tao_oat

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by tao_oat 5d ago
Sure, but I fail to see where the theft comes in.
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by tao_oat 6d ago
This is all consistent with the beliefs of many AI (and EA) types who are not associated with the company.
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by tao_oat 6d ago
> effectively stole Could you say more about this? I'm not very familiar with the WhatsApp acquisition, or necessarily happy about it, but at first glance I don't see what part would come anywhere close to theft.
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by tao_oat 6d ago
Does anyone actually need IE11 support in 2026? It was released 13 years ago.
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by tao_oat 7d ago
Cool to see the BBC writing about this. If you're interested in this I suggest getting involved with PauseAI: pauseai.uk
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by tao_oat 7d ago
I think the problem is primarily that a superintelligence would be fundamentally inscrutable to us, i.e. we don't know how it would think or what its goals would be. It might decide that humans are a minor inconvenience to achieving it
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by tao_oat 8d ago
I believe this is how many CSAM classifiers work. There isn't a simple legal avenue to host CSAM for classifier training, for good reason.
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by tao_oat 8d ago
They're fine for a CDN but overall their offering surprisingly immature IME. The devx for their hosted scripts/database just isn't there, and e.g. they only allow one global API key with full permissions, etc.
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by tao_oat 13d ago
This is a surprising opinion to me! Subjectively, I very strongly feel that models improved significantly over the last two years, particularly around the time of Opus 4.6 and now Sol 5.6 and such. It's made a huge difference to how
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by tao_oat 13d ago
I think it's one of our better attempts to understand a very large complex system! I think it's inherently very hard to do. I do think you can critique a lot of things about the field and ideology, and so on, but I don't thin
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by tao_oat 13d ago
Do you think there's any value in trying to understand how human societies work at scale?
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by tao_oat 21d ago
This is my experience too. Many people in my offline, non-techy life seem to get almost upset when I argue that models are good at many things (and getting better fast). And I kind of get it! If your primary exposure to AI is Google search
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by tao_oat 21d ago
You're skipping his recent blog posts; I think that's where the bulk of people's complaints come from. See for example https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...
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by tao_oat 21d ago
dhh is very strongly associated with identity politics, though? (as in, "western"/white identity)
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by tao_oat 29d ago
I've been following Turbopuffer for a while; IIRC the founder talked about scaling MySQL at Shopify. So might just be operational familiarity.
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by tao_oat 1mo ago
For some reason we seem to have more patience for bad writing when it's clearly from an LLM. This article starts > US 12,670,045 B1 was filed on 4 March 2026 and granted on 30 June. The claims are now readable and they are narrow: a
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by tao_oat 1mo ago
Electricity (including heating) is actually the single biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions, but transport is indeed number 2: https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector Followed by agriculture & manufacturing
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by tao_oat 2mo ago
Seems incredibly unlikely, doesn't it? (I hope for the same thing but it feels almost like wishful thinking!)
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by tao_oat 2mo ago
Yeah, I think it's largely a UI issue! I really want a UI that lets me review distinct changes that are dependent on each other, and handle comments/changes neatly within that structure. I've found GitHub quite lacking there
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by tao_oat 2mo ago
I think we're saying the same thing, that's how I use stacked PRs.
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by tao_oat 2mo ago
Here's a common flow where I find stacked PRs are useful: - I want to build feature X - Ah, but it would work better if I refactored the module first - I refactor then build feature X - There's then some additional (and optional)
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by tao_oat 2mo ago
Really excited to try this. After using Graphite it's been very hard going back to stack-less GitHub. Hopefully this can make the stacked PR workflow more common and give people an easier alternative to mammoth PRs.
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by tao_oat 2mo ago
> It uses the definition of "legally significant" from the GNU Project maintainer guidelines, which holds that the threshold is ""around 15 lines of code and/or text"" to qualify as significant for copy
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by tao_oat 2mo ago
I think this app is a great example of AI-driven app creation!
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by tao_oat 2mo ago
I generally rely on LMArena for this: https://arena.ai/leaderboard/code/webdev/pareto But it does take some days after model release before they collect enough data.
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by tao_oat 2mo ago
Interesting; I was looking for a replacement for Strong for iOS just yesterday. Strong was a great app but the dev hasn't been keeping up-to-date with iOS features like live activities and such. I found that there are loads of apps lik
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by tao_oat 2mo ago
I tried to list all the traits I could think of: - Orange/beige-ish colors - Rounded corners - Cards with a thin border - A thicker colored border on the left of cards - Serif font for headings - Monospace fonts for small text - Headin
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by tao_oat 2mo ago
> moving code repos into a decentralised hosting environment It's unclear to me what Entire means by decentralized. Based on their most recent blog post ( https://entire.io/blog/an-entirely-new-git-hosting-networ
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by tao_oat 3mo ago
The price seems sensible to me, these AAA titles are expensive to create. Not that it'll affect me personally; I'm not buying this game after Rockstar's [union busting][1]! [1]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news&#x2F
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by tao_oat 3mo ago
I'm using Bunny DNS and it's been mostly unremarkable (which is a very good thing for a DNS provider)! The only annoyance is that their domain import auto-detects existing records, but it seems to miss a lot of them so you end up

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