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New comment by pkaye in "Claude Fable 5"

pkaye — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:05:48 +0000

I noticed that when trying to use Codex and compared to Opus. So many layers of simple functions added by Codex. I need to try this out in my Agents.md.

New comment by pkaye in "What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)"

pkaye — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:25:51 +0000

The testing was at the drive level without an OS like ext2. The test was with no flush (with flush test is easy to pass). Without PLP, the pass criteria is that the data that was buffered can be either the older or newer data and not corrupted or previous data. All the other blocks on the SSD should remain unchanged. Its trickier that you think because MLC/TLC NAND could corrupt other blocks due to NAND structure and we had to deal with that. Then you also have to worry about system data in the NAND doesn't get corrupted.

New comment by pkaye in "What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)"

pkaye — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:26:56 +0000

I used to develop SSD firmware and one of things I worked on is making it robust to power failure. The power supplies have lots of capacitance so the voltage drop was slow so we would use a special test board that would disconnect from power and discharge fast to test it.

New comment by pkaye in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

pkaye — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:03:52 +0000

Because the Haiku model is quite cheap but doesn't screw up too often I used it for interactive coding for my existing projects on the older copilot plans.

For simple features I don't have a full plan worked out. I write a bit of code then tell the model in a short line prompt what it should do. Sometimes I put temporary comments in the code to give it guidance. Generally if the code change is within a file or package, Haiku is good enough follow what you ask and not mess up too much. I also have skills created over time to give it guidance. There were some months when I used GitHub copilot where I had excess credits available at the end of the month I frantically try to use up.

Even the AI code completions can be pretty good on their own. Sometimes I write some temporary comments describing what the code should do and just press Tab-Tab-Tab and the entire function is done.

I think there is a tendency for people to go for the advanced models thinking they we screw up less but if you really understand the code its easier to interactively do it with a lesser model.

New comment by pkaye in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

pkaye — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:57:39 +0000

You can do a FIT test instead which can be done at home.

New comment by pkaye in "Apparently Google hates us now"

pkaye — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:02:05 +0000

Its better off if ads go away. Just use ad blockers.

New comment by pkaye in "Wrap Go binaries in Python wheels"

pkaye — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:08:15 +0000

Python subsystem for Go

New comment by pkaye in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

pkaye — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:47:37 +0000

There has been a general downtrend in Chinese students studying internationally.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-29/chinese-student-numbe...

Also US international students as percent of overall student population has been in the low end. Its mostly been universities around the world catering to international students because they pay a higher tuition and to makeup for a shortfall in domestic funding. Its much better for universities to educate the local population.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/12/universities-cry-po...

New comment by pkaye in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

pkaye — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:32:36 +0000

There is a parameter in LLMs called temperature that controls creativity/randomness. If you set it to 0 it makes the model deterministic. I think some LLMs expose this as a tunable parameter.

New comment by pkaye in "GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes"

pkaye — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:33:34 +0000

Does that mean those running the open models are highly profitable since they don't have to do any training?

New comment by pkaye in "Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch"

pkaye — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:46 +0000

I looked it up and a couple of states have laws against HOAs from forcing your to have a grass lawn. Alternatives can include native plants, drought tolerant plants, xeriscaping, vegetable gardens depending on state. The states I've found are California, Colorado, Florida, Texas and Maryland, Nevada.

New comment by pkaye in "Incident with multple GitHub services"

pkaye — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:32:37 +0000

Pro+ does have a annual plan but recently they paused or dropped the annual plans because they are trying to adjust the pricing model.

New comment by pkaye in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

pkaye — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:20:27 +0000

Both ibuprofen and naproxen sodium are NSAIDs and are bad for your kidneys especially in long term. I had kidney failure due to what was eventually diagnosed as an autoimmune disease but they first thing the ER doctor will ask is if you have been taking NSAIDs. My nephrologists told be its still safe to take acetaminophen at the proper dose.

New comment by pkaye in "Optimization of 32-bit Unsigned Division by Constants on 64-bit Targets"

pkaye — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:29:43 +0000

Look up the book Hackers Delight if you like there low level algorithms and bit manipulations

New comment by pkaye in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

pkaye — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:05:07 +0000

Actually I remember the change being reported in the Reddit /r/claueai chat back around that time frame. I was concerned that it would increase costs but nobody made a fuss so I presumed it was not a big deal.

New comment by pkaye in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

pkaye — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:12:10 +0000

Ecoflow is actually a Chinese company.

New comment by pkaye in "Lunar Flyby"

pkaye — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:49:56 +0000

Someone did a nice animation on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNQ7MoL7erI

New comment by pkaye in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

pkaye — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:30:06 +0000

Yes the do have an one time purchase option. You get 5 years of updates but no new features. I have it on my home computers. But new features are not a big deal since the differences are not big anymore (just like mobile phones.)

New comment by pkaye in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

pkaye — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:54:31 +0000

Our Comcast plan has a monthly data usage of 1.2TB. We rarely go over 600GB in any month but month we nearly hit the limit. I was looking through the router logs to see what was going on and it turned out that somehow one particular Instagram video my spouse was watching would consume huge amounts of bandwidth when the channel was live streaming!

New comment by pkaye in "Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification"

pkaye — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:26:57 +0000

I think Linus Torvalds lives in Oregon.