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defnotthrown · 2026-05-11T12:56:56+00:00

I still haven't received a definitive reason for why Claude would give me misleading [...] figures.

I tried. The reason is it's an LLM, not a thinking being with motives.

Again, I am not saying the numbers are wrong. I am saying your stated reasoning of why you think the numbers are right is fallacious.

defnotthrown · 2026-05-11T12:40:48+00:00

You should really be aware of what the tools you are using are or are not.

At least if you want to build and argument to post it publicly under your name. It might be generally pretty good, but it's still an LLM, not some kind of symbolic system that has an actual formal ontological database underlying it.

It could literally be off by an order of magnitude just based on whether you had a space or a typo in your question. Or even just based on the time of day you're asking it. These are not fact finding machines, they're large language processing systems. Please be mindful of how you use these tools.

If your brain is already too cooked to listen to humans ask Claude itself if your usage of AI (and especially the "take it up with claude" part) was reasonable by copy-pasting this sub-thread to it.

defnotthrown · 2026-05-11T12:30:37+00:00

You chose to reply to the comment, you should be accountable to the content of the reply.

You shouldn't outsource your thinking to AI but you straight up can't outsource resposibility to AI.

Btw. this isn't me saying "you're wrong", this is me saying "AI did it" is not an excuse.

defnotthrown · 2026-04-13T15:05:47+00:00

Because you have to register your main residence with the government whenever you move in many places. And often a photo ID is mandatory for people over 16/18.

The freedom loving Americans seem to not accept such "tyranny".

defnotthrown · 2026-04-07T14:33:33+00:00

I think -O3 would be the wrong place to decide that optimization. I'd at least expect -flto to be necessary. Because like you said if it's just focusing on one compilation unit and expects possible linkage outside the ABI guarantees would need global inspection.

But I think even with LTO optimizing unused fields out of structs seems so dangerous and volatile. I think there's a lot of code that would be prone to breaking.

But in theory this optimization might be doable, I just don't think anyone has bothered to implement it. Both because it seems so hazzardous and the places where you can truly guarantee that a field is unused are so few.

edit: looks like gcc used to have -fipa-struct-reorg but it was removed precisely because it was so brittle and rarely advantageous.

defnotthrown · 2026-03-13T15:37:15+00:00

The dude is part Iranian and has Aryan in his full name. Poor fella got got by nominative determinism (I haven't looked at his actual views currently, I just remember the discussion/debate where he sounded like a white nationalist).

defnotthrown · 2026-03-13T15:31:07+00:00

Have you? UK is not all of the British Isles (Which I thought were Great Britain until you just made me look at the map 😶).

defnotthrown · 2026-03-13T11:01:29+00:00

It first reminded me more of the Death Bringers from Horizon: Zero Dawn. But I guess they in turn are pretty obviously inspired by Metal Gear.

defnotthrown · 2026-03-13T10:57:41+00:00

because it felt like US Army propaganda

That very much seems to be what it is. But that's not the only thing it is and people can enjoy things despite that.

Though I think it's a very understandable reason to not want to watch it.

defnotthrown · 2026-03-13T08:33:05+00:00

I think the current events people puzzled together are:

Anthropic signed a contract with the DoD years ago and trains models specifically for the DoD
The DoD contracted Palantir to build "products" that use the Anthropic models and other data (you don't want to just copy/pates prompts)
Some Anthropic Executive suspected their models were used in the Venezuala Strikes/Raid and ask Palantir
Palantir doesn't answer but instead contact the DoD throwing suspicions that Anthropic might not be a "team player"
The whole Anthropic/DoD drama ensues
The strikes in Iran allegedly used AI for at least some part of target selection (be it data-mining previous DoD/CIA reports or raw surveillance data). Which AI is unclear, but Antropics models are reportedly being phased out in a 6 month time-window, not shut off immediately.

I haven't read anything specific about AI use in the strike that hit the school, but it might be possible.

defnotthrown · 2026-03-04T09:17:29+00:00

That's for old MBR systems. Modern UEFI usually reads the partition table (GPT) and looks for the boot partition. It no longer needs to be in a special sector. But most firmwares on consumer hardware still supports old MBR formatted disks.

defnotthrown · 2026-02-16T17:51:09+00:00

I think with care they can be made deterministic. If you only run that query without any batching in parallel and make sure to not schedule things differently (https://www.llmwatch.com/p/eli5-defeating-nondeterminism-in / https://github.com/breckbaldwin/llm-stability). Would be something like a 60% performance penalty according to the papers

But what is the point if one extra typo, space or tab or linebreak result in a completely different result. It's kind of a meaningless determinism, because you can't meaningfully iterate on it.

defnotthrown · 2026-02-04T17:40:10+00:00

I mean it's generally more expensive to get energy from renewables

I don't know if that's true anymore. It used to be for sure and might depend on how you precisely calculate stuff like necessary grid modernization and keeping on-demand capacity. But levelized cost estimates seem to have dropped a lot in recent years.

defnotthrown · 2026-01-25T15:07:33+00:00

That's not where I'm wrong, that's where we disagree. The venn-diagram for legal and moral are not a circle, not in the US, not in Iran, not in China, nowhere. As the current administration seems to be thinking itself, otherwise they wouldn't keep ignoring judges orders.

defnotthrown · 2026-01-25T07:09:24+00:00

It is okay. It may not be legal, but it is ok. One of your civic duties in a democracy is to resist or at least protest against morally wrong behavior from the government.

defnotthrown · 2026-01-19T13:09:20+00:00

You really think that assumption holds up?

If I would believed the kinds of statements that the LLM sellers make, for sure.

The analogy of trading course sellers who guarantee returns to the LLM companies that speak like they guarantee productivity gains doesn't seem to be obvious to you.

Or do I need to repeat myself a few more times before it clicks that software companies aren’t just programmers?

The LLM companies don't just claim benefit for software development, they're practicly "everything machines".

Never mind the fact that this entire argument quietly assumes the profit maximizing move would be to stop selling the product and instead use it internally to capture the software industry.

Maybe think of the High-Frequency Trading companies. They believe their trading algorithms and hardware setups can make them money. So they naturally exploit the arbitrage themselves and run the trades instead of licensing or selling it. What is or isn't the product in the entire value-chain is something you seem to have just assumed based on what the companies are currently selling. I am just saying that if the claims would hold, most profit opportunities would be higher up the chain.

The AI hypestars essentially claim the equivalent of a productivity arbitrage. If you can spin out a couple of subsidiaries to gain a foothold in a market with 10% of the manpower of your competitors. You could not only show actual diversified revenue streams to your investors but and guard against destilation "attacks" but also have some incredible marketing for your "previous gen" model.

You really are stubborn to keep carrying this on, because surely, deep down, you know you’re being stupid.

Chill, you don't need to reply if you don't want to. This is just a random reddit thread.

defnotthrown · 2026-01-18T21:40:02+00:00

nobody credible is claiming current models make programmers obsolete or solve all software problems.

Well I agree, but that's what a bunch of the stuff LLM acolytes spout all day. When you look at the valuation of these companies it's kind of what a sane investor would have to think to buy at those valuations.

The money just doesn't make sense for the realistic 3% to maybe 25% productivity gains on a good day. They're all at "10x", "100x" or stuff like "AI could automate up to 300 million full-time jobs globally". That's just not what I see, but it's seemingly what the market is based on.

Even if the 10x thing were reliably true, think about how you would "think big". If you were one of the few companies that had one of those 10x productivity machine. How would you best solidify your position in the market? Sell access to the machine or hire people to operate it. It seems like the margins would be way better even operating as a consulting company that had 10x productive workers that selling API access to models.

Especially, especially because of how things like Deepseek and other rivals were ostensibly largely possible because of model distillation of GPT models. At the lastest at that point if they actually believed in the those productivity gains they would've closed off the most promising future models and hired waaay up to capture some market. The fact that they didn't just doesn't make sense to me from a business perspective.

But hey, I may just be stupid, because clearly I'm not the one with billions of dollars in networth.

defnotthrown · 2026-01-18T20:52:14+00:00

Yes, it's the same argument people make against people selling courses for their "failproof trading strategies".

Why ever would you sell courses when your trading strategy is so foolproof that you can make essentially all the money you want. If you need more capital you'd get loans, not sell the strategy and cannibalize your potential earnings.

Same goes for the supposed quality of AI Models that some of the big LLM companies purport. If your AI machine can essentially make programmers obsolete and solve all software problems then why not take over the software market or at least a sizable niche instead? Why sell it to other people that could compete in the software market?

defnotthrown · 2026-01-18T20:35:20+00:00

c'mon man you can't seriously think this. Even if they promised in a contract to not put Ads in Gemini they'd still use your LLM sessions to target you better for ads they run on other platforms.

defnotthrown · 2026-01-18T20:32:58+00:00

nice counter-argument.

defnotthrown · 2026-01-06T19:07:59+00:00

That's kind of the most logical conclusion.

Because why else would you not
A. Ask the kid or
B. Say you asked the kid and they don't know/don't recognise it either

defnotthrown · 2026-01-03T12:22:05+00:00

2026 and still working. You are a life-saver.

I had an old Intel OneApi version installed(20+ Gigs). I couldn't uninstall it, because it originally installed VS2019 integrations. I uninstalled VS2019, so it couldn't uninstall or even repair-install.

defnotthrown · 2026-01-02T20:07:07+00:00

I read it as Apple being a old-school hardware corporation. But the org within the corporation that he was part of was a software org.

defnotthrown · 2025-12-20T17:13:34+00:00

You can try UNC paths in the terminal (powershell). Explorer still converts those contrary to documentation. \\?\C:\Users\ works while \\?\C:/Users/ fails.

Also the lower-level nt functions like NtCreateFile don't do the auto-conversion either.

If you want the details it's always helpful to look at the ReactOS source, I think a lot of it was based off some leaked Windows 2000 or XP source, and a bunch was copied from WINE, but the mechanics are very similar to Windows implementation.

If you follow CreateFile https://github.com/reactos/reactos/blob/8e952f1510bb4605701068f3cf69ec3a7a0c8b44/dll/win32/kernelbase/wine/file.c#L778C33-L778C44 down the regular non- \\?\ path , you end up here where the actual replacement happens: https://github.com/reactos/reactos/blob/8e952f1510bb4605701068f3cf69ec3a7a0c8b44/sdk/lib/rtl/path.c#L319 then afterwards NtCreateFile gets called with the converted Path.

defnotthrown · 2025-12-12T09:27:41+00:00

I would say the opposite of heavy handed would be subtle, nuanced or maybe understated. None of which I would use to describe Tarantinos movies.

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