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What makes your prediction more likely than: "LLMs will accelerate math research, allowing us to prove that meaningfully sized quantum computers are impossible and crypto is secure…

Things that open-ended are ripe for abuse, which is to say when you have a team of white techbros, guess which candidates get high marks on these ad-hoc questions?

Yes it can cause you troubles, even if you don't link to it. Just having a vulnerability scanner (incorrectly) flag it can cause you numerous problems. Say you distribute your appl…

> A for loop is more readable than the lambda soup. Let's assume you have a slice of strings you want to uppercase. Which of the following is more readable? uppercased := slices.Ma…

I agree it's not a good fit. Go is a language built for people who don't wish to learn any math or CS theory, for people who don't wish to be "computer scientists" but rather "grug…

Not all color can be represented digitally. Is a piece of software subject to patents? Is it export controlled? Both of those can change without the data changing at all. A new pat…

This was really well written in "What color are your bits": https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 Programmers have trouble seeing color (two identical numbers are the same bits, how c…

The more common steelman for go is "most programmers are idiots, so a language designed for idiots is a good tradeoffs since it's easier to hire programmers for a codebase in that …

i.e. the blub paradox: https://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox

If the geneva convention didn't ban torture, I'd say that web-developers should be forced to actually try and use the apps they develop. The websites I mentioned use more cpu and m…

> Visiting a web page does not have that action-reaction causality in people’s minds It does in my mind. I fully expect visiting any of reddit.com, github.com, notion.so, or meet.g…

It's easier if you create a new apple ID which you use for the EU, separate from your existing one, and then login to the phone with your old Apple ID, and login to the app store s…

You can also do that with reynard [0], and eventually firefox itself [1], if you just move to the EU or Japan. Or switch to android, an operating system that didn't need government…

I feel like there could also be a simpler explanation. Why does a debian contributor make debian free, why do they work on this thing anyone can use? Is it because linux and debian…

> delay a snapshot The point of a snapshot is that it's a snapshot of current main, bugs and all, even release-blocking bugs. In my head, the order of stability expectations are (n…

1. 2022 A non-profit literally quote "to better all of humanity, not shareholders" 2. 2024 For profit, but "we will train biases out of our models and make sure our AI is safe to u…

Weirdly, the existing first party solutions around denying commands don't seem to help here. Often enough, when one of the agents prompts for running "sudo", and I reject it, it wi…

The difference is that git is a traditional programming tool which executes deterministically. agents are not deterministic tools, they're not sandboxes or container runtimes or la…

You can do this now: change the file permissions such that the user you run codex as can't read them, or run codex in a container without those files mounted. If you don't do that,…

As Iran is showing, the federal government is worried about nukes. I feel like a modern 2nd amendment should ensure every US citizen has a right to up to three (3) nuclear weapons.…

If someone's account gets lost or hacked, the person with the most incentive to own that account is usually the original owner, so just give it to whoever is willing to pay the mos…

Where's the privacy issue? That the server can figure out that two computers in the same house are different since your laptop and phone no longer share the same ipv4 address but i…

The heat isn't wasted, it has a significant impact on flavor. Extraction of flavor etc from coffee grounds changes based on the water temperature. You can easily experiment with th…

The equivalent for IP addresses to what they offer would be closer to running a BGP router or ISP, or generally contracting with network engineers for your data-center's networking…

If you have physical access to a car and want to phone home, may I recommend leaving a gps tracking device under the floormat. It works on more brands of cars too than just one gen…