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One of my least favourite feature of our AI era is that I can't even trust people to do basic math anymore. It used to be that a graph like that would mean someone had a (probably …

I wish but at $work the push has been the opposite. I'm still allowed to write code, but interns and juniors are being told that they need to prompt all the time. I think upper man…

This is a well-known problem that has been an issue for years now. You can't use models to generate data for models because it leads to "model collapse" where it amplifies quirks i…

This is the issue with all the talks about alignement and such. As usual, the problem here wasn't that the agent was dishonest, the problem is that the agent was dumb. If it is a s…

Sometimes you have to use C but really they should be doing HPC in fortran. It has C FFI, it can compile to static programs and to dynamic libraries, it has C-like performance, etc…

After reading https://hypermedia.systems/ I came to the conclusion that the best frontend is no frontend.

That's basically the meme, right: You rail against corporations and yet you work for one. Curious. Anyway in general, corporations are sticky. They save resources through scale and…

You tell Claude to review it and if it breaks something you blame Claude. No one can get mad at you for it because they don't want to look like luddites.

It's the style of "blazing fast library made with :heart: in rust :crab:" that was popular in github README.md. My guess is that because the models are told to use md they overfit …

True but that requires another vulnerability. It's security in depth. You build your server in a way that it doesn't allow remote code execution, and then you run it with an unpriv…

Java has Security Managers. I've never seen anyone use it in practice though, so it probably doesn't work very well. I think it would be hard to get any kind of usable capability s…

From a purely aesthetic point of view, this is what I enjoy so much about C and Fortran. You look up a Rust crate and it hasn't been touched in 5 years. That means it's unmaintaine…

JVM is fast for certain use cases but not for all use cases. It loads slowly, takes a while to warm up, generally needs a lot of memory and the runtime is large and idiosyncratic. …

You don't even need to go all V8, you could just build something like LuaJIT and get most of the way there. LuaJIT is like 10k LOCs and V8 is 3M LOC. The real reason is that it is …

It's interesting that branches, which is a marquee feature of git, became less important at the same time as git ate all the other vcs. Outside of OS projects, almost all developme…

To start, this is more or less an advertising piece for their product. It's pretty clear that they want to sell you Allium. And that's fine! They are allowed! But even if that was …

I'm sure some human writers would write: > The specification forces this question on every path through the IMU mode-switching code. A reviewer examining BADEND would see correct, …

Then pangram isn't very good, because that article is full of Claude-isms.

emacs + bitmap font for me and I'm continually shocked when I have to use something else by how it is blurry and laggy.

As is often repeated, the optimal amount of fraud is not zero https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra... They are optimizing towards making it easy to purchase…

AI providers also claim to have small marginal costs. The costs of token is supposedly based on pricing in model training, so not that different from eg your server costs being low…

One time pads only offer perfect security once!

Zero trust security which is becoming increasingly common is based on removing the internal / external network dichotomy entirely. Everything should be assumed to be reachable from…

I use debian + ansible and it requires discipline (you have to make sure you never do manual steps basically) but my entire ansible playbook makes server creation a 3 min process. …

I'm recommending your for a mid-level management role at my employer right now.