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New comment by toxik in "EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision"

toxik — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:51:56 +0000

I think that proves the point more than anything. Spotify was allowed to live on because the music industry bought in.

New comment by toxik in "EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision"

toxik — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:26:34 +0000

You _can_ legislate it _out_ of existence though. The competence is there, no doubt. Just not the complete disregard for copyright law that is step 1 of training an LLM. Rules for thee but not for me, classic colonialism. The EU is so intertwined with the US that even Trump isn't enough to force a clean break.

New comment by toxik in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

toxik — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:05:16 +0000

On the other hand, the Anthropic models often try to justify shortcuts and incorrect results. Often feels like gaslighting. It's like that recent meme,

boss: Were you in the project meeting yesterday?

employee: Yes!

boss: Really, because the project lead said you were not?

employee: You're right to push back on that. I was not there.

New comment by toxik in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

toxik — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:37:36 +0000

I very rarely use my personal laptop. I stream on my phone, if I want a bigger screen, I either cast or use the app on the TV. So for me it's work laptop and two phones, not bad at all for the peace of mind. I literally turn off work. I used to run mixed, and I really wish I had changed earlier.

New comment by toxik in "What Is a Dickover?"

toxik — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:13:22 +0000

GDPR doesn't mandate cookie banners, it says that you simply cannot store irrelevant PII for the sake of it. That's the point of it: to protect the privacy of the public against "data brokers" and other scum. You're welcome.

People seem to have forgotten, but cookie banners were a pest before GDPR. And newsletters and login popovers, those are GDPR?

New comment by toxik in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

toxik — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:46:50 +0000

Sweden does not have a car industry. The fighter jets are a different matter, very strong technical moat and need to prove the system in combat. You can't just start a fighter jet business.

New comment by toxik in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"

toxik — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:15:09 +0000

So the future behavior is deprecated before it ever became the default?

New comment by toxik in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

toxik — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:04:55 +0000

I think that's the actual risk, that you're /not/ as comforting and less enjoyable to talk to. I know this is true for many people already.

New comment by toxik in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

toxik — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:35:15 +0000

Python was designed with objects in mind from day one.

New comment by toxik in "YC's Biggest Scandals"

toxik — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:12:33 +0000

Beyond awful, and it's LLM slop.

New comment by toxik in "Will you heed my warnings now?"

toxik — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:58:38 +0000

I talked to a guy who did his doctoral degree on quantum computing and he was not worried at all. In fact he thought it was wildly overhyped, and like cold fusion, self driving cars, or string theory, always just around the corner. Just give us five more years and another grant, please.

New comment by toxik in "Interview with Bob Odenkirk"

toxik — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:54:06 +0000

So very rude. If you prefix it with "the LLM says", I'm fine with it. But taking that hot air and pretending it's yours? It's not just rude, it's dishonest.

New comment by toxik in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

toxik — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:53:36 +0000

Oh lord, are the LLMs already replacing LLMs?

New comment by toxik in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

toxik — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:44:57 +0000

$10k is well outside my budget for frivolous computer purchases.

New comment by toxik in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

toxik — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:44:28 +0000

Worth noting that even in clinical settings, ethanol has largely been replaced by fomepizole (Antizol) as the preferred antidote. It's more predictable, easier to dose, and doesn't come with the side effect of making a critically ill patient drunk. Ethanol is the field expedient, not the standard of care.

New comment by toxik in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

toxik — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:25:49 +0000

Great post. Also, we celebrate "midsummer" on the summer solstice in Sweden and other countries. I see the author noted that.

New comment by toxik in "What Category Theory Teaches Us About DataFrames"

toxik — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:49:22 +0000

Pandas and so on exist for the same reason Django's ORM and SqlAlchemy do: people do not want to string interpolate to talk to their database. SQL is great for DBA's, and absolutely sucks for programmers. Microsoft was really onto something with LINQ, in my opinion.

New comment by toxik in "What category theory teaches us about dataframes"

toxik — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:44:29 +0000

You can reduce in parallel. That was the whole point of MapReduce. For example, the sum abcdefgh can be found by first ab, cd, ef, gh; then those results (ab)(cd), (ef)(gh); then the final result by (abcd)(efgh). That's just three steps to compute seven sums.

New comment by toxik in "Cursor 3"

toxik — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:35:19 +0000

"I have never woodworked a day in my life, with Claude Carpenter I don't have to touch the work at all and can just vaguely ask for things and pray that it does something useful."

New comment by toxik in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

toxik — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:02:53 +0000

Pedantry: 18:16 is the same as 9:8 since it's a ratio.