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dpe82

1,999 karma · joined January 30, 2011

Hacking the AIs.

Previously: - YouTube: - Shorts: founding engineer and infrastructure lead - Stories: infrastructure engineer - Uploads: Android TL - Vidmaker (acquired): founder/engineer (browser-based video editor) - Sony Vegas: engineer (desktop video editor) - WI state senate: legislative staffer - Various: LAMP stack hacker back when P was for Perl

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dpe82··on T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F
The slop generator's gotchu: https://suno.com/s/gT2YhaQyNdlkzgeU
dpe82··on OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell
Those are not OpenAI's concerns - they just need to scare NVidia enough to lower their prices more than they'd otherwise want.
dpe82··on OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell
NVidia has enormous operating margins, so a competitive solution doesn't have to match or beat NVidia's scale efficiencies; it just has to beat delivered cost.

One objective of the project might be simply to provide credible negotiating leverage when dealing with existing suppliers like NVidia. You don't have to deploy at scale for that to work, but you do have to look like you could if pushed hard enough.

dpe82··on The Library of Ashurbanipal (2025)
> There are simply too few historians trained to read them to be able to cope with the supply.

Surely this is something AI tools will (eventually?) be able to help with?

dpe82··on Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
> even the MON navaids are having maintenance issues resulting in outages

Which is exactly why we previously had such a dense network: to provide redundancy in the face of inevitable outages.

dpe82··on Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
Another thing to add to all this is FAA has been steadily removing from service non-GPS navigation aids.
dpe82··on Claude Opus 5
`claude update`
dpe82··on Schema Harness Achieves ~99% on Arc‑AGI‑3 Public
Humans (exhibiting "general intelligence") are tool builders; virtually all our capabilities stem from our ability to create and use tools - often extremely specialized to a task. Why would an artificial general intelligence be any different?
dpe82··on $65K to work at Anthropic? Debate ensues amid IPO wave
Seems roughly in line with UCSF's entry-level post-doc compensation: https://postdocs.ucsf.edu/pay-and-benefits

That too, of course, is too low to live comfortably on your own in SF.

dpe82··on The last Romans are still around
After 2000 years everything mixes together at least somewhat so trying to draw hard lines is an exercise in pointless semantics, but it's worth acknowledging that as a system, common law is pretty distinct from the Roman tradition of civil law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)
dpe82··on The last Romans are still around
> *English Common Law* has entered the chat
dpe82··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
I don't understand why you're getting downvoted.

I've used GPT-5.5 and Opus both for FPGA design with good results. We built a lot of tooling around it to help the models, but even without that they're definitely capable of designing digital logic.

dpe82··on SpaceX launches $25B notes offering, source says
They won't all be fulfilled. I would imagine this is part of the price-discovery process.
dpe82··on Dallas Fed: 30% of housing cost increase driven by unauthorized immigration [pdf]
Seems like a fairly neutral term to me.
dpe82··on US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff, Edwards Air Force Base says
Nit: at some point you start getting metal fatigue issues (see Aloha Airlines Flight 243) but in general yes: fuel efficiency and fleet standardization.

Also airliners usually just become cargo planes for quite a long time before retirement. Eg. there's a bunch of DC-3s still being commercially operated. Jet engine noise regs killed a bunch of early jets, but older prop aircraft are still going strong.

dpe82··on There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing
That wouldn't stop their development and use in the rest of the world...
dpe82··on There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing
Why would foreign (relative to the US) models suddenly sit still? There's enormous incentive to improve; surely they'll be able to figure out how just like their American counterparts?

We've seen this movie before with crypto export bans in the 90s. The rest of the world caught up and then surpassed the US very quickly - and that was without the enormous financial incentives of AI.

dpe82··on There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing
As we learned with export restrictions on crypto in the 90s, that disadvantage will be short-lived and backfire in the long-run.
dpe82··on Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM
Also known as: supply and demand.
dpe82··on Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026
And there were a bunch of WYSIWYG editors in the mid-late 90s. It seems like everyone had one, including Netscape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Composer
dpe82··on Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality
Oh don't worry, the enforcement is extremely selective.
dpe82··on A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
Thinking about it as a system:

If every university were subject to similar constraints, the average "quality" of research proposals would go down (everybody would have less time to spend on it) but since the pool of research dollars is assumed constant everyone would still get roughly their same slice - just with less overhead.

dpe82··on Cisco Workforce Reductions
The press release states it clearly.
dpe82··on AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved
In a proper 2-loop cooling system, the primary loop (with direct electronics contact) and secondary loop (with seawater/external cooling source) are hydraulically isolated by a heat exchanger. The salt water or whatever never gets anywhere near the electronics.
dpe82··on Days without GitHub incidents
Forgejo is just the one I landed on, but like I said - there are options!
dpe82··on Days without GitHub incidents
I recently moved all my projects to a self-hosted forgejo instance and have found it quite satisfactory so far. And it's fast! If you're in the market for a github alternative, take a look - there are options.
dpe82··on Why TUIs are back
TUIs, apparently. :)
dpe82··on Why TUIs are back
A year ago I would have agreed with you, but now anyone can build a perfectly reasonable native app.
dpe82··on Warp is now open-source
If someone expects to be compensated for their work they should be upfront about it. IMHO it's dishonest/immoral to freely give something away with no expressed expectation of reciprocity and then get upset when someone doesn't reciprocate.
dpe82··on Warp is now Open-Source
I don't really understand the controversy; there are plenty of licenses an author can choose that restricts commercial use of a project. It feels a bit dishonest to release something under a permissive license and then be upset when someone uses your stuff well within the ways you said is perfectly ok.
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