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typst is so good! the syntax is cleaner, and it's much easier to write re-usable and clever formatting. LaTeX will have a special spot in my heart, but it's pretty bloated (even mi…

It's pretty daring to do something like this. Something so brazen has a 100% chance of getting caught given enough time... That said, installing any package is a liability, whether…

well, manipulation is more about intent, rather than technique... I think it doesn't matter if you chose the correct "door" if you're trying to get someone to operate against their…

> unless you're a mathematician As a young math researcher, my mentor definitely did not believe that Math was the absolute descriptor of the universe. You can definitely imagine a…

honestly, that's pretty good

I guess it's kinda nicely genuine that the "four panel comic strip" has some errors in it (misunderstanding caption + cat high-fiving itself in the bonus fifth panel)

great article - it's very true that: 1. it's very difficult to verify how a llm will behave without running it 2. there is an intentional ignorance around the security issues of ru…

also love when a fansubber will just outright give you an asterisk explaining a joke that relies on nuance or wordplay

all code is legacy code; git repos are mausoleums

Weird thing: the timestamp on the upper right part of the camera is "01-02-1970" :thinking_face:

The article is good, but maybe a bit negative on the postgres feature. I think the article reads much better with the slant: "LISTEN/NOTIFY got us to this level of concurrency; her…

agreed - it helps transpose skills. That said, this comes up often in my office. It's just not giving really good advice in many situations - especially novel ones. AI is super goo…

Well, firing someone for this is super weird. It seems like an attempt to censor an interpretation of the law that: 1. Criticizes a highly useful technology 2. Matches a potentiall…

Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange.

agreeing with the point the question makes here; the game theory of global politics does not work with the same morals that we prescribe individual people

Personally, I think everything should be hackable, however... Limiting the ability to _easily_ modify what's running on a system is more about public cyber-health than the individu…

"We got GTA III on dreamcast before we got GTA VI"

^ This and we need to be continually learning on an energy budget similar to how much a human spends per hour.

Can we extract the latent understanding it has? Would be really cool to convert it's predictive model into a computer program that predicts written in like python/C/rust/whatever, …

Agree with this choice. DNT didn't work, and now it's just a signal that could _help_ organizations track you.

I think this is funny, but reading the code also makes my head hurt. A+

From the title, I wanted to dislike this, but Dan McKinley drops another banger slide. Giving people the keys to the car is both 1. how you make a happy person and 2. build systems…

I think they spit out human-readable code, because they've been tried on human authors. But you make an interesting point: eventually AI will be making for other AI's + machines, a…

This reads solely as a sales pitch, which quickly cuts to the "we're selling this product so you don't have to think about it." ...when you actually do want to think about it (in 2…

Here's a few cursor perks: 1. Auto-complete makes me type ~20% faster (I type 100+ WPM) 2. Composer can work across a few files simultaneously to update something (e.g. updating a …