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spydum commented on Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting - heres what we learned levs.fyi/blog/2-years-of-... · Posted by u/Ostatnigrosh

Der_Einzige · a month ago

And people like you will hate it even more when the normies immunize themselves from being obviously caught by such tells:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15061

spydum · a month ago

Ah ha! But now the complete lack of emdash and bullet pointed lists from antislop will be the tell! Riposte!

spydum commented on Steam Machine store.steampowered.com/sa... · Posted by u/davikr

utopiah · a month ago

> If Valve pivoted into making a well-supported laptop with good hardware that ran Linux and played games...

SteamDeck is out since February 2022 and does all that. You can use a BT mouse&keyboard, plug a USB-C screen or dongle for HDMI. I did live presentations with that quite a few time. It's just a computer with another form factor.

It's not "dangerously close", it's been there for years now.

Basically only competitive gaming with kernel level anti-cheat are problematic.

spydum · a month ago

seconding this. I bought a SteamDeck OLED -- and it blows my mind more people havent heard about these. it's essentially a bad ass handheld laptop. yes it plays games great, but the OS side when you boot into desktop mode is quite capable - I spend more time on it than my home pc these days

spydum commented on How much Anthropic and Cursor spend on Amazon Web Services wheresyoured.at/costs/... · Posted by u/isoprophlex

floatrock · 2 months ago

The buried lede:

Anthropic: "$2.66 billion on compute on an estimated $2.55 billion in revenue"

Cursor: "bills more than doubled from $6.2 million in May 2025 to $12.6 million in June 2025"

Clickthrough if you want the analysis and caveats

spydum · 2 months ago

specific clarification: That was only Cursor's AWS bill. If they are using other providers, wasn't clear.

spydum commented on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-kar... · Posted by u/ctoth

konart · 2 months ago

2035 singularity etc

spydum · 2 months ago

2038 will be more significant

spydum commented on YouTube seems to be down youtube.com/... · Posted by u/alexpadula

Theodores · 2 months ago

No Vodafone two days ago and now no YouTube. I am amazed at these system wide outages.

I thought YouTube cached all the recommendations fairly locally with a box at the Telco. Clearly this is not the case if it is down for everyone, everywhere.

spydum · 2 months ago

I've never heard that, I think you may be thinking of Netflix and their edge storage appliances.

spydum commented on UTF-8 is a brilliant design iamvishnu.com/posts/utf8-... · Posted by u/vishnuharidas

twoodfin · 3 months ago

UTF-8 is indeed a genius design. But of course it’s crucially dependent on the decision for ASCII to use only 7 bits, which even in 1963 was kind of an odd choice.

Was this just historical luck? Is there a world where the designers of ASCII grabbed one more bit of code space for some nice-to-haves, or did they have code pages or other extensibility in mind from the start? I bet someone around here knows.

spydum · 3 months ago

https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/CharCodeHist/X3.4-...

Looks to me like serendipity - they thought 8 bits would be wasteful, they didnt have a need for that many characters.

spydum commented on Kerberoasting blog.cryptographyengineer... · Posted by u/feross

kstrauser · 4 months ago

It’s been ages since I stood up a Kerberos realm, but… would it be possible to allow RC4 only for specific users? Like encrypt win98server@example.com’s heavily locked down account with RC4, but everyone else gets AES-256?

spydum · 4 months ago

Yes you can enable specific encryption types for users. It's not super common, but it can be done.

spydum commented on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly anderegg.ca/2025/09/08/yo... · Posted by u/geerlingguy

manveerc · 4 months ago

Wonder what’s the cause of decline in views. One plausible reaction I had was that views might be down because of people using AI search (ChatGPT, etc) which unlike Google don’t show videos prominently. But since likes haven’t gone down that doesn’t seem likely.

spydum · 4 months ago

My pet theory is the war on ad blocking aka manifestv2 deprecation: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate...

spydum commented on Job mismatch and early career success nber.org/papers/w34215... · Posted by u/jandrewrogers

golly_ned · 4 months ago

Amazon did this, at least for a time, as part of a "No See, No Hear" hiring pilot program.

The purpose was to see if they could hire university graduates with a minimum of human interviewing effort. They selected from a handful of universities, gave a couple online tests, verified the candidate's identity as the test-taker, then would give out offers sight-unseen.

I was hired this way in 2015. From my perspective, I had taken a couple online tests, then months later had a thirty-minute identity verification call, then a couple months later, was sent a job offer. I thought it was by mistake, so I didn't ask too many questions. I had a thirty-minute call with a hiring manager I otherwise never interacted with, then accepted, flew internationally back to the states to Seattle to start, met him and all my teammates for the first time on my first day of work.

I found the internal documents about this program later on spelunking in the internal wiki.

spydum · 4 months ago

that is wild! I could certainly see this as an attempt to eliminate hiring bias maybe? that was super popular in that time frame, but never heard anybody taking it that far.

spydum commented on Job mismatch and early career success nber.org/papers/w34215... · Posted by u/jandrewrogers

chaps · 4 months ago

Total anecdata, but whenever I've had to take an IQ test for an interview process, it's never the IQ test that's used to disqualify me. It's usually something like culture fit.

But these days if a job requires me to do an IQ test to join, I'll use that as a signal to get the fuck out of there and find a different role. So again, anecdata, but I suspect I'm not the only one who would eschew those results.

spydum · 4 months ago

I have never heard of IQ tests for hiring, is this for real? I've seen Myers-Briggs and similar personality sorting hats, but never IQ.