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jphoward commented on UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse   bsky.app/profile/tupped.b... · Posted by u/JoshTriplett
JFingleton · 11 days ago
Here is more information about the arrests that are currently taking place:

https://freespeechunion.org/police-make-30-arrests-a-day-for...

jphoward · 11 days ago
Why does that link say the current director of public prosecutions is Sir Kier Starmer? It's hard to take it seriously.
jphoward commented on 500 days of math   gmays.com/500-days-of-mat... · Posted by u/gmays
jphoward · 12 days ago
$49 seems a surprisingly high amount for something aimed at students and learners - I appreciate the content may be good, but it's effectively 3 times a Netflix subscription.

It's meant to be something you stick with in the "long term" by its nature, and yet an annual subscription is $500 - this is just completely unrealistic for any student. Someone in a lower end job hoping to "up skill" is going to really struggle with this.

jphoward commented on The Dereliction of Due Process in the Scala Community   pretty.direct/dueprocess... · Posted by u/cbeach
cbeach · 18 days ago
Jon Pretty was cancelled in April 2021 by two ex-partners and 23 professionals from the Scala community over allegations which were shocking to the people who read them. The allegations, in two blog posts and an “Open Letter”, were not true.

These publications had a devastating effect on Jon, on his career, and on his personal life, which he wrote about last week - see https://pretty.direct/impact , and which he has barely started recovering from.

There was probably lasting damage done to the Scala Community too.

jphoward · 18 days ago
I don't think there's any question about the "probably" - I'm not that involved in the community but the subreddit makes it sound totally disharmonious.
jphoward commented on Why there are so many more South Asian CEOs than East Asian CEOs in the US   davelu.com/p/learn-to-emb... · Posted by u/United857
jphoward · 20 days ago
"There are far fewer East Asian CEOs in the Fortune 500, and most of them are the founders of their companies like Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Tony Xu (DoorDash), Lisa Su (AMD)"

Lisa Su only joined AMD in 2012?

jphoward commented on OpenAI Leaks 120B Open Model on Hugging Face   twitter.com/main_horse/st... · Posted by u/skadamat
44za12 · 25 days ago
I don’t get the hype with OpenAI OSS, they would never make a model better than their proprietary models open source, and the other open source models beat GPT and family so why the wait?
jphoward · 25 days ago
I think they could release non-agentic models that are as good as 4o, and have almost no repercussions on sales tbh.

I have Ollama installed (only a small proportion of their clients would have a large enough GPU for this) and have download deepseek and played with it, but I still pay for an OpenAI subscription because I want the speed of a hosted model, and never mind the luxuries of things like Codex's diffs/pull request support, agents on new models, deep research etc. - I use them all at least weekly.

jphoward commented on The untold impact of cancellation   pretty.direct/impact... · Posted by u/cbeach
readthenotes1 · 25 days ago
It seems pretty justifiable to me so that people can't erase their misdeeds.

Good apologies require more than memory-holing an injurious attack.

jphoward · 25 days ago
Yeah but because it's a GitHub repo is has an inherent audit trail for that, so it's not really erasing misdeeds... indeed it highlights those people in diffs!
jphoward commented on The untold impact of cancellation   pretty.direct/impact... · Posted by u/cbeach
jphoward · 25 days ago
At the bottom it references a GitHub where people have previously added signatures against Jon Pretty - and now the maintainer says "NOTE: This repo is closed. Do not open issues; they will be summarily closed and ignored." - i.e. telling people they shouldn't even TRY to amend their signatures.

Regardless of what you think of Jon Pretty, how is this justifiable? Telling people they can't unsupport something because you're not open to issues, but also not removing it?!

jphoward commented on My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)   simonwillison.net/2025/Ju... · Posted by u/simonw
turnsout · a month ago
Except that it is not exceptional at all; it's an older-generation MacBook Pro with 64GB of RAM. There's nothing particularly unusual about it.
jphoward · a month ago
64 GB of RAM which is addressable by a GPU is exceptional for a laptop - this is not just system RAM.
jphoward commented on My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)   simonwillison.net/2025/Ju... · Posted by u/simonw
OJFord · a month ago
I think the point is just that it doesn't require absolute cutting edge nor server hardware.
jphoward · a month ago
No but 64 GB of unified memory provides almost as much GPU RAM capacity as two RTX 5090s (only less due to the unified nature) - top of the range GPUs - so it's a truly exceptional laptop in this regard.

u/jphoward

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