To be fair, it's good practice to use as much RAM as possible for caching. Many programs will cache more things in their resident set if the memory is available.

Gleaning useful information on memory usage is difficult on modern OS's with advanced virtual memory systems. Disabling swap might reveal memory pressure more readily, or if swap is on, load average sometimes reveals it.

Add this rule to ublock origin:

||fsdn.com/con/*/floating-unit.js

Not sure if that works on uBlock Lite or not... Chrome really cripples what you can do.

When I asked Claude Opus to disassemble the code and add comments, it did that, yes. I'd post it here (with comments) but it would trip the lame lameness filter. Ironic that posting code to slashdot is considered "junk."

That's kind of interesting to consider that the model is large enough to encode an assembler and disassembler in its parameter matrix.

So after Opus 4.6 gave up, I finally gave it the list of bugs that Russinovich has in his post. After it was pointed out to it my instance of Opus confirmed the DORESTORE missing line-not-found check bug and explained why it was a problem. However it disagreed with one of the other issues found by Russinovich's Opus instance. It said: "Token comparison logic bug â" That other Opus instance was wrong here. The JMP $0314 goes to the CMP, not the LDA. The accumulator retains the token byte. It's correct." Funny to see it arguing with itself. So not sure what to make of all this.

I found his original code and I tried Opencode on it with OpenCode Zen Big Pickle, which is really a Chinese model called GLM. It did admirably. It disassembled the code and made some sort of sense out of it, but it definitely did not find the bugs.

On the other hand Claude Opus failed too for me. It claimed there was a bug that would prevent the example usage code given in the article from even working at all, which is clearly false. It did work. So it missed the bugs that Russinovich found with his Claude session. This is with Opus 4.6.

Other coding agents. Still no AI contextual awareness in Google keyboard... Maybe that's a good thing.

Anyway if he was willing to post his original, unfixed code to GitHub I would be interested to run opencode on it with a number of different models.

Not really. Claude is considered the best for coding and analysis. The others are not too bad either, but not quite as good as opus 4.6. So it's logical he'd use Claude for this personal experiment. If you think it's political you're adding that yourself. However it would be interesting to take the original apple ii buggy code and see if the other coding affects can find the same bugs.

But as had been said that's not what happened. They signed a contract and agreed to terms. Then later the DoD wanted to change the terms and Anthropic said no. In retaliation hegseth and Trump declared them a supply risk. Which was certainly unprecedented and probably not legal.

The EV market in the US is pretty well saturated by the incumbents. Every upper middle class person who wants an EV pretty much has one, and usually as a second vehicle.

As for the rest, EVs could be a real boon if they were affordable to them, domestic auto makers aren't that interested in this market, even for ICE vehicles. And even a company that might be, such as Slate Auto, is having a really hard time keeping the price down. By the time their little truck is really ready to go, I suspect it will be closer to $30k, still too high for the lower class frankly.

But it's not just tariffs. It's also the rolling back of certain mandates that made selling EVs attractive or even necessary in the US market. Besides that the fact is EVs aren't doing all that well in the US market. It's a similar situation in Canada. Since Canada is a much, much smaller market than the US, I expect Hyundai to similarly discontinue that same model there also.

Well seeing as there simply won't be any WD drives in the consumer market this year, I guess beggars can't be choosers.

Not to mention Firefox is really the only browser left that can run uBlock Origin, making it safer to just browse the internet. I use it on my Android phone because of this. All other browsers now have to use the Lite version which doesn't work as well.

The difference is most humans don't have a perfect memory. And those that do, if they were to put an entire extract from a copyrighted work in their own work would called on it. And people have been successfully sued for copyright infringement over creating something that was too much like something else they had heard or read, even if it was the product of their own mind.

LLMs have been shown over and over again to be able to reproduce literary works word for word if you prompt them in just the right way. They could reproduce code also.

I have been bending Firefox to my will with userChrome.css for some years now. It does get annoying having to fix it every year or so. I have tabs where they should be, underneath the url bar, but no status bar, sadly. So far I can live with it and it looks mostly the same as it did 15 years ago. Actually my entire desktop system has looked virtually the same for the last 20 years, ever since KDE 1.1 and Gnome 2, Mate, and now KDE Plasma 6.

Shudder! I absolutely hate pastel colors in Android. I have to run a root app to force them to grayscale since all colors are pastel. It's awful. Pink may complement the colors in my wallpaper, but just maybe I don't want pink. Why can't I choose the colors I want? If they make my eyes bleed with bright, saturated colors, that's on me.