bjackman

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by bjackman 10d ago
I don't think it makes much sense to expect such a cohesive/specific philosophy from an open source project like this. The goal is "Linux on Mac". In a commercial product, specific details of what gets built usually stem
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by bjackman 14d ago
I think LWN is not just the best linux news site or the best tech news site, or the best new site. I think it's actually the best website. I just can't think of anything else that comes close in terms of quality of information. If
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by bjackman 15d ago
The Asahi folks have been making really impressive progress on Polishing Cloth drivers so I'm optimistic that we'll at least have a community solution for the E-waste in future decades.
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by bjackman 16d ago
> Is there any type of sidebar/footnote that you, as a reader, would like to see to denote AI usage during the writing and/or research process? It's not something I expect, but I definitely don't see an issue with peo
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by bjackman 16d ago
I came to these comments coz I was curious about the AI usage here, and FWIW I also thought it smelled AI written, but I didn't think it was slop. (IMO not all AI output is slop and not all slop comes from AI). My main question was &qu
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by bjackman 16d ago
Hmm yeah that's never really been my read on Auto Mode but I guess it's still worth pushing back on any messaging that seems to imply "Auto Mode is all you need". I would reject "Auto Mode is safe" as a message
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by bjackman 16d ago
It's funny coz it seemed like they also cloned the confusion. I don't really understand what Claude Cowork is. Sometimes I use it instead of plain Claude Chat for tasks that "feel big"? And when I've done that I&#x2
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by bjackman 16d ago
Yeah I jumped on this quite excitedly but it's not prompt injection at all. To be fair to the authors they don't actually say it is. But then they contrast it with the "0.00% prompt injection attack success rate". The up
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by bjackman 18d ago
Before I left Google recently there was a document going around called go/stake-your-reputation, basically saying "I'm happy to receive your AI generated code but the condition is that I will judge your capabilities by it, ex
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by bjackman 21d ago
I am, for some reason, quite active commenting on Reddit. And lately the number of comments I see that are obviously Claude has skyrocketed. These are just engaging in normal innocuous comment threads about the day to day stuff I care about
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by bjackman 22d ago
It means you can comment on the problematic commits saying "please squash this". Then (if it works as well as Gerrit) you can compare the commit between the before and after squash state. Basically it lets you treat the commits as
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by bjackman 23d ago
Correct, it was a typo that I only spotted after I lost the ability to edit.
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by bjackman 23d ago
Yeah I get occasional dropouts in the setup I installed at my mum's place too. And yeah it's just a bit of a weird black box, and also fundamentally it's exploiting a nontrivial system to do something that had little relation
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by bjackman 24d ago
It's a Unifi Dream Router 7. The 6GHz doesn't reach through the wall IIRC
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by bjackman 24d ago
(Repeating myself coz I saw this after writing my sibling comment..) It's highly variable in my experience. I've had it work pretty well in some situations and barely at all in others. I have certainly never got 1000mbps. I think
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by bjackman 24d ago
Yeah I have tried it! It beats WiFi to some rooms, but to my office it's very slow. You would never be able to predict this, which is an unfortunate thing about powerline IMO. You just have to buy the modems and see how they perform on
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by bjackman 24d ago
Yeah I was considering this actually, but then I realised that I really want a working LAN 100.0% of the time, so I'd only go tinker mode if I had a backup. So I was gonna be buying a router regardless. Now I have a Ubiquiti one, it&#x
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by bjackman 25d ago
My router is slightly loadbearing for my homelab so probably much more often than average!
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by bjackman 25d ago
I recently upgraded from a WiFi 5 router to a WiFi 7 one, and my bandwidth increase was a grand 0% (that's ok though I was actually just sick of my old router's shitty UI!) There is about 10m and a brick wall between my AP and my
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by bjackman 27d ago
> LLMs are also terrible at these new standards. This seems like a common enough issue that it would be worthwhile publishing a "Markdown library" of "stuff HTML can do" that you can "call" from your AGENTS.
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by bjackman 28d ago
That's exactly what I am saying. I don't care if it's AI, I care if it's good. But unfortunately because AI makes creating software very cheap, the old signals to tell you if software is good, no longer work.
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by bjackman 28d ago
If you click the link at the top you'll find it goes to an article. The article will often expand upon the text in the link!!! In this case: "While we would expect children's lungs to grow year on year, our results indicate t
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by bjackman 28d ago
Nothing wrong with the AI website but it suggests the code is AI too. Nothing wrong with AI code either but it suggests the project may have been built in 2 weeks, has no community and low likelihood of ongoing maintenance. So now overall i
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by bjackman 1mo ago
Well this is why, as an enthusiastic AI user, even I usually want to disable intrusive AI! If it's popping up in some random product I don't pay for I can only assume it's such a shitty model that it's probably not worth
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by bjackman 1mo ago
I deployed Forgejo on my homelab yesterday. Now GitHub is just a free backup service. I guess they're quite happy with that TBF, it doesn't seem like they're that interested in being a git forge anyway.
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by bjackman 1mo ago
Don't know actually, it might be I they are just putting cloud-init in, installing their VM agents, and maybe like tweaking the bootloader setup and kernel cmdline or something. But equally, they might be compiling it themselves so th
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by bjackman 1mo ago
Yeah my x86 comment wasn't meant to suggest RISCV can easily beat x86 it was pointing out that "being a good arch" is very low on the list of priorities for making the arch successful. Exactly as you say, x86 is successful co
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by bjackman 1mo ago
> RiscV is going to win despite its limitations, simply because they can be worked around freely, and the cost per core is zero. This feels right to me. I've worked on embedded systems and OS my whole career and it just doesn't
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by bjackman 1mo ago
> too much fragmentation to make binary distribution feasible Sorry I haven't actually read the original article so this is a bit of a driveby. But, I'm skeptical of this? Surely whichever cloud platform first offers RISC-V com
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by bjackman 1mo ago
"Lagging" is putting it rather lightly. GDM is no longer a frontier lab. FWIW neither is xAI, there is no "big 3". xAI has had momentary peaks (I think they are having one right now) but they have never been able to clai

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