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Interesting that the distinction between phones and boats was not enough to dissuade whatever point it is that you're trying to make. From Chief Justice Roberts in Riley v. Califor…

It's not just resolve, either. The org must recognize the problem in the first place, which isn't a given. Especially in smaller/govt orgs. Often, recognition of the problem is wro…

This title is easy to misinterpret. If I understand correctly: Codex now encrypts sub-agent prompts and hides those prompts from the user. edit: originally was "Codex starts encryp…

I'm sympathetic to Logseq here. My guess is that many things are true but do not sum attractively to an audience right now. The db probably is the cleaner place for Logseq's note s…

Arguing that "at least John is doing [clown thing] in the open" just dilutes whatever leverage John's supporters had against John on that thing. I find myself unwanting to be on th…

One similarly egregious UX issue on the latest Android is that pressing buttons in the dropdown tray doesn't give any feedback until the action is complete. I can press the "turn o…

They're rigorously sourced in that some set of underpaid clerks is tasked with surfacing their best guess as to what material is most relevant to the court, with optional fact chec…

Zooming out to the original complaint that "A is B" doesn't imply "B is A" in common English, and then further -- to the goal of having an LLM predict tokens that map closely to tr…

Your question arguably doesn't have multiple answers. There's one answer: the set of children (discounting different orders of the set). The question "Who is her child" has multipl…

"AMD, with nary antecedent aforenotice, has elected to excise"...

> practically they work together frequently Are the originators of these investigations the same? Might that matter? > Crime shouldn't suddenly be ok if you pay taxes on it Cool. N…

Calling an entity that's forbidden from acting on your behalf an "agent" seems funny but maybe it's meant as a catch-all term. Their use of "assistant" seems better for that purpos…

Would you suggest that white blood cells are "not all that good for the body" because they're amped up during a bout of sickness? Maybe they aren't! But you can't infer that from t…

I'm not sure that your definition of "throwing money away" corresponds to the OP's. OP uses that phrase to imply the (un)worthiness of spend. You're using it to mean that it doesn'…

I like the React model of components being (ideally) a function of state, but I don't touch hooks where possible. And I don't use React itself when I can use the lighter Preact lib…

Interesting. Many times I find the opposite case, where my long tail search on Kagi will turn up SOME stuff that's kind of pertinent to the subject, and I'll swap to Google to see …

On the presumption that this isn't a joke: em dashes appear in LLM outputs because LLMs were trained on human text which included them organically. It's not as unordinary as memes …

Python does have a huge training set, but I figure lots of that training comes from disciplines where maintainability or system design isn't as heavily incented. Reports, notebooks…

I don't understand what makes these "datacenters" if they're distributed across satellites with WAN-esque interconnect. Are we overloading the term "datacenter"? Or is it not overl…

> At some point the metaphor becomes an encumbrance, rather than something helpful Well put. Pop science is what it is, but I'm bewildered when the rhetoric around plants "screamin…

Was just reading that headline the other day. Economic darling Japan emerges from the Lost Decades with perfect banking policy.

I incline myself to be more annoyed at the problem than the folks reporting that the problem still exists.

Coincidentally I started toying around with it this week. It's pretty cool. I've known about it at least since Snowden namedropped it, but the main reasons I hadn't tried it before…