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Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:36PM (#50311559)
Wow. I'm literally reconsidering having any mails at proton anymore. This is beyond abysmal attitude.
Re:GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @04:29PM (#49822079)
Wow. Luna 6 is an insane value bargain at this point. If Anthropic doesn't finally come out with their own small low cost model instead of still having haiku 4.5 they'll be history soon.
Yeah i noticed this heavily. Working on a branch i critique and give a simpler design. Claude implements and then in a huge comments reference the outdated worse design. Zero value to that. Even having a "how to write comments" section in claude.md doesn't seem to help much with that.
Yes these things happen as part of RL Training. Same way that you can see the "But wait ..." phrases in thinking traces. They get rewarded.
Re:Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter on Sunday May 17, 2026 @11:07AM (#48169596)
Article is seriously wrong, because it makes a huge mistake in the last part. You can't simply look at the produced tokens and that is your cost. In agentic coding there are lots of turns meaning you not only pay for the output tokens you also pay for all the input tokens sent each time (even if a lot cheaper, like 10x when cached). So this calculation does not accurately represent the api cost at all.

Second thing is you can starkly upgrade the token generation locally if you use agent teams. Single conversations are memory bandwidth bound and don't fully make use of your compute. If you can batch tokens from multiple agents you can easily 5x token generation.

Re:A few words on DS4 on Friday May 15, 2026 @02:16PM (#48151925)
Harness: a piece of equipment with straps and belts, used to control or hold in place a person, animal, or object.

So yes the generel meaning applies to test setup and running and also to the agent cli which is the harness for the model.

Re:Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45% on Sunday April 19, 2026 @11:23AM (#47824978)
The K/V Cache is just an optimization. But yeah you would expect the attention for the model producing "Ok im doing X" and you asking "Why did you do X?" be similar. So i don't see a reason why introspection would be impossible. In fact trying to adapt a test skill where the agent would write a new test instead of adapting a new one i asked it why and it gave the reasoning it used. We then adapted the skill to specifically reject that reasoning and then it worked and the agent adapted the existing test instead.
Does anyone know. How would that relate to simply wrapping claude code as a subprocess?
In the example given in the article i think the correct behavior would have been to infer the type backwards from the return type of the function. Is that not why mypy actually errors here?
Re:I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked on Friday August 15, 2025 @02:01PM (#44915529)
Its not really hard to tell.
Re:"Why is the Rust compiler so slow?" on Sunday June 29, 2025 @01:21PM (#44414730)
Pipe to dev/null. Fastest database i have ever used.
Re:Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server on Thursday May 08, 2025 @02:39PM (#43929718)
It is literally true. You don't need to run a type checker.
Re:Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server on Thursday May 08, 2025 @02:32PM (#43929625)
mypy is also written in a style conducive to speed ups when compiling with mypyc
Re:Why old books smell so good on Saturday August 19, 2023 @11:50AM (#37189967)
Funny i know about Proust from The Sopranos.
Re:Fusion Foolery on Thursday August 17, 2023 @02:53PM (#37166314)
You don't you build solar and wind, which have different seasonal productions. Wind power is actually higher during winter. See: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Estimated-normalized-mon...

And if you combine the graphs for solar and wind from this: https://aleasoft.com/european-solar-and-wind-energy-producti...

You can nicely see that they are complementary in terms of energy production.

Must feel especially shitty to have your freedom curtailed like this, looking at the probable end of your life.
Re:Why Checked Exceptions Failed on Saturday July 15, 2023 @09:33AM (#36736593)
Yeah Containers like Option<T> and Result<T> not having a proper subtyping relation to T is major flaw. I mean you are basically giving a stronger guarantee if you are returning T instead of T or an Error, yet you break every callsite.

I have been thinking about this in terms of a data oriented programming language like clojure, but having types/schemas. If you use Union Types for something like getting a value out of a map for a specific key, then if you knew the schema of a specific map you could reduce the return type from {T, Error} to just the type of the value T that you know is there.

Basically a sufficiently smart compiler with the necessary information could make you not have to deal with errors at all in certain cases. With Result/Option/Maybe this would not be possible. It would always infect the entire callstack and you would always have to deal with it.

Re:How to think about `async`/`await` in Rust on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @04:34PM (#36606725)
Concurrency is not "single core parallelism". Concurrency describes tasks/threads of execution making independent progress of each other. Parallelism describes tasks/threads actually running at the same time.
They are not missing the point. The previous post was simply wrong. The halting problem is semi-decidable. So you can potentially find out wether a program halts.
Re:Direct air capture: our technology to capture CO₂ on Saturday May 27, 2023 @10:44AM (#36095221)
They don't work nearly as well enough or in the case of hydro storage are available in enough quantity to cover a month of weak wind.

For example. The US would consume its entirety of pumped hydro storage in a third of a day.

That just gave me the idea that there could be a main instance that keeps a summary of the problem (List of paragraphs for each subproblem) and other instances that hold the larger text that these summaries are based on. Then on demand the main instance could get needed extra information for a subpoint back. Kinda like having forgein keys in a databas with which you can join in the relevant row!
Re:JDK 20 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes on Saturday March 18, 2023 @06:01AM (#35207726)
How do you to zero-copy message passing if you have one heap per actor? Or am i misunderstanding and a couple of actors share a heap, but there is no giant heap?
Re:Maybe people do care about performance and reliability on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:05PM (#34794313)
Felt the same way after first going from eclipse to intellij. This fear, this lack off. But after a while i didn't notice anymore and i have never run into a situation where something important was lost. In the opposite. Saving and making copies and even duplicating code in a file like an older version of an sql statement is some kind of fear/hoarding impulse, that doesn't seem to pay off at all.
Re:I'm Going to Scale My Foot Up Your Ass (2008) on Sunday February 05, 2023 @12:52PM (#34666985)
Thats pretty funny.
Re:My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:26PM (#34469417)
The Werther Effect is thoroughly studied effect. There are plenty of studies on the issue.
Re:Two research teams reverse signs of aging in mice on Sunday January 15, 2023 @06:40AM (#34388680)
Of course.
Re:Lisp-Stick on a Python on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @05:15AM (#33607364)
I mean i would but i don't know wether going back in time would pass the borrow checker.
Re:Pwned, the book on Friday September 09, 2022 @09:38AM (#32779073)
What a mindblowing attitude for a book whos contents are already freely available as blogposts. Shame.
Re:The silence of risk management victory on Saturday August 20, 2022 @05:16PM (#32535198)
Then you're blind.
Re:Productivity porn on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @03:58PM (#32336085)
What the hell. Why are you stealing my idea? I've been working on this for 30 years. Its about 10% done. I'll do the rest next weekend.

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