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New comment by justincormack in "ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux"

justincormack — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:58:20 +0000

The cli does that already with codex on linux

New comment by justincormack in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

justincormack — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:18:02 +0000

The double irish dutch sandwich has not existed for many years, and tax law is different from data access.

New comment by justincormack in "Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale"

justincormack — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:09:31 +0000

Databricks will be using the API anyway, thats all you get with an enterprise agreement.

New comment by justincormack in "The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing"

justincormack — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:53:48 +0000

2001 did have an original score, but it was thrown out and replaced with classical music

New comment by justincormack in "Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)"

justincormack — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:45:35 +0000

I think the interesting thing is that within 25 years or so of the invention of the "bicycle proper" the bike engineers (the Wright brothers) had already invented the airplane.

New comment by justincormack in "What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?"

justincormack — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:19:44 +0000

I find most of the time it would be fine on its own, but every now and again you avoid a really bad degradation through guidance. Some kinds of big change definitely problematic.

New comment by justincormack in "The Prospects for 128 Bit Processors ( John Mashey SGI 1995)"

justincormack — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:18:10 +0000

Yeah, or cryptographically secure non guessable addresses.

New comment by justincormack in "The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view"

justincormack — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:27:36 +0000

The London version of this is Spiegelhalters, in the middle of the ornate facade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickhams_(department_store)

New comment by justincormack in "Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio"

justincormack — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:03:19 +0000

But only 5Gb not 10Gb

New comment by justincormack in "Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident"

justincormack — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:30:33 +0000

Its likely written in Java, so memory safe.

New comment by justincormack in "Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident"

justincormack — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:29:53 +0000

That is the threat model, that is supposed to be safe isolated access in a vpc that isolated applications can access but it has external access.

New comment by justincormack in "We have proof automation now"

justincormack — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:36:12 +0000

re "An LLM also pointed that out, so I guess it must have been a different one which implemented it?" - no, there is no correlation between whether the same LLM is used and whether it can find errors.

New comment by justincormack in "Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27"

justincormack — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:58:14 +0000

You can rent one in the cloud to try it

New comment by justincormack in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

justincormack — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:05:22 +0000

The output of Anthropic's models is not Anthropic's IP, as that would destroy their market, if Anthropic owned all the software it generated, and all the content. So distillation, which is just using those outputs is always going to exist.

New comment by justincormack in "Control the Ideas, Not the Code"

justincormack — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:49:00 +0000

The codebase is large because its a complex problem and its around 75% tests. Have used various tools to find duplicates and they arent there to any significant extent.

New comment by justincormack in "Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode"

justincormack — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:09:15 +0000

Use Secretive so your ssh keys are stored in the secure enclave. Keeping private keys in files is the 1990s security…

New comment by justincormack in "Control the Ideas, Not the Code"

justincormack — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:53:09 +0000

No its fine. The problem is trying to read all the code. Reading some is fine. I tend to focus on public APIs, and key areas. But not the thousands of lines which arre tests or will be refactored.

New comment by justincormack in "Control the Ideas, Not the Code"

justincormack — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:49:03 +0000

At 600k lines of Rust, not finding those issues yet. You can search for different versions of same concepts, I mean you need to refactor a lot anyway.

New comment by justincormack in "Remote Attestation"

justincormack — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:57:51 +0000

Thats not true. Almost no consumer systems ship with SGX.

New comment by justincormack in "Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally"

justincormack — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:21:24 +0000

Micron have sold RAM for the next 4 years at current prices, so there are buyers expecting this to stay the same.