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shawabawa3··on Gemini 4 Argon
Hardly gushing praise for an internal only bleeding edge model

I would guess it's like opus 5ish level from this

shawabawa3··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
> "We are collecting a new GPT-6 Sol/high baseline from runs beginning September 24, 2026. Degradation detection is paused."
shawabawa3··on Jev in 25 Lines of Python
strong "You can build dropbox quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem" vibes

You have built something like jev but not jev (for starters, the output of what you've built will be absolutely worthless, the whole reason Jev is getting so much hype is because the output is good enough)

shawabawa3··on Can gzip be a language model?
It's just the best general purpose compression algorithm, in terms of compression ratio to CPU used, for the vast majority of use cases
shawabawa3··on Grok 4.7
Do you have any connection to Portugal? I imagine if you have Portuguese in any of your prompts that might bleed into your user profile which becomes a part of every prompt. Alternatively it might use browser language settings
shawabawa3··on Jev-Leftpad
poor implementation

jev should only have the choice of space_0 or space_1, then recurse on n-1

this extends the implementation to infinite padding and is cleaner code

shawabawa3··on The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
> How come self-driving came years before LLMs

Did it? Outside of very limited testing zones, self driving _still_ doesn't really exist

shawabawa3··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
> Just because. There's no tech reason to do it.

They made a separate article on why, which they linked to. Performance is significantly better. The native Android app launches twice as fast for example

shawabawa3··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
"native" shouldn't be capitalized in the title
shawabawa3··on Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)
They paid an estimated $300M per aircraft, so even a $139M repair bill is worth it
shawabawa3··on Monzo Stand-In
Monzo are a UK bank that briefly but afaik no longer operate in the US
shawabawa3··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
Also this line is very weird:

> That’s enough to mean the 11 Pro Fold still feels like a smart purchase right now, but I’m worried it won’t do for long.

How long are these phone's purchasable windows? like 12 months max?

So it's still a "smart purchase" now, despite being out of date? So maybe it's not out of date yet? But will be soon, like literally every other phone?

shawabawa3··on Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone
I remember reading something similar about walking on the part of the pavement furthest from the road, because being an extra meter or so away makes a big difference
shawabawa3··on Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
They didn't mention anything about folding clothes so I suspect this comment is just an ad
shawabawa3··on Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?
When asked for comment an anthropic spokesperson said "it's very unusual for the pelican to fall off. They are built to very rigorous SVG engineering standards"
shawabawa3··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
> Why should a developer use this for anything beyond a pet project?

If it _is_ 50% faster, then that's the reason

Obviously like any new database it's very risky to use so probably only used for niche use cases at first, but if it turns out to be just as reliable as postgres and faster then why not?

shawabawa3··on The bottleneck might be the air in the room
I very much doubt submarines operate that high

The ISS runs at 3000-6000ppm CO2. over 7000 is dangerous

shawabawa3··on CarPlay Is Additive
I'm one of the people that wouldn't buy a card without android auto and carplay support

Car UIs are just universally awful. Even if somehow you find one with a decent UI, it will never get updated and within 5 years it will suck

shawabawa3··on This blog is written in en-GB
I'm very disappointed it didn't translate the $1m story to £747,000

I found it completely unrelatable and couldn't follow it at all, not having any frame of reference for how much a dollar might be worth in real money

Luckily the background reminded me i could go and make myself a cup of tea to feel better

shawabawa3··on The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower (2025)
I'm convinced this is what causes people to feel productive with vim
shawabawa3··on Slate EV truck starts at $24,950
On the specs page is say "205 miles" estimated range for the blank slate/minimal version - which is not great

Very surprising it doesn't say the battery capacity anywhere and has no option for a bigger battery

shawabawa3··on UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s
Headline makes it sound like this has taken effect. It's just been announced

Might start taking effect in spring 2027

shawabawa3··on Disney erased FiveThirtyEight
Because they said trump only had a 30% chance to win?

What if they had said 49%? Would that have made their prediction worthless?

shawabawa3··on Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
The real problem is the widespread usage of Wh as a unit of energy

It would make way more sense to use J and J/h instead

shawabawa3··on Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
It's worth noting that the Fukoshima disaster

1. Lead to basically zero direct deaths

2. Was caused by the forth most powerful earthquake to have ever been recorded in the world (since ~1900), and the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan

3. ~20,000 people died due to the Earthquake

Requiring a nuclear plant in Belgium to be safe enough to survive what caused the Fukoshima disaster is probably not a good use of money

shawabawa3··on UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500k people offered for sale on Alibaba
> The fact that it's being done under government contract and (arguably) within the law shouldn't immediately make it any less bad.

Of course it should, to say otherwise is absurd

what, the NHS shouldn't have _any_ subcontracting? All data must only be held by sacred NHS monks in a vault somewhere?

As long as palentir are holding the data on UK servers, to modern data security standards, and they have a contract to do so, they should be able to

shawabawa3··on Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
> Because I think "1 employee can do the work of 3 now" still hasn't actually been demonstrated

1 employee doing the work of 3 is I think is a stretch

but 1 employee doing the work of 1.1 employees from a year ago I think is almost certainly true - at least, me and everyone i work with is _at least_ 10% more productive, and using AI extensively

shawabawa3··on Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud
> but giving a 2B model full JS execution privileges on a live page is a bit sketchy from a security standpoint.

Every webpage I've ever visited has full JS execution privileges and I trust half of them less than an LLM

shawabawa3··on Solar and batteries can power the world
Unfortunately human energy use appears to be proportional to the amount of energy available

Hopefully we are able to reach a point of effectively unlimited cheap energy and storage but it's that if overnight we suddenly had enough solar+batteries to power today's usage, we'd suddenly need way more as demand rises

shawabawa3··on Waymo Safety Impact
Hopefully if they ever go to Sri Lanka they get localised tuning because I was surprised to find out flashing your lights over there doesn't mean "go ahead", it means "if you don't get out of my way I will ram you"
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