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bob778··on DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why
They have to do exactly this in Australia and a burger is still $20-22 all up.
bob778··on Anthropic Claude and API service outages
It wasn’t night for all of Asia or Europe?
bob778··on Xiaomi-Robotics-1
Sure but the robots that extend our capabilities often start by replicating our current capabilities, even if those are as simple as folding clothes. It provides a baseline for the next generation of robots that can do more.
bob778··on Xiaomi-Robotics-1
Is there evidence of any state-sponsored bots at all? It seems like this has become an accepted fact but I don’t see any data indicating it’s actually real.
bob778··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
This is the key though: it’s not just supposed subsidies, because the Chinese companies are fundamentally just faster and more efficient
bob778··on Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)
I’m convinced this is a joke by Ives cause there’s no way he’d approve that description without checking it had 90 degrees
bob778··on Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years
Off topic, but how do you operate without email? Is it not essential for many government services and utilities where you are?

(Here, it is technically optional for utilities but is an additional $10/month to have your electricity bill posted to you instead of emailed. The tax office requires email as does my bank though - I just checked.)

bob778··on Fable 5 Is Back
Batch can take up to 24 hours (and often does) and may never complete if it gets cancelled so it’d be hard to build a user workflow around unless you kick off planning on Friday and come back Monday
bob778··on JSON-LD explained for personal websites
Outlook and iCloud support a subset (like tickets and reservations) too
bob778··on From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone
For $0.70/call, why don’t you take the offer? Surely that’s extremely profitable for you?
bob778··on Project Fetch: Phase Two
> Preliminary trials with Claude Mythos Preview showed that it would not provide an apples-to-apples comparison with other models because of how we had set up the experiment and how the model was served.

What does this mean? My guess is they couldn’t co-locate Mythos close enough to reduce latency?

(I’m assuming this experiment pre-dates the export controls)

bob778··on OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B
> assuming my income scaled with my output

The problem is that hasn’t been the case for 50 years

bob778··on There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing
Mistral (French) for one but several governments have sponsored projects too
bob778··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The Chinese labs would only go dark if they believe they’ve surpassed the American labs, otherwise what benefit is there to them to refrain from sharing the models? Better to have all of their allies able to use the same models by making them public
bob778··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
30g? That seems like a lot - isn’t the standard dose 5g?

Did you build up incrementally and find that to be the best?

bob778··on Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale
How does this compare to Automation Anywhere? They’ve been in the RPA market a long time but did a hard pivot to AI.
bob778··on Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”
ABBYY has a specific module for dot matrix printouts so I’m surprised it was a struggle for them but every document is different
bob778··on Goldman Sachs now reckons that oil could take out the 2008 record of $147
It’s, by definition, not a war crime. Military brass bands are eligible targets as are unarmed naval ships.
bob778··on Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
$200k is more for FedRAMP or PROTECTED+, but I think you’d be able to create a “compliance” addon for $20k quite successfully.
bob778··on Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service
Which ones are a good example of how things could be?
bob778··on AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention
OneDrive supports automatic syncing of photos from iOS to the Mac.
bob778··on [dead]
Beyond the other comments denouncing it as AI slop, it’s fundamentally wrong. GMV aka marketplace thru-revenue is strictly defined by accounting standards and most tax offices (including the IRS and ATO). It’s not something you just decide to have. One of the core principles of it is that the consumer is aware that the revenue will flow through (eg, if buying something on Etsy/Amazon, that is obvious while others like Uber are more contentious). Using a different model provider is unlikely to pass the test.

This would’ve been a fascinating article if written by an accounting expert but is unfortunately just slop.

bob778··on Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM
Those days are long, long gone (15 years ago) for most of the US/UK/EU/Australia and parts f Asia. You require government ID to purchase which gets tied to the IMEI.
bob778··on OpenSCAD is kinda neat
I want to like Zoo but the rendering engine is so buggy currently that it’s not really usable for more than simple shapes. The text-to-CAD feature they highlight is slow and error-prone, so much so that they explicitly use a “prebuilt” version in the tutorial, and each time I tried it, it gave tool errors or took so long I just did it manually.
bob778··on 10 Years of Let's Encrypt
It’s the symbol to the left of the URL > Show Certificate. They even make it available on iOS Safari (Page Info > Connection Security Details), but if it’s expired, you’ll know by the big red warning page.
bob778··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
Not quite - while you can reduce oxygen levels, they have to be kept within 4pp so at worst, will make you light headed. Many athletes train at the same levels though so it’s easy to overcome.
bob778··on The Enterprise Experience
Gartner claims 25% of the Fortune 500 are currently working to move back to on-prem for the majority of their applications. It’s not sexy so doesn’t appear in tech news as much but it’s happening
bob778··on The Enterprise Experience
I’ve worked in a lot of enterprises on “tiny projects” but never on something that only went to 5 users. In one role I was the sole maintainer of a “small internal tool”…that had 1,000 daily users logging 5 hours/day each.
bob778··on Fixrleak: Fixing Java Resource Leaks with GenAI
How much effort was spent automating this to fix 112 instances across Uber’s code base? I assume code reviews would catch any new issues so this seems like overkill for a small one-off task?
bob778··on Visiting Us
Epic is used extensively in the UK, Europe and Australia so to say it’s a regional thing seems odd? They’re speculated to be one of the largest privately held companies in the world.
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