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I think all of Anthropic's own staff use --dangerously else they'd work on the usability of the massively imperfect 1-approve-once and 2-approve-forever multi-choice and outcome.

Chris Hinsley started TaOS toward the end of the 80's .. Him sick of being asked by games industry managers to "do it again but for PC". By 1991 there was a start up, and by 1993 t…

A fun hindsight LLM project :)

Way back lots of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ore couln't bring cases against all because the expert witnesses (US law enforcement website trap-setters) wouldn't go to t…

I recall a couple of JetBrains staff visiting in 2008 to see IntelliJ's struggle with the size of checkout for AdWords. Soon after the reindexing front/center dialog moved from blo…

TL;DR: There once was a ledger at Uber On DynamoDB it ran like a dream, Fast writes at great scale, But costs set sail, And consistency wasn't what it seemed. I could not work "fin…

Semantic merge. PlasticSCM had that a feature many years back

> Bzzt. Since all of these people are correct and smart, it is now your job to have great answers to their objections. Power assymetry and tenure are a factor. So is "culture eats …

Awesome that LLM generated and still an engaging account. Automated testing (as a software improvement technique) is an AI blind spot. That tweak of spec is the iterative cycle, wi…

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I was looking at TrueNAS CORE to see if it was a viable way to bsd-jail Linux containers. I'm really only doing this to get some protection from supply chain attacks given I'm fair…

Note to self: look for second hand unlocked Pixel 10 pro!

> Scotland has a lot of planted pine forests that have drowned out native species Team Land management for Grouse hunting enters the chat. https://www.mossy.earth/rewilding-knowled…

For a while, I've been thinking that open source package portals will at some point take over making of binaries that get released. Dev teams will run their own CI with whatever au…

Exciting .. I'm typing on that HP Dragonfly now :) Google - put me in the testing group pls - Paul H

Agree. But the first build you do after that clone/checkout is risky too. Maybe not as wide open, as the build-tool makers are a line of defence if they're acting on classes of vul…

I have not met a ThinkPad I didn't want to chisel the PgUp and PgDn keys off

How bold to start with "Listen to me" then jump into something that doesn't make much economic sense and has not been properly considered

He he, I might now be retiring my Ubuntu25 passwordless-sudoer NUC that's only for yolo mode projects. Or giving it more duties. Also - hello from Edinburgh!

Brit here. UK Government's position "we will hold ourselves to equivalent standards via the Cyber Action Plan, just without legal obligations" -is institutionally equivalent to "tr…

isolated-vm ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/isolated-vm ) here we come for increased sandboxing of node bits and pieces? And we are a year after Java took out the security manager …

Diverged as well as standardized. I did some research into "out of pocket" and how it differs in meaning in UK-English (paying from one's own funds) and American-English (uncontact…

My sister in law has a stem cell transplant under this team https://sheffield.ac.uk/neuroscience-institute/research/brea... for Multiple Sclerosis. It was a small multi-country tri…

Agree. I'm having lots of fun with Gen-AI and I still have insights it does not. Test-at-the-same-time-as-prod-code is also doable with gen-AI. All the ones I tried are shit at tes…

Ask AI number 2 to summarize the intention (look at the .patch) to markdown. Reset. Ask you AI to read the intention as of the orig author had written it, and say you've grave doub…