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New comment by yencabulator in "Claude mixes up who said what"

yencabulator — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:08:27 +0000

My version of that is that negative guidance just introduces unwanted concepts into the context window. "Do not think about polar bears!"

I find it's better to avoid introducing an unwanted concept in the context window, instead providing "example good paths" only, and never mention a thing you don't want the LLM to think about.

New comment by yencabulator in "Claude mixes up who said what"

yencabulator — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:54:52 +0000

> We used to be engineers, now we are beggars pleading for the computer to work

You mean beggars pleading for the computer to stop:

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-alignment-director-o...

New comment by yencabulator in "Claude mixes up who said what"

yencabulator — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:37:30 +0000

Team Fortress 2 has a voice line "Negatory" (as in "No") that you can interrupt in the middle of playback with a laugh emote. Yeaah...

New comment by yencabulator in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

yencabulator — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:38:40 +0000

You're thinking security and that's a big part of it, but another part of this remote admin locked down UI demand is support & minimizing training cost. Everyone clicks the same icon in the same location to start the same business app and it starts up the same way for everyone. End users can't screw up their setup.

Long time ago I supported Linux&Windows desktops in an organization that chose to allow per-user customization, with the trade-off that if you ask for support, what support offers to do is reset your desktop (not data files) to default -- and that fixed practically all issues.

New comment by yencabulator in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

yencabulator — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:18:29 +0000

`jj util snapshot` sounds like it was meant for this.

New comment by yencabulator in "Google open-sources experimental agent orchestration testbed Scion"

yencabulator — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:11:30 +0000

That is a lot of vibecoded slop with unclear purpose.

New comment by yencabulator in "S3 Files"

yencabulator — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:49:56 +0000

S3 is notoriously miserable with small objects.

New comment by yencabulator in "RSoC 2026: A new CPU scheduler for Redox OS"

yencabulator — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:06:19 +0000

Here, make your own "kernel" in a few lines: https://rust-osdev.github.io/uefi-rs/tutorial/app.html

New comment by yencabulator in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

yencabulator — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:57:21 +0000

Yet they quote a $20,000 cost for one of the exploits.

New comment by yencabulator in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

yencabulator — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:41:03 +0000

That URL is dead, this comes up in searches: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/8b8380204f74670be75e81c820ca8d...

New comment by yencabulator in "Anthropic's Project Glasswing sounds necessary to me"

yencabulator — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:38:12 +0000

Running a "too advanced" harness against a Claude Code subscription gets your organization banned, even if it's a shell wrapper over `claude -p`. You probably can't reproduce this research with a fixed-price subscription.

New comment by yencabulator in "Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities"

yencabulator — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:43:53 +0000

That doesn't help when the company behind the device disappears or stops supporting the device. Or is hacked to convert all the devices they manufactured into a botnet.

New comment by yencabulator in "Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute"

yencabulator — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:03:28 +0000

> I think for the same model wall time is probably a more intuitive metric; at the end of the day what you’re doing is renting GPU time slices

This is a bit too much of a simplification.

The LLM provider batches multiple customer requests into one GPU/TPU pass over the weights, with minimal latency increase.

The LLM provider may in fact be renting GPUs by the second, but the end user isn't. We the end users are essentially timesharing a pool of GPUs without any dedicated "1 vGPU" style resource allocation. In such a setting, charging by "GPU tick" sounds valid, and the various categories of token costs are an approximation of cost+margin.

New comment by yencabulator in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

yencabulator — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:20:28 +0000

I used to slightly pull & quickly release a brake lever that made a less-annoying and less-loud "clack" noise when I wanted to be noticed but not to be annoying, generally when I knew I had no right of way but wanted to politely ask for a way around a group of people who hadn't noticed me yet.

New comment by yencabulator in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

yencabulator — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:12:14 +0000

This again depends on the jurisdiction and kind of path you're on. Where I grew up, if it's not separated into bicyclist & pedestrian lanes, bikes yield to pedestrians.

On US forest trails, the general rule is bikes yield to pedestrians and everyone yields to horses.

(Obviously pedestrians walking in bicycle lanes are doing it wrong.)

New comment by yencabulator in "Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models"

yencabulator — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:02:43 +0000

That usually means the framework (LMStudio, for you) is doing something wrong, and in a couple of days an update will come out that fixes that.

New comment by yencabulator in "Significant raise of reports"

yencabulator — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:20:23 +0000

Web interfaces in embedded systems are very common remote exploit mechanisms, so this anecdote for sure isn't the typical experience.

New comment by yencabulator in "Amazon Dies: A Possible, Maybe Likely Future"

yencabulator — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:38:45 +0000

> Aurora Serverless is the partial exception. The auto-scaling model has real engineering depth that’s not trivially cloned

This is exactly what Neon, mentioned in the previous paragraph, is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rES0yzeERns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmzSibl6nO8

New comment by yencabulator in "Molly guard in reverse"

yencabulator — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:31:31 +0000

Ah, but I was once a more advanced idiot. After a long console-based SSH session, I hit control-alt-del to reboot the remote computer.

I disabled control-alt-del rebooting shortly after that.

New comment by yencabulator in "Arm AGI CPU"

yencabulator — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:47:07 +0000

They may not be criminally liable but they are at fault for sure.