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> Textual command filtering is entirely useless. It is fit for no purpose. Nobody with any instinct or experience in security would even bother to implement this filter because it …

> Even if your average developer is a measly 30% more efficient, that might create 20% less demand for developers I mean it might. But I wouldn't rule out Jevon's paradox where the…

And I would say in its case, there was great synergy between not doing anything and appearing uninvited. Two negatives combining to produce an overwhelmingly greater negative.

> compelled Doesn't that mean they can ask that question with an option for "rather not disclose"?

Ah, this is fun to see. About six months ago I had an idea for a short story in which an LLM takes over the world and is decidedly bad. The solution was going to be for everybody t…

AI Coding "All the things" (tm). More agent engineering on the bigger stuff and more vibe coding on the smaller things. A print farm manager for bambu printers in lan mode. I lay d…

> And yet, people are being more productive (actually productive) with AI. Release schedules are increasing, bugs are getting fixed faster, security issues identified and patched s…

I read it more as response to your argument that it was a lack of curiosity due to over stimulation, which they responded to by citing an example of a time when they were curious w…

> relatively little friction if you decide to move to a state that better reflects them. Yes, moving is possible, and easier than switching countries. But the biggest strength of t…

I appreciate the write up. It comes off very much as a summary of days of vibe-coding from the AI itself, but it's still nice to see the condensed decisions, approach and frankly t…

Around, not over. Trees are a well studied thing where can you pick different species for different characteristics, like height, and growth speed.

I wouldn't call something a non-story just because the ultimate end-goal was mitigated. The fact that it was attempted is a story, especially when it's a meta commentary on story a…

To be honest, we should probably go into injection molding. We do have a pretty long tube in there that might be a bit problematic for injection molding from what I've read (1 degr…

I'm writing a print farm manager for my wife, who has 8 bambu printers. I've put one of them in lan mode for testing, but I'm pretty close to replicating the important handy (Bambu…

It rings true though. I worked at a dev company, and we got bought by an IT company. Much pain and friction, all around. Is that a reductive representative of the company differenc…

A religious corollary: "You cannot legislate righteousness", or to your point, "you cannot legislate [willingness to forgo benefits on principle rather than economic and utilitaria…

I'd say 99% of the time, the first 10 bytes would be enough to know the file type.

I mean, it kind of is. But I'd say the framing is about general air pollution, and they happen to use NOx levels as proxy indicator. So from that perspective, I think it is importa…

No, in a perfect world, there would be a use tax, and those doing the delivery would pay the cost, and then pass that cost on to you. You might have meant it that way, but it sound…

Hate is powerful, and I think that's part of what drives protests into riot. And some people to protests honestly. But I think the root of it is anger at the situation, not just th…

> the idea of deporting people who have no legal status in this country is immediately branded Nazi It's not just that idea though. Plenty of presidents have done that without push…

The down detector site has Verizon outage reports two order of magnitude bigger, so it doesn't seem like a cyber attack to me. ~60-160k vs ~1.5-1.8k

The down detector site has Verizon outage reports two order of magnitude bigger, so it doesn't seem like a cyber attack to me. https://downdetector.com/status/t-mobile/ ~ 1,600 htt…

Exciting times. Are we at the point yet where someone can use something other than a major headless browser (firefox, chrome) for converting html to PDFs without huge css gotchas? …

Where do you draw the line in the list of "not the right [method]"? I would assert that this is not justified, (in addition to not being the right method). Can we send troops down …