Rastonbury (u/Rastonbury)

Rastonbury commented on Total surface area required to fuel the world with solar (2009) landartgenerator.org/blag... · Posted by u/robtherobber

hliyan · 21 hours ago

I think you have misunderstood the term "tragedy of the commons", which is a phenomenon distinct from a market failure. Also, "markets allocate resources based on supply and demand" is, I believe an oversimplification one should not carry beyond Economics 101. If that were sufficient to explain the totality of market behavior, especially at large scale, then the remainder of the discipline of economics need not exist.

Rastonbury · 3 hours ago

That comment throws all econ 101 in the wrong way. A land owners decision to build a golf course over solar farm is a decision based on competing land uses which are demand/supply for land and the potential services you could provide on that land. Which is why you don't often see solar farms or farms or power plants in the middle of cities...

Rastonbury commented on Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena blog.google/innovation-an... · Posted by u/salkahfi

bennyfreshness · 6 days ago

Wow. I'm generally in the AI maximalist camp. But adding Werewolf feels dangerous to me. Anyone who's played knows lying, deceipt, and manipulation is often key to winning. We really want models climbing this benchmark?

Rastonbury · 6 days ago

negative benchmark isn't it? no sane lab is going to realease PR that states our newest model is best at lying, if anything the reverse may occur, if this catches on, they will make their model play werewolf badly and claim "alignment improvements, our model no longer lies as much in werewolf" but it lies more often in other domains

Rastonbury commented on Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy phys.org/news/2026-01-cof... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

Rastonbury · 7 days ago

I'm reminded of how blacksmiths use instant coffee to stain damascus steel, at least the ones on YouTube

Rastonbury commented on Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking marginlab.ai/trackers/cla... · Posted by u/qwesr123

Rastonbury · 10 days ago

would be interesting to see what scores it's get when it is actually degraded via the status page, it gets degraded pretty often, so there's at least something to compare or to know at what point Anthropic declares degradation

Rastonbury commented on ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions asml.com/en/news/press-re... · Posted by u/dep_b

noosphr · 12 days ago

I'm happy you made my point for me.

Rastonbury · 12 days ago

I'm not sure what the point is wrt ASML, they made good bets, they won their monopoly, their shareholders who funded the bets get to enjoy monopoly pricing. If they start cutting R&D and lose their crown, yes it's shame I guess but that's all there is. To expect a company to sell their goods cheaply when they are the only ones in the world who can them is asking for too much. It's great that they and their investors took the punt on EUV all those years ago, we probably would not have the chips we have today and all the economic benefits around it

Rastonbury commented on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues cnn.com/2026/01/26/tech/t... · Posted by u/kotaKat

Rastonbury · 12 days ago

This was quick, it was never about the money, who needs Truth Social and Twitter when you have tiktok. Best of luck America

Rastonbury commented on Qwen3-Max-Thinking qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-max... · Posted by u/vinhnx

TobTobXX · 13 days ago

Doesn't ClosedAI do the same? Thinking models bill tokens, but the thinking steps are encrypted.

Rastonbury · 13 days ago

Destroying unit economics is a bit dramatic... you can chose thinking effort for modern models/APIs and add guidance to the system prompts

Rastonbury commented on I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file? hugodaniel.com/posts/clau... · Posted by u/hugodan

raptorraver · 17 days ago

> Lately it's gotten entirely flaky, where chat's will just stop working

This happens to me more often than not both in the Claude Desktop and in web. It seems that longer the conversation goes the more likely it is to happen. Frustrating.

Rastonbury · 17 days ago

Judging by their status page riddled with red and orange as well as the months long degradation with blog post last Sept, it is not very reliable. If I sense it's responses are crap, I check the status page and low and behold usually it's degraded. For a non deterministric product, silent quality drops are pretty bad

Rastonbury commented on LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review wired.com/review/lg-ultra... · Posted by u/tosh

CGMthrowaway · 19 days ago

Is there a shortlist of top of the line utilitarian monitors that you can just buy, without researching or being some niche gamer?* Something similar to LG G-series TV's. Seems like Apple Studio, Dell UltraSharp are on that list. Any others?

*Struggling for words, but I'm looking more for the expedient solution rather than the "craft beer" or "audiophile" solution.

Rastonbury · 19 days ago

If you truly don't want to research use rtings best monitor for X articles and find your budget and buy that one, if you feel the need to compare further pop the model numbers into your favourite LLM

Rastonbury commented on Ideas are cheap, execution is cheaper davekiss.com/blog/ideas-a... · Posted by u/grncdr

password1 · 25 days ago

It's interesting that the the author created three saas over the weekend as some sort of proof that execution is useless now. But would any company ever buy one of these? No, because for a company to buy your saas you need salespeople or some marketing channel, compliance and regulatory checkmarks, SSO integrations, ability to take and implement special feature requests, SLAs, maintenance and support capacity, etc.

That's the execution part of creating a successful business and it's still entirely missing.

Rastonbury · 24 days ago

You don't need any of that per se, only if you want to sell enterprise or need to make investors happy, you do. But at $99/mo, people can put that on company card easily. Author only needs 10s of customers to make it worth their time and Claude subscription

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