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Ah yes. It is clear that the root cause of this CVE last month is a lack of spend. Lessons learned: 2.1 trillion tokens is insufficient to detect obvious malware; increase token sp…

The difference is twofold. First, junior devs who ask for code reviews on massive, 2000+ line diffs get coached, and eventually fired if they persist at it. And second, even the mo…

Can you name an active filesharing app that's in use today? The action against Napster might not have killed filesharing, but it was p2p's Antietam.

I'd be interested to try this out. I'm especially keen on AI tools that implement a native RAG workflow. I've given Cursor documentation links, populated my codebase with relevant …

I have such a love/hate relationship with dunders. On the one hand, I get warm fuzzies from simplifying a module's interface with `__call__`. More than once I've seized an opportun…

> In the following, we show that [taking cosine similarity between two features in a learned embedding] can lead to arbitrary results, and they may not even be unique. Was uniquene…

Give it until the end of the year. These systems are new. Legal and logistical frameworks are being created around them. Southeast Asia will have a streamlined import/export relati…

The speculative currency crises in Europe during the 90s helped drive the adoption of the Euro in the first place. It's a bit outside my ken, but I do wonder if Italians of a certa…

You're missing the point. The reason the dollar is the global currency of choice is because it offers the infrastructure for any two parties to settle a transaction. The existence …

Bitcoin? No. But if you're asking whether digital currencies (which share a lot of the same underlying characteristics) might transform the global monetary landscape, well, they al…

What makes you think the US would be motivated to hamstring its own Federal Reserve, or threaten the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency?

I was in the market a couple months ago (US). If you haven't given the 2023 Id.4 a look, you might consider it. They're practically giving them away right now due to surplus invent…

They do. If there are stories of recruiters getting married to engineers who viewed their profile, I would love to hear them.

Amazon Drawer of Old Android Devices has a certain ring to it.

But that's not what an LLM does.

My experience was similar. I've built far more impactful things since then, but at the end of the day, the software that I'm most proud of was a calculator, of all things, that I m…

Wow, didn't realize folks were still actively developing on Python 2.x. FWIW, the Python steering committee takes backwards-compatibility pretty seriously these days. Here's a rece…

Which syntactic features have changed in ways that aren't backwards compatible? I've had some minor headaches, don't get me wrong, but in each case those headaches are a result of …

I've been programming in Python for most of the past 10 years, and I've never experienced a regression in backwards-compatibility between minor releases. What problems have you had…

I've been thinking about the strange loop that emerges when enough humans hire human-emulating machines to ghostwrite enough of their correspondence. Book reports, inane business e…

With just a tiny sed find-and-replace (possibly generated by GPT) this sounds exactly like: What Assembly developers said about C; What C developers said about Java; What Java deve…

Is cantor dust available as a plugin now? I remember watching the creator's tech talk as a young dev and being incredibly inspired by it. But I've looked it up a few times over the…

What does this mean? I'm unfamiliar with Teams, the only person I know who uses it is my partner who works for the government (non-technically).

I was every bit as skeptical (and agree there's nothing particularly meaningful about a bargain on a product that's unavailable), half expecting the available eggs to cost $6-7 or …

The timeline of events might explain why they're proceeding with caution. Last Wednesday, 46 people were let go[1]; that Friday, Riot tweets that their development systems were com…