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One of the hardest problem in programming is naming your variables correctly. I love chaining because it reduce the number of occurrences of that problem.

"What Elon Musk think or at least pretend to think" is indeed an useful/interesting piece of information, and I don’t see why a commentary on it is necessary or particularly useful…

Throughout my career, the "who handles backups" job (in a "we have our data on our own servers, not in the cloud" context) has always ended up on my plate. One of the most painful …

versitygw is the simplest "just expose some S3-compatible API on top of some local folder"

Why would I pick this over established players : Maddy, Mox, Stalwart ?

You’re just doing brute force, but with extra steps. It turns out that partial collisions are more common than you think, and it’s not particularly hard to find some. Here, a 186-b…

Yes it should, because hopefully errors are logged and reported and can be acted upon. Missing name doesn’t.

It was goofy and fun-looking when the first blog did it. Now that everyone and its dog does those "goofy" illustrations, I find them insufferable.

I think you should clearly spell out how the key is derived. From the description, I believe it's random string hard-coded in the executable + user-provided password => AES key ? A…

Operational concerns trumps raw performances most of the time. Stored procedures live in a different CI/CD environment, with a different testing framework (if there’s even one), on…

That was my first thought, an aimless dialogue is going to go toward content-free idle chat. Like humans talking about weather.

They failed hard with Claude 4 IMO. I just can't have any feedback other than "What a fascinating insight" followed by a reformulation (and, to be generous, an exploration) of what…

Mostly males. I’m French and "Claude can be female" is a almost a TIL thing (wikipedia says ~5% of Claudes are women in 2022 — and apparently this 5% is counting Claudia).

> A priority was to make setup and trial easy for non-technical users That’s a very strange priority. Why would non-technical users would be interested in a file format and a Pytho…

Yes. This is partly why this article is crap. k*G is never defined, and is the core operation in ECC (also: the article insist on using an elliptic curve in R, but you need to do i…

Remember that input tokens are quadratic with the length of the conversation, since you re-upload the n previous messages to get the (n+1)-nth message. When Claude completes a task…

2200 lines. Half of them unit tests I would probably have been too lazy to write myself even for a "more real" project. Yes, I consider $20 cheap for that, considering: 1. It’s a l…

I decided to try seriously the Sonnet 3.7. I started with a simple prompt on claude.ai ("Do you know claude code ? Can you do a simple implementation for me ?"). After minimal twea…

Ironically, you exemplify the standard of discourse that the rationalist spaces of discussion like lesswrong strives to go above, which is what makes them so valuable. Loaded quest…

> I don't think most rationalists would consider themselves leftist Yes they do. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5FqX6XBJlfOShMd3U...

You average grad student in physics is less wrong than Newton in physics (he knows about special relativity for example). It’s not "smugness", of course building on the shoulders o…

You know that what you are describing is the central observation of rationalism right ? "Humans rationalize, so you better be skeptical of your own beliefs". You presenting it as a…

> One possibility is that AGI remains a tool, without a mind or direction other than what we give it "Solve for the equilibrium" is the name of the game. "AGI remain a tool" is nic…

"There is no good answer to that" is precisely my concern.

> Why aren't there autonomous vehicles already? There’s a lot of reasons. Not in the order of importance, just what in the order of what comes first in my mind : 1. While Real Worl…