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There is no valid public interest in having secret police.

Good news, we now know up front what an independent port would cost, and it’s not much. So no reason AWS, Google, and friends couldn’t bang out their own port if they want, binary-…

That question makes me think about Boeing. Or NASA. Or Enron. Reality always wins, no matter what management and Investor Relations says.

I have seen elevators, usually in a big building with a lot of elevators, that do act that way (presumably using weight sensors?). I’ve read that some elevators also have a “kid mo…

That is just RDMA itself and seems to be aimed directly at distributed inference (no surprise there!). Now they need to update the SMB driver to make use of it.

I don’t think “you” in these titles ever really refers to an “average reader”. Some familiarity with the field is required. Imagine how non-programmers (and many programmers) feel …

A few models ago it was not unusual to find that Claude had written tests whose assertions looked correct, but were so thoroughly mocked out that they ran no real code at all — a P…

If you look at the reasons for rewriting Bun [0], they weren’t about efficiency and they don’t apply to Claude Code. It’s already written in a memory-safe language, and doesn’t hav…

In the specific case of ship retrospectives, I prefer to call them “postpartums”.

But why isn’t it called WARPA now?

I think you misread the article. The skepticism isn’t about whether it happened . It’s about whether it’s a reason for models to be locked behind “trusted partner” firewalls. Offen…

Yes indeed. Sorry if I was unclear in my wording...I meant: * Fretted cellos would have the same fingering positions as unfretted cellos (frets are placed where the notes are, they…

They say they started in 2002, but same here, I've had hundreds of domains on Dynadot since the early 2000s with no problems.

Why would you think Analog Science Fiction isn’t on the internet? It’s right here in the obvious place. [0] [0] https://archive.org/search?query=analog%20science%20fiction%...

While cellos, violins, etc. don't technically have frets, the notes are of course in the same layout as instruments that do have frets, so this same method works. (It's funny how d…

No, the diagram looks like a binary literal but it's actually backwards from that. Lane 0 becomes the LSB, but that's on the left of the diagram.

Yes. "`@reduce(.And, ...)` combines every boolean using `and` and returns a single boolean." If it's true (the common case here) then you proceed to look at the next 8 bytes. If it…

You left out the hyphen in human-like, and the final period, so now we know you aren’t human. Nice try though.

Chromium supposedly implemented Knuth-Plass for CSS's "text-wrap: balance", but reading the end of the tracking bug [0] it seems it stops at six lines? (Design doc: [1]) [0] https:…

I’m responding to the “quietly disbanded” part. Neither is true; they continue to loudly come up with new initiatives. I don’t even know that they “decided it’s true”, as that’s ir…

Indeed, this is a much more realistic and useful framing of what to do with the current capabilities of LLMs. They work so fast, at such a high level, that you can speedrun the co-…

Are you not counting the SAVE Act as an “initiative”? Even if it doesn’t pass, it’s certainly keeping the idea of election uncertainty front and center going into the midterms. Whi…

My main point was not about the implementation stage, but the verification stage. Letting the smarter agent verify the work of the cheap agent finds a lot of little oversights and …

It wasn’t clear to me (and still isn’t, after slogging through the inhuman article again) that the verification here is done by a separate agent from the implementation. That’s a s…

This just sounds like the standard playbook for this crowd (by which wide brush I mean authoritarians and their enablers). They really hate being called on their lies, and their im…