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New comment by NostraDavid in "GPT-6.1 Terra"

NostraDavid — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:19:47 +0000

2026-09-03 is almost 2 months ago already - that's basically half a lifetime in LLM land!

New comment by NostraDavid in "Nix wrote half of my debugger"

NostraDavid — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:36:22 +0000

Methinks debugger devs are awful at marketing their software. I didn't even know such a debugger even existed, and I've debugged quite a few programs.

New comment by NostraDavid in "Improving site performance by shipping more CSS"

NostraDavid — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:59:05 +0000

Try zstandard instead of Brotli - a clearly superior format, IMO. Definitely better than gzip.

New comment by NostraDavid in "I said no and Apple said yes"

NostraDavid — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:30:28 +0000

Whenever "shit hits the fan" we say "Tuberculosis broke out" ("de pleuris brak uit/is uitgebroken").

New comment by NostraDavid in "Unreal Agent"

NostraDavid — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:14:41 +0000

To reduce the codex polling I slapped this into my ~/.codex/config.toml:

  [features.multi_agent_v2]
  enabled = true
  wait_agent_enabled = true
  min_wait_timeout_ms = 10000 # 10s
  default_wait_timeout_ms = 300000 # 5m
  max_wait_timeout_ms = 3600000 # 1h

Seems to do the job and reduce usage; I just ran Astra for ~5 hours (using a goal) and it used the last 30% of my usage. And now they released GPT-6 Sol and Luna (which is basically 5.6 Sol and Luna, but a bit better and also 50% cheaper) ;_;

New comment by NostraDavid in "Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs"

NostraDavid — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:21:54 +0000

>baked into hardware as custom silicon

Taalas (Acquired by AMD, back in August) created Jimmy[0], a little chat app that runs on a POC chip with ~14k tps. Yes, 14,000 tokens per second. Sure, it's just a 8B model or so (Llama 3.1 8B), but I can imagine that having a 1.58-bit model might be helpful for their next chip.

Heck, what would happen if you used a dLLM (d for diffusion)?

[0]: https://chatjimmy.ai/

New comment by NostraDavid in "ArchBench – Control Blender through chat"

NostraDavid — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:20:33 +0000

I used GPT-6 yesterday[1] to generate a paladin, based on a generated texture. The front looks impressive, but then you look from the side, and... well: https://imgur.com/a/VN2g34D

I'm hoping this will do better than my setup.

[1]: using the BlenderMCP + a bunch of skills I found online

New comment by NostraDavid in "CancerBench: The frontier model cancer cure benchmark"

NostraDavid — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:16:50 +0000

Absolutely scathing results, and rightfully so!

That being said: I can imagine that IF any of them generates the design of a new drug that cures _any_ cancer right now, it will still take several years before seeing results - creating the drug must be feasible, then it must be lab-tested on animals, then on humans, get approval, etc, etc.

So I'm crossing my fingers on this one, but I won't hold my breath because 5+ years is a long time.

New comment by NostraDavid in "A/I shuts down"

NostraDavid — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:21:13 +0000

> Hizballah

Is that Hezbollah's little brother?

New comment by NostraDavid in "A/I shuts down"

NostraDavid — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:18:04 +0000

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20...

Check the

near the bottom. Some are named, such as Armed Proletarian Justice, Revolutionary Class Self-Defense, and Jane’s Revenge, but some unnamed ones as well (at least their actions have been described).

New comment by NostraDavid in "WeatherNext 3"

NostraDavid — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:49:35 +0000

In the energy world, this should be such a boon over the classic NWP (Numerical Weather Prediction; complex ML models), but I've not seen it implementated. Anyone with experience of these models over classic NWP?

New comment by NostraDavid in "We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora"

NostraDavid — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:44:57 +0000

> compression levels -1, 1 or 2

Are the available compression levels not 1-22? Though that might depend on the specific library used - the official lib at least uses 1-22: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/programs/zstd.1.md...

New comment by NostraDavid in "We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora"

NostraDavid — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:09:37 +0000

Speaking of pigz, I've run into pigzpp[1], or rather its paper: "pigzpp: Fast, Parallel, Portable Compression for the Whole Stack"[2].

Turns out we can squeeze quite a bit more compression performance out of DEFLATE - ~10x in certain instances, 2x as a base minimum (read the paper for details).

[1]: https://github.com/thammegowda/pigzpp

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24153

New comment by NostraDavid in "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice"

NostraDavid — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:41:14 +0000

Preventing potential version/feature issues?

New comment by NostraDavid in "Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context"

NostraDavid — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:47:24 +0000

> Yes a plumber can be more easily outed as anti-gay and fired

Why would I care if I don't notice? I'm paying them to fix my literal plumbing, not to proverbially suck my dick. If they do the job I pay them for, and they're not giving me shit for who I am, why would I want to get them fired?

This uni-context feels like a very silly idea in practice.

New comment by NostraDavid in "Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context"

NostraDavid — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:43:52 +0000

This doesn't seem very compatible with societies that have a Germanic majority as population. _Maybe_ the USA can be the pluriformity that adopts this, but I don't see this as an attractive idea for my society (Netherlands) at large. "Act normal, and you're already acting crazy enough", and all that.

I want to be able to discuss taboo ideas in private, without getting globally cancelled for something I that might be discussed out of my mind. No thanks to the uni-context.

context-bound > uni-context, for at least the Germanic-speaking world.

New comment by NostraDavid in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

NostraDavid — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:46:23 +0000

> It seems the world is turning hostile to immigration in general

Not the concept itself, but the insane numbers. Even South Africa is having "anti-migrant" protests (by the _black_ population; important detail, due to history).

Having 1-2% of your population come in as migrants* is pretty nuts; no negative migration afterwards; number only goes up. I cannot see how this is going to end well in the long run.

*: This is for the Netherlands, for the last 5 years since 2024 (that's the latest numbers I got from our Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS)). That is _just_ economic migration. It's insane. I made some visualizations: https://tbataafschebroederschap.nl/projects/autochtoonse-ned...

New comment by NostraDavid in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

NostraDavid — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:38:50 +0000

The genders have always been bi-modal, but the well has been poisoned by people calling it "a binary" (hence "non-binary" people). A sad state of affairs.

New comment by NostraDavid in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

NostraDavid — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:30:11 +0000

What do you use as interface to OpenRouter? I, too, am looking into using an API to see if I can reduce costs (I use OpenAI + Github Copilot, currently). TensorX instead of OpenRouter (because it's in Europe, and EURouter wanted 15% more money from me :P), but I'm not sure if I want to change a configuration in vscode every time I want to switch the model in the Claude extension (and having an API key in my settings feels iffy too >_>)

New comment by NostraDavid in "Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other"

NostraDavid — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:58:25 +0000

Was it http://apestronauts.com (which redirects to https://apestronauts.herokuapp.com/)?

http://apestronauts.com exists since 2012, so that seems a decent potential.

Found it by throwing your comment into ChatGPT.