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When you run tens of thousands of simulations for complex economic models, you actually do want to see the extreme outliers too. I can't recall who said it, but in finance the inte…

Your post has a trove of really good data. A lot of care, skill and attention must have gone into building that kind of expertise. When you then use an LLM to produce a post about …

That's quite an indictment of the common app development practices. (Not that I disagree with your point...) And security is hard. Because it is by definition off the happy path, i…

> deliberately destroy old notes and issue new ones with different images to replace them Big part of the reason for this appears to be security. Many years ago a high-ranking offi…

Matt Levine pointed out to a likely culprit, and it indeed has nothing to do with the business outlooks.[0] SpaceX sold only 5% of their stock in the IPO. Earliest lockups will sta…

> I have never seen a UI where just selecting text means auto-copy to the paste buffer. Isn't this the default behaviour of every X application since the 1990's?

> Copy/paste is one of the most basic, low-level features of a modern operating system. NO APPLICATION SHOULD EVER SCREW WITH IT, IN ANY WAY! -Ghostty enters the chat- Middle-click…

Or as the Risky Business guys crystallise it: "James Kettle breaks the internet. Again."

This does happen in Finnish tax system. Your tax rate (percent with one decimal) is calculated based on your annual gross income. Rates are supposed to be calculated smoothly, and …

Thinking like a business vs. thinking like a state. If you see a given technology as fundamental[tm], you want to ensure that you will retain access to it AND its ongoing developme…

More likely the PRC sees the open-weight models' progress as a way to prevent an existing dominant player from cementing their (finicky) lead and pulling up the ladder. That strate…

Yeah, and Beacon was acquired a year ago. The acquiring company in turn went private. Yesterday. Genius coder, yes. Nice guy, most definitely yes.

> Now imagine if you lived in northern Europe around the 60th parallel, where the sun doesn't get high enough in winter to produce vitamin D. Like... all of Finland? And most of No…

"Temporary" can be an awfully long time. There is ample evidence that discovery rate of bugs (many of which can be bucketed into vulnerabilities) in any non-trivial piece of softwa…

Hah. My chosen name collision with my online handle makes the models consistent. They all are certain that I am an adhesives manufacturer. (Good!) On the other hand, the tool did m…

> I think Andy Jassy did forward a concerning report about an apparent jailbreak in Fable, and he probably did so in good faith If so, then he is not fit to run an engineering orga…

No, it's not that way around. And it's not a law.[ß] If you and a high-finance institution agree to a separate (lawyer-negotiated!) contract where you provide essential/important s…

Code escrow. You factor in the expense of having your code releases escrowed by a third party (where part of the escrow contract itself is: "must be buildable from sources as provi…

ZDR had been turned off. We sent in a request to have it re-enabled (and to disable Fable access for the time being). Somewhere along the line we also used the self-service toggle …

I read the same announcement. Or more precisely, I read at least two slightly different revisions of the announcement (it was updated between my two passes). Our org has ZDR, and h…

They need to walk back a lot more. Unilaterally revoking zero-data retention, even for enterprise contracts that explicitly require that ? Nope. Fable is utterly unusable for any k…

At least in a corporate environment, Claude Desktop is a pretty decent compromise. Preconfigured internally deployed MCP servers and third-party connectors make many of the necessa…

Like with everything in business and engineering, there's a tradeoff. My previous employer used Adyen as major payment provider (for quite some time, too). Their cost structure is …

The problem? Life imitates art.

To be fair, I'd consider hard-core scalability/reliability software engineering skills to be their very own speciality domain. But I'd also claim that these things fall on a spectr…