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Qwen 3.6 9B doesn't exist.

If you meant 3.5 9B and you truly believe it's as good as 4o then I can only assume you have a very basic use case.


You are right, I was mistaken about the version. I evaluated it in general chat assistant prompts plucked from my history across a range of topics but did not use it for coding - there was never a time when I thought 4o was “good enough” for agentic coding.


VS Code is updated monthly. More and more they also release a bugfix to the monthly release, a week or two after.


They switched to a weekly release cycle, presumably to compete with the perceived iteration speed of the many VS Code forks.


Your analogy falls apart because the "lazy bastards" still knew how to program and understood the code they were working on.

Vide-coders often don't read, let alone understand, the code they send for PRs.


I don't think most JavaScript devs know how to read C code, let alone assembly, so I think the comparison is apt. Is it not?


The JavaScript developers are checking in JavaScript code that they ostensibly understand. That is not the same as prompting an LLM to generate Zig that they don't understand, and expecting someone to merge it.


ah, i see what you're saying. fair point! though the argument was that LLMs essentially are a yet higher level programming language (or, rather, let you write in a higher level language).


They do let you write in a higher-level language, but it's not really analogous to a higher-level programming language. The ambiguity and lack of determinism makes prompting fundamentally different from using a high level programming language.


> Heh that’s a very low bar though

This is a low bar: ?

> communities with as high of a signal-to-noise ratio and breadth of experiences as HN, especially not public ones that one can stumble their way into without knowing a guy / joining a clique

If this is such a low bar, then how come there's only HN? Can you name another? 10? 100? Because I can't.


Just because you disagree with a law doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. You anti copyright shills are exhausting... Why can't you try to attract people to your side to eventually instead effect some real change? Do you just take that much pleasure in being an edgelord that your cause be damned?


Please do tell us of that mythical leader who is so good at governing that no other country has ever had a grievance with them?


Well I didn’t exactly make some kind of claim of “no grievance ever,” I’m just saying that it’s not that hard to find countries that have good relationships with the US, China, and EU all at once.

Example: most member states within the RCEP trade agreement (e.g., Australia)

India

Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Turkey all deliberately hedge relations between blocs.

Japan and South Korea are heavily economically intertwined (not conflict-free obviously)

Singapore

South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt


China hates India. China hates Japan even more. China sometimes hates South Korea. The US hates Mexico (and flip flops when presidents do) America imposed a dictatorship on Chile. The US has threatened Brazil recently. The US has also threatened military action against Colombia this year.

Places like Singapore, Nigeria, and Kenya are just irrelevant on the global stage. Singapore is great for money laundering and nobody sees them as a threat to their own sovereignty due to being a tiny little island that's completely dependent on its neighbors for food and water. When you're a big country with a big economy, you get enemies merely by existing.


The US does not hate Mexico, the right wing party just pretends to hate them in order to appeal to their racist voter base. “Hate” doesn’t result in a broad free trade agreement where over 80% of auto parts manufactured in Mexico are sold to the US and companies like GM assemble the Silverado there.

China hates Japan? Where is your PlayStation made? If China hates them so much where are the economic sanctions or restrictions? I certainly agree that there are disputes and negative public perceptions between the countries, but their economies are heavily intertwined.

Same deal with India. China’s largest trade partner, larger than the US. Here’s an article where Chinese officials are glowing about India: https://www.timesnownews.com/business-economy/economy/china-...

We also probably have to exclude threats made by Donald Trump from the discussion since he threatens obvious allies and is generally mentally unstable. Remember how he threatened to annex Canada? Canada is obviously an ally but our fucking moron president doesn’t know that.

Nigeria has over 240 million people, it’s not irrelevant on the global stage. All the African countries I mentioned are of great interest as they reach a developed state.

Fun fact: the Nigerian film industry grossed $6.4 billion in 2024, while the US domestic gross box office was $8.6 billion in the same year.

Calling Singapore irrelevant on the global stage is also laughable. 28th largest GDP in the world, 8th largest per capita. It’s not a Caribbean money laundering center where there’s no local economy. They refine oil, they’re ranked number 2 in biotechnology, 1st in broadband download speeds, 4th in global innovation index, 1st in economic competitiveness, the list goes on.


Disabling notification preview in the operating system settings doesn't prevent the issue, they're still saved in the database.

The only way they're not saved is to disable name/content in signal itself.

Maybe you're not as capable of elementary logical inference as you thought?


Disabling may be not sufficient (which is pretty insidious), but I still posit that enabling message preview is guaranteed secrecy loss.

But indeed, the idea that disabled notifications are still stored, and not directed to /dev/null immediately, cannot be inferred from just observing the behavior of the phone UI.


Any application can send notifications without going through a server.


How? I'm not talking about an application backend server but a notification server which Google and Apple have for all apps. I'm not sure besides polling or having a persistent connection to send notifications to an app while that app is not running.


It's entirely possible to ship malware in source form... Just look at the numerous supply chain attacks. Nix is a cute project but entirely irrelevant here.


It is possible but visible, and it means burning an identity, so it's not irrelevant


Burning an identity? Instead of hacking the server that serves the binary, you have to hack the developer's machine and commit a malicious source change.

I wouldn't consider either of them to burn an identity.


I'm surprised that this is the best NYT investigative journalism could do. It's well written and comprehensive, but it also contains no new information.

And I truly mean it, all the proofs listed here are so well known that you're likely to learn just as much by watching one of the hundreds of "Adam is Satoshi!!1" YouTube videos.

Given the title (a quest!) I would have expected some personal findings to be added to the shared narrative, not just rehash of the first 2 pages of a Google search.


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