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New comment by ls612 in "Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is"

ls612 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 22:55:07 +0000

I tested Gemma 4 a couple months ago and yes it ramps the fans to max. Definitely a thing that should only be done on wall power.

New comment by ls612 in "Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice"

ls612 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:02:13 +0000

In mice.

New comment by ls612 in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

ls612 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:56:23 +0000

I built my machine in 2022 with 64GB of memory and upgraded to a 4090 at MSRP in 2023 so at this point I'm good but I fear the back end of the bathtub curve. I currently expect to have to hold on until 2029 and at that point the mobo and CPU will be 7 years old, and the GPU almost 6.

New comment by ls612 in "A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life"

ls612 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:39:25 +0000

Would dextro bacteria even be able to infect levo based life? Or is this just some fearmongering about bio to give more power to the government?

New comment by ls612 in "Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions"

ls612 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:56:09 +0000

I have been doing this a lot even without a skill, having Fable write a planning document, then spawning an Opus subagent with instructions to strictly follow the plan and report any deviance at the end. It also helps that then the plan is always saved in an md file so any future agent can look at it and see what happened.

New comment by ls612 in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"

ls612 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:15:52 +0000

If you say in your CLAUDE.MD that a certain directory is read only inputs, Claude Code will actually enforce that and deny any write to that directory by the agent. To name just one example.

New comment by ls612 in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"

ls612 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:57:06 +0000

That sentence is not bullshit as normies would understand it. One of the points of a harness is to have a privilege boundary around the agent. But that is just technobabble to the normies so they explain it like this.

New comment by ls612 in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

ls612 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:48:17 +0000

They aren’t building this fab tomorrow. By the time it is ready to start producing chips I expect 14A to be in production

New comment by ls612 in "Chartreuse, a case study in how scarcity and authenticity can drive desirability"

ls612 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:17:43 +0000

Yeah I live in flyover country (but a major city in flyover country) so maybe that’s the difference

New comment by ls612 in "Chartreuse, a case study in how scarcity and authenticity can drive desirability"

ls612 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:46:08 +0000

Idk where you live but everywhere I look it’s still impossible to find. If you are lucky you might get a bottle for $100 but most places don’t have it, the only way to find it is to order online (if your state allows it)

New comment by ls612 in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

ls612 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:32:45 +0000

They’ve already contracted with Intel to use A14 for the initial buildout so that solves the process tech problem.

New comment by ls612 in "Grok Bot"

ls612 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:15:00 +0000

So this is a Hermes Agent plus a credential proxy it sounds like?

New comment by ls612 in "Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia"

ls612 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:46:08 +0000

Google can detect major earthquakes about 15-30 seconds before visible shaking because of the huge network of accelerometers on Android phones worldwide. Those seconds can save lives if used properly.

New comment by ls612 in "Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse"

ls612 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:30:43 +0000

I built a simple Claude Code container on my homelab to do the same. I can just SSH in and get tech support when I need it.

New comment by ls612 in "Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short"

ls612 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:33:15 +0000

To point out that even your average human with 2 Mk. 1 eyeballs is not that awful at driving. We can absolutely do better with computers but the baseline is reasonably high.

New comment by ls612 in "Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short"

ls612 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:31:32 +0000

What senses do you need for driving besides sight and sound? All of the rest of this is just saying "the human brain has a well trained model for objects moving around in meatspace", the replication of which is literally the research project that all autonomous driving companies are trying to solve.

New comment by ls612 in "Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery"

ls612 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:01:28 +0000

Because the overwhelming majority of these reports are for teens sexting each other.

New comment by ls612 in "Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf]"

ls612 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:52:04 +0000

It is not a conspiracy that elements of the western security establishment want to ban open weights models and have been engaging in a PR war to this end, supported by Anthropic.

New comment by ls612 in "Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf]"

ls612 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:55:07 +0000

Because the goal of these evaluations is to generate scary headlines about cybersecurity, in order to get the normies to support banning open weights and/or restricting cyber capabilities to the chosen few blessed by the government to secure their code.

New comment by ls612 in "Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short"

ls612 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:26:07 +0000

Even the average human ends up with about 1 fatality every 100 million miles and 1 serious injury every 10 million miles. The typical person will drive somewhere in the six figures of miles in their lifetime.