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New comment by ReptileMan in "Extinction-Level Capitalism"

ReptileMan — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:48:45 +0000

Hugh... when has graham platner became secretary of war?

New comment by ReptileMan in "Germany and Japan Are Rearming Again, 80 Years After World War II"

ReptileMan — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:26:12 +0000

Meh. They don't have the industrial capacity for drones and the population for standing army. And germany are too afraid of being called racists to mobilize the cannon fodder that voluntarily and illegally crosses their border every year.

New comment by ReptileMan in "Codex for open source"

ReptileMan — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:46:54 +0000

The moment a corporation starts to endorse open source is the moment they admit they know that are behind.

New comment by ReptileMan in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

ReptileMan — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:41:13 +0000

As the old saying goes - better a naughty French than boring German...

New comment by ReptileMan in "Leaving Mozilla"

ReptileMan — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:12:10 +0000

But at least they are not homophobic like Eich.

New comment by ReptileMan in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

ReptileMan — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:05:11 +0000

3 out of 5 voting works quite well for hardware sensors and for computing in space.

No reason why it won't improve the quality of the agents output too, eventually. Spin 5 from different providers, take the vote.

New comment by ReptileMan in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

ReptileMan — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:46:39 +0000

Never use a service without easy to find and set hard cap.

New comment by ReptileMan in "Shall we play a game? – LLMs use tactical nukes in 95% of simulations"

ReptileMan — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:02:42 +0000

Still lower than me.

New comment by ReptileMan in "Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"

ReptileMan — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:20:05 +0000

Fully autonomous Ukrainian drones. We don't know if Russia hadn't used something before them.

The two sides are quite evenly matched

New comment by ReptileMan in "Notes on DeepSeek"

ReptileMan — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:03:01 +0000

Both. Both are good. Anyway this shows how full of shit Anthropic are - if Mythos was so advanced as they claim - distillation attacks just wouldn't work.

New comment by ReptileMan in "Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi"

ReptileMan — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:58:43 +0000

Since when is NHS private care?

New comment by ReptileMan in "Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi"

ReptileMan — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:41:31 +0000

A lot of fellow Eastern Europeans travel back home to get medical care. This is good testament about the quality of care and personal in UK - since ours are like take out of a horror movie

New comment by ReptileMan in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

ReptileMan — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:29:52 +0000

Counter point - Marisa Mayer and Stephen Elop.

New comment by ReptileMan in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

ReptileMan — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:20:26 +0000

A story from today - I needed a small utility to remap my logitech buttons under windows without installing their horrendous GHUB. Logitech Onboard Memory Manager still required ghub to be put into onboard mode.

The solution - linux has utility called piper. I downloaded the repo and just told codex - figure out what piper is doing and create me a small utility to do it under windows. So the jolly critter started experimenting with hex commands, then pulled some other repo on which piper depended figured out how to enable said onboard mode and 10-sh minutes later I had small python script that did what i needed to do.

That would have taken probably half a day of work for a human.

There are many stupid CEO and organizations which are not committed to quality. And a lot of employees that are too set in their ways. But the instinct that underinvesting in AI is more dangerous than overinvesting is right. Doomed if you do, doomed if you don't

"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer" - this is from the 60, but right now is turned into overdrive.

New comment by ReptileMan in "Pentagon Says Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree Support China's Military"

ReptileMan — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:25:07 +0000

PLA Says Boeing, Google, Microsoft and Amazon support USA military.

New comment by ReptileMan in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

ReptileMan — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:36:49 +0000

>but I don't see how they can possibly be "temporary"

Fairly simple. You put 16 turbines that don't require permit for a year. After a year has passed you put another 16 pulled from another site and move the initial 16 to the former empty one.

Then you lobby hard to make sure that the authorities read temporary per turbine serial number and not total installed capacity.

New comment by ReptileMan in "Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs"

ReptileMan — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:30:32 +0000

32 is vintager vintage

New comment by ReptileMan in "Is This the Dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?"

ReptileMan — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:28:34 +0000

Why everyone insists that api inference is sold at cost and not at 1000% margin? This genre of article is based on that assumption.

New comment by ReptileMan in "Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts"

ReptileMan — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:35:52 +0000

French gonna french. I have always been fascinated by their engineering. There was this joke that Renault headquarters is 16 floors, on the 16 is the top brass, on the 15 are the engineers that design the cars, and the rest 14 floors try desperately to figure out how to assemble them.

New comment by ReptileMan in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

ReptileMan — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:57:26 +0000

Anthropic is all talk and no delivery last few months. This cry for pause is just them realizing they have no moat at all.