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That's what thinking output is for, right? Mixing random tokens that live roughly in the same semantic realm, throwing them at the wall, and seeing what sticks? Hopefully, this bac…

Could've been as simple as installing and configuring some off-the-shelf "analytics" and "cookie banner" plugins for their content management system. Unfortunately, the chain of in…

At least for Claude Code, putting "run /simplify at the end" in an "implement the plan" skill helps a little. It still often leaves new code in bizarre places, and/or with bad/alie…

Sloppy, non-privacy-preserving "analytics" set up by some communications intern ≠ malice. They can mean well and still do a poor job. True privacy on the internet is notoriously ha…

I suspect many competent devs in the industry would find it sensible if Anthropic used their products as light-touch "assistants" sometimes. But yeah, it wouldn't fit the outside n…

It seems "Mythos is really good at finding vulnerabilities" has been what people took away from the Project Glassing announcement, which makes sense. Unfortunately for Anthropic, m…

I know this is a tangent, but > Introduce and enforce structs for passing context and input shapes around. So as to stop fighting with NULLs, lack of keys in maps and other maddeni…

Some type theory, some abstract algebra... Communication skills, teamwork skills... How to cook better, maintain relationships better, keep a tidier space... Not perfect! But time …

Once upon a time, I thought I wanted to learn cursive handwriting. Except this version of me was already in his 20s, would be out of school in a matter of months, and quickly reali…

Does "applying knowledge" necessitate human-like intentionality and theory of mind? If you insist it does, and this is a category error, then we need a new category. By analogy, co…

Claude in general probably increases observed bugs in rsync, because it can churn out vulnerability reports that necessitate tons of changes to software that people are accustomed …

The baffling part is why it takes hours for the npm security team to unpublish packages that contain malware, as attested by multiple independent sources? That should be able to ha…

Postinstall scripts have remained an effective attack vector for quite a while – which, ironically, has meant the worm's authors had little incentive to try something else, so it w…

Can't speak for intelligent autocomplete writ large, but I treat it as an ergonomic feature, and Cursor's implementation is pretty good (though I'm not sure it's improved all that …

Goroutines/"fibers"/"green threads" are usually scheduled by the runtime system across a small pool of actual OS threads.

Article: > To avoid this, you will probably need to intentionally write in a very different style than you usually do (or to have AIs rewrite all your prose for you, but, ugh, that…

The (shift+)cmd+` order also resets to match the window z-order whenever you switch apps. So if the order is windows A, B, C, then you select window B, cmd+tab away, then cmd+tab b…

What can Bank X do to stop phone malware from scraping the user's session token from the Bank X app or website? Yes, banks should (and sometimes do) double- and triple-check with y…

Wood is edible when processed correctly, but it's not legally considered "food" because there are a bunch of nontrivial steps to get it into that state. Likewise, any reasonable in…

The irony is that web searches for an explanation of something often lead to a discussion thread where the poster is downvoted and berated for daring to ask people instead of Googl…

It's kind of nice, though, because you can click anywhere on a window to focus it. If you want to interact with a background window without focusing it, hold Cmd and click.

This is already the pre-26 bounding box, isn't it? It's the new graphics that don't line up. (Not a great excuse, but the graphics are here to stay at least for a little while.)

The lack of a "refresh" option has been a problem with iCloud for years. Back in the iOS 8/9 days, I'd write in Pages on an iPad and then try to open the document on a Mac or the P…