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wyldfire commented on A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw brandon.wang/2026/clawdbo... · Posted by u/brdd
Would it be any more comforting from a privacy standpoint to have the models capable of doing this running on the device itself instead of the cloud?
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It says it's off. You're a journalist reporting against a fascist regime. You, your family, and known associates will be tortured and killed if you are found. Do you trust it, or a mesh wire lined bag that physics says definitely will block it?
I feel like if those are the stakes I'd be better off leaving it behind.
Stupid question: can't you just turn it off? Does it emit signals / identifying information while it's off?
wyldfire commented on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit bbc.com/news/articles/c1e... · Posted by u/robotsliketea
I am not up-to-date on the bleeding edge but that explanation doesn’t seem correct? The use of x-rays in analytical chemistry is for elemental analysis, not molecular analysis. (There are uses for x-rays in crystallography that but that is unrelated to this application.)
At an elemental level, the materials of a suitcase are more or less identical to an explosive. You won’t easily be able to tell them apart with an x-ray. This is analogous to why x-ray assays of mining ores can’t tell you what the mineral is, only the elements that are in the minerals.
FWIW, I once went through an airport in my travels that took an infrared spectra of everyone’s water! They never said that, I recognized the equipment. I forget where, I was just impressed that the process was scientifically rigorous. That would immediately identify anything weird that was passed off as water.
Here's an article that talks about Dual-energy CT [1]. And another one talking about material discrimination using DECT [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_imaging_(radiography)
This reminds me of when I tried to let Claude port an Android libgdx-based game to a WASM-based libgdx version, so I can play the game in the browser.
No matter how much I tried to force it to stick to a mostly line-by-line port, it kept trying to "improve" the code. At some point it had to undo everything as it introduced a number of bugs. I asked it: "What should I add to your prompt so you won't do this again?" and it gave me this:
### CRITICAL LESSON: Don't "Improve" During Porting
- **BIGGEST MISTAKE: Reorganizing working code**
- **What I did wrong:** Tried to "simplify" by splitting `createStartButton()` into separate creation and layout methods
- **Why it failed:** Introduced THREE bugs:
1. Layout overlap (getY() vs getY() - getHeight())
2. Children not sized (Group.setSize() doesn't affect children)
3. Origins not updated (scaling animations broken)
- **The fix:** Deleted my "improvements" and copied the original Android pattern faithfully
- **Root cause:** Arrogance - assuming I could improve production-tested code without understanding all the constraints
- **Solution:** **FOLLOW THE PORTING PRINCIPLES ABOVE** - copy first, don't reorganize
- **Time wasted:** ~1 hour debugging self-inflicted bugs that wouldn't exist if I'd just copied the original
- **Key insight:** The original Android code is correct and battle-tested. Your "improvements" are bugs waiting to happen.
One thing that might be effective at limited-interaction recovery-from-ignoring-CLAUDE.md is the code-review plugin [1], which spawns agents who check that the changes conform to rules specified in CLAUDE.md.
[1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/...
Aghhh, I wished they release a model which outperforms Opus 4.5 in agentic coding in my earlier comments, seems I should wait more. But I am hopeful
By the time they release something that outperforms Opus 4.5, Opus 5.2 will have been released which will probably be the new state-of-the-art.
But these open weight models are tremendously valuable contributions regardless.
Who do you know who is currently sitting in a seat of massive power in the US Government, watches TV and says things like, "I need to have that! Why do we not have that already? It will project strength, and all the best governments project strength at every opportunity!"