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New comment by csomar in "John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard"

csomar — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:20:51 +0000

Yeah, I can't finish reading tweet. Is that even made for human consumption?

New comment by csomar in "Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins"

csomar — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:03:19 +0000

That's the original definition. I think now first, second, third are used to annotate which level of development a country is at. Especially that now, not all developing countries are equal.

New comment by csomar in "Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins"

csomar — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:51:08 +0000

Similar thing in Tunisia where if ruins are found, the government will own the site. Theoretically, it should compensate the owners for their loss, but practically they pay peanuts. So if people find ruins in their lands, they just hide it/throw it/bury it.

New comment by csomar in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

csomar — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:01:53 +0000

Define objectionable? Not ethical is not illegal but maybe if you are okay with it, do it for yourself. Illegal is just dumb, you are still responsible. So at least, if you are doing, make sure you are appropriately compensated.

New comment by csomar in "Don't trust large context windows"

csomar — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:49:25 +0000

I mean, that’s basically the magic of the harness. The whole thing that skyrocketted the intelligence is that the harness (cli tool) prevent the LLM from editing the file before reading it.

Can you imagine even a junior making such a mistake?

New comment by csomar in "Don't trust large context windows"

csomar — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:19:19 +0000

I have a custom build command for a rust project (yarn build:lib) and my experience is 120k for GLM and roughly 200-300k for Opus. After that, they default to cargo build.

New comment by csomar in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

csomar — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:44:26 +0000

It's blackmail/extortion. The act of paying the money is the bribe. Here is the Wikipedia definition.

> Bribery is the corrupt solicitation, payment, or acceptance of a private favor (a bribe) in exchange for official action.[1][2] The purpose of a bribe is to influence the actions of the recipient, a person in charge of an official duty, to act contrary to their duty and the known rules of honesty and integrity.

New comment by csomar in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

csomar — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:03:06 +0000

As a libertarian, they are not even close to being the same. A bribe is generally optional where you can opt out of the transaction. Taxes are a racket.

New comment by csomar in "Weave: Merging based on language structure and not lines"

csomar — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:35:21 +0000

I'm working on an online diff tool (https://codeinput.com/products/merge-conflicts) and recently added a mergiraf integration. Basically, the tool loads your git merge but uses mergiraf as the resolution driver. Then add these auto-resolved files to the editor instead of auto-resolving directly.

I also tried out weave, but apart from TypeScript, I haven't found any cases where it actually outperforms mergiraf (I run a bot that watches for new merge conflicts on GitHub, so I've got a steady stream of conflicts to test against).

I reached out a couple months ago on Reddit, but I don't think we ever landed on a time to talk. Would be interested to re-connect again.

New comment by csomar in "Pac-Man, but you're the ghost"

csomar — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:11:20 +0000

> 3. It’s literally impossible to catch Pac-Man? You do not move fast enough and the Pac-Man AI is programmed for perfection so it does not make deliberate mistakes for the human player to take advantage of.

It's not impossible. I just did. You just have to corner the man into an impossible situation. But I agree on the AI-slop or lack of quality production.

New comment by csomar in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

csomar — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:40:54 +0000

The best chinese models are deepseek (general purpose) and glm (coding) and they are both open weight and share lots of their tooling.

There are lots of AI companies and it doesn’t seem that they all have the same funding fountain or share monetization goals. I wouldn’t read much into what each one of them is doing.

New comment by csomar in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"

csomar — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:25:53 +0000

The best is GLM (though it's not as cheap as DeepSeek or Kimi) and use it with Claude Code.

New comment by csomar in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

csomar — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:25:51 +0000

> Knowing how to develop one is not a closed secret but getting in secret is impossible without the whole world knowing.

You can get away with a dirty contamination bomb and that detonating in down town Manhattan will scare the shit out of millions of people even the ones in New Jersey. Or, you know, just fly a plane into a really tall building and get the state you are attacking itself to get into a hysteria breakdown.

But yeah I agree with you. There is no point in these restrictions except for government bureaucrats to gain power and control over a domain.

New comment by csomar in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

csomar — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:08:54 +0000

Did you actually read what the tweet/blog post are about?

New comment by csomar in "Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher"

csomar — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:03:33 +0000

The problem is that they affect people unequally. I do benefit from this stuff because I can navigate the UX struggle but many people can’t and these happen to be the not so fortunate people in society and most vulnerable.

It’s definitely why some stuff is regulated (ie: loan interest)

New comment by csomar in "Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher"

csomar — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:54:52 +0000

When I am looking at airbnb I use an Australian VPN to get pricing to work as it should.

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

csomar — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:44:02 +0000

Let me try: *******

Edit: it does really work.

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

csomar — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:30:35 +0000

You haven’t addressed the issue though? That or you don’t understand the issue (or think you have developed some super powers that make you perfect careful)

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

csomar — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:02:18 +0000

Anyone can make mistakes at some points and it's not like AWS UI/offerings make it any less confusing.

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

csomar — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:01:33 +0000

> strict budget

How does that work in the case of AWS? Are you confusing alerts to caps?