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Sure it is. It's just bound to a vowel.

> But that said -- and as others have noted -- the explanation here is misleading, and that's because of the dependence on romaji / transliteration. Japanese conjugation is extreme…

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"War is politics by other means" is the one line of Clausewitz everyone can quote.

I don't think there's some magical technical trick that lets you do an end run around politics.

I think there's no question that auditing open-source software is easier, but it can be harmful if auditing actually basically never happens yet people wrongly believe that all the…

I would imagine what it means is that in practice open source just gives a false sense of security that someone must have looked at it.

I would wager a policy of only installing commercial software from well known vendors has a better success rate.

I would say that it's not just an academic argument that's being made about what is technically possible but a stronger claim about what is likely. If the claim is just you technic…

I know. But the problem is that in reality the only way to get people to audit software reliably is to pay them to do it, so it's not really true as a general principle that open-s…

And how often do you do it?

I've seen that people can get Claude and friends to say they're DeepSeek if they ask in Chinese. I think distillation is happening all the time.

A lot of people are slow typists.

No, I've not been "living on" such a principle but it was a big claim for "the bazaar."

I have to say, the principle that open-source software can't do anything nefarious because the source is open just hasn't held up for a lot of reasons -- including that nobody has …

Yeah, it'd be easy, but the hard part is getting people to agree what the standard will be. Plus, frankly, a lot of people (myself included) who want a richer experience are pretty…

But where on the planet are you going to go and escape that?

I'm sure they do genuinely have those problems but it's not like Western research has been free of such scandals.

That's interesting on Deepseek. But I think as long as the models are still making noticeable gains with each iteration it's hard to say "good enough."

Amazon and Uber are other examples of businesses that looked like total basket cases for years. I remember reading, and at the time being persuaded by, articles arguing that Uber w…

> I think there is a real hole in the market for a simple solution that lets you deploy some containers to some instances in a declarative fashion without all of that complexity an…

Everyone can decide where the line is for them, but I do feel like given the subject that's a bit of a hyperbolic repsonse.

Yes, I'm sure in Germany nobody ever muffs an interview by offending the interviewer.

I mean, let's be real here. There is such a thing as too honest in an interview.

> People are consuming AI like they eat meat: some are embracing it, some are limiting their use of it, and some are avoiding it altogether. That's an interesting analogy as, despi…