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There are 2 economic arguments for why it would make sense for Chinese State to subsidize the open-sourcing of models beyond undermining Anthropic's and OpenAI's investments (and b…

This was an interesting interview. Like a lot of great comedians, Odenkirk has a very grounded and bleak view of the world. I suppose a lot of art, comedy included, is a way of cop…

Should have specified old used thinkpads. I’ve never bought one new. My daily driver is 10+yo, bought for $200 and upgraded mem, battery, and ssd with another $100.

Resonates. Reminds me of old Thinkpads. Cheap sometimes means accessible, simple, minimal, functional.

Very Don Norman problem. It is odd that things like this aren't more of a "solved problem." Maybe they are in some places and builders in the US just ignore the best practices.

These are the points I'm making, which I think are fairly one-to-one with my original comment: - American politics presents a false choice between Democrats and Republicans - Ameri…

It's funny how the false choice of American politics (Red vs Blue) also makes it into its consumerist corporatist life. That Anthropic's threadbare "limits" on government usage are…

Looks nice!

I think this is spot on. It’s interesting how rhetoric about “liberty” seems to practically serve oligarchy. I suppose an alternative to bans and regulations is to genuinely pursue…

Looks nice. Maybe share a bit about the implementation (windowing, networking, security, Mac APIs, …)?

Here here. Strategy and efficiency are overrated, desire (even obsession) underrated.

Yes, I think you're right. Seems to reveal a fundamentally extractive, rather than value-generative, economic model.

I always find it odd when media (and others) consider consumerism as somehow "helping" the economy. The economy is entirely about the collective activity of humans serving humans. …

"Metaphorically, I think about any job given to Claude as having 3 dimensions. There's the breadth of the task (roughly how many lines of code it will touch), the depth of the task…

Thinking of bunny huang’s open source hardware efforts, a 28nm nommu system seems like a good long term open source target. How much complexity in the system is the mmu, and so how…

I’m sorry, I did not intend to accuse you of being part of the evangelical community. Your article only prompted the thought I shared. On the technical point, I think I do disagree…

That would be the “arbitrarily bounded” allocation. Arbitrary because now you have to make a decision about how many items you’re willing to maintain despite that number being logi…

> The last time I used [a doubly linked list] was in the nineties. I know the Linux kernel uses them, but that design was also laid down in the nineties; if you were designing a ke…

Certainly onto something but misses how much large organizations are actually controlled by small organizations operating in the “large complex system” environment. It is only indi…

Yes being able to have compilers as libraries inline in the same code and same language. That feels like what all these call for. Which really is the Lisp core I suppose. But with …

I do find the pattern interesting and powerful. But at the same time, something feels off about it (just conceptually, not trying to knock your money-making endeavor, godspeed). So…