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by bobtheborg 7d ago
SWE 1.6 was great for small tasks. Very fast and good enough. 1.7 was unusable for me. Took more time thinking than GLM 5.2 and seemed to be generally running in circles. I tried it but abandoned it. Looking forward to 2 -- maybe it'll
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by bobtheborg 10d ago
Oof. Why does this seem worse than just showing everyone the ad? Maybe because people like me will go "not my experience" and brush off the complainers. Diabolical
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by bobtheborg 10d ago
Not true for me. Not sure where author is and why (s)he is seeing this (wallpapers seem to be country based.) https://bingwalls.com/ or https://bing.com/ and use the < > to move through history.
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by bobtheborg 13d ago
> There's absolutely no evidence of or IMHO plausible path to an agent copying itself out and running on other hardware the way you describe. Why isn't an agent installing pi or omp on other hardware and giving it tasks not pla
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by bobtheborg 1mo ago
Great read. So glad they took the time to tell this story. (And glad they, as a for profit corporation, took out a support contract with SQLite. I hope they continue to do so even though this problem is resolved.)
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by bobtheborg 1mo ago
"Milestone alert To celebrate more than 1 billion monthly active users in the @GeminiApp — making it the fastest-growing product in our history — we’re sharing some key insights into how people around the globe are using the app: 63%
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by bobtheborg 1mo ago
"Nobody serves this today" except for every real estate listing service ( https://www.reso.org/reso-web-api/ )
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by bobtheborg 2mo ago
"Analyst research estimated OpenAI was responsible for roughly half of Azure’s $30 billion in year-over-year growth, and investment bank Stifel’s Brad Reback flagged in his investment thesis that the relationship is becoming less compe
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by bobtheborg 2mo ago
I like to use SWE-1.6 for quick help with git. For instance: review the top stash and tell me what's in it (grouped appropriately) 1.6 does this fine nearly instantly. 1.7 tried for 17s before I killed it
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by bobtheborg 3mo ago
"Total fiscal Q3 revenue was $41.5 billion, up 74% sequentially and up 346% year over year, representing our fifth consecutive quarterly revenue record. The $17.6 billion sequential increase is the largest in our history, eclipsing las
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by bobtheborg 6mo ago
Having never really looked at valuations, my ignorant mind can get from Starlink's 10M subscribers to a $380B valuation. If you make $100/mo/user that's 12B/yr and that with a higher 50x P/E ratio is 60B. If yo
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by bobtheborg 6mo ago
The author of that page seems to mostly be AI, not a human.
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by bobtheborg 6mo ago
Make that two people. I much prefer to slap the rare check on the scanner than fiddle with the phone. My banks "scan the check" part of the app was buggy for a long time, so maybe that jaded me. (~"move closer", ~"m
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by bobtheborg 6mo ago
I found many points interesting. Here's one: Policymakers supposedly work for us/the people and they could have made surveillance ad tech expensive and thereby severely limited it, but > "Policymakers failed us because cop
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by bobtheborg 7mo ago
> What this means for you: Helicone's services will remain live for the foreseeable future in maintenance mode. This means security updates, new models, bug & performance fixes all keep shipping. Hmm
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by bobtheborg 7mo ago
Try searching for "glasses" and you get a page full of blocks?
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by bobtheborg 8mo ago
Hello fello Technology Connections watcher?
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Led by Texas, New Hampshire, states race to prove can –"Bitcoin on bal sheet"(cnbc.com)
1 points by bobtheborg 8mo ago|0 comments
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by bobtheborg 8mo ago
> who voted Trump because they believed Harris was not tough enough No, they voted for Trump because he was their guy then later made up a rational justification. We know that people generally do NOT make decisions by rationally evaluati
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by bobtheborg 9mo ago
It's one handed? The hand with the ring is the same hand that uses the thumb to hit the button?
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by bobtheborg 11mo ago
? "Wise, formerly known as TransferWise, is an English financial technology company focused on global money transfers." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wise_%28company%29
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Say it with me: Windows is the problem with Windows handhelds(theverge.com)
11 points by bobtheborg 11mo ago|2 comments
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by bobtheborg 11mo ago
"It’s been nearly two weeks since Microsoft, a multi-trillion dollar company, shipped a $600 handheld “Xbox” that can’t be relied on to sleep, wake, or hold a charge while asleep in my tests." Sean Hollister, The Verge
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by bobtheborg 11mo ago
$30K NOT counting some expenses (cardiologist, ER docs)??? > Bills were a few thousand here for the cardiologist, another few there for the ER docs, a bit for the radiologist. I helped my sister-in-law negotiate these down but they weren
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by bobtheborg 1y ago
"Community banks mostly don’t have programmers on staff, and are reliant on the so-called “core processors” ... This is the largest reason why in-place upgrades to the U.S. financial system are slow. Coordinating the Faster ACH rollout
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by bobtheborg 1y ago
Can someone ELI5? Reuters reported on March 12th that "Abu Dhabi-backed investment group MGX has made a $2 billion cryptocurrency investment in Binance, the companies said on Wednesday" and "It will see MGX become a minority
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by bobtheborg 1y ago
Again, no. Not all TS material is SCI. You only need a SCIF for SCI. "SCIFs are often employed for processing things that are only marked Secret or systems only handling Secret" No. SCIFs are expensive. They are not built when the
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by bobtheborg 1y ago
"classified information is ONLY supposed to viewed in a SCIF" No. No, no, no. Most classified information is NOT designated SCI. When classified info was mostly paper, it was placed in GSA approved safes in regular 'ole offic
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by bobtheborg 2y ago
"authoritative interpretations of law FOR THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH." Suppose the National Security Agency comes up with a new tactic or operation and they want to know if it's legal. My guess is that previous to this EO, worker b
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by bobtheborg 2y ago
Nope. The article is much more like "if you drop parking lot requirements, you need to demand price parking so there are always a couple of spots available, drivers have incentives to leave, etc."

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