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There is already some intentional randomness in token selection, because it actually improves the quality of responses if you intentionally don't always pick the most likely next t…

What's the incentive for third parties to contribute, knowing just one guy stands to benefit if the project gets monetized in such a manner?

If you printed teeth, you'd have to make sure the teeth in the top loop are precisely aligned in relation to the teeth in the bottom loop based on the length of the belt, right? Th…

I confess I have instructions in my CLAUDE.md to avoid such cliches. But I think it's important to consider that we don't really know what subtext an LLM is associating with a give…

Related, in a sense: "Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26210774

See also this exploration from Strange Aeons: https://youtu.be/vMOMa-4D1yQ?si=t1uxfY1pEDh2a44Y

Yeah, I know chargebacks are a frequent vector for abuse and of course I don't mean to imply that customers doing chargebacks ought to always implicitly be given the benefit of the…

You'd better be promptly responsive to legitimate customer support inquiries if you are going to have a policy like that

Your entire codebase is already at risk of being blocked by a spinlock or CPU-intensive operation, so what's the difference?

cPanel is 30 years old, are you saying it's not battle tested, boring, proven, and widely audited? In fact PHP is only a few months older than it.

Thinking summaries might not be useful for revealing the model's actual intentions, but I find that they can be helpful in signalling to me when I have left certain things underspe…

Note that for Claude Code, it looks like they added a new undocumented command line argument `--thinking-display summarized` to control this parameter, and that's the only way to g…

> Supporting only Server grade hardware and ignoring laptop/consumer grade GPU/APU for ROCm was a terrible strategical mistake. A lot of developers experiments first and foremost o…

I don't think it's a single axis even in the original poster's conception, since you could be both incorrect and also not pragmatic. But if a fix needs to be described as pragmatic…

Damn, I was working on exactly the same idea not too long ago. It never really went anywhere because I couldn't find a speech rate detection algorithm that worked well enough to ma…

While I agree with the sentiment here, you might be interested to see that there are a couple hack approaches to override Claude Code feature flags: https://github.com/anthropics/c…

I mean, yeah, it's entirely possible that the operator is a teenager, isn't it?

This is essentially Jevons' paradox

If their whole business is based around being an established standard and making users happy is not a relevant goal, then why do anything at all? They already are an established st…

AFAIK my humidifier uses an ESP32 chip.

Wow, these preassembled ESP32 plus touchscreen boards are extremely cheap, and there are tons of them in all kinds of different form factors on Amazon. I didn't realize this kind o…

IIRC Apple has attempted to implement some defences against this, for example by requiring the passcode to be inputted before an update can be installed to prevent another San Bern…

The table has two categorizations: "In transit & on server" and "End-to-end". The former, which covers iCloud backups in the default configuration, is explicitly NOT end-to-end, me…

What's the joke here? If they are better than average drivers, that's a huge win which improves road safety for everyone

Furthermore it seems like it's specific to Azure AD, and I'm guessing it probably only has effect if you enable to option to back up the keys to AD in the first place, which is not…