jredwards

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by jredwards 1mo ago
The download still says "2.0 (2.7.1)" They're just not putting minor versions in the headlines
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by jredwards 1mo ago
Correlation and causation and all that. A number of the women in my wife's family have been diagnosed with Alzheimers. All of the women I know in her family also hate driving, because they find it very stressful. It's plausible th
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by jredwards 1mo ago
I do like it.
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by jredwards 3mo ago
One of the quotes that always sticks with me is: "Most of our so-called reasoning consists of finding arguments to go on believing as we already do." -- James Harvey Robinson. I've long since come to the conclusion that human
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by jredwards 3mo ago
I think OpenAI is just getting beaten so badly in the Enterprise space that they have to make rosy predictions about the consumer space.
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by jredwards 3mo ago
I expect that a lot of the money will be in Enterprise AI.
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by jredwards 4mo ago
I think you can both be sad that something you built was destroyed, and also aware that you already sold it and are not somehow personally a victim.
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by jredwards 4mo ago
It's tough for me to square the two things happening simultaneously in AI right now: 1. LLM Model providers are starting to charge real costs to users, revealing that AI usage is much more expensive than the subsidized rates we've
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by jredwards 4mo ago
I did an analysis of reconstruction spending in Afghanistan sometime around 2010, just looking at what money was spent where and what the impacts were. Infrastructure spending was the only thing that had any measurable return. Building road
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by jredwards 4mo ago
In order to make this viable, wouldn't you have to verify identity repeatedly? What's to stop me from providing a valid identity and then handing my account over to an agent after I'm verified?
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by jredwards 5mo ago
> But these measures were implemented poorly and needed to be paired with matchmaking to not destroy the platform. As a parent, my experience in discussion with other parents is: "Don't ever let your child onto Roblox, it is ut
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by jredwards 5mo ago
Of course that's true, and I'll happily join the United Technology Workers Union when it exists. In the meantime, I don't think you can fault people for taking the safest option for their families instead of sticking it to th
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by jredwards 5mo ago
Practically speaking, the person who stays has three months salary, plus severance and then unemployment. The person who quits loses their entire income stream immediately. Do you think your small act of defiance has a bigger impact on you,
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by jredwards 5mo ago
Even within the UI, Opus 4.6 is just under "More Models >", as is Sonnet 4.5. It's not gone.
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by jredwards 5mo ago
American here. I was at a party when I saw the news and gleefully announced it to the table I was sitting at. We were all pleased with both the result and the concession. ...we know.
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by jredwards 5mo ago
Oh dear.
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by jredwards 6mo ago
I've been avoiding Chrome-based browsers for many years now but have only recently become aware of how catastrophically low the Firefox market share is. I'm kind of shocked that more people aren't choosing to avoid Chrome.
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by jredwards 6mo ago
Seems like all of OpenAI's "deals" are announcement fodder with no real contract, primed to quietly fall through later.
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by jredwards 6mo ago
For all of the article's brown-nosing, there doesn't seem anything particularly groundbreaking about this thesis: the internet was once thought of as a mechanism for the unvarnished spread of information and is now utilized by tho
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by jredwards 6mo ago
I didn't realize Firefox's market share had gotten so low. Now I'm sad.
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by jredwards 6mo ago
Need is definitely too strong a word, but I think we can agree that uv has so far been the best solution to a problem that plagued python development for a really long time.
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by jredwards 6mo ago
As someone who loves Astral and hates OpenAI, this is making me pretty sad.
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by jredwards 7mo ago
And this is how you get Moltbook.
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by jredwards 7mo ago
That can't be whole story, though. They're still profitable.
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by jredwards 7mo ago
I have always asserted, and will continue to assert, that Tuesday is the funniest day of the week. If you construct a joke for which the punchline must be a day of the week, Tuesday is nearly always the correct ending.
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by jredwards 8mo ago
I'd like to see evidence that open models are closing that gap. That would be promising.
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by jredwards 8mo ago
The labor market is cratering, but tech worker pay remains higher in the US than anywhere else on the planet.
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by jredwards 10mo ago
I'm actually in the process of building a home NAS server primarily for this purpose. Delighted to hear everyone has such a good experience.
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by jredwards 10mo ago
I cannot even imagine the horror and the relief. I imagine if I were those paramedics, getting a card or a picture from that kid would make my whole year.
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by jredwards 11mo ago
Drivers in Hawaii have taken this to an extreme level and will stop in the middle of the road to let pedestrians or other cars go ahead of them even when they have the right of way. And they throw the shaka when they do it.

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