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

mvdtnz — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:31:18 +0000

I've never met anyone who uses grok for anything. I had assumed it was a Twitter/X thing and only the truly lost souls remain on that website.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Grok Bot"

mvdtnz — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:35:09 +0000

How do I give an agent its own bank account credentials in a way it can interact with my accounts? How do I give an agent access to my inbox with its own account? How do I get it to interact with my Youtube subscriptions with its own account?

What is the use of an agent with its own accounts that are separate to my accounts? What am I even getting out of it at that point?

New comment by mvdtnz in "New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it"

mvdtnz — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:11:11 +0000

The claim I was initially responding to was, "New Zealand locked down less than a lot of countries". Not specifically length. NZ lockdown was especially strict in some regards (level 4, border lockdown) and especially prolonged in others (Auckland lockdown, border and MIQ).

New comment by mvdtnz in "New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it"

mvdtnz — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:43:37 +0000

Our level 4 lockdown was scored at 95/100 ("extreme") by the Oxford Coronavirus Government Response Tracker. Our border lockdowns and MIQ system were extreme and very prolonged stretching into 2022 and even impacted returning citizens.

New comment by mvdtnz in "New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it"

mvdtnz — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:15:05 +0000

What? NZ had one of the strictest, most prolonged and most extreme lockdown regimes in the world. Especially Auckland.

New comment by mvdtnz in "I've yet to see any"My AI went rogue and caused us to recognise a workers union"

mvdtnz — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:48:11 +0000

Why is that a pathology?

New comment by mvdtnz in "New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it"

mvdtnz — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:45:28 +0000

I couldn't be more enthusiastic about the local music scene here. But that doesn't mean I'm going to read AI slop about it. If you want to promote the arts, start by using your own words.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

mvdtnz — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:26:04 +0000

> Complete subservience and complete intelligence do not go together.

Isn't this contradicted by the centuries of slavery in our history? Or is the author arguing that the people who were enslaved did not have human-level intelligence (which would be rather a problematic claim)?

New comment by mvdtnz in "The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate"

mvdtnz — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:32:48 +0000

> I think it's pretty reasonable to think that an extreme climate would cause extreme mortality.

Is this the standard of evidence we want to use to develop policies that will upend economies and impact the lives of billions of people? "It sounds about right"?

New comment by mvdtnz in "The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate"

mvdtnz — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:28:46 +0000

Bullshit alarmism like this helps no one.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls"

mvdtnz — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:02:50 +0000

> Note: This attack succeeds even if an organization has disabled web search for Rovo. This is because the web search setting fails to remove the tool for opening the search results.

Wow, great work Atlassian. The web search setting does not disable web search.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

mvdtnz — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:51:37 +0000

This is just piracy. This is no different than downloading a crack. This is not some great service offered by Valve/Steam, it's just a cracked binary.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%"

mvdtnz — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:12:23 +0000

You're cherry picking. They built Windows. They built Office. They built Azure. Windows Phone (RIP). Exchange. Sharepoint. Visual Studio. Bing.

Every big company has a raft of acquisitions in their history and if you really want to you can draw a tenuous line between an acquisition and a subsequent product line. The claim that Microsoft "fundamentally doesn't make anything, they never have" is just silly.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

mvdtnz — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:52:25 +0000

The LLM has access to the full text and every translation of it ever produced, both in its corpus and on the searchable web.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

mvdtnz — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:49:30 +0000

> I also like this kind of examples because no one in their right mind would ever spend the time to write something this custom but LLMs have all the stamina and patience in the world, so it's an example where we go from "no one would ever do this" to "sure, why not, it's ~free".

Except it's not ~free, it cost ~$10. And no one in their right mind would ever exchange $10 for that crap output except in this brief moment that we're in because it's fun and surprising to see what will happen. The actual result is as close to useless as it's possible to be - it's not interesting in its own right, it's not aesthetically pleasing, nor funny, nor informative. It's just slop.

New comment by mvdtnz in "We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447"

mvdtnz — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:25:07 +0000

So how exactly are people setting up these agents? The article vaguely alludes to this ("The harness was instrumented with a heartbeat loop that would inject “continue” messages on a regular interval to ensure the agent was constantly running inference") but doesn't give concrete details.

Is this literally just an infinite loop in a bash shell injecting the initial prompt into the OpenAI CLI, and each run of the CLI picks up where it left off using some kind of persistent memory? Or is it a single context window? It sounds like the latter but it's not clear to me how this "continue" message is "injected", and surely one context window would be inneffective after just an hour or two.

Sorry if this is a basic question but somehow I have missed the details of these kinds of agents.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

mvdtnz — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:00:26 +0000

Is it really your experience that SPA data fetches and refreshes are "handled without disrupting UX"? I think it's the opposite. When a page is rendered on the server it's much less likely to move around under me, forcing accidental misclicks or shifting what I'm reading off-screen at random.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

mvdtnz — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:34:15 +0000

Sorry how is that relevant to the linked article?

New comment by mvdtnz in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

mvdtnz — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:34:17 +0000

He didn't say "they" anywhere in his message?

New comment by mvdtnz in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

mvdtnz — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:32:29 +0000

Any number of things could have acquitted this man, including that. His lawyer, the judge, the prosecutors, the police and anyone else involved at any stage of this case need to be looked at very carefully and hard decisions should be made about whether it's appropriate for them to be licensed to perform whatever duties they were performing in the course of it.