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EnPissant··on Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data
You can just use bitwarden everywhere if you are ok with it in the cloud.
EnPissant··on Cards Against Humanity Statement and Form for Tariff Refunds
This is just marketing. It doesn't even say if you will get any money back or how much. There is a form asking you how much you overpaid, and stating maybe you will get something back. Surely they could come out and say how much they raised prices due to tariffs and promise a refund with proof of purchase? Maybe they felt that number was too small to make for a good marketing stunt?

Mostly this is just an attempt at raising their brand's profile by printing insults (demented, pedophile, etc), and obscenities (fucking, dumbass, etc) directed at Trump (a popular thing to do).

EnPissant··on Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
Schools have a strict Generative AI policy as well, and yet...
EnPissant··on With Nvidia's GB10 Superchip, I'm Running Serious AI Models in My Living Room
I am basing it on benchmark numbers. It's compute is just too poor to be useful for LLMs or Image generation.

For example: For LLMs, it's easy to do the math, and see how long you will be waiting for 50k input tokens.

EnPissant··on ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030
I thought this video was a lot better than the Veritasium video. The Veritasium video was awkward. I think they tried to follow the formula from the (excellent) blue led video that performed so well, but it just didn't work.
EnPissant··on Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot
I don’t think China will see it that way if they take the lead. So, why help them?
EnPissant··on Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot
And yet nearly every machine learning engineer would disagree with you, which is a given away that your argument is rooted in ideology.
EnPissant··on With Nvidia's GB10 Superchip, I'm Running Serious AI Models in My Living Room
I don't believe you. It has very poor compute.
EnPissant··on People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much
There is a big difference between 900 million people talking to ChatGPT and AI diffusing into other parts of society. I think the latter is lagging.
EnPissant··on With Nvidia's GB10 Superchip, I'm Running Serious AI Models in My Living Room
Which, GB10 or Strix Halo?
EnPissant··on With Nvidia's GB10 Superchip, I'm Running Serious AI Models in My Living Room
Strix Halo is pretty useless for inference because the prefill is too slow.

At least this thing is actually useful, and there are $3k variants available.

EnPissant··on Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
> According to Karpathy, vibe coding typically involves accepting AI-generated code without closely reviewing its internal structure, instead relying on results and follow-up prompts to guide changes.

What you are doing is by definition not vibe coding.

EnPissant··on Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
There are "Open" (anyone can enter) and "Women" (only women can enter) events.

If you did not have the "Women" category, then you would see only men play in these events as there are no active women in the top 100.

EnPissant··on Audiophiles can't distinguish audio sent through copper, banana or mud
> provided you remember to turn on lossless in apple music

I love that you ended your rant with an audiophile myth :)

Lossless isn't even diminishing returns better. People can't tell the difference in an ABX test.

EnPissant··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
I'm not sure about GTK3. But I know that KDE plasma has a setting for legacy X11 applications (I think all this fractional scaling stuff requires wayland). It can render them as-is or scale them up (bitmap scaling).
EnPissant··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
Yes, it needs to be supported by the UI kit. That's why GTK needs to support this, not just Gnome. Gnome uses GTK4, which supports this. Mate uses GTK3, which does not.

KDE Plasma uses QT6, which also supports this.

EnPissant··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
You can use xrandr to scale the desktop, but it's not the same thing.

You can render at 2x in Mate, and then scale it down slightly (ie 1.25x1.25) with xrandr, but taking a large image and scaling it down using a cubic filter won't look as sharp as real fractional scaling.

The command you gave is upscaling, which will be worse than 2x + downscaling.

Real fractional scaling scales the sizes of elements before rendering. This results in the sharpest image and there is no resizing/filtering in the loop.

EnPissant··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
I was a Mate user for ages. It's great. Unfortunately, the lack of development is starting to show. For example, no fractional scaling for 4k monitors.

I've configured KDE Plasma to look almost identical to Mate (the defaults are similar to Windows, nice, but I prefer the Mate layout):

- top panel / bottom panel

- desktop switcher bottom right

- task bar on bottom

- desktop button bottom left

- clock top right

- app indicators top right

- app icon launchers on top bar

- app menu top left

It's not just layout, either. Gnome can be configured to do much of this, but it just feels terrible. Task bars can't be dragged to re-order. Desktop switchers just have numbers instead of contents. Animations are slow and annoying. Etc. Etc.

EnPissant··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
KDE plasma is the best DE that exists right now (once you configure it to mimic gnome 2).
EnPissant··on AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder
Nahh, just trying to make it concrete. I could instead just ask which model they used instead.
EnPissant··on AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder
Try again with gpt-5.3-codex xhigh.
EnPissant··on GPT-5.3-Codex
"High" the the reasoning level. The context window never changes.
EnPissant··on Two kinds of AI users are emerging
I have experienced much of the opposite. With an established code base to copy patterns from, AI can generate code that needs a lot less iteration to clean up than on green fields projects.
EnPissant··on AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals
This is confusing.

TFA says they added an index to Agents.md that told the agent where to find all documentation and that was a big improvement.

The part I don't understand is that this is exactly how I thought skills work. The short descriptions are given to the model up-front and then it can request the full documentation as it wants. With skills this is called "Progressive disclosure".

Maybe they used more effective short descriptions in the AGENTS.md than they did in their skills?

EnPissant··on We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)
It was a fake story he made up to help in his job search. Don't expect any of the details to add up.
EnPissant··on Tesla ending Models S and X production
A 2020 Tesla Model Y and 2026 Tesla Model Y are at least as different as a 2020 Nissan Rogue and a 2026 Nissan Rogue.
EnPissant··on Tesla ending Models S and X production
Because it's Elon Musk.

10 years ago people here would be describing this as a good decision.

EnPissant··on What Ralph Wiggum loops are missing
I've seen a fair number of obvious astro-turfing posts on reddit promoting task master. I assume this is just more of the same.
EnPissant··on Alex Honnold completes Taipei 101 skyscraper climb without ropes or safety net
> The travel to/from Taiwan was statistically riskier than the climb.

You just made this up.

EnPissant··on Alex Honnold completes Taipei 101 skyscraper climb without ropes or safety net
touche.
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