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I suspect we’re at the stage of technological civilizational development where, especially with LLM-assisted gradient descent seeking upon the results, basic science, research and …

I sometimes wonder if we as an industry should revisit XML for those use cases where painful JSON contortions are being used, now that LLM's can plausibly support writing the synta…

Not at all too paranoid. Just like people figured out even with elastic everything, compute from Spot instances and all the other things we're supposed to do in AWS, the data out c…

When some people call this "Verification Debt" or something similar, that is setting the Overton Window upon this phenomena adversely upon the verifiers. I call it an application o…

Even at the pure functionality endpoint of the spectrum, I find this "wishful mnemonics" aspect very disconcerting. I put my "investor" hat on, and the whole utilitarianism "who ca…

For a hot second I thought the OP was going to share a way to silently suppress chats that start with "Hi", or "Hey".

> The missile gap for example after all was settled and done, didn't matter at all because not a single missile was ever fired off. All that money, resources, talent, secrecy, live…

Maybe the Chevy Tahoes were priced as the initial capex, and a maintenance and support contract covering capex and opex for the next X years with a local dealership? I’ve sometimes…

> Real heavy hitters are actually eerily quiet. They don't have anything to prove. I've had the rare privilege to meet former SOF soldiers from a couple different nations, and work…

> ...whereas aerospace patents are more legitimately about hardware that indeed took years and millions to develop and optimize. Something that leaps out at me reading through semi…

> ...governments don't know how to mandate good corporate governance... For a very brief moment, under the existential crisis condition of total war in WW2, the US government was s…

> Now is the time to adapt, not push back. Keep an open mind or you’ll be left behind. That’s not the gating factor. Who picks up the liability accountability and picks up the page…

> private schools can run how they want... This cuts both ways. Very well-known, competitive private schools conservatively financed have a waiting list a line around the block lon…

> They never address the long-tail nature of productivity... Mondragon tries to address this through accepting bounded inequality. 9:1 pay ratio from highest-paid to lowest-paid is…

> Not all tools need to be used everyday. I can't remember the last time I used my 3/8" wrench. Now our 10mm sockets on the other hand, would be used everyday if we could ever lay …

I want to hear James Burke of Connections [1] and his writer team to have a free wheeling discussion for a few hours on what they see will happen with LLM’s making these connection…

That's a fair point. The equivalent in my day was when the PDP-11 with punched paper tape for offline storage could run BASIC (and lots else), but as soon as most kids saw it could…

Which brings up a point I've been wondering over the years. Where are the hordes of kids like us back then who were content with the afternoons, evenings and wee early morning hour…

Oh yep, looks Turing complete just not performant enough for that use case. But that’s not an issue for APT-style attacks that take their sweet time. So am I off base here?

Thank you Kind Internet Stranger!

While standalone CSS is not yet Turing complete, I worry about the new attack vector categories opened up by moving it towards that state. Already I believe attackers have a choice…

I use Linux exclusively on the backend, a Windows laptop is usually what my clients issue to me for gigs, and I migrated years ago from macOS to a Linux laptop as my personal prima…

> Regardless of OS, they all seem extremely fast, and feel faster and faster as time goes on. The modern throughput is faster by far. However, what some people mean when they talk …

Oh ye of little faith in the possible. We still don’t have truly transparent transference in locally-run software. Go anywhere in the world, and your locally running software tags …

> ...nothing replaces the camraderie of the small, local BBSs. Nothing quite replaces the drama level and drama complexity of the small, local BBSs. Especially when the denizens me…