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A halfway decent synthetic biology lab (no need to invoke CRISPR) can make e.g. smallpox without a sample of the original disease, just from the gene sequences. Basically all state…

What does Bun’s governance look like? Now that Anthropic bought the company are there significant external contributors that would expected to have input on a decision like this?

OOM killing in WebAssembly is trivial, since it’s all in a growable linear memory. All the runtimes I’m aware of have a simple maximum memory setting, and they’ll trap any allocati…

We can argue over the definition of scaremongering and what people we’ve never met “really think”, or we can argue over what the actual risks of AI are. I know which one I’d prefer…

They said why they think it’s a sincere belief: past statements from before the AI hype cycle took off. I take it you have other evidence?

Dario Amodei is not Elon Musk. Most powerful people do not internalize the emotions of others (though obviously some do). If you think powerful people are disproportionately sociop…

They generally care about what powerful/influential people think. I’m not powerful or influential, but I guess maybe the person I was talking to is. If so I apologize for the misco…

If he wasn’t willing to change his mind after he saw the results, then why would he do it at all? Can you explain the false motivation that you think he communicated in the origina…

I’m not asking you to prove my point, but I think you’re being myopic. * Vikor Orban was just ousted by a popular protest movement. This took years due to structural electoral issu…

Not by trading the same suspicions on the internet with fellow true believers over and over again, I think the past 10 years have proven that pretty conclusively. Maybe people shou…

Did I say it wasn’t real? Or tell you that you couldn’t talk about it? No, I just pointed out that it’s all anybody talks about and it’s boring and doesn’t engage with anything spe…

Based on their actions, I don’t think the LLM vendors take anti-AI sentiment very seriously. If anything they court it, though I think it’s more likely they’re just high on their o…

What do you think one would have to pay to have flesh-and-blood engineers get a cross-language port of a codebase of over half a million lines with a broad test suite to over 99% c…

Powerful people figured out how to make suspicion work for them long ago. You have every right to be unconditionally suspicious, but it’s not a good way of accomplishing any change…

Running an experiment, the experiment being more successful than you thought, and then deciding to put more effort into a bigger experiment is not hypocrisy. It’s engineering. If y…

I don’t think the Zig project adopting a strict ‘no LLM’ policy affects the LLM vendors at all. How many developers are working on the Zig project itself that will (maybe) now not …

I’m not clear on who is supposed to do the translating that isn’t doing it today, or why the mapped IPv4 addresses don’t qualify. Virtually all ISPs either give you an IPv4 address…

You can do this quite easily on all the major OSes by opening a single dual-stack socket. On most Linux distributions that is the default, and then mapped addresses will work fine …

This already exists in two forms, and has for basically the entire history of production dual stack deployments. The first are IPv4 mapped addresses (of the form ::ffff:x.x.x.x) wh…

Yes, but CGNAT is an inherently stateful system and as a result will always be more expensive to operate per packet than a stateless router. The reason we are seeing steady (if slo…

How would this have worked in practice, in a way that the NAT464/NAT64 schemes that most mobile operators use haven’t? Would IANA have dedicated some blocks of IPv4 to be used for …

There are some reasons, which is why you do see IPv6 use increasing. IPv4 exhaustion means that almost all mobile (and in some countries landline) internet connections have to acce…

Yes, and the Xbox One has mechanisms to do just that. But they turned out to not be fully sufficient.

I'm not saying there's definitely no coordination, but nobody had to get together to decide that 2026 was the year for 90s fashion to make a comeback. Human society is very prone t…