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souldeux··on Not Even Bronze: Evaluating LLMs on 2025 International Math Olympiad
my model goes to a different school
souldeux··on AWS Lambda Silent Crash – A Platform Failure, Not an Application Bug [pdf]
Respectfully, the documentation makes it clear that the author is incorrect.
souldeux··on MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
And gRPC with reflection, yeah?
souldeux··on Buttplug MCP
> certainly not how one would want sexual interaction

speak for yourself

souldeux··on Stack Overflow is almost dead
A distinction that is unfortunately as important as it is meaningless
souldeux··on 418 I’m a teapot
As a former engineering manager: no, I don't want to have a discussion about the hypothetical emoji. I want the engineer to put a rocketship in their commit message to have a slightly brighter day, and I want to acknowledge that someone else made a positive comment about it.

If you are genuinely at the point in your life where "people saying they like things" is the same as ... what you're describing ... please be aware of the emotional impact you're having on the people around you.

souldeux··on 418 I’m a teapot
> All those small discussions were essentially pointless

Were they pointless, or were they positive feedback about a thing you personally disliked?

souldeux··on Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer
Only a dozen but same. Just ship the shit. Quality never mattered.
souldeux··on I may have solved smoothness in the navier stokes equation
I'm sorry, but to my layman's eye this doesn't appear to be a proof. This feels like a disconnected series of assertions more than anything else.
souldeux··on I may have solved smoothness in the navier stokes equation
May I ask how?
souldeux··on Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminal
duckDB is one of the built-ins for count.co, which i've come to love
souldeux··on The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero
I feel like this starts with an agreeable premise. Some fraud is egregious, costly, and/or easy to detect. These low-hanging or high-impact cases are most worth pursuing. At some point you reach diminishing returns, where the amount of time / effort / capital you're putting in to eliminating fraud outstrips the losses from the fraud itself.

I don't know that I agree with the ethical conclusion that the optimal amount of fraud is therefore non-zero. The leap from "anti-fraud efforts are expensive" to these sentences in the final paragraph was not, in my opinion, convincingly made here:

>We should, as a society, accept non-zero amounts of benefits fraud. We should accept non-zero amounts of cheating on taxes.

souldeux··on Postman Now Supports gRPC
This is awesome, I had no idea you could do this. And with gRPC built right in!
souldeux··on Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
I've been using and loving this: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext
souldeux··on I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months
interesting read, thanks for sharing this
souldeux··on Introducing Windows 11
More accurately: the web survived Windows
souldeux··on The agony and the ecstasy of deep brain stimulation surgery
I'm not quite sure how to phrase this, but here goes: during this procedure did you experience anything that you feel you could not have experienced absent someone physically poking your brain?
souldeux··on Oregon has legalized human composting
I personally pictured something similar to the dough hook attachment on my stand mixer
souldeux··on Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake – study
[citation needed]
souldeux··on Bezos says Amazon needs to do better for employees in last letter as CEO
This usage of "ask" is quite old, and as is often the case, everything old becomes new again: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/111597/the-ask-i...
souldeux··on Why My Blog Is Closed-Source
it's a weak argument until you start getting pull requests, emails, passive-aggressive reddit posts, etc. etc. etc
souldeux··on Rust in the Android Platform
I don't know enough about Kotlin to know if it's useful or not to point out Kotlin/Native: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/native-overview.html
souldeux··on On getting poetry
I'm just here to make a joke about python dependency management.
souldeux··on Selection effects on dishonest behavior
The study is a bit more interesting than this title suggests.

>An intervention aimed to discourage participants from choosing the cheating-enabling environment based on social norm information did not have the expected effect; on the contrary, it backfired. In summary, the results suggest that people low in moral character are likely to eventually dominate cheating-enabling environments, where they then cheat extensively.

In other words: we tried to tell the cheaters "you wanna cheat? fine, you can only play with the other cheating pieces of crap." The intent was for this to be a punishment, but it turns out they like it. The strategy backfired.

Don't dismiss this as a "well duh" thing, there's cool stuff in here!

souldeux··on 'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware
[citation needed]
souldeux··on [dead]
>Stallman (rms as he is normally referred to, maybe Richard Stallman is his slave name or something(I'm joking)) was working out some of the finer points of programming when his critics were still peeing in their pants.

Written by, and for, a specific audience.

souldeux··on That time Sprinklr's VP of design tried to get me fired
I've read this twice now, and both times I've come away with the same feeling: this is an immature reaction to an immature reaction to an arguably immature action.
souldeux··on Irish webapp to recreate pub atmosphere at home
Ambiance
souldeux··on Asana S-1
They are an, arguably, prettier Jira.
souldeux··on [dead]
A rambling and condescending look at nothing in particular.
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