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Ok. Sounds cool. Now what? Open source weights? An API somewhere? Available on Openrouter? Are they just testing?

Where is this going?

Re:Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @01:59AM (#49988852)
It's from Bernoulli.
Re:Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats on Thursday September 24, 2026 @02:35AM (#49827006)
I feel this is overly pessimistic. Perhaps see it this way then; it is now easy and cheap to throw money at a Thing.

Society is bottlenecked by the limited amount of experts it can muster. That is increasingly less the case.

Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:24PM (#49731683)
This is a really cool use case!
Re:Appearing productive in the workplace on Thursday May 07, 2026 @02:42PM (#48053162)
Taste.

I believe we (software engineers) have tried hard to eliminate taste in programming: linters, git message styles, you name it. And I think that's a good thing. Taste is not transferable. Consistent code is.

Is there an alternative?
Re:The Robotic Dexterity Deadlock on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:25PM (#47185094)
You are right. If the hand is doing a specific task, better morphologies are likely. But that's not always desirable. The canonical example is of course the household. I don't want X robots, I want 1. And I don't want to change anything. Robot hand!
Re:The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started on Thursday October 23, 2025 @04:06AM (#45679413)
I don't believe they are. Sodium is less reactive than lithium.
Re:GPT-5-Codex on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @02:00PM (#45265597)
What I see most engineers do is parallelize. Have multiple agents work at the same time. It takes some time getting used to, but I think they are on to something.

There's even an article I read about this the other week, but I can't seem to find it ATM.

Re:Tiny Code Reader: a $7 QR code sensor on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @03:28PM (#44651927)
Yeah, that is a shame. Couldn't find something similar unfortunately.
I used something similar in the past. Loved it. User wants their data? Bang! Here's the entire database. User deletes their account? `rm username.sql` and you're done. Compliance was never easier.
Holy cow, that guy is intense! Also: cool stuff! I know what I have my neighbor print for me.
Re:Guten: A Tiny Newspaper Printer on Sunday January 05, 2025 @06:17AM (#42601051)
What? That's fantastic news! I've been uncomfortable handling receipts ever since (a long time ago) I learned about BPAs in them.
Holy hell, that was fast! I'm gonna spread this far and wide.
The one feature I'm always missing is password protection; I don't want everyone to see my travel pictures.
This is a very valid point.

You can see this at play with the support of the Ukraine. Billions are being tossed around but how much 'punch' does that dollar have when it reaches the frontline? Does it even get there at all? Is 10B in American aid even close to 10B in Estonian aid?

If the third party is a government (any random three letter agency) none of your opsec matters. Move to Russia as Snowden did.
None of these are sold anymore in the country where I live. They are all optical nowadays.
Re:MotorOS: a Rust-first operating system for x64 VMs on Monday January 08, 2024 @02:43AM (#38909203)
You think BSDs are next-in-line? Why is that? I have the distinct impression BSDs will remain niche. Something radical (like MotorOS?) seems more likely.
Re:Engineers Harvest Clean, Continuous Energy from Air on Thursday December 14, 2023 @11:50AM (#38643491)
And now it's your job to figure that out!
Re:SpaceX Loses Starship Spaceraft During Test Flight on Saturday November 18, 2023 @09:40AM (#38320127)
SECO = Second stage Engine CutOff.
You and me both brother. LSP integration seems the way forward.
Re:Passive Solar Water Desalination on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @04:57AM (#37762635)
I was stumped when reading this. But it appears to be true!

https://www.yourgibraltartv.com/society/28113-tender-awarded...

Re:Why Kakoune on Thursday September 21, 2023 @02:10PM (#37601588)
Same setup as me! I do miss out on the AI integrations (copilot etc), that I find a shame.
Re:Taskfile: A Modern Alternative to Makefile on Sunday July 16, 2023 @04:33AM (#36744803)
I, too, use just a lot in a very off handed way. My memory isn't great and I just toss commands in a projects justfile which I occasionally need. Yes, a readme would work to a degree too, but a justfile is runnable code. That beats dead documentation everytime.
All trains in the Netherlands have a first class option. Mostly used by business people.
With regard to this:

> - On the wire/protocol stuff. We're doing pretty rudimentary "open new connection, stream voice, POST somewhere". This adds extra latency and CPU usage because of repeated TLS handshakes, etc. We have plans to use Websockets and what-not to cut down on this.

I've recently used the Noise protocol[1] to do some encrypted communication between two services I control but separated by the internet.

It was surprisingly easy!

[1]: https://noiseprotocol.org/

I love money flowing into these projects. More = better. Nothing is lost. WORST case scenario: some intelligent people will learn new stuff and get to know like minded people.

Who knows what they will come up next!

Is that feeling of yours actually founded in reality?

You can have a look! https://hackermoods.com/

(I only did a quick search)

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