cvwright

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by cvwright 25d ago
It’s curious how tariffs are always a bad move for the US, but always a good move for other countries.
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by cvwright 1mo ago
I come from a lower class US background. I assure you, take one look at us and you’ll instantly see that very few of us are in any danger of starving.
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by cvwright 1mo ago
As you point out, a HS diploma is largely meaningless these days. This discussion is about students trying to get into top colleges, which is a completely different population with completely different problems from those doing the bare min
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by cvwright 1mo ago
Where are these well engineered products made with care? I would love to use more tech like that. Unfortunately most sites and apps have been low quality and getting worse since well before AI coding became a thing. Examples: Lowes, Home
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by cvwright 2mo ago
We’ve already had those limits for years on any corporate project with average (or below) developers. I work with a lot of AI code, and it’s not any worse than what big teams were already producing. A small team of 2-3 really good humans is
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by cvwright 2mo ago
We’re at the point where people who talk too fancy get accused of being LLMs, and the people who make human mistakes get scolded for grammar.
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by cvwright 2mo ago
Sometimes I don’t need my todo app to be “great” or revolutionary in any way. I just need it to work, and bog standard average is perfectly fine for a lot of things. This frees me up to spend more time at the design level, solving harder o
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by cvwright 2mo ago
Sounds like a mini version of Habermas’s legitimation crisis playing out in real time
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by cvwright 2mo ago
Don’t use deterministic encryption unless your data is already highly random. Any adversary who knows the distribution of the plaintext data can guess what your encrypted values are, with accuracy that improves as your sample size increases
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by cvwright 2mo ago
It was a big year for the culture war. People who had previously been cordial suddenly needed to fight each other over politics and other controversies of the day. The rest of us watched this happen, then slowly backed away.
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by cvwright 3mo ago
You should try writing a design doc with the AI before you have it write the code. It will make random extrapolations from your first prompt, some good and some bad. Then you get a chance to argue back and forth with yourself with the rob
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by cvwright 4mo ago
The best early example of this is that Anthropic is already eating the lunch of all the new “AI security audit” companies. And they were only a few years old. Those guys certainly thought they were being novel and creative, using AI to disr
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by cvwright 4mo ago
Unfortunately even in the old days, a truly good programming book like you’re describing was depressingly rare. Younger me really enjoyed some of the game programming books by Andre Lamothe. Most “Learn Language X” books were terrible with
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by cvwright 4mo ago
LLMs are bringing us back to all the “proper” software engineering stuff that we’ve always known we should be doing, but until now we never had enough time/people/money to do it right. Brainstorming and research before writing a d
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by cvwright 4mo ago
You’re arguing that we have too many PhD students in CS, not too few. I agree with you fwiw.
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by cvwright 4mo ago
re: incentives, my proposal was always to let schools pay their football and basketball players, but require that grad research assistants are paid the same.
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by cvwright 4mo ago
I worked a ton in grad school, and it definitely sucked at the time. But it’s crazy to complain about getting paid to go to school. A grad stipend is there to minimally support you so you don’t have to get another job and can focus on yo
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by cvwright 4mo ago
Even that press release never claimed that Mythos was better than Opus at finding bugs. They claim the huge advance is in exploiting the bugs.
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by cvwright 4mo ago
The word “exploit” may be doing a lot of work here. In my experience Opus 4.6 is perfectly happy to provide test cases that trigger ASAN, even without the super secret squirrel security access. But if you ask it to get you a shell it’ll pro
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by cvwright 4mo ago
It’s been said that the British executed about 1% of their population each year for a few hundred years, and that a similar number died in prison. The claim is that this made Britain a much safer country in later centuries.
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by cvwright 5mo ago
New section, like pre-crime but for history. Pre-history.
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by cvwright 5mo ago
And you don’t have to worry that some random passenger will piss, puke, or shit in the Waymo during your commute. The first two happened to me within the span of a month during the three years that I rode Trimet in Portland.
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by cvwright 5mo ago
Unless the data is a lagging indicator
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by cvwright 5mo ago
Are Mississippi and Louisiana at the top of the pay scale? Then why are their reading scores improving so dramatically compared to wealthier states? Especially for under-privileged populations?
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by cvwright 5mo ago
Because the Brits will never be accepted by the locals as a Thai or Vietnamese or whatever, and they know it. Whereas in western countries we have “new Germans” or “new British” from all over the world.
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by cvwright 5mo ago
It’s easy to find sketchy lines of code in any large C project. The big advance that they are claiming with Mythos is the ability to triage all the hundreds of candidate vulns and automatically generate exploits to prove that the real ones
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by cvwright 5mo ago
Right. It’s things like Baltimore (when I lived there) requiring that high speed internet had to roll out in poor areas first, before it could go into the rich neighborhoods. But this was the early 2000s and the internet was still “new”. On
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by cvwright 5mo ago
I thought that was kind of how the hard sciences work already? My grad school friend who was a physicist would write his talk just before his conferences, and then submit the paper later. My experience in CS was totally backwards from that
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by cvwright 6mo ago
Find-then-patch only works if you can fix the bugs quicker than you’re creating new ones. Some orgs will be able to do this, some won’t.
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by cvwright 6mo ago
You’re conveniently ignoring the Olympic boxing champion from 2024 who beat the absolute shit out of the female competitors.

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