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  1. Comment on Clothing, how did they make it? Part I: high fiber. in ~life.style

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    If you read it right, in context, it's a pun. It is listed at the end of wool citations, each prefixed with the subject, here it is fulling. But because the subjects are specific to historical,...

    If you read it right, in context, it's a pun. It is listed at the end of wool citations, each prefixed with the subject, here it is fulling.

    But because the subjects are specific to historical, social geographic contexts, in this case it is also "filling in" the Roman context.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Clothing, how did they make it? Part I: high fiber. in ~life.style

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    .... Anyway, thanks.

    On fulling in the Roman context, note especially M. Flohr, The World of the Fullo: Work, Economy and Society in Roman Italy (2013).

    ....

    Anyway, thanks.

    1 vote

  3. Comment on In the Nordics, summer is all about retreating to a countryside timber dwelling – here are some of the best, from a mid-Century home to a modern cabin overlooking the ocean in ~design

  4. Comment on Unreleased OpenAI model escapes containment and hacks into Hugging Face in ~tech

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    Humans had time to respond: Humans at huggingface were able to observe an issue, take an action in response, decide it was not working, implement a different course of action, presumably each with...

    Humans had time to respond:

    Humans at huggingface were able to observe an issue, take an action in response, decide it was not working, implement a different course of action, presumably each with a meaningful devhour cost, and seemingly resolve the issue before any unrecoverable event occurred.

    Perhaps they would have liked to be faster, but no matter how I look at it, at a bare minimum, I can make a case that humans had, at minimum, some time to respond and had a meaningful impact.

    Which seems to be what the author I quoted argues against. Perhaps I am assuming their weakest argument instead of their strongest, but their language and hyperboles seem unprofessional and rub me the wrong way.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on Unreleased OpenAI model escapes containment and hacks into Hugging Face in ~tech

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    This author makes, IMO, unsubstantiated claims. In particular, the hypothesized framework and harness Huggingface notes in their statements (as compared to a model alone) can be expected to...

    ... Mythos has what one might call The Juice, in that it can independently find without being directed, and string together, vulnerabilities into full exploit chains, essentially on its own...

    What happened later... 100% requires The Juice.

    Huggingface: "The campaign was run by an autonomous agent framework (appearing to be built on an agentic security-research harness..."

    All of this went down far too fast for a human-driven response. The only way HuggingFace could hope to do anything like keep pace was to use their own AIs.

    This author makes, IMO, unsubstantiated claims. In particular, the hypothesized framework and harness Huggingface notes in their statements (as compared to a model alone) can be expected to contribute in some meaningful way to the capabilities observed.

    And for the last one, it holds that not only did humans have time to respond, it was essential to have humans responding, as apparently they were forced to abandon their initial attempt at applying LLMs to the problem. I don't know how exactly the author defines "human-driven" but I am not persuaded.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Long time no sea: finding the seahorse emoji in ~tech

  7. Comment on Your cookware got worse on purpose: who owns Pyrex and All-Clad now in ~food

  8. Comment on Building an Arch Linux aarch64 port for Holo Core in ~games

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    Ironically, over at gitlab.steamos.cloud/holo/holo-core-aarch64-preview:

    You may also face infrastructure problems that did not exist when those package versions were originally released. Nowadays, many upstream services actively defend themselves against aggressive bots and AI crawlers by limiting download rates, restricting connections, or temporarily blocking clients. This can be painful for CI pipelines that rely on downloading sources directly from upstream.

    Ironically, over at gitlab.steamos.cloud/holo/holo-core-aarch64-preview:

    Failed to calculate challenge: undefined

    You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites.

    This website is running Anubis version v1.25.0.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on Long time no sea: finding the seahorse emoji in ~tech

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    Underrated title, great article. Never heard of that portrait creator feature before. What links I've followed are interesting also.

    Underrated title, great article. Never heard of that portrait creator feature before. What links I've followed are interesting also.

  10. Comment on Claude Code is the ceiling on vibe-coded software in ~tech

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    FTFY: Haha you're absolutely right.

    FTFY: Haha you're absolutely right.

    7 votes

  11. Comment on Wealthy AI workers send San Francisco house prices soaring in ~finance

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    Wasn't that the point of the Solano Forever thing? What ever happened to it?

    Wasn't that the point of the Solano Forever thing? What ever happened to it?

    1 vote

  12. Comment on Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding in ~comp

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    I disagree, it is also about testing LLMs and a critique of most benchmarks. Unfortunately, it is also about why this is hard and sort of unsatisfying and inconclusive. Still, two people who have...

    I disagree, it is also about testing LLMs and a critique of most benchmarks. Unfortunately, it is also about why this is hard and sort of unsatisfying and inconclusive.

    Still, two people who have read this article should have a slightly easier time discussing LLM benchmarking with each other.

  13. Comment on Winners of the 2025 International Obfuscated C Code Contest in ~comp

  14. Comment on Steam Machine and Steam Frame will be shipping this summer in ~games

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    You are mixing up the devices, or this is a joke too advanced for my brain. Frame will have soldered LPDDR5X.

    You are mixing up the devices, or this is a joke too advanced for my brain. Frame will have soldered LPDDR5X.

    6 votes

  15. Comment on What change would make you quit Tildes? in ~tildes

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    Good for you I'm not Deimos, that's a lot of good ideas right there. Except Chrome.

    Good for you I'm not Deimos, that's a lot of good ideas right there. Except Chrome.

    10 votes

  16. Comment on Website is unhappy in ~tildes

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    That sounds a lot like something I imagine a fae might say. Kinda sus NGL.

    That sounds a lot like something I imagine a fae might say. Kinda sus NGL.

    9 votes

  17. Comment on Website is unhappy in ~tildes

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    While sending the children thoughts is quite respectable, I encourage you to also send prayers. This typically causes it to be twice again as convincing.

    While sending the children thoughts is quite respectable, I encourage you to also send prayers. This typically causes it to be twice again as convincing.

    12 votes

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  19. Comment on Website is unhappy in ~tildes

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    Gross.... even Tildes cannot escape the increasing sexualization of public websites. We should maybe make the site invite only .

    Gross.... even Tildes cannot escape the increasing sexualization of public websites. We should start requiring state and federal U.S. government face recognition scans, and maybe make the site invite only too.

    12 votes

  20. Comment on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit in ~tech

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    Probably the wrong thread, but I have been tossing an idea around in my head. Suppose current LLM performance matches claims, and scales as claimed. Observe the same trend in hardware performance....

    Probably the wrong thread, but I have been tossing an idea around in my head.

    Suppose current LLM performance matches claims, and scales as claimed. Observe the same trend in hardware performance.

    I am reminded of myths around early CGI studios:

    After months of negotiations.... Alvy ran the numbers very seriously for the first time. He discovered to his dismay that Moore's Law still had not proceeded far enough to make computation of a movie cost effective, and so backed out of the deal, just as Pixar was spinning out from Lucasfilm.
    Alvy Pixar Myth 3

    A few observations:

    1. LLMs become better/faster than any team of human developers or older LLM
    2. hardware continues to improve
    3. running LLMs or employing developers has costs

    Why not keep a product idea to oneself, and risk waiting a few years? Avoid wasting money in the meanwhile on current LLMs and humans.

    Depending on one's forecast, it would be faster to implement, with better results, later. Faster presumably translates into cheaper.

    Some ideas would be at risk of immediate copycats though. Only non-software restrictions like legislation, startup capital, access to customers or prerequisite data could feasibly block a new entrant. Some ideas might be differentiated by data quality also.

    But it stands to reason that anything without those "moats" have no protection. And depending on how far LLM scaling is projected to go, even those may not matter.

    3 votes