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

moffkalast — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:43:00 +0000

I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't some kind of marketing stunt Amazon paid the white house to do on Anthropic's behalf to make the model appear more desirable and it'll be back online in a week or two. It's artificial scarcity tactics 101 to boost value that you see in crypto every day.

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

moffkalast — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:34:59 +0000

And if LLMs can do it, then the information is freely available out there with a single google search. Time would be better spent on making infrastructure more resilient.

New comment by moffkalast in "Making Claude a Chemist"

moffkalast — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:22:21 +0000

At least vibe coding can only explode in your face metaphorically.

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

moffkalast — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:33:02 +0000

Waterboarding as in surfing. In water, on a paddle board.

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

moffkalast — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:00:01 +0000

A superfund site is like waterboarding in guantanamo bay, cool unless you actually know what it is.

New comment by moffkalast in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

moffkalast — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:39:46 +0000

I would go out on a limb and say it's a garbage in garbage out problem. People just don't define their problem well enough nor provide enough context and are surprised the model can't magically read their mind and summon data that doesn't exist from thin air. There's only so much raw intelligence can compensate for not having literally anything to go on.

10 years ago this was a joke, now it's Tuesday: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/2vk4ph/mac...

New comment by moffkalast in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

moffkalast — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:25:58 +0000

And the 8GB one is $200. For 70$ more you get the Jetson Orin Nano with comparable single core speed but with two more cores, LPDDR5 with 5x as much memory bandwidth, more IO, and an entire GPU.

New comment by moffkalast in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

moffkalast — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:42:52 +0000

Floppy disk drive motors, but for cars.

New comment by moffkalast in "Claude Fable 5"

moffkalast — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:41:15 +0000

Yeah I threw my hardest problem at it as well, some convoluted satellite tile reprojection and culling issue in canvas rendering. It took some back and forth for some specifics but it ended up writing a quarter of pyproj in JS from memory and the end result straight up works lmao.

New comment by moffkalast in "Claude Fable 5"

moffkalast — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:37:28 +0000

"Good ol' scaling, nothing beats that."

New comment by moffkalast in "Claude Fable 5"

moffkalast — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:18:53 +0000

Ayy lmao

New comment by moffkalast in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

moffkalast — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:59:28 +0000

Practically all corporate backed or organized ones are more or less lots of job interview tasks running in parallel, so they get lots of work for free on a problem they really should've paid people to solve, and get to pick the result they like most. I've always found the idea too exploitative to ever join.

New comment by moffkalast in "Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day"

moffkalast — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:22:28 +0000

Yeah but then it's your fault, you get voted out in 2 years, and the next government reverts it. Local governments are ever the populists for a reason.

New comment by moffkalast in "Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day"

moffkalast — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:55:58 +0000

I've half jokingly said it before, but I think by overall impact Trump and Putin's sheer chaos is doing an order of magnitude more to transition the EU to green energy than anything else that was done deliberately to fight climate change lmao.

People don't give a fuck until gasoline is 2€ per liter.

New comment by moffkalast in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

moffkalast — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:17:24 +0000

No, people just keep reposting the same shit over and over instead. But the end effect is very similar, dang even links to old posts almost every time.

New comment by moffkalast in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

moffkalast — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:27:12 +0000

Seems to be for both according to the spec [0], maybe it's wrong though.

128 sounds really tiny, I wonder if they mean some kind of blocks?

[0] https://huggingface.co/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.5-Pro-FP4-DFlash#4...

New comment by moffkalast in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

moffkalast — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:58:01 +0000

42B active params, sliding window attention. There's your tradeoff.

New comment by moffkalast in "Giant Floating Victorian Drydock"

moffkalast — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:45:59 +0000

This photo looks so odd: https://nmb.bm/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_011057-1536x13...

Were cameras at the time really that good already? Or was it likely restored with some creative license?

New comment by moffkalast in "The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python"

moffkalast — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:40:28 +0000

Yeah, this is small brain time.

New comment by moffkalast in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

moffkalast — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:25:43 +0000

Yes it's an LTS, which means it only makes sense to build something on it early in its release cycle, so the platform itself needs to keep up with new releases. Orins will go EoL next year, so good luck with that.

That's not even considering the lazy out tree patchwork support Nvidia does for their products on top of that. Maybe it's different in this case for Windows since it forces a rolling release, but I seriously doubt they'll do it properly instead of forking some version and keeping it around for 10 years like absolute idiots.