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As a datapoint: I have routinely been using Claude Code through a VPN for 9 months and am in the UK. I think it has to be more than this. I sometimes shift endpoint mid session and…

The AI labs have somewhat the same problem that publishers have. Essentially their asset is a static piece of IP: a huge file full of numbers. They’re like a publisher only letting…

I've never really used spaces, I remember them being introduced but they didn't really take for me. Anyway to see what all the fuss is about I've installed Gridlion but… how can I …

What would be required for you to see it as a policy?

When you use the word “allowed” it becomes a policy.

I bow to you 7 times

In fact now I think about it my claim to fame used to be that Github used one of my Rails plugins. I had written a really simple versioning system (Rails 2 I think) that I used for…

Surprised to find I am #79. I think that was down to being in a particular IRC channel when CW & co. were building it.

No VORP calculations in US tech I see.

My Dad and I are doing a generative art experiment with his HP-7475A pen plotter. I wrote an application called Axo which is a graph-based programming tool that outputs paths to be…

It’s a problem that the models are moving faster than they can be usefully tested. GPT-4.1/4o/o-1 are not SOTA for some time and they don’t even seem to have the Anthropic models a…

But we’ve been here before. The agile movement originated as a response to the multifarious problems of big design up front.

Pretty much. Xcode was quirky but it still is. But the frameworks were well documented and 1 Cocoa book could get you a long way. I loved building Obj-C/Cocoa apps back then.

My understanding that attempts to defeat fingerprinting are often useless because they can tend to make you more, rather than less, unique. So instead I wonder if we could build an…

After implementing a behaviour tree library and realising the power of select & sequence I found myself wondering why they aren’t used more widely. I’ve never done anything in cryp…

Okay that makes a kind of sense in the case stated but even there seems open to creative abuse in cases where those lines are not wholly independent. Thanks for the information.

Modulo I haven’t tried it yet it’s been an irritant that SIP broke tracing so this is a welcome development, thank you.

I'm not in the US so I've no dog in this race only curiousity. I can understand allowing a governor to change the text of a bill. But I cannot understand allowing them to sign thos…

I'd forgotten all about it but SubEthaEdit was such an amazing tech when we were using to collaborate internationally back in about '04. It went off my radar but I am glad to see i…

I'd argue that privatising telecomms has been a win. I think because it's quite open to competition (even if there has been a good deal of consolidation). The challenge with so man…

I don't think that's what he's saying precisely. I think what he is saying that native platform apps get delegated to different teams and coordinating among those teams becomes an …

I don’t have a dog in this race but I was also around at that time and one reason is there was far less choice in 1995 about where you would go from C. C++ was also a vastly simple…

and (and as much as I do love Alan Rickman) more properly Stephen Moore.

You’re right. That aspect of how Brexit was carried through was not acting in bad faith. The anti-European faction has been fighting since we joined to reverse it. Many other aspec…

I would love to replace JS as the scripting language in one of my native macOS apps and I wonder if Wren would be suitable. The two biggest questions I’d have are: 1) how easy it w…