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New comment by lwhi in "Ultramarine 1 Flash"

lwhi — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:36:56 +0000

Yes, I'm far more likely to purchase if I can understand the full picture. It's not quite as good as frontier models, but it's 60 times cheaper.

Honesty and transparency are attractive.

New comment by lwhi in "A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't"

lwhi — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:25:49 +0000

I would love to provide a version of this for my city. I think the council could do with a way to practice without destroying what we have.

New comment by lwhi in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

lwhi — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:30:16 +0000

Is my dishwasher my friend?

Maybe I should be port scanning it to make sure?

New comment by lwhi in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

lwhi — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:28:49 +0000

This is a great idea. We'd slowly but surely end up in hell via a process pf reduced selection.

New comment by lwhi in "Claude Opus 5.5"

lwhi — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:43:03 +0000

And here we have it: the real reason that regulation has been called for, the ability to put out models that don't vastly outperform those previous, while not upsetting (future) shareholders.

New comment by lwhi in "Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography"

lwhi — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:49:38 +0000

Maybe the solution is even simpler.

Use film.

New comment by lwhi in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

lwhi — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:06:38 +0000

I held off installing macOS 26 due to all the negative press.

Should I upgrade to macOS 27?

New comment by lwhi in "Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"

lwhi — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 06:38:58 +0000

Maybe that's a triggering a method designed to mitigate against prompt injection / attacks involving poisoning.

New comment by lwhi in "I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch"

lwhi — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:28:19 +0000

I think Paul is assuming he'd also be wealthy.

Wealth inequality is a huge factor in our ability to excel.

New comment by lwhi in "Our position on open-weights models"

lwhi — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:40:49 +0000

Re. 'overpriced', I'm assuming OP talking about their theoretical stock price.

New comment by lwhi in "Google copybara: moving code between repositories"

lwhi — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:16:39 +0000

I suppose it mitigates the potential risk of libraries being poisoned?

New comment by lwhi in "From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery"

lwhi — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:57:22 +0000

The participants end up looking a bit like Toad from Mariokart.

How realistic would it be to make a smaller device?

New comment by lwhi in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

lwhi — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:24:24 +0000

One set of people might not give a fuck.

Other interested parties can still be trying to steer the ship.

New comment by lwhi in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

lwhi — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:18:41 +0000

> So far the economics are monstrously bad, there is no viable business model

Maybe frontier models will end up being traded at a nation state level; much like arms and weapons are.

New comment by lwhi in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

lwhi — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:41:20 +0000

The current digital hellscape that's developing is something we've been warned about consistently over the past 30 years.

All these dangers were known and predicted.

There's an uncanny parallel with the climate crisis.

Fatalistic somnambulism.

New comment by lwhi in "Why software engineers are grieving"

lwhi — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:06:47 +0000

Well, I'm 47 .. I've been a contractor for the past 8 years. I'm still (fairly) optimistic that I'll be able to find a permanent job, but the spring that fed my motivation is no longer flowing.

Maybe I need to spend some time finding myself and rediscovering what I want and need .. but I can't help feel pretty disheartened.

New comment by lwhi in "Why software engineers are grieving"

lwhi — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:06:07 +0000

I think I'm also grieving loss.

I'm at a time in my life where I most probably have 15 to 20 years of gainful employment left in me.

Perhaps too little time to retrain; but definitely too much time to retire comfortably now.

A midlife crisis, coupled with an existential crisis.

I thought I had a clear route ahead. What do I do when everything I've learnt and dedicated myself to, is no longer valuable?

New comment by lwhi in "Don't verify email addresses by sending spam to them"

lwhi — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:59:16 +0000

I have a Gmail address in the format of x.surname@gmail.com, which is obviously potentially applicable to tens of thousands of people.

The amount of misdirected mail I get is astounding. I literally just got a delivery updaye for hair removal cream, with the option to sign the unknowing recipient up to a paid for tracking subscription service.

The problem isn't just making sure the address is valid.

You need to ensure you're sending communications to the correct person.

New comment by lwhi in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"

lwhi — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:03:58 +0000

Maybe the solution is to make IPv4 prohibitively expensive.

New comment by lwhi in "If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)"

lwhi — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:06:04 +0000

I agree, it's vital .. but more difficult to utilise when the cost of adding is reduced.