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As someone in the "not set for life" club, I worry a lot about my peers who are blind to the reality of AI progress. You don't have to believe AI is entirely hype to be anti-AI. It…

Before AI we had to rely on packages, services, libraries, frameworks etc to get anything done in a reasonable amount of time. But today these things are looking more and more like…

I learnt a new word today. Thanks!

I've actually been following this project for a long time and it's none of the above. They're simply testing what a set of frontier models can do when given a goal and left to thei…

Wouldn't frequent reauth be beneficial for stolen sessions? E.g. If you set your session timeouts to a ~1 day then by the time your session cookies are up for sale on the dark web,…

How does divorcing Europe make the US stronger against China?

With who in control? A Russia, China and US alliance? This seems very unlikely to me. All signs indicate we're moving to a multipolar world as far as I can tell. China owns an incr…

A great way to get around this is with an edge function from deno deploy.

I think this is spot on. The confusion for me comes from the fact that, as far as I can tell, I've never met a prig in real life. And yet they seem to be the biggest political issu…

Not sure if relevant but I thought this looked very cool. https://www.squiggle-language.com/docs

I don't think the purpose of the checkbox was to collect useful data but an any case storing it as a date would probably solve the issue.

I'm still using the built in MacOS terminal. What am I missing? I mostly do webdev - maybe terminal features are more important for other types of programming?

How do you think reasoning happens in our brains? I wonder if it's more like an LLM than we realise?

Open source software is one of our best and most passionately loved inventions. It'd be much easier to have a nuanced discussion about "open weights" but I don't think that's in Fa…

Thanks for the write up! I just wanted to chime in to say the Foliate code is really beautifully written too. I was able to hack together an epub audiobook reader by running a cust…

Reports are that Trump is okay. Politically I disagree with so much of what Trump says and does but I would never wish this on him. We can't let the extremists on either side win.

AI will always be far better at languages than I'll ever be and I expect it to get much better very quickly. But I'm still learning my partner's language and don't think I'll stop …

I agree we want to democratize AI and we should be very, very weary of powerful people trying to get a monopoly on AI. But I'm not ready to say absolutely everything should immedia…

I share your concerns and think you're broadly correct. I think it's worth adding some nuance though. When you drill into specifics there are almost always exceptions. For instance…

Is there any evidence this actually works? My understanding was that "prison as a deterrence" was largely ineffective.

Just three hours ago I switched back to Linux after a few years on MacOS. The only thing missing was the amazing text copy tool I was using, "Rex" [1]. What a coincidence to see th…

There is research out there that shows use of white space can improve things like reading speed and comprehension. An example for text paragraphs: https://www.semanticscholar.org/p…

Just want to say thank you for your enormous effort on this. I'm extremely picky about software but Firefox on Android is one of the best pieces of software I've ever used. And I u…

That's true. There are many other viruses that we don't publish for good reasons though.

Fair point. I think the thrust of the argument still stands. Open source is generally a fantastic principle but it has its limits. I.e. we probably shouldn't open source bomb desig…