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fkarg··on Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
the lottery of either getting a new supply-chain attack or the fixes from Mythos with every single update
fkarg··on Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
Simple, for what I'm doing Opus 4.6 (and before that, Opus 4.5) are just much better at following my instructions and achieve consistently better results.

From what I've been gathering, this split in success seems to depend a lot on the types of tasks, the domains / programming languages / frameworks used, and style of prompting.

I couldn't get 5.2 to follow instructions for the life of me, even when repeating multiple times to do / not do something. 5.3-codex was an improvement and 5.4 while _usually_ decent still regularly forgets, goes on unnecessary tangents, or otherwise repeatedly stops just to ask for continuation.

Sure, I'm paying 3x more per request, but I'm also doing 5x fewer requests.

Or well, used to. Still bummed about them dropping 4.6.

fkarg··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
You must be from Anthropic
fkarg··on Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets
Does this include the stock market?
fkarg··on Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
Yes, except that in modern infra i.e. WiFi 6 is 1024-QAM, which is to say there are 1024 states per symbol, so you can transfer up to 10bits per symbol.
fkarg··on EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity
This would help a lot. Many European startups are strongly local (also in talent search), because while moving is simple, share distribution and ownership structures are anything but, and investors usually don't want to bother with local regulation on that they don't even know.
fkarg··on Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction
I agree. It's funny that this is one of the cited reason for the (relative) value suppression of tsmc, but the same factors should apply to Nvidia too.
fkarg··on Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
it's sad that this is not the default behaviour. hopefully the stop killing games movement will put something similar into law with potentially further-reaching side-effects eventually. Because frankly, sunsetting products like this should be common sense, not the exception it currently is.
fkarg··on Maybe the default settings are too high
The base material needs to be of a minimum quality for that experience to be enjoyable, I presume. I totally see the value of that, which is one of the reasons to sometimes reduce playback speed below what my default would be. Writings from Tolkien are maybe some of the best suited for that, but I'm not 100% convinced it would work for what I'm reading currently, so I might just try it anyway - the Foundation series from Asimov.
fkarg··on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
I'm not sure what response they expected, but for some reason it makes me think not that.
fkarg··on Announcing the Beta release of ty
well, this is where being pedantic bites me in the a* again. Our codebase has been mostly pyright-focused, with many very specific `pyright: ignore[...]` pragmas. Now it would be great if ty (pyrefly has an option!) could also ignore those lines. There's not _that_ many of them, but .... it's a pain.
fkarg··on Transformers know more than they can tell: Learning the Collatz sequence
yeah it's only correct in 99.7% of all cases, but what if it's also 10'000 times faster? There's a bunch of scenarios where that combination provides a lot of value
fkarg··on Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s
Personally I just take notes in Obsidian
fkarg··on Enumerating Three Billion Accounts on WhatsApp [pdf]
Abstract—WhatsApp, with 3.5 billion active accounts as of early 2025, is the world’s largest instant messaging platform. Given its massive user base, WhatsApp plays a critical role in global communication. To initiate conversations, users must first discover whether their contacts are registered on the platform. This is achieved by querying WhatsApp’s servers with mobile phone numbers extracted from the user’s address book (if they allowed access). This architecture inherently enables phone number enumeration, as the service must allow legitimate users to query contact availability. While rate limiting is a standard defense against abuse, we revisit the problem and show that WhatsApp remains highly vulnerable to enumeration at scale. In our study, we were able to probe over a hundred million phone numbers hourly
fkarg··on Next.js is infuriating
we started a purely-frontend project with nextjs but moved to react-router pretty soon. Sure, it can be convenient (when it works), but you can't really see or understand how or how to control it, and black magic breaking is the least of what you want. Much happier now.
fkarg··on QUIC for the kernel
because it _does_ provide a number of benefits (potentially fewer initial round-trips, more dynamic routing control by using UDP instead of TCP, etc), and is a userspace softare implementation compared with a hardware-accelerated option.

QUIC getting hardware acceleration should close this gap, and keep all the benefits. But a kernel (software) implementation is basically necessary before it can be properly hardware-accelerated in future hardware (is my current understanding)

fkarg··on Show HN: Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay
certainly not free, but with F1TV Access you have access to historical and real time data through the API. There should be decent documentation on it out there, otherwise projects like Multiviewer or this TUI wouldn't be quite realistic.
fkarg··on A New Age of Materials Is Dawning, for Everything from Smartphones to Missiles
from what I understand it's because it's a lot more expensive than its alternatives.

Like yes, for a bunch of structures you can neatly automate it (see most rocket production), but the shapes of (current) cars don't easily offer themselves to similar options. Automation is possible but would probably be finicky and require a lot of space and energy (for the heating).

but someone else please jump in if you know better/more.

fkarg··on Kia EV9 Charging Is Held Back by the Tesla Supercharging Network
so basically blaming slow charging of a KIA EV on Tesla for building out the wrong type of charging network? got it
fkarg··on Framework Data Breach
Yeah, same.

> obtain customer PII (Personal Identifiable Information) associated with outstanding balances for Framework purchases.

I don't have outstanding balances (I'm aware of) for like two years now. Something doesn't quite add up. They may just have sent this email to previous customers too for good measure, but I'd love to know more about that.

fkarg··on Tesla recalls nearly all 2M of its vehicles on US roads
Discussed already earlier today. Technically a recall, but for Tesla just an OTA.
fkarg··on Spanish agency created AI influencer and she's raking in up to $11,000 a month
> influencer agency The Clueless was only inspired to design her because they found real-life models and influencers too unreliable and difficult to work with.

hilarious

fkarg··on I discovered caching CDNs were throttling my everyday browsing
the author actually _is_ using a CDN now :D
fkarg··on New York may ban noncompete employment agreements and Wall Street is not happy
Non-competes shouldn't be a thing for most employees.
fkarg··on It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian
problem is: what to use instead? They don't really have an alternative, either
fkarg··on AI startups in France
dozens. not hundreds? I'd be concerned
fkarg··on Thoughts on the Remarkable 2
I got mine before you needed to buy a subscription. I recommended it to everyone, and a few friends got one. Since you need the subscription, I still show it to people and tell them that I'm really happy with it, but that I'm not sure if I would recommend like this. I don't think anyone I showed it to got one after that.
fkarg··on Universal Paperclips
I recently started playing CIFI (https://octocubegames.com/cifi). Number go up is indeed very satisfying.

It progressively introduces new game mechanics, which you automate away when they start being annoying.

Also: At this point I probably spent about the same time building excel sheets for figuring out prioritization of upgrades as actually playing the game.

fkarg··on JP Morgan fined by SEC for deleting email records
that's probably true actually
fkarg··on Converting passenger planes to cargo jets costs millions [video]
Yeah the 747 was originally designed as a freighter in the first place, the A380 wasn't
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