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tough··on The End of an Era
If you look at history you might find that's very much the case in the real world too https://acoup.blog/2026/07/18/collections-pre-modern-armies-...
tough··on The Absurdity of Albert Camus
Thanks for your explanations, It some times feels everyone's reality is mostly their POV from what's going on on their brain.

Two person on the same exact physical circumstances can experience the same events in highly different meanings and the "World" remains the same shared constant, but how you "Percieve" such events in the world ain't.

or something like that.

tough··on The session you cannot take with you
both openai and anthropic actually do this and let you as a harness store only the encrypted contents of thinking traces to be passed again on further turns but they only have the key to unencrypt it so its jibberish for final users

https://developers.openai.com/cookbook/examples/responses_ap...

tough··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
I've put Opus to it and it says it will take 3-4h to do the process to the new weights. hoping it works!
tough··on I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
Is it reputation or hierarchical standing or just "power" within the society what makes them not throw poo tho
tough··on The coolest use for the Vision Pro
yeah just anything better than current product will do it for me, i agree you can't expect a full visionos blown hardware probably to fit on regular glasses but a man can wish
tough··on The coolest use for the Vision Pro
Im waiting for v2/smart glasses by now , weight seems to be the most sticky issue to daily usage
tough··on Axiom Foundation launches to publish law as open, verifiable code
Nice, the french also are at the frontier of law-computing i'd say see Catala Lang [1]

1. https://catala-lang.org/

tough··on Superlogical
Yes, indeed, although i think in this case it was just signalling how not being "SF focused" might be seen as a lack of ambition or whatever in such VC contexts or something and thus the exaggerated comparison to it being a lifestyle business merely due to the location requirements on ny/la (nicer cities to live in, maybe, than SF, or whatever)

i think just michael is based on LA, so he prefers having the offices near his home (has kids, etc), and has enough FU money to not need to let the VC's dictate where the HQ's are located at.

I guess also they dont love the idea of managing people remotely for a small startup/first hires, although im sure for the right person they wouldn't really care (or usually this is how it goes on most small companies/startups)

tough··on Superlogical
Well i was mostly talking about the "handing over to a non-profit" control parts. Not the release.

but since you said so, could you link me to the release / tag on github? I don't think they've put it out yet?

Maybe they won't change licenses, but Bun now feels more like SQLite as in "source code available" kinda open source, than the "come build with us, community first" kind that i think used to be classified on at least for me mentally.

No horse in this race, just pattern matching as we meatbags love to do.

Idc about the downvoting i can take a bit of heat on my fake internet points

tough··on Superlogical
That's not the original meaning of a "lifestyle business" anyways, which is more like a business that makes enough (to its owners, nothing to do with the employees) for them to maintain their desired lifestyle, like maybe a few million in revenue or whatever, but can't / won't be scaled beyond that because their lifestyle is already well supported by the current business growth / volume / revenue so they have no interest on blitzscaling, taking VC money, and running the perpetual growth treadmill or because the business is already topped-up and won't support further scaling (its not always a choice)
tough··on Superlogical
Its interesting they recognize they've themselves worked remotely for most of their careers but not for our new company. Maybe its a new trend
tough··on Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server
any open weights model can be stripped off of guardrails with seemingly pretty simple techniques and there's several already made libraries or tools to do so.

Running K3 on your own infra is still not "cheap" tho, but we'll get there maybe.

but yeah to my point, we're making "intelligence" a commodity, with all the ramifications that entails.

tough··on How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
I do not really care, just pointing where people's assumptions might be coming from.

The beauty of FOSS tho is Jarred owes the community nothing, and anyone can fork bun previous to migration and keep maintaining it on zig if they so wish.

long live open source

tough··on Our position on open-weights models
if you google "hf hack" the first result is OpenAI post-mortem official blog post so...
tough··on How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
jared was OK making this rewrite as an experiment branch in the public

why shouldnt upcoming work be as public as the rewrite itself was?

tough··on Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server
a script kiddie of the vibe coding present could very well start modifying code without ever reading it when that wasnt true in the past
tough··on Gemini last models: temperature, top_p, and top_k are deprecated and ignored
fwiw sonnet-5 also drops temperature (sonne-4 had it)
tough··on What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
we really should have trademarked that one or something https://www.eleconomista.es/retail-consumo/noticias/12360919...
tough··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
ratatui was still an excellent choice over a year and a half ago.

Nobody but a JS dev would choose react-on-terminal shenanigans over it

I could see CC getting a ratatui port eventually actually

tough··on What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
now App Store doesn't prohibit it, but it still asks you if you'd like to download an app that weights more than X mb or wait for a wifi connection to do so.

Apple UX used to be good, not anymore sadly

tough··on What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
A fun fact of the CE mark, is that it's also used to signal "Chinese Export" deceptively, with the marks being almost identical beyond spacing.
tough··on What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?
Operant conditioning random reinforcement is a pretty well researched science
tough··on The Kimi K3 Moment
giving peanuts to the other guys is a very well trodden strategy to keep in power tho
tough··on Designing emoji for the way we communicate today
I was wondering if they OS'd their SF font, but seems not?

interesting how people still provide tho https://github.com/bradleyhodges/SFWindows

tough··on Decoy Font
Thanks for explaining, that does make sense
tough··on Decoy Font
If you squint vs not squint it becomes way easier some how to differentiate i wonder why
tough··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
"The first hit is always free" - Your dealer
tough··on Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources
sounds like an org prisonner's dilemma
tough··on Google Search lets creators know more about their reach
the whole point of an llm is to generate "plausible sounding" tokens one after each other.

It can sadly not hold any concept of truth or reality as we humans understand it

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