jiggawatts

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by jiggawatts 15d ago
> model releases later this week. This just makes assume that everything you say is untrustworthy. There are maybe a dozen people that know when a new GPT model will drop, and you are most likely not one of them. Polymarket and Kalshi bo
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by jiggawatts 15d ago
How would you know… from a JPEG posted on Twitter!?
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by jiggawatts 15d ago
I find it hilarious that LLMs estimate time and effort as if an unassisted human was doing the job.
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by jiggawatts 15d ago
> Where are all these verbal tics coming from and why is it so hard to get rid of them? It’s a side effect of post-training for effectiveness and efficiency at technical tasks. Over time the models learn to pack as much information as po
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by jiggawatts 16d ago
I found they work pretty well for security reviews or similar large scale, file-by-file transformations.
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by jiggawatts 17d ago
I regular consult for government agencies. It’s true, but the factor is ten, not two. And then they won’t even use any of the things they overpaid for!
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by jiggawatts 18d ago
The flip side of this is the pleasant surprise of working with a near-retirement age grandma who assures you that she "isn't technical" and "doesn't know how to use a computer", but will studiously write down e
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by jiggawatts 18d ago
> Intel found new needs for powerful PCs It wasn't "Intel" that found new uses for PCs, it was everybody who found new uses for them. Billions of people and millions of companies found uses for "more computer power&
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by jiggawatts 18d ago
> Delete them after you copy. Why is the word “you” in there, as-if that is inherently manual labour for me to carry out? I know! Move is two operations under the hood. Rclone automates this trivial two step action. Azcopy does not.
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by jiggawatts 18d ago
This is the exact same type of comment I heard about computer hardware upgrades for three decades in a row. “Very few people actually require a Pentium workstation, a 486 is perfectly adequate for the majority” The logical fallacy is taki
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by jiggawatts 18d ago
There is a still flawed but less insane “utf_ken_all.csv” published as of 2023 and there is an API with even less legacy weirdness as of March 2026.
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by jiggawatts 19d ago
I came across rclone at work because "Copy or move data to Azure Storage by using AzCopy v10" is a lie, it literally can't `move` files, only `copy` them. I can't express in polite words how pathetic it is to see the onl
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by jiggawatts 20d ago
In Australia we used ranked choice combined with mandatory voting, which fixes most of the issue plaguing the US. For example, "our" Trump is Pauline Hanson, a vile, racist, anti-immigration candidate. She is likely to get a lot o
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by jiggawatts 20d ago
There are various ways of implementing this, someone from a C programming background mentioned on option where the heap-allocated record objects aren't fixed size structs, but instead the allocated space is dynamically sized and the st
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by jiggawatts 20d ago
I wish more programming languages implemented record types as seen in databases, where dynamically sized fields are packed into a contiguous area of memory. The CloudFlare manually implemented a clumsy version of this. Wouldn’t it be nice f
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by jiggawatts 20d ago
Kids love image and video generation! The former is cheap enough to do just because it is fun. I have a young boy, and whenever he builds an impressive "scene" from LEGO (like a diorama or whatever), I take a couple of reference p
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by jiggawatts 20d ago
The very same Jill Stein who infamously attended a dinner in Moscow and sat next to Vladimir Putin? The Jill Stein that was investigated because she was clearly in bed with foreign powers hell bent on keeping Hillary Clinton out of the Whit
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by jiggawatts 21d ago
Trump is the one who normalised name calling. You elected a bully to be your leader. A bully who calls women “piggy”, and everyone lets him get away with it.
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by jiggawatts 21d ago
This is the "cosmic censorship hypothesis": singularities are always hidden by an event horizon and can never be observed without falling victim to them. Or more accurately, any observer of a singularity can never communicate th
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by jiggawatts 24d ago
I’ve been turning the handle on GPT for weeks, feeding in toy models of physics and seeing what pops out the other end. It’s mostly this type of mathematics: classifying what high dimensional spaces can and can’t do. Maths like this is wher
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by jiggawatts 25d ago
High-end "compute" optimised GPUs from NVIDIA like the GB300 are actually quite good at CGI rendering! They're not used for that purpose right now simply because such pedestrian uses have been priced out of the market. If an
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by jiggawatts 26d ago
The alternative is vendor lockin, $$$, and spotty support for complex environments with zero chance of ever getting 100% coverage. At least with Open Telemetry, anyone can write an OTLP "source" using free, open specifications, an
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by jiggawatts 26d ago
Is anyone else annoyed by articles that simply repeat themselves instead of providing more detail? You know what I mean! The first paragraph is basically just the title, but with more words. Then the second and third paragraphs rephrase th
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by jiggawatts 27d ago
'bs58' jumped out at me as a random looking package name. It implements the base58 encoding, which is used primarily by... Bitcoin. I'd love to see the explanation of why "a TUI file manager" needs a crate closely
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by jiggawatts 1mo ago
YAML seems reasonable because it allows the sequence of steps to be treated as data , which then enables GUI visualisation, introspection, etc... without actually having to run anything. That's critical for a platform like GitHub an
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by jiggawatts 1mo ago
It doesn't have to be "externally hosted, proprietary AI model"! The argument is against "self-assembled small AI pieces" versus frontier monolithic models. A) You can always self-host something like Kimi, DeepSeek,
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by jiggawatts 1mo ago
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_lesson Everyone assumes that carefully crafting a specific AI architecture with bits and pieces bolted together based on their human intuition is necessarily superior to simp
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by jiggawatts 1mo ago
People keep forgetting that programming is not just about knowing the target programming language, but also an enormous volume of tacit knowledge : - Understanding of protocols like HTTP. - HTML, JS, CSS, SVG, and everything &quo
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by jiggawatts 1mo ago
Valuations are not value. There’s a point where if you ask to be paid a billion dollars for something that is worthless, people just laugh at you. Until the next transaction you can keep pretending the old inflated valuation is real, but yo
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by jiggawatts 1mo ago
Seeing what AI has been doing to maths conjectures recently, I decided to give theoretical physics a go. I threw some random "crank" ideas into GPT 5.6 Ultra and let it consume most of my weekly Pro subscription quota. I'm ac

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