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On the other hand, the open weights models could crawl and annotate and rl the training data that Anthropic and OAI did in exactly the same way, and take the exact same legal hits.…

A stopped clock is, after all, correct twice a day.

You need 0.5 to 1.5 acres per person for non-mechanized industrial argriculture. Nowhere with land that is truly arable enough for that is going to _sell_ you 1 acre at a time. In …

For most teams, whether or not you can say no to building something is ambiguous at best, at least if you wish to stay on that team and at that company. It's definitely one of the …

It has been a very bad bet that hardware will not evolve to exceed the performance requirements of today's software tomorrow, just as it is a bad bet that tomorrow someone will rew…

I'm going to guess that someone who can afford smart glasses can afford to have another pair of unsmart glasses. What is it about the _glasses_ that people find creepier than a sma…

Great, let's regulate it! And why are glasses more offensive than cell phone cameras, or go pros, or drones? I genuinely do not understand why people don't worry about the other fo…

It seems like a more polite way of handling this in private spaces is just to ask that people take them off - just like we do when a pig farmer walks into our house with their boot…

I mean, I grew up with AOL AIM, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC... yet I switched every time a new tech came out with more of my friends on it. Why do we think discord will be any more st…

Isn't that true of python as well? I would argue that Github's decision to use markdown for formatting, more than any other, is what resulted in its widespread adoption to other us…

The last one is fairly simple to solve. Set up a microphone in any busy location where conversations are occurring. In an agentic loop, send random snippets of audio recordings for…

I'll add to this - if you work on a software project to port an excel spreadsheet to real software that has all those properties, if the spreadsheet is sophisticated enough to warr…

And adding ads into the responses is _child's play_ find the ad with the most semantic similarity to the content in the context. Insert at the end of the response or every N respon…

Tech debt doesn't accrue because of fast feedback iterations. Tech debt accrues because it isn't paid down or is unrecognized during review. And like all working code, addressing i…

I'll attempt to provide a reasonable argument for why speed of delivery is the most important thing in software development. I'll concede that I don't know if the below is true, an…

You _can_ largely ignore the toxicity. Don't give toxic individuals attention, and they go somewhere else to stor the pot. Just debate the ideas with the merits in the source code,…

Same. It's easy to setup and use. As is gptel, aidermacs, and claude code ide.

A true inspiration

It's clearly a consistent typo and was probably part of the prompt used to generate the article.

With the size of the asteroid, is this one where we could use the gravity tractor[1] or the Yarovsky Effect[2] techniques for deflection, or is there not enough lead time? 1. https…

It is. There are scraping third party services you can pay for that will do all of this for you, and getting blocked by IP. You then make your request to the third-party scraper, r…

You can feed them whole books, but they have trouble with recall for specific information in the middle of the context window.

Why couldn't they add a tool that literally calls stockfish or a chess ai behind the scenes with function calling and buffer the request before sending it back to the endpoint outp…

Everyone has their threshold for how many times you are allowed to be incorrect within a given context, sure. > adversarial audience... Yes. Even if the audience you target is smal…

It's intended as a replacement for _scala_ builds. Having a build definition in the native language that doesn't require a different syntax (like a declarative syntax such as maven…