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by MeetingsBrowser 8d ago
Do you not realize last remnants of privacy died years ago? If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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by MeetingsBrowser 9d ago
> clearly match GPT‑4o’s behavior How can you tell?
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by MeetingsBrowser 10d ago
C lacks just enough “modern language features”, by design, that students are forced to be vaguely aware of memory layout, memory management, ref vs copy, shallow copy vs deep copy, maybe even calling convention, etc. It’s also popular enoug
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by MeetingsBrowser 10d ago
> C is in an odd position right now to argue it is how the machine is really working This is exactly what makes it great for teaching. Students don’t need to know actual arch or hardware details. They just need to grasp the core concepts
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by MeetingsBrowser 10d ago
The allure of Rust is that you don’t have to manually manage memory. Lifetimes are a compiler safety abstraction and mostly unrelated with how the computer runs your program. Learning a language like C helps to understand why lifetime annot
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by MeetingsBrowser 10d ago
Fully agree. C sits in an almost perfect level of abstraction for students to get a vague sense of how the computer runs code. Those that don’t need low level details can spend their professional career in languages like python and JavaScri
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by MeetingsBrowser 10d ago
All great options as well, with the caveat that it’s possible to “ignore” the parts that make C useful as a teaching tool. Most modern languages have ways to automate parts of memory management, and rightfully so. But you should at least be
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by MeetingsBrowser 11d ago
An ML is great for the theory or abstraction side of programming, but C is also hands down the best language to get a sense of how the computer is running your program. It’s still an abstraction, but at least being aware of memory manageme
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by MeetingsBrowser 19d ago
You've got that warhammer 40k "innocence proves nothing" mindset.
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by MeetingsBrowser 20d ago
It is clear that more work is done if you go from 1 day to 5 or 1 hour to 8, but that still includes plenty of time for rest. Does the same hold for going from 5 days to 7 days or 8 hours to 16 hours? A reasonable person should agree at som
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by MeetingsBrowser 21d ago
This is probably the disconnect. Technically any asset transferred to the next generation is “generational wealth”. But in the context of a startup sale, when you say generational wealth almost nobody assumes you mean the ability to pass a
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by MeetingsBrowser 21d ago
hence, "VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents"
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by MeetingsBrowser 21d ago
"PGPASSWORD=... Do not do anything destructive in production. If you need more ask". Done?
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by MeetingsBrowser 21d ago
Generational wealth is where you can also do all of the above for your kids and potentially their grandkids as well. Basically the bar is higher than "something you can pass down". It is enough that the next generation does not ne
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by MeetingsBrowser 21d ago
> How much do you really need for generational wealth? Common definition is somewhere between 1.5 to 5 million per child.
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by MeetingsBrowser 21d ago
The commonly accepted definition of generational wealth ranges from around 1.5 to 5 million per child.
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by MeetingsBrowser 22d ago
SpaceX and Tesla are both successful companies doing really impressive things, but the more ambitious claims are almost always silently discarded. Including robotaxis, tesla semi-trucks, hyperloop, optimus, roadster 2.0, cheap whole home ba
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by MeetingsBrowser 22d ago
yes. Lots of smaller city governments are barely capable of running a functioning website. Twitter used to be an easy and free way to distribute updates publicly. That has changed, but the inertia is still there and there isn't a good
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by MeetingsBrowser 22d ago
> Starbase, Louisiana will be built to support thousands of Starship flights a year. This self-sustaining spaceport will have propellant production, power generation, deep-water shipping capabilities, vehicle processing facilities, and a
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by MeetingsBrowser 22d ago
You answered your own question. > Unfortunately everyone still uses the Nazi app If your local town government for example only posts city updates to twitter, your options are to make a twitter account, use something like nitter, or miss
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by MeetingsBrowser 22d ago
How so?
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by MeetingsBrowser 23d ago
At the risk of taking the analogy too far, I would treat refining like modifying a dynamic library. You can technically modify behavior, but only in a very coarse way. post-training is like writing a wrapper around the binary. It is closer
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by MeetingsBrowser 23d ago
Not just the language. Its like all LLM front end design is working off one of three templates.
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by MeetingsBrowser 25d ago
Not 100x faster, but 100x less memory. In fact, this version is actually slower for some use cases. Everything is a trade off.
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by MeetingsBrowser 26d ago
On the other hand, people are using Grok to do things like “nudify” images of random people they find online, including minors. I’m not a fan of limiting access to models, but the other extreme (no limits or guardrails) is at least as bad i
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by MeetingsBrowser 26d ago
How does security through obscurity apply here?
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by MeetingsBrowser 27d ago
I think the “thundering herd” problem is pretty extensively documented
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by MeetingsBrowser 27d ago
Exponential back off retries could hide a real issue, but I would estimate something like 99.99999999% of network retries are resolved within the first 2 attempts. Not using retries is optimizing for the astronomically rare case, which is
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by MeetingsBrowser 29d ago
Social and historical conventions don’t necessarily align with “good for your health”.
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by MeetingsBrowser 1mo ago
If I lie to you but you can’t tell, is that ok?

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