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it can tell you if your spec is bad, but it can't tell you if your spec is good

One thing I haven't seen addressed in the post or comments (sorry if it's there and I just missed it) is for apps and websites that sell non-digital goods to customers. For returni…

> It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. Karpathy clearly wrote something different that what you say he wrote.

I use Github Copilot with PlantUML. I use PlantUML comments to describe what I want the diagram components to show and then the syntax is written for me. I can then edit it pretty …

It appeared for me about thirty minutes after I first checked.

Hello, thank you for sharing your thoughts on this topic. I'm currently writing a blog post where the thesis is that the root disagreement between "AI doomers" and others is actual…

I got as far as here: > If you need to introduce a new pattern, consider refactoring the entire codebase to use this new pattern, rather than creating one-off inconsistencies. Putt…

the pythagorean theorem is not named after its discoverer, unfortunately, as historians of mathematics have dated its earliest known usage to well before pythagoras

If the quality is too low, it's not viable. This was always true.

i was going to ask if turtlebot was too small for you, but thought i should check the price first so uh, yeah, i'm guessing you're thinking the 250 price point instead of the turtl…

My working assumption has always been to check the docs of your specific regexp parser, and to write some tests (either automated or manually in a REPL) with specific patterns that…

"I would like website operators to assume that I consent to being tracked, so I'm annoyed that website operators are not allowed to assume that everybody consents to being tracked.…

surprisingly common to find oneself caring strongly about bullshit

I have/had this cat water fountain too (my cats are now happy with a normal bowl) and I believe I just threw the wall wart into a box with the rest of my unused USB A wall warts. A…

Barely related, but I remember the joy as a kid of putting a computer game CD-ROM in my Walkman CD player just to see what happens and discovering that I could listen to the game's…

I was hopeful for a private-industry approach to AI safety, but it looks unlikely now, and due to the slow pace of state investment in public AI R&D, all approaches to AI safety lo…

I've heard the opposite about Brockman. What makes you so confident about this tech abilities?

Maybe this news should challenge your priors, then?

A lot of courts use rulings from other countries where the cases are similar. Any interpretation by the Berlin regional court that GDPR implies that DNT should be treated as a GDPR…

The licence is not for the user, the licence is for the publisher to do the bare minimum needed to tell their bosses that the model weights or implementation code was published eth…

"If you're physically capable of coming in 5 times over the course of two months you must therefore also be physically capable of coming in 26 times over the course of two months."…

I prefer to stop at 80%.

some consumers will pay the premium of ownership over the licence and some won't. if either market has demand fall below a particular threshold, the market will collapse. this isn'…

When I see this criticism of mocks, it appears to me that the critic is primarily used to seeing tests that are either mocking the thing-under-test or don't understand the boundari…

I used to be an active user of all the old Google Labs tools but now my personal Workspace account locks me out of everything, so meh.