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New comment by rpcope1 in "Xiaomi MiMo v2.6"

rpcope1 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 03:27:19 +0000

I mean DSv4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3 kept in check by a supervising frontier like Astra or Fable already in my experience clowns massively on ever using Opus or Sonnet. Opus 5 in particular has been such a stinker that they have to know that they're going to get smoked outside the halo models.

New comment by rpcope1 in "Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to"

rpcope1 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:48:18 +0000

That's kind of black and white thinking though. No one is going to pay a million dollars for QuickBooks, but a lot of people paid several hundreds. Just because no one pays you to develop a new QuickBooks (at least pre LLM), doesn't mean there's not a market there.

New comment by rpcope1 in "Why AI Cannot Save an Enterprise That Doesn't Understand Its Data"

rpcope1 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:56:23 +0000

It has a lot of the hallmarks of Claudlish. I feel like the moment I see that shit anymore it's just instant "guess there's nothing important here."

New comment by rpcope1 in "Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse"

rpcope1 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:45:54 +0000

I would second this. I only saw it in passing where someone was rightfully making fun of yud somewhere, but having been in and out of academia in tech for two decades now, I've never heard anyone mention fanfic or yud other than randos on HN threads, and most of the physics people I know, at least the ones familiar with Jaynes and his contemporaries, would almost certainly laugh at a lot of fumbles I occasionally see with people trying to apply "baysenianism".

New comment by rpcope1 in "AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult"

rpcope1 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:36:36 +0000

One of the many funny things about whatever this group is, if you ask 100 members who E.T. Jaynes is, or some of his follow ons like MacKay or others in the same school of though like Polya, Shore and Johnson, better than 99 out of 100 will have a deer in the headlights look. I would wager the actual intellectual progenitor of a lot of the applied Baynesianism (Jaynes) is rolling in his grave right now.

New comment by rpcope1 in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

rpcope1 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:54:55 +0000

Dollars to donuts it was Len or Hall and good luck getting keys out of a dead man.

New comment by rpcope1 in "Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026"

rpcope1 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:02:38 +0000

"Astra, warp in a wet lab and make COVID++ .NET edition, make no mistakes."

Yeah, sure man.

New comment by rpcope1 in "Amazon pilots ad services in ChatGPT"

rpcope1 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:29:32 +0000

I can't wait to need to drink my Mountain Dew verification cans to keep the slop hose running at work and keep paying on mortgage.

New comment by rpcope1 in "LLMs as a Cognitive Virus"

rpcope1 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:31:17 +0000

I mean, was he really wrong though?

New comment by rpcope1 in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

rpcope1 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:17:02 +0000

So you're saying it's probably time for me to just unplug the internet?

New comment by rpcope1 in "Can AI design circuit boards yet?"

rpcope1 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:08:59 +0000

Just as some anecdatum, I've tried this a couple of times over the last few years. 2024-2025, no body could generate anything of any sort of complexity, however maybe around the Opus 4.7 timeline, I tried having it generate some relatively simple and one slightly more complex circuit around 8-bit PIC micros, and was very pleasantly surprised. The schematics for simpler stuff is usually OK, often with some of the kind of crazy belt-and-suspenders stuff you see in code (how many decoupling caps do I actually need here, Claude?), and PCB layout has basically been terrible every time I've tried it.

Recent models can generate mostly competent schematics if you're using well known parts, feed them data sheets (and you _must_ feed them the errata too) and it's not too complex. Any complexity analog or RF, everything falls down quickly if you know what you're looking at. Maybe Astra will do better? There's still so much implicit knowledge that a good designer (not me by a long shot, but I know a little) will bake into a board, and even as cheap as JCLPCB is now, you don't want to have to spin a half dozen revs because Claude or Codex hallucinated. It will be genuinely interesting to see what happens on this front.

New comment by rpcope1 in "GPT-6 Astra"

rpcope1 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:50:23 +0000

I hear the T-rexes were still roaming the earth trying to eat us cavemen in 2016.

New comment by rpcope1 in "Creepy Crawlies"

rpcope1 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:55:50 +0000

Sounds like an even shittier version of the Lorax. :(

New comment by rpcope1 in "Get your Windows license refund"

rpcope1 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:56:03 +0000

Must be a Europe thing, as RealID pissed enough boomers off here in the States that I doubt anyone would push harder than that, and outside of very stupid ticket apps that occasionally won't let me print, I can't recall the last time a paper ticket and my drivers license didn't work. I also can just walk into a bank branch and raise a stink whenever I need something banking related, I guess all of this feels really contrived.

New comment by rpcope1 in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

rpcope1 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:43:01 +0000

I mean, I feel like Debian has come pretty close to that for the last decade or two.

New comment by rpcope1 in "Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI"

rpcope1 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:32:46 +0000

> stuff like changing AC

Maybe it's different in the People's Republic of Europe or wherever, but either that's a translation error or I don't understand, but I would be interested to see how quickly the EPA gets mad when Claude tells you to recover your R134a to the atmosphere.

New comment by rpcope1 in "Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI"

rpcope1 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:19:46 +0000

I have no idea on OP, but as far as a waypointer, have been in the area of building bespoke automotive telemetry solutions for a while now (including reversing some existing tools), I would wager that something like the Freematics One+ could do it easily if you combine the IMU with the GPS data (I've managed to get good data for something similar this way). The Freematics dongle does suck in comparison to even the now gone STN2120 as it artificially bottlenecks PID data retrieval on the CAN by the boneheaded design of the STM32 coprocessor firmware, but it probably would work well for your use case.

EDIT: I've actually got a couple cars with the One+ B, doing that sort analysis/data capture, so speaking from actual experience here.

New comment by rpcope1 in "c100"

rpcope1 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:38:28 +0000

There's a lot of WTF here, including paying $1400 for a Linux workstation with 32GB of RAM and what looks like a mobile CPU, along with an integral keyboard that seems like it would give you RSI just looking at it. Who on earth is buying this?

New comment by rpcope1 in "HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router"

rpcope1 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:40:41 +0000

That's bogus unless you're talking above 10G, in which case the only things typically doing wire level performance are expensive and sold by vendors like Cisco, Juniper or Arista (and maybe it's higher than 10G now). Frankly, the vast majority of ARM based routers, unless you go out of your way, are garbage. Any x86 built in the last 15+ years with a NIC that's also not trash _will_ push at least 1G routed with a non-trivial firewall on a modern Linux kernel no problem. I've still got half a dozen PC Engines APU2 boards that unequivocally will get right at 1G on Debian Trixie; newer ewaste like Dell Wyse thin clients or Optiplexes would absolutely smoke those boards on performance.

Setting up a router with Debian is really kind of overstated in terms of difficulty, and frankly half of everything wraps Debian anyways (looking at you Ubiquiti/Vyatta), so why learn someone else's half cooked configuration language when you can just do the real thing.

New comment by rpcope1 in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"

rpcope1 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:03:58 +0000

It's almost like TeslaCharts might have been on to something..