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New comment by slim in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

slim — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:25:46 +0000

You can compete by being smart and using less-than-sota models and build a more solid business around them

New comment by slim in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

slim — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:24:25 +0000

too selfish

New comment by slim in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

slim — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:03:13 +0000

use llama.cpp with cuda

New comment by slim in "Deciphering Basmala"

slim — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:40:43 +0000

it really is the same four words written in a different calligraphy and arranged in a different way (more horizontally). arabic calligraphy can take liberties with orientation of text and even arrangement of letters. the name of the game is make deciphering it a puzzle, but easy enough for the reader to have fun and not get bored.

New comment by slim in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

slim — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:16:10 +0000

annas archive is a single point of failure

New comment by slim in "Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers"

slim — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:53:10 +0000

how the hell is arbitration enforcable ? they will need to go to court to enforce it, right ? you surely can't redeem your free speech human right by signing a document, right ? I'm not sure about US, but I'm sure that in most countries human rights can not be surrendered by contract. These kind of clauses are void

New comment by slim in "Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models"

slim — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:47:29 +0000

it's not about symathy. Tactically, would you like your enemy to have this kind of control over its employees ? if the answer is no, you should support them

New comment by slim in "Identity verification on Claude"

slim — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:53:13 +0000

what if they think your face is too brown to use sota ? (they do, and they will?

New comment by slim in "Identity verification on Claude"

slim — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:51:14 +0000

you can't just selectively sell only to people you like. it's prohibited in most countries

New comment by slim in "Identity verification on Claude"

slim — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:47:47 +0000

or you can scan you retina using sam altmans device and get access immediately /s

New comment by slim in "The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt"

slim — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:11:17 +0000

maybe AI will solve this ?

New comment by slim in "The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt"

slim — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:07:07 +0000

if you write (with a pen) text with mixed arabic, numbers, english words. then somebody else gets to read it, he will read arabic from right to left, then when when he encouters a number or an english word, he will naturally jump to the first latin letter of the word and start reading left to right, then jump back to the beginning if the next arabic word and switch back to RTL. the alogorithm should copy that behaviour.

New comment by slim in "The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt"

slim — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:20:19 +0000

  Internet Explorer 5.5 implements text-justify: kashida. For one brief, weird browser-quarter Microsoft is the only software vendor on earth that can justify Arabic correctly on a screen.

New comment by slim in "The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt"

slim — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:07:38 +0000

actually : four and eighty and nine hundred and a thousand

New comment by slim in "The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt"

slim — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:00:38 +0000

I think he's talking about the rendering algorithm with regards to the stream of text. essentially saying rendering direction should follow reading convention.

on the other hand, in formal arabic, it's not unusual that numers are read in clusters from least significant to most significant (right to left). 1984 would be read : eighty four and nine hundred and a thousand. not sure if the author is aware of this

New comment by slim in "Waymo Premier"

slim — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:14:46 +0000

can't you get your head out of the window and yell at him ? serious question, not sure if you can even open the window on thes cars

New comment by slim in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

slim — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:34:59 +0000

who will train them ? average trainers. it's a chicken/egg problem

New comment by slim in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

slim — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:11:05 +0000

They now what to do with it. They sell it to gov

New comment by slim in "Colonization of Venus"

slim — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:27:15 +0000

colonizers gonna colonize

New comment by slim in "Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints"

slim — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:11:33 +0000

the most easy to spot is the camp fire reflection on the car :D