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bartman commented on Claude Opus 4.6   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/HellsMaddy
ck_one · 4 days ago
Just tested the new Opus 4.6 (1M context) on a fun needle-in-a-haystack challenge: finding every spell in all Harry Potter books.

All 7 books come to ~1.75M tokens, so they don't quite fit yet. (At this rate of progress, mid-April should do it ) For now you can fit the first 4 books (~733K tokens).

Results: Opus 4.6 found 49 out of 50 officially documented spells across those 4 books. The only miss was "Slugulus Eructo" (a vomiting spell).

Freaking impressive!

bartman · 4 days ago
Have you by any chance tried this with GPT 4.1 too (also 1M context)?
bartman commented on Level S4 solar radiation event   swpc.noaa.gov/news/g4-sev... · Posted by u/WorldPeas
viscousviolin · 21 days ago
Could you see it from the inner city or only closer to the edges?
bartman · 21 days ago
Friends who live in Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain could see it pretty well. I'm a bit further south within Berlin where skies are minimally darker, but between 10pm and 11pm it was so bright that light pollution didn't matter.

Funnily enough, despite having lots of alerts set up it was my mom who texted me from northern Brandenburg as she spotted it after getting an alert from RegenRadar, of all apps...

bartman commented on Level S4 solar radiation event   swpc.noaa.gov/news/g4-sev... · Posted by u/WorldPeas
bartman · 21 days ago
We had intense aurora in Berlin, Germany. Green clouds dancing in the sky levels. Started around 22:10 local time or a bit earlier, and at this point there's only a faint red/green glow remaining.
bartman commented on The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem   basicappleguy.com/basicap... · Posted by u/andrem
seemaze · 3 months ago
I frequently use my AirPods Pro when working in my shop. Previously the APP2 did a great job of reducing loud tool noise and I could mostly still listen to music or podcasts at reasonable levels.

With the APP3, they are largely the same except with the louder tools (circular saw, cordless grinder) they produce a horrific feedback instead of canceling the noise. So much so that I switched back to my APP2 (which do not have this issue in back-to-back testing).

This REALLY irks me, as the APP3 are what forced the upgrade to iOS 26 (which is terribly misguided and under-baked), so I'm stuck with all of Apple's foibles and none of their wins.

Feel like I got punched in the gut and my lunch money stolen. Not a good feeling Apple.

bartman · 3 months ago
Anecdotally, my APP3 have worked much better then expected when I worked with a drill and jigsaw this weekend. No weird noises and much more NC than the 2 had.

Might be worth trying different ear tips or asking for a replacement if software updates don’t improve it.

bartman commented on Asbestosis   diamondgeezer.blogspot.co... · Posted by u/zeristor
ndsipa_pomu · 3 months ago
The problem with not taking a "zero tolerance" approach is that the problem isn't going to go away. As you say, the asbestos including materials are often best left untouched rather than being removed by a DIYer which may well release the fibres into the air. However, that's just kicking the can down the road as at some point the house will need renovating or rebuilding and that's when the asbestos fibres will be released.

As always, it ends up cheaper to just chuck dangerous materials into the wider environment rather than dealing with them in a responsible manner. It's a shame that we can't retroactively penalise the builders that used so much asbestos.

bartman · 3 months ago
In Germany, regulations around asbestos are quite strict: You're not allowed to "seal it in" by e.g. putting floor leveling compounds on top of old asbestos-containing flooring. If there's asbestos found during renovations, it needs to be removed professionally.

When we re-did our kitchen we found asbestos-containing glue under a new-ish layer of tiles one of the previous owners of the apartment just laid on top. I wish regulations would already have been stricter back then (and that they would have been followed - another story...) as this surprise find caused massive delays to the construction and forced us to temporarily move out during the removal and decontamination.

One of the best ways to make DIY-ing in buildings built before 1994 (when asbestos was banned for construction in Germany) safe has been to buy a H-filtration class shop vac. It can filter out asbestos fibers and many other fine dust particles that aren't healthy to inhale and was barely more expensive than a comparably good vac.

bartman commented on Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out   gavi.org/vaccineswork/den... · Posted by u/slu
n1b0m · 5 months ago
Can you pay for it?
bartman · 5 months ago
Generally yes. I asked my primary care physician and would have been able to get the vaccine dose from the pharmacy (paying for it myself) and she would have administered it.
bartman commented on GPT-5 for Developers   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/6thbit
neom · 6 months ago
Removed- sorry, and thank you for the feedback.
bartman · 6 months ago
Thank you!

Love that you included the judge prompts in your article.

bartman commented on GPT-5 for Developers   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/6thbit
abossy · 6 months ago
At my company (Charlie Labs), we've had a tremendous amount of success with context awareness over long-running tasks with GPT-5 since getting access a few weeks ago. We ran an eval to solve 10 real Github issues so that we could measure this against Claude Code and the differences were surprisingly large. You can see our write-up here:

https://charlielabs.ai/research/gpt-5

Often, our tasks take 30-45 minutes and can handle massive context threads in Linear or Github without getting tripped up by things like changes in direction part of the way through the thread.

While 10 issues isn't crazy comprehensive, we found it to be directionally very impressive and we'll likely build upon it to better understand performance going forward.

bartman · 6 months ago
I am not (usually) photosensitive, but the animated static noise on your websites causes noticable flickering on various screens I use and made it impossible for me to read your article.

For better accessibility and a safer experience[1] I would recommend not animating the background, or at least making it easily togglable.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/G...

bartman commented on HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA   hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-wi... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
bartman · 6 months ago
These cuts have been in progress for months, and it’s a sad state of the world when scientific research and its products are called unscientific and not evidence based without any substantiation.

I’m reminded of this quote from Carl Sagan’s Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, as we creep closer and closer to future he describes.

> We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

u/bartman

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