Now that there's widespread direct connectivity between agents and browser sessions, are CAPTCHAs even relevant anymore?
Readit NewsJKolios commented on Chrome DevTools MCP (2025) developer.chrome.com/blog... · Posted by u/xnx
JKolios commented on Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US bbc.com/news/articles/cm2... · Posted by u/breve
Casual threats of invasion don't build solid and lasting partnerships? Who knew.
JKolios commented on Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs (2024) arxiv.org/abs/2410.03730... · Posted by u/doener
More diversity in the LLM space is always good. In my experience though, speaking as a native speaker of one of the less-used European languages, Mistral's models already use it pretty well.
JKolios commented on The CRPG Renaissance, Part 5: Fallout 2 and Baldur's Gate filfre.net/2025/03/the-cr... · Posted by u/doppp
Fallout 3 was very successful. If selling many copies is the yardstick you measure quality by, it may well have been one of the greatest CRPGs of all time.
By other metrics it may fall a bit lower down the ranks. For example, the writing is quite bad (the water is thoroughly irradiated from a war that happened 200 years ago).
>(the water is thoroughly irradiated from a war that happened 200 years ago)
This is what I always found grating about the writing in Bethesda Fallout games. Their writers think that the war happened last Tuesday and there are parts of the old world behind every other door. In universe, the war happened more than two centuries ago and humanity has moved on, in several strange ways.
JKolios commented on Restoring Faith: Crete's Ancient Minoan Civilisation (2009) historytoday.com/archive/... · Posted by u/diodorus
For some reason it was very hard for the Victorians who pioneered archaeology to understand that ancient humans were actual human beings and not storytelling archetypes or moral exemplars. This kind of archaeology is just inverted science fiction: Commenting on the present through the lens of the imaginary past, instead of the imaginary future.
The release day of Civilization n is always the best time to buy and play Civilization n-1.
JKolios commented on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE wired.com/story/elon-musk... · Posted by u/medler
Average age of engineers and scientists in the Manhattan Project was 25.
Our current gerontocracy is ahistorical.
Perhaps one reason startups work so well is they are one of the few places that still let young people exert agency.
The average age of NASA’s mission control team during the Apollo era was 27— they put humans on the moon. Young people bring a force of curiosity and creativity that can disrupt the status quo. If we’re serious about cutting waste in gov spending, let’s not turn away new minds.
The guys featured in this gross and irresponsible hit piece by Wired, by all accounts, are brilliant engineers. Top 1%.
- one decoded the Herculaneum Papyrii at the age of 20, winning the Vesuvius Challenge
- another built a startup funded by OpenAI
- one interned at SpaceX and got a Thiel Fellowship
- another was a top engineer at a major AI firm
This is who they are bullying and putting a target on. The best of us nerds. https://x.com/anothercohen/status/1886480470185001025
> Perhaps one reason startups work so well is they are one of the few places that still let young people exert agency.
So, who's the VC that will fund the 4-9 failed governments we'll have to go through until we get a unicorn?
Don’t worry.
There’s literally nothing an llm can write or tell you that you can’t write yourself or find in a manual somewhere.
Even if you absolutely have to use an LLM for some reason, there are already perfectly good LLMs for code generation that you can comfortably run on commodity hardware.
Putting aside for a second whether there's some truth to the stereotype or not, we truly live in strange times when description of a culture that values family life, the outdoors, good food and leisure over working at your phone at 2 am is automatically taken as an insult or provokes comparison to noble savages.
Please elaborate on how "maybe they don't need good infrastructure" can be taken positively. It is, at best, deeply patronizing.
Maybe the Greeks care more about enjoying the life, the nature, the sun, the beach, the sea, their small villages, their food, in person interactions with other human beings than being always connected and worrying which Netflix series should they consume next. Maybe they enjoying the real life too much than the virtual one.
That's the impression I've got when I traveled to Greece and I've seen far less Greeks with their noses stuck in their mobile phones than tourists.
Nice sentiments, but the problem with the Internet in Greece is a runaway oligopoly of three telco carriers and a "business-friendly"(one set of sarcasm quotes doesn't feel enough in this case) government that won't bring down the hammer of regulation on it. No lofty ideals here.