Debian for the stable base flatpak/snap/src for the bleeding edge apps.

I think the two principle arguements he’s making are open weights allow for misaligned models and these models are using distillation to more efficiently train.

I don’t really care about the distillation point - it seems it’s just hoovering up the internet with extra steps. It’s really up to Anthropic to deal with by enforcing their ToS. Sauce for the goose etc…

I can see the argument about alignment but it’s not a new problem. In the FLOSS world we generally don’t put restrictions on use on the code we release even if it might get used for bad stuff. It certainly wouldn’t hurt for the authorities to test open models to find out where the guardrails are but ultimately rather than banning the tech you need to enforce the law against the people that use the tech to do bad stuff.

If you can get your reproducer in a one liner, e.g:

cd builds/bisect && make clean && make -j(nproc) && make run-failing-test

then it’s super easy to pass that to /bin/sh -c “…as above…” to feed to the git bisect command

The more Musk confidently posts bullshit outside of his lane (“Homers original”) the more he gets revealed for what he really is. I used to think he was a pretty smart on the spectrum engineer but now I realise he’s a rich kid gambler who through doubling down has managed to be lucky at capitalism.

I’m looking forward to seeing the a Odyssey as the Greek myths were a big part of the stories I read as a kid and Nolan generally can be relied on to make good films (Interstellar and Tenent being two of the rare misses for me).

My first professional job was writing FORTH for fruit machines. I’d played with it a bit before on the Jupiter Ace we had which sadly never really took off despite being more elegant than the ZX81.

What do you need/use that you find in modern editors that you can’t get in something like Emacs? While there are AI integrations for Emacs they are all optional.

Mine are all GPLv3 or forks of other repos and they are listed. I’m sanguine because the license allows for study and if it’s good enough for humans I don’t see why it’s not for clankers.

I’ve long been off the critical path because as a tech lead I have a lot more random stuff (and meetings) to deal with. I’ve been able to vibe code some non-production stuff like scripts to unify feature lists across JIRA, specs and the upstream docs which has helped free up time to hand craft more code on production.

I don’t care too much about the quality or maintainability of those scripts as long as they make my life a bit easier. I do care about the maintainability of the production code base.

The last big update to my git workflow was when I discovered --update-refs as it makes maintaining a stack of feature branches much easier. So far I really only have one “main” dev branch and then peel off the sub-branches at they need merging upstream.

However I shall have to investigate how the history commands are exposed in magit. I can see it being useful if you have long held branches that take a while to upstream but are useful to have in your trees.

Could anyone explain what a “hypervisor crack” is in this context? I’m very familiar with hypervisors but less so in relation to gaming.

Is this just using a hypervisor to virtualise system services the DRM uses to assure it it’s not being monitored or interfered with at the OS/kernel level? Do you have to intercept networking as well?

Just an early example of AI psychosis

In QEMU all of our CI environments are replicable locally as docker/podman images. However usually flaky CI is due to races exposed on overloaded runners so I often also run make -j(nproc) at the same time to simulate that. A retry script is also useful to get an idea of how stable a test is. Having sanitizer builds can also help.

To be fair to him he certainly seems to have tried to be careful. I have no idea if he’s actually a qualified sparky.

I thought Episode IV was in the initial crawl text.

ETA I’ve just checked and apparently it was added in the special editions, the original 1977 crawl just started with the story.

Sony can afford to discount on the promise of online sales and planned cost reduction. I’m not sure Microsoft are going to manage another Xbox.

I watched the 7.10 repeat. It was an exilerating if a little stressful start to my Monday morning.

I suspect it’s profitable in the abstract - and their accountants would be bad at their jobs if they couldn’t work out what utilisation rate you need to pay for the server runtime.

However how aggressively you amortise the cost of the training is the key, especially if you keep releasing new models every 6 months.

Invariably it’s having to scroll that’s the issue and you don’t want to be cross contaminating via your shiny black mirror.

Yes. I may be biased but the Arm architecture itself is fine and pretty performant on modern SoCs. Once the system vendors actually manage to ship something without a broken PCIe bus is happily daily drive it.

Hell if I could reliably get EL2 I’d even spring for one of the Snapdragon laptops.

Following recipes. These days I print them out because it’s a pain constantly washing your hands to check the next step on the phone. But I’m not buying smart glasses just that. My normal glasses are expensive enough already.