Original Reuters article

Interesting they say that in advance of each public demo, employees "worked long hours mapping routes and training the software on specific hazards to make the company’s self-driving technology appear more capable than it really is*

presumably this is why Claude periodically writes its conclusions so far into a text file that it can read later instead of having to remember everything. Sounds like an interesting approach.

maybe they are planning ahead for the business model in a few years time, when nobody can do any work without claude, and they get to charge their preferred “monopoly enshittification” price?

“Continue modifying this code until all unit-tests pass”

(gives it conflicting unit tests)

does it give the full history to the LLM each time?

Last time I tried implementing something like this, it suggested to have a rolling window of history so that it takes into account your last X messages but not the entire conversation.

(I guess this is what ollama calls “context length”?)

If you search the old ones on ebay, the scalpers all have photos with a room full of steamdeck boxes

Always include a % in your song titles to crash car music player software that uses sprintf. (h/t to Dave P)

Does this mean other companies are hosting compatible servers to switch to?

VC ruins everything

This is literally a product where a hobbyist tried to fix a niche, and now the VCs arrive.

It’s a great day to do whatever the hell you want in the UK without it making the news!

(obligatory Dune quote)

No One Lives Forever is a spoof of Austin Powers, if that gives any idea of the humour level

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The wheel linkages have to be horizontal - think about it, they need to stay the same length as both wheels rotate.

Also, why is smoke coming from the coal storage and not the engine?

If cxmt tries to fix the memory shortage and the US responds by threatening to sanction them, then the shortage is intentional.

Sorry, wasn’t suggesting that the journalist did (not that it would harm their story or reputation much for 4chan to see it first) - anyone remotely close to the trail of information between the jail finding out and ABC publishing their story could have posted it - and even if they found out at the same time as the journalist did, they would have easily been first given how much needs to be checked before publishing an article under the name of a news org.

It’s hardly surprising that an anonymous social media post could be made quicker than a news story gets approved for publishing?

Other shopping sites will help you with that too…

I don’t know how many roads have the same name, but pretty sure it’s more than five

• Nine English counties (out of 48 depending on your definition)
• Four countries (“UK” was already selected in a different field)
• One city with a famously wide range of definitions
• and one borough, which is in London, which is in England!