simondotau

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by simondotau 3d ago
I think it's because LLMs tend to obsessively write in a this-therefore-that kind of way, where an emdash is often the most semantically fitting punctuation.
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by simondotau 4d ago
I regularly have issues like that with Opus. I rarely do with the supposedly sub-frontier Grok 4.6, or Kimi K3, or even with Sol.
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by simondotau 6d ago
Opus 5 keeps making howlingly stupid errors, like one recently where a regexp would catch an invalid date because -\d{2} won’t match -00 Seriously.
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by simondotau 6d ago
Oh great, grandad left an old pile of USB-A cables of wildly variable quality for my humanoid robot to shred
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by simondotau 6d ago
“One React app vs two native apps” is a false comparison. A sufficiently polished React Native app still means two platforms to tune, test, debug, ship, and maintain. It gives you the appearance of efficiency and uniformity, but much of the
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by simondotau 6d ago
I’m sorry but Python ecosystem is a sick joke, and it is not discrediting that someone who doesn’t deal with python every day isn’t fluent on the magical commands for running pip3 within venv. To this day I still don’t remember what the com
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by simondotau 6d ago
John Carmack says differently. What colour are his glasses?
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by simondotau 6d ago
John Carmack is someone whose opinion is worth a heck of a lot to me. If he vouches for Musk as a hands-on rocket engineer, I’m not going to argue with him.
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by simondotau 6d ago
Musk has said as much himself, adding: "You may have to add [parts or processes] back later. In fact, if you do not end up adding back at least 10% of them, then you didn't delete enough."
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by simondotau 8d ago
I get it. I’ve consciously avoided that exact trap with AWS. But Cloudflare aren’t giving me “features” so much as they’re allowing my site, which is routinely DDOSed, the ability to remain online at all.
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by simondotau 9d ago
But do they offer even 10% of the features Cloudflare offers to free customers? To imply that Cloudflare is merely a fancy CDN is to miss the whole point.
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by simondotau 9d ago
I agree with what you’re inferring. But that said, there’s a valid argument to be had that—for some things—your own government is a unique threat that other people’s governments are not, or less so. I’m Australian, and if I was worried abou
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by simondotau 9d ago
If you disagree with your government, that is something you need to take up with them.
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by simondotau 9d ago
Sadly correct.
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by simondotau 9d ago
If you want to lament a general lack of awareness and progressive education, then I'm fully on board. Perhaps we should require operators to pass an additional driver test to be legally permitted to supervise any L2+ system from any ma
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by simondotau 9d ago
If we're using that definition of consent, it is an absolute unequivocal red herring. Roads are full of vehicles and full of drivers which, if you understood exactly what and who they are, you would absolutely refuse to consent sharing
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by simondotau 9d ago
You can disagree, and I do too, but it is the basis of an interesting discussion. Personally I think that fully autonomous vehicles need to be at minimum 100x safer than humans in order to maintain a social license to operate. I’m not sayin
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by simondotau 9d ago
Distinguish a beta test from a learner driver or first year licensed driver. Why should I share the road with anyone who isn’t an experienced and competent driver?
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by simondotau 9d ago
Because media isn’t a charity, it’s a profit-seeking business model. Outrage is profitable.
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by simondotau 9d ago
Or, and hear me out, a crash has to occur before an event is logged as a crash. To be clear, I haven’t even read the article yet so I don’t know any of the details, but that’s not a conclusion we can draw without understanding how the data
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by simondotau 10d ago
And unlike Windows, the obscure shortcuts are discoverable by holding the modifier key down while a menu is open.
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by simondotau 10d ago
With respect, most of your complaints fall under the banner of "waaah, I'm used to the weird way Windows does things, so I don't like the weird way macOS does things." A relatively universal aspect of macOS is that men
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by simondotau 10d ago
Once I got used to column view, I miss it on other operating systems. I don't feel like there's anything I can't do with two Finder windows in column view. And for everything else there's the terminal.
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by simondotau 12d ago
It’s all just feelings, based on observations affected by hundreds of variables entirely unrelated to one particular type of industrial construction. Start paying closer attention to the news and make note of when facts are cherry picked to
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by simondotau 12d ago
In part due to rising global prices of energy resources, which affect local markets and non-oil markets due to the (partial) fungibility of energy and the global nature of marketplaces.
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by simondotau 12d ago
Perception, absolutely yes.
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by simondotau 12d ago
Others already have elsewhere in this discussion.
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by simondotau 12d ago
I wouldn’t be so coarse, but mostly yes. Data centres are hardly new, and the subset of legitimate criticisms problems are hardly unique.
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by simondotau 12d ago
If my LG TV did that I would return it under Australian Consumer Law.
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by simondotau 13d ago
Nothing stops someone from replicating Cloudflare’s business model. Why they don’t try is the interesting question. (I often ask that about IKEA.)

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