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Recursing

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    Comment #49154149

    All comments here are written as if Situational Awareness blew up, but it seems like it didn't and is up 80% YTD https://nitter.net/tbpn/status/2083226453509030285 All the stuff th…

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    Comment #49120605

    Another comment got downvoted for raising this, but I found it interesting that pangram flags large parts of this blog post as AI generated ( https://www.pangram.com/history/b82cdb…

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    Comment #48940935

    See the classic Gwern post: https://gwern.net/death-note-anonymity Which quotes Tao on using deliberate disinformation to preserve anonymity. > …one additional way to gain more ano…

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    Comment #48737422

    Many deb packages are easily repackaged for arch by the community

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    Comment #48736827

    This seems to have unblocked Claude Desktop for Linux ( https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop-linux )

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    Comment #48736496

    https://nitter.net/ClaudeDevs/status/2071988881717871065 https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop-linux https://claude.com/download

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    Comment #48733851

    This is clearly shown in the settings/config (or at least was last time I looked), if people are surprised by this I recommend asking claude code what settings you can tweak

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    Comment #48685619

    Zope was strongly influenced by Smalltalk > The ZODB is an (almost) transparent python object persistence system, heavily influenced by Smalltalk. https://zodb.org/en/latest/articl…

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    Comment #48685297

    What's the threshold at which you remove scores from the leaderboard? There were several valid >100 scores earlier today (some mentioned in other comments here)

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    Comment #48676928

    That node release was to fix security issues...

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    Comment #48676230

    node randomly broke production for us last week https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/63989 not sure it can be considered "stable and won't break things like this between minor rel…

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    Comment #48642499

    I see a lot of knee-jerk comments to this, but I highly recommend running a scan ( https://openai.com/daybreak/codex-security-plugin/#codex-cli ) in your projects so you can evalua…

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    Comment #48635253

    I also don't get it, looks like any other ad

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    Comment #48435061

    Some good ideas here: https://posthog.com/blog/making-claude-cowork-actually-usefu...

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    Comment #48434685

    1. Same experience as my non-Linux coworkers, so we can share learnings and processes 2. Scheduled tasks that run locally ( https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13854387-schedule…

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    Comment #48264685

    At the time gwern alleged it was because of Brockman's wife https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/181o1q4/co...

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    Comment #48264606

    express-zod-api works well for me https://github.com/RobinTail/express-zod-api I'd say about as well as anything Python

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    Comment #48179805

    For more on this https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-online-sports-gambling-exp... > it is clear from studies and from what we see with our eyes that ubiquitous sports gambling [...]…

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    Comment #47292710

    The organization I work for does something similar and positively evaluated GiveWell in November 2025 (see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U9H34ui_hvnPOwvsvcZF3VCC... ) Persona…

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    Comment #47132782

    sympy and similar packages can handle the vast majority of simple cases

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    Comment #47106436

    From the preprint linked above: > We tested a total of 42 subjects, 17 of which were females.

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    Comment #47005969

    You could look at his early guests and see what many of them have in common

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    Comment #46808489

    I work on a website that doesn't have any mobile-specific features, new users ask me all the time why we don't have an app. My sister and my parents basically ~only read newspapers…