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No point in wasting your time with them.

I've been arguing with people online since Usenet was mostly used for discourse instead of piracy. Trust me, I know that there's no point.

That would be impossible in a suburban setting;

Not necessarily true. The "village center" idea Jim Rouse used in his design of Columbia, MD could be used to solve the problem.

All of these things are within walking distance if you live in Columbia's village of Wilde Lake (and, of course, your health insurance covers the primary care physicians in walking distance).

I'm guessing you're thinking of typical "stroad" suburbs, but alternatives are possible and do exist.

Unfortunately, the suburb has to be the product of planning like Columbia. Typical "emergent" suburbs turn into unwalkable ones.

What if you're using it for Mathematics (e.g., making progress on unsolved problems) instead of writing software? Would you consider that a valid use-case?

Can you pay for The Thinnernet with Thnickels? https://thick-coins.net

It's not an easy thing, but some of the histrionic claims about child raising on the internet are really out there.

Have you considered that objectively difficult infants/toddlers/children exist? Children with O.D.D., for instance, show symptoms early, but diagnosis usually doesn't come until much later.

Perhaps the comments you came across online were from the parents of those kids.

-A parent of a very challenging child with Level II Autism

Weird. I thought they came from Nilbog.

Why do people shy away from such things?

Have you ever met someone with a true addiction to food? I'm not talking about someone with a habitual craving for sweets. I'm talking about someone who consumes food compulsively like a chain-smoker; someone who, in the absence of whatever their favorites are, will consume and consume with little regard for what the food is: an entire jar of pickles, multiple pounds of grapes, a whole rotisserie chicken, et al.

I used to be one. I once ate six baked white onions¹ in one sitting before vomiting everywhere and rethinking my life.

I broke through naturally, but I wish GLP-1s had been prevalent at the time. Want to know what made breaking it so challenging?

  1. Unlike other addictions, you have to continue consuming this one or else you will die.

  2. Nearly every social event in the USA is tied in some way to food which means that you have to exercise willpower __constantly__ if you have a social life.

  3. People are more interested in shaming you than supporting you. Most want you to fail.

Tomer's website is great! Thanks for sharing it here.

I'm mentioned on there, FWIW, toward the end of the CV page. I really wish I hadn't scared Mel away after my first e-mail exchange with him.

If you can make something special and engaging

... and sufficiently interesting to more than a very small group of persons.

Were there any periods in which the rate of change in warming was the same or greater?

Don't mistake a defused bomb for a dud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox

I have never heard of analog CDs.

Laserdiscs are analog.

NTSC video & film (movie film - 35mm) restoration.

I don't think very many people predicted that it simply wouldn't matter when photorealistic compromising images of whoever you don't like

This goes hand-in-hand with the widespread death of belief in absolute truth in the US and other western nations.

If this technology were released during the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, I'd wager it would have had the impact most of us expected it to have, at least for a little while.

Did you have a runnable WolframLanguage file so it can compare results?

Yes.

Did you give it H100 / H200 access to compile and then iterate?

Yes via Lambda.ai. Also, FWIW, I run claude with --dangerously-skip-permissions and codex with the equivalent flag.

it does amazing kernel work (Codex-5.4)

Specifically with WGMMA + TMA?

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Once TMA gets involved both Claude and Codex spin endlessly until they dump TMA for a slower fallback.

I've observed this with Claude-Code having Opus 4.6 reasoning set to medium, high, and max; "adaptive thinking" enabled and disabled; and I've made sure to max-out thinking tokens.

I've also observed this with Codex GPT-5.4 in addition to GPT-5.3-Codex with reasoning efforts from medium to xhigh.

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I've also observed this on the web, as mentioned in my OP, with GPT-5.4pro (Extended Pro), Gemini3-DeepThink, and Opus 4.6.

AI and LLMs have changed one thing very quickly: competent output is now cheap.

If you're working on something not truly novel, sure.

If you're using LLMs to assist in e.g. Mathematics work on as-yet-unproven problems, then this is hardly the case.

Hell, if we just stick to the software domain: Gemini3-DeepThink, GPT-5.4pro, and Opus 4.6 perform pretty "meh" writing CUDA C++ code for Hopper & Blackwell.

And I'm not talking about poorly-spec'd problems. I'm talking about mapping straightforward mathematics in annotated WolframLanguage files to WGMMA with TMA.

I solve that in a hilarious way: by uninstalling the app when I’m not using it.

Ha, I do the same thing!

but that was not a replacement of understanding what multiplication was

You're conflating an algorithm in N or Z with inherent meaning.

Let's shift over to R: Expand e*pi to repeated addition.

Think exponentiation is "repeated multiplication"? Try 2^pi.

our countries identity has basically become "we're all immigrants" but that's not a new phenomena

This is a very "New World" perspective which won't cut it for the "Old World" until their countries hit their own crisis points.

laundry [is] already automated

Partially. Ironing/steaming is only partially automated. Folding/hanging is not.

How do you view HTML/Code/JSONs in other applications?

Not GP, but I'll be forever thankful to have been able to make my career focused on embedded software.

In my line of work there's nothing to view because there's no visual component at all. If my user(s) "see" the results of my work, then it means I've catastrophically fucked up.

I spend 90% of my time working in vim within XTerm.

The closest I get to UI/UX is a UART debugging interface.

very specific edge cases

Mathematics is hardly an edge case, but SOTA models differ wildly in their ability to write proofs for unsolved problems.

Models also differ wildly in tasks like decompilation for reverse engineering.

Also, so far, the only model I've found which can competently write PTX for SM100 CUDA devices is GPT-5.4pro, but I'm willing to admit that this is more of an edge case than the aforementioned.

AFAICT, the extent to which someone finds models interchangeable is inversely proportional to the novelty of their work.

I don’t really get the nostalgia angle as it seems as many of those who are into this kind of thing are too young to have ever been in such a space, let alone worked in one.

I developed a fondness for 1970s interior decor/styling even though I was born in 1988 because most of the places in my town, such as the library, were last renovated during that time.

Also, many people in my life, such as uncles & aunts, were still living in the homes they purchased in the 1970s and some design choices just can't be easily/cheaply changed.

I grew up within and around a ghost of 1970s architecture and design. As an adult I wound up moving into a suburb built in 1968 for this reason.

It's less nostalgia and more like a vague sense of familiarity that you can only scratch the surface of in your mind.

Boundaries are a privilege available only to those able to deal with the consequences of enforcing them.

But I still do not understand how one can consider writing to memory the OS owns to be ok.

Go to Vogons and look at all of the memory tricks people will use to get various games running on MS-DOS. This kind of juggling exactly which drivers to load, etc. is why Microsoft added the boot menu in MS-DOS 6.0 to CONFIG.SYS.

I'm not necessarily saying that this was the case here, but it smells like that to me.

After a few years of pain, people would've gotten with the program, so to speak.

Not necessarily. This was still very much the time in which choosing to stick with an old version which worked (e.g. Windows 3.1) wasn't uncommon.

Just look at how many people jumped from XP to 7 due to the network effect of "Vista sucks" and then multiply that by the fact that, at the time of 3.1->95, people had far fewer computer security concerns, if any.

But what about The Jevons Paradox?

My parents were great, but if we were forced by circumstance to live in the worst parts of the US (e.g., Appalachia), then no amount of having a "good upbringing" would shield me from having a peer group which would routinely put it to the test.

You think so? Peers, in my experience, have an even greater impact, especially between the ages of 10 and 25.

They suddenly act as if Claude has awarded them with a second PhD in CS. Now they know everything and everything you tell them gets filtered through Claude.

It's like "software dude thinks he can do hardware", but on steroids. They don't know what they don't know and they think they have a panacea in their hands.

Don't you know? Software is beneath them and the fiddly bits are just standing in the way of them getting their BigImportantWork™ done.