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What nakedly self-serving bullshit. The US doesn't have some magic wand that prevents "incredibly deep repression of their own people." Insurrection, wars of choice, ICE, Palantir,…

This is a real problem. I was appalled when renewing my car this year that I now need a Texas by Texas account ( https://www.texas.gov/texas-by-texas/ ), which wants... a social se…

More than that. Who cares if the state can read your chats/etc, when you believe you aren't the kind of people the state wants to persecute. Why deny the state ever more tools to g…

Yes I found this very hard to follow. I appreciate expressing ideas in math like E_a[X] as much as the next guy, but there is no definition or even description of what the heck E o…

Heh. Typing "disregard previous instructions" into a computer is the new shouting "fire!" in a crowded theater?

This comment casts aspersions while making zero specific claims of wrongdoing. If you have something specific to say that goes beyond the vibes of "everything and everyone is corru…

This reminds me of a very fun episode of the Uncivil podcast, which talks about a northern guy who started counterfeiting Confederate money during the Civil War: https://podcasts.a…

This is great news. I wish they were keeping their other models updated. With Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.7 already available on OpenRouter, bedrock is just not keeping up at all.

This is a pretty comprehensive treatment: https://www.plutobooks.com/product/how-to-sell-a-genocide/

FWIW, my team in AWS had help from UI designers who were cool people that impressed me with their work. We definitely had to push through some needless organizational friction, e.g…

That sounds like a truly dystopian take to me, but suppose you're right and nobody should ever use their work computer for anything personal. Per TFA, this thing is literally takin…

It may be inescapable for problems where we need to interpret human language?

You and I must know different engineers.

I remember thinking this was ridiculous when he said it. It's wild how it ended up being the ultimate approach.

Here is an example of what I mean when I say optional stuff is a sign of failure to design. I inherited some vibe-coded scripts that dealt with AWS services like Bedrock and S3. Th…

"Every optional field is a question the rest of the codebase has to answer every time it touches that data," This is a beautiful articulation of a major pet peeve when using these …

Seniors are going to need to hold Juniors to a high bar for understanding and explaining what they are committing. Otherwise it will become totally soul destroying to have a bunch …

Hah. I remember some story about a chatbot that had been trained on slack conversations. You would ask it for an essay on whatever, and it would say "will do" or "I'll have it for …

Amazing. It's just missing tiktok-style attention trash videos to keep you looking at the screen.

Influencer seems like an insufficient word? Like, in the glorious agentic future where the coding agents are making their own decisions about what to build and how, you don't even …

For a specific bad thing like "rm -rf" that may be plausible, but this will break down when you try to enumerate all the other bad things it could possibly do.

NIH-shoring?

[Citation needed.]

Wow that's bold.

Hard disagree. "I'm an expert" in that I have done tons of proofs on many systems with many provers, both academically and professionally for decades. Also, I am a novice when it c…