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muglug
·5 gün önce·discuss
15+YOE. Fable 5 is well above the level of Opus. I have used it alongside Opus for a range of hard problems, including porting a large static analysis tool to Rust, building various tooling around .pptx and .xlsx documents.

In all cases, Fable clearly outperformed Opus.
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·11 gün önce·discuss
> That PAC doesn't look like they are ideologically oriented, they just care about whether a candidate is pro crypto or not

Surely the more disturbing thing is that they're spending money at all.

In the olden days a CEO would ring up a politician and say something like "if you vote for this bill, my 50,000 employees in your state will not be happy" — a sizable voting bloc gave those execs power.

Now the crypto companies say "if you vote for this bill, my 1,000 employees in your state will not be happy..." — less compelling, voting-bloc wise — "...and also I will donate millions to your opponent in the primary"
muglug
·12 gün önce·discuss
Very cool that the language allows specification of a type in this way.

I added a similar type — “non-empty-string” to a typechecker for PHP, and it’s been adopted widely in the PHP ecosystem. It turns out to be pretty handy, especially when there’s a full type system to support it.
muglug
·13 gün önce·discuss
Maybe related to the heatwave? I've heard some European data centres are having trouble with their cooling systems.
muglug
·22 gün önce·discuss
As far as I can tell, Relays[1] are the glue that makes ATProto work performantly. I think they're supposed to be content-agnostic — they just shuttle data through, reducing the number of services each AppView needs to be aware of.

As the blog mentions, the big improvement vs Mastodon is that Relays, AppViews and PDSes are separate services with their own distinct scaling demands. It's a rather beautiful solution to a system design problem.

[1] https://atproto.com/guides/glossary
muglug
·25 gün önce·discuss
Revenue went from $3.7B to $13.07B — roughly 3.5x.

Operating loss went from ~$8.8B to ~$20.9B — roughly 2.4x.

Doesn't seem like a domesday scenario.
muglug
·geçen ay·discuss
What exactly? From what I’ve heard, most of what was released in the months after the acquisition were features that were already in development/behind feature flags.
muglug
·geçen ay·discuss
Yeah — but includes a fun cameo from a famous 90s TV dad.
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·geçen ay·discuss
> get hired at a comp number that requires a comma you've never used before

Gotta hand it to Claude, that's almost a pretty decent line.
muglug
·geçen ay·discuss
Seems like the most plausible explanation. OTOH it feels like this is the sort of thing that might have been discovered/mitigated more quickly had there been a human in the loop.
muglug
·geçen ay·discuss
And Michael was based on some of the most expensive & beloved IP in the world (extremely popular with Gen X despite everything)
muglug
·2 ay önce·discuss
I’m also an immigrant.

When I heard the crowd roar every time Trump said “we’re going to kick them out” I knew exactly what the crowd was cheering. Trump never used those moments to say “but America is a nation of immigrants and we celebrate their contributions”. He wanted to rile up a crowd while maintaining a fig-leaf of “oh it’s only illegals who are evil”

You don’t have to have a PhD to understand the appeal and consequences of nativist populism — just the slightest understanding of history.
muglug
·2 ay önce·discuss
This like if BitTorrent cut off Windows support over objections to Microsoft embrace/extend/extinguish. It’s a slightly incoherent position.
muglug
·2 ay önce·discuss
To be fair, that's the authentic London telephone box experience of old.
muglug
·2 ay önce·discuss
I’m reasonably certain that Schmidt anticipated that reaction after the first speaker was booed.

It had the vibe of “These people need to hear the Truth”.
muglug
·2 ay önce·discuss
> output from LLMs, once published, is essentially in the Public Domain, since there isn't any human who owns it

That’s not what the court case in question was about: https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2026/03/us-supreme-court-de...

If I ask an LLM to come up with an entirely new story on its own, the output is not copyrightable.

But if I feed an LLM a Tom Clancy novel and ask it to regurgitate that same novel, I cannot legally then put the output on a website for anyone to download.
muglug
·2 ay önce·discuss
For select tasks the latest LLMs can speed things up by an order of magnitude.

Best example I’ve found: translating code from one language to another where there’s a large corpus of existing acceptance tests.
muglug
·2 ay önce·discuss
Not sure if Spotify got that same memo.
muglug
·2 ay önce·discuss
> Banning people is way easier on small servers

Big “citation needed” here. My bet is that Meta have far better moderation systems than any other social media company on the planet.
muglug
·2 ay önce·discuss
It's Psalm — see the section on security analysis here: https://psalm.dev/docs/security_analysis/