WatchDog

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by WatchDog 7d ago
That's a fair criticism. There aren't many studios that have managed long term repeated success. The best contenders would be: Nintendo EPD, Nintendo's internal studio. ~40 years of sustained high quality games. FromSoftwar
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by WatchDog 7d ago
Yeah they still make good money. I think calling WC3 the last good game is immoderately scornful though. I regret the time I spent playing WoW, but it was category defining and a cultural phenomenon. StarCraft 2 was excellent, perhaps to th
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by WatchDog 7d ago
Are there any unionized game studios that continue to produce highly acclaimed games? Bethesda used to make great games, but the last great game they made was Skyrim in 2011, they unionized in 2022, and just recently they had some big layof
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by WatchDog 8d ago
So the village is the only information given about a candidate? How else is the model supposed to interpret the intent of the prompter, other than wanting them to attempt to find and discriminate on patterns related to the village, regardle
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by WatchDog 9d ago
If it were vulnerable to XSS, why would you even want it properly signed by a CA? People almost never inspect the certificates of working websites, the only time they might look at it is when it fails validation.
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by WatchDog 10d ago
I don't use any skills, what kinds of skills are people finding most useful? For general tasks, the model seems perfectly capable of figuring out things itself, for project or environment specific tasks, I just put that information in
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by WatchDog 14d ago
How is it not correct? Sure the benchmark does not measure a real world application, but I never claimed it was. Do you have a better benchmark to share? I thought I was being charitable by using a benchmark published by the database's
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by WatchDog 16d ago
> Where are you getting those figures? https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2026-06-08-how-fast-is-doltlite...
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by WatchDog 16d ago
So the main feature of this project is that it's easy to fork a database, however it's 1.2x to 4x slower than sqlite, and it's level of testing and validation will be nothing like sqlite. The simple way to fork a sqlite db is
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by WatchDog 23d ago
It appears they rolled it back, but yes that is how it initially worked. https://readysolutions.ai/blog/2026-06-10-claude-fable-5-sil...
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by WatchDog 24d ago
Doesn't it silently downgrade to Opus for ML work?
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by WatchDog 1mo ago
Interestingly Nikita has made several negative comments about monetization, which have been publicly rebuffed by Musk, so they clearly had different visions for the company.
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by WatchDog 2mo ago
Your history is all valid, but I don't think it really hits on the main motivations for how we got here. Thread per request works perfectly fine if your application is CPU constrained. However the observation was made, that most web ap
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by WatchDog 2mo ago
If you are worried about the ethics of using a company laptop to do personal work, you might be taking it a bit far, what damage does this do to the company? If you are worried about the company claiming rights over your personal work, then
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by WatchDog 2mo ago
The US constitution is one of the few constitutions that _does_ grant rights[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights
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NSA and IETF: Fairness(blog.cr.yp.to)
147 points by WatchDog 2mo ago|193 comments
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by WatchDog 3mo ago
That's fair. Is there any indication as to if xAi trains on private profiles?
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by WatchDog 3mo ago
Whatever you think about X's image generation models, I don't see how it is related to the petition that the EFF is opposing. Is generation of non-consensual imagery really a privacy issue? If someone publishes a real naked photo
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by WatchDog 3mo ago
For all the complaints like this that I see about AI generated websites, the complaints rarely come with counter examples of what a good human generated alternative should look like. The authors blog design is perfectly functional, and I&#x
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by WatchDog 3mo ago
Building up karma only requires that on balance one's contributions are popular. Many accounts will contribute constructively on topics that are technical or objective, but then become more antagonistic on controversial or political to
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by WatchDog 3mo ago
Those that spend all day posting on HN aren't always the most hinged.
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by WatchDog 3mo ago
Do these containers share a common kernel? Or are they each ran in a separate VM? Edit: It's a VM per container. https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/technical-...
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by WatchDog 3mo ago
Lot's of countries already require this but it's trivially by-passable just by using a roaming capable SIM from a country that does not require it.
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by WatchDog 3mo ago
"First run" certainly exists in web apps, it's just running JS in a browser rather than a shell script on a developer or CI machine. There is plenty of malicious stuff you can do from the browser.
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by WatchDog 4mo ago
> disparate projects as Valkey and Lua Lua is often heavily used in Redis/Valkey, if you are interested in porting Valkey, it makes sense to also port Lua, they aren't "disparate".
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by WatchDog 4mo ago
By the same token, you aren't entitled to see the website content.
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by WatchDog 4mo ago
Your theory about token density seems reasonable, but your data doesn't seem to really match it. Very little difference between TypeScript and JavaScript, which are essentially the same language, just one has more tokens. Functional la
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by WatchDog 4mo ago
I think it's absurd to pretend like you can know how a stranger thinks. If I had to predict either way, I would guess that it is significantly AI generated, but that isn't the same thing as being sure. Almost every link submitted
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by WatchDog 4mo ago
It might be, I'm not sure. The code is interesting though, it's not minified, it's very readable, and nicely indented with lots of comments. The curated data center list is just some inline JSON. The javascript uses var inste
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by WatchDog 4mo ago
> ...I never will do is cross the "just business"/"personal" line with anyone I may or am working with. Just in an interview situation, or you will just never be open to a personal friendship with anyone you ever

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