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varispeed · 2026-09-23T22:00:51

Shock and horror!

varispeed · 2026-09-23T17:32:16

Does one drive cost a mortgage?

varispeed · 2026-09-23T10:44:31

To make macOS remotely usable you need apps for switching windows, to reverse scroll wheel and many more. Ridiculous.

MFHava · 2026-09-23T10:55:16

No idea what you are talking about, I need none of the apps you mention...

maleldil · 2026-09-23T15:32:13

- macOS doesn't natively support "alt tab"-like behaviour (Cmd-Tab and Cmd+` are not analogous). You need something like alt-tab.app.

- You can't have the trackpad use "natural scrolling" and an external mouse use "normal scrolling" at the same time. The setting applies to all devices at once, so you need an external app (like LinearMouse) to use it.

That said, it's not like OSs and DEs don't have annoying things you need to fix (eg adding plugins to fix GNOME weirdness).

varispeed · 2026-09-22T18:56:55

> we called for pacing the frontier.

Translation: our models are getting shittier each iteration and we ran out of ideas. Let's invent scary stories and hope investors will lap it up.

Idiotic.

pyronite · 2026-09-23T01:15:20

They’re out here solving previously-unsolved math problems. Famous scientists and mathematicians are speaking about their awe and worry. It feels a bit like you’re burying your head in the sand.

varispeed · 2026-09-23T10:23:46

I am pretty sure they had solutions in their training data. LLMs only predict the next token.

varispeed · 2026-09-22T18:54:17

When the Astra one was last time run? It's probably better to run these 2-4 weeks after release when models get nerfed to get idea of performance closer to what it is.

anthonyrstevens · 2026-09-22T22:27:21

How do you know they are nerfed, and how do you know the timeframes?

varispeed · 2026-09-22T14:40:26

More likely is that the solution was in the training data somewhere. Astra is incredibly dumb for a model - at least after it's got nerfed.

5.6 Sol is much more capable.

varispeed · 2026-09-21T22:27:13

Probably it is under Privacy because one day it will be transcribing everything you say and sending to government.

They already gave idea with client side scanning and now UK government will mandate that.

The next step is conversations.

varispeed · 2026-09-21T21:23:37

They match my experience. Astra and Fable I rate below Sonnet. They are incredibly poor. They were excellent for a couple of days after release and then plummeted.

Maybe I am being routed to more quantised versions or less capable models with system prompt to fake Astra or Fable.

varispeed · 2026-09-21T21:21:25

These benchmark are useless as they don't say whether they were done before or after Fable and Astra got nerfed.

system2 · 2026-09-22T01:35:28

That's not chinese models' fault. Fable and Astra deserve to be punished for their scammy bait-and-switch.

varispeed · 2026-09-21T17:40:37

I stopped using Fable long time ago. It's worse than Sonnet. Opus is not much better.

This cycle of new model running at full quantisation and then nerfed few days / weeks after premiere should be called out. Anthropic should also drop the adaptive reasoning scam.

If I pay for Fable, I should get full, not nerfed model at honest pricing.

Regulators should investigate them.

OpenAI is no different. Astra has basically the same problem.