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New comment by wewtyflakes in "Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort"

wewtyflakes — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:55:32 +0000

Perhaps for some use-cases, the value of the data degrades at a rate proportional to its persistence layer, and doing a re-migration is not useful.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser"

wewtyflakes — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:01:35 +0000

Prompt for PetitGPT research-v1: "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"

Response: "A woodchuck would chuck wood if it could chuck it. The woodchuck's chucking action is a form of "chucking" or "chucking in" which is a behavior that allows it to extract nutrients from wood. The woodchuck's chucking action is a form of "chucking" because it is a form of "chucking" that allows the woodchuck to extract nutrients from wood."

I chuckled.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "AI safety is mostly a sex cult"

wewtyflakes — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:00:25 +0000

Can we apply this standard generally, or is it just against the people who deify AI?

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Humanity has built the records of FATE by accident"

wewtyflakes — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:07:17 +0000

The author did not call it an evil force, did they? The author seemed more nuanced in what they were saying...

> "I don’t know what this relationship will ultimately mean for us, and I don’t think anyone else does either. That uncertainty is precisely why our eagerness to normalize it bothers me."

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

wewtyflakes — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:32:59 +0000

The breaking API changes are frustrating, especially the one that removes forced tool use.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI"

wewtyflakes — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:18:34 +0000

Sounds fine to me! Less inane, pointless, content? Only left with what people chose to exist? Sign me up!

New comment by wewtyflakes in "A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]"

wewtyflakes — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:48:46 +0000

Everything above 127 would be extended ASCII instead of strict ASCII, if that matters.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal"

wewtyflakes — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:01:37 +0000

The context of what the nation was facing in the 1860's (the civil war) and 1940's (world war 2) were very materially different than what it faces now.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "GLM-5.3-Flash"

wewtyflakes — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:16:57 +0000

It is cliche, but I haven't had good luck with having Chinese models openly discuss historical topics like Tienanmen Square. The US models don't seem to have a problem discussing history, even if it points an unglamorous light on the US government.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants"

wewtyflakes — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:37:03 +0000

That sounds awful; it means 3+ times a day a whole plane of a passengers is getting sprayed with this stuff.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

wewtyflakes — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:04:37 +0000

I don't know that those timelines make sense; there were highways going through San Francisco... until the Loma Prieta earthquake; and then suddenly not. A cursory look at what Freeway Revolt was, seems to point to a movement in the 1950-1960's, rather than the early 1990's.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

wewtyflakes — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:08:20 +0000

Didn't the Loma Prieta earthquake do that?

New comment by wewtyflakes in "All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen"

wewtyflakes — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:31:39 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

wewtyflakes — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:37:16 +0000

The TV app is baked into the device and is automatically focused if you press up too many times on the remote (and thereby triggering the large banner ads).

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

wewtyflakes — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:38:34 +0000

There are plenty of ads on Apple TV; huge banners right at the top of the UI, and ads that launch before you get to see the content of a show with no way to automatically disable them (you have to manually click through or just wait it out). It is infuriating (to me).

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard"

wewtyflakes — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:30:56 +0000

I've hit it with intensely benign things; like asking it to make me a web-based client-side word game. I am guessing it saw the dictionary and pattern matched on various words, though ultimately it provided no explanation for why it triggered safeguards.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)"

wewtyflakes — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:54:27 +0000

I suspect the vast majority of services are not dealing with such massive JSON documents that doing serde on them becomes a material part of their latency breakdown.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)"

wewtyflakes — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:48:26 +0000

The root of a JSON document can also be an array.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public"

wewtyflakes — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:37:00 +0000

On-point surveillance by people would be a good start; I do not see why it needs to start with endless surveillance by machines run by a private company.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public"

wewtyflakes — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:30:54 +0000

A society glued together with cameras rather than people, is shallow.