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New comment by sidpatil in "Benchmarking Pocket-Scale Inference"

sidpatil — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:09:03 +0000

How much RAM does your system have?

New comment by sidpatil in "How do you guys keep up with AI news?"

sidpatil — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:17:45 +0000

I listen to The AI Daily Brief: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ai-daily-brief-art...

New comment by sidpatil in "Please don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash"

sidpatil — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:08:50 +0000

Further, they may change the behavior of the existing model without providing clear notice. E.g. existing models start to behave worse shortly after new model releases, due to resource reallocation away from the older models toward the newly-released ones.

New comment by sidpatil in "Learning another language appears to slow brain ageing by up to 13 years"

sidpatil — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:20:31 +0000

This phenomenon is referred to as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

New comment by sidpatil in ""No, I swear I wrote this.""

sidpatil — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:23:59 +0000

I'm pretty sure Coursera or edX was using this same approach a while back — they'd make you type in a paragraph of text, then they'd use the timing information as a fingerprint or signature, to authenticate you as the actual student.

New comment by sidpatil in "New Texas Instruments 5532 chips are not the 5532s we’ve used for decades"

sidpatil — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:58:55 +0000

In software, this is known as Hyrum's Law: https://www.hyrumslaw.com/

New comment by sidpatil in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

sidpatil — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:52:56 +0000

https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/

New comment by sidpatil in "Hunting a 34 year old pointer bug in EtherSlip"

sidpatil — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:15:30 +0000

> There's also the weirdness of tunneling protocols like PPPoE which only exist to tunnel Ethernet through non-Ethernet systems.

Isn't PPPoE the opposite — carrying a non-Ethernet protocol over Ethernet?

New comment by sidpatil in "Rubens Menin's 150 Years "Old" Port Wine"

sidpatil — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:54:16 +0000

Original title: 'Rubens Menin's "Very Very Old" Port wine'

New comment by sidpatil in "Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks"

sidpatil — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:01:03 +0000

Someone here mentioned a whole ago that the labs deliberately haven't tried to train these characteristics out of their models, because leaving them in makes it easier to identify, and therefore exclude, LLM-generated text from their training corpus.

New comment by sidpatil in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

sidpatil — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:18:22 +0000

Why?

New comment by sidpatil in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

sidpatil — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:48:41 +0000

Construction and home contracting follow building codes.

New comment by sidpatil in "Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning"

sidpatil — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:04:59 +0000

Only if it's decomposing aerobically.

Anaerobic decomposition, like what you find in a septic tank, doesn't produce any heat.

New comment by sidpatil in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

sidpatil — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:59:47 +0000

> I don’t care if you make an honest mistake. Hell, I don’t even care if you make a careless mistake, as long as you fix yourself. Everyone messes up - it’s how you act afterwards that matters.

You're not the one in control of their employment status and workplace reputation.

New comment by sidpatil in "Germany's Solar Boom Eases Power Costs as Gas Price Jumps"

sidpatil — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:01:12 +0000

Is nuclear energy considered renewable?

New comment by sidpatil in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

sidpatil — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:44:01 +0000

It looks like Slidev is designed for presentations about software development, judging from its feature set. Quarto is more general-purpose. (That's not to say Quarto can't support the same features, but currently it doesn't.)

I'm not affiliated with Slidev. I was just curious.

New comment by sidpatil in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

sidpatil — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:21:10 +0000

It's not, to be fair.

> I use my own `.md` plan files rather than Claude Code’s built-in plan mode. The built-in plan mode sucks.

New comment by sidpatil in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

sidpatil — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:27:10 +0000

> smaller scale stories are replaced with moving the big plot forward

This is pretty common in TV shows, from what I've noticed. It takes a few seasons for a show to find its footing.

New comment by sidpatil in "GitHub Agentic Workflows"

sidpatil — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:08:05 +0000

Does this products directly compete with GitHub Models [1]?

[1] https://github.com/marketplace?type=models

New comment by sidpatil in "Waiting for Postgres 19: Better planner hints with path generation strategies [video]"

sidpatil — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:01:18 +0000

You might be interested in Substrait (https://substrait.io/).