so bad I just ssh into a workstation and do everything on there instead. Trying to get windows to just be usable is such a massive pain in the ass.
zeryx··on War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?
I'm happy you have that confidence, I think it would only take 1 generation of conditioning to get us to centralized autocratic rule. It won't be trump in power, it'll be Vance or someone else less popular but smarter.
zeryx··on War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?
More like America going to war with NATO at this point
zeryx··on OpenJev
Corporate artifcactory? Ask your IT team?
zeryx··on Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
But then what currency would they use in eve online? How could we replace all of the iskies memes
zeryx··on Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal
If Chinese industry is willing to operate at a loss in order to poke the US in the eye, sure - markets too small and labor too expensive otherwise imo.
zeryx··on Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal
I'm Canadian, the auto industry here died the moment trump started all of this tarrif talk in February, it just hasn't gotten cold yet.

Because of the tarrif and trade war our local industries will struggle and collapse, there's nothing we can do about that - they were dependent on US trade partners and markets, the Canadian market is much smaller. We have massive productivity issues, there's little chance we'll successfully build our own auto industry.

In the interim buying more from China doesn't really hurt us, and sends a strong signal to the remaining people who care about foreign policy in Washington that there are penalties to treating allies like enemies.

I used to really strongly oppose Chinese expansion and the rise of cheap products getting dumped everywhere - I still do, but I oppose the US admin more; and at least they're stable and clear about what they want

zeryx··on AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study
I full heartedly recommend anyone who wants to learn, to use the Socrates skill, and then build a daily 1 hour curriculum that you will tackle. It's painful and not pleasant, but it works quite well when to don't have a teacher and want to learn something really hard and complicated
zeryx··on Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)
My favorite - reply like I do, review my previous messages to understand my tone and verbosity. As much as needed, as little as possible
zeryx··on Delta
You might be working on much smaller and well constrained problems, pair programming works well when the problem is unconstrained with many complex and interconnected layees
zeryx··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
Compared to the time of great powers before WW1 and during, this has been by far the most peaceful the globe has been for a very long time
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