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Just gives you an error if you have a link to a “news” site in your post. > News content can't be shared in Canada In response to Canadian government legislation, news content can'…

Not open source? :(

Is it? If the spec is as detailed as the code would be? If you make a change to one part of the spec do you now have inconsistencies that the LLM is going to have to resolve in som…

Or something like https://antithesis.com/

Ah yes, all of the precedents and lawful authority that this president cares so much about adhering to.

Crypto shredding?

Some have done it (repo includes links to main articles covering the process): https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-watchdog Note: I work for sentry.

If you’re on iOS, and don’t use swipe keyboard, disable that functionality. I found it made a big improvement for me.

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile?c...

There is a whole KIP that is “preview” on Kafka 4.1 to handle this use case natively: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile?c... Note: I haven’t had a chance t…

“I can stop any time I want!”

Uv solves this (with some new standards). ./script.py will now install the python version, create a venv, and install dependencies (very quickly) if they don’t exist already. #!/us…

> Specifically, the paper estimates that Llama 3.1 70B has memorized 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book well enough to reproduce 50-token excerpts at least half the time. (I…

AI posts (including this one) are all over his employers blog lately, so there’s some stake (fly MCP, https://fly.io/blog/fuckin-robots/ , etc).

Yes, some think it’s happening now: https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/is-ai-progress-slowing-down

Details here: - https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2024/12/03/transferring-python... - https://astral.sh/blog/python-build-standalone

FWIW there are protections for this now: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/aws-lambda-introduces-r...

Probably talking about something like https://antithesis.com

It doesn't look that hard: https://youtu.be/vuvckBQ1bME?si=eCGILMLlZHZnztCR

Yes. Although it’s also hollowed out the group of people using StackOverflow (and perhaps stack overflow has restricted open access to its data for further scraping), so future ite…

Back when we first tried out DMS there was a fun bug where booleans were interpreted as strings, so all false records were interpreted as “false” and translated to true on the targ…

I leave my laptop plugged in 95% of the time so in practice this caps it at 80% (helpful). I suspect quite a few people do that so it probably is net-good overall, but agree it doe…

Yes, I think that's about right (SRE at Sentry).