dannyobrien

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by dannyobrien 4mo ago
For me, a modern descendant of METAFONT is probably Iosevka's build system, which has its own internal DSL, PatEL, for defining its font forms, based on decomposed sub-functions. PatEL's a Lisp-with-infixes-and-indentation that co
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by dannyobrien 4mo ago
So, this is not quite right: Alexander contributed to the report, but his personal opinion is more like the mid-2030s[1]. Freddie feels like this is him backing down from the original statement, but in fact he said this at the time the repo
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by dannyobrien 5mo ago
Can you give an example of a country where this is the case? (I suspect there are other taboos there, but am genuinely unsure.)
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by dannyobrien 5mo ago
ah, i see! sorry for misunderstanding!
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by dannyobrien 5mo ago
I think it's worth linking to the original Agile Manifesto[1], because that's pretty much all the consensus you're ever going to get on what's "agile" and "what's not". Lewis is right that most o
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by dannyobrien 5mo ago
I worked at EFF during that time, and this is a weird story that I’ve not heard before. EFF doesn’t let interns write blog posts (at least not with a lot of supervision) and certainly wouldn’t sack someone for getting something wrong — pa
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by dannyobrien 5mo ago
So, I knew Aaron and I definitely would not presume to predict what he would have thought, but I’d point out there is a sizeable state space where he should never have been prosecuted, and scraping by others including large commercial com
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by dannyobrien 6mo ago
I use the llm-jq plugin for Simon Willison's `llm` command line frontend for this: https://github.com/simonw/llm-jq
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by dannyobrien 6mo ago
So, I was interested in this statement, and looked into it barely, and on one side, its conclusions were replicated in a number of other papers[1] (despite the headlines, three years after its publication, of a simple calculation error)[2].
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by dannyobrien 6mo ago
I think one of the things that goes unmentioned in these discussions is that while the US gets a lot of attention for this kind of activity, it has also (historically) been in the forefront of criminalization and prosecution. I may be wrong
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Cindy Cohn on Privacy Battles Old and New(lwn.net)
2 points by dannyobrien 6mo ago|0 comments
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by dannyobrien 7mo ago
(2011)
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by dannyobrien 8mo ago
What parts of it were confusing? I think science fiction can be confusing if you haven’t read a lot of it, because part of its art is to try and set the scene in as compact way as possible, with a combination of cues that you can work out f
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by dannyobrien 8mo ago
This is fascinating; thank you for building it. (I also enjoyed watching the flurry of visitors as soon as my Let's Encrypt certificate got assigned. It's a Dark Forest out there!)
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by dannyobrien 8mo ago
Also (on the bigger than this rather than smaller), Hoot, Spritely's Guile-on-Wasm project https://spritely.institute/hoot/
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by dannyobrien 8mo ago
What would be the obvious reasons? (I'm not being flippant here -- I'm genuinely interested in what arguments people have to not allow servers on that network)
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by dannyobrien 8mo ago
(and if anyone from Anthropic or OpenAI is reading this: teach your models to be polite when they write crawlers! It's actually an interesting alignment issue that they don't consider the externalities of their actions right now!)
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by dannyobrien 8mo ago
I've been asking this for a while, especially as a lot of the early blame went on the big, visible US companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. While their incentives are different from search engines (as someone said early on in this onsla
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by dannyobrien 8mo ago
I'm happy to bet with that skills -- or "a set of instructions in markdown that get sucked into your context under certain conditions" will stick around. Similarly, I think that the Claude Code/Cowork -- or "interac
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by dannyobrien 8mo ago
Metabrainz is a great resource -- I wrote about them a few years ago here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/organizing-public-inte... There's something important here in that a public good like Meta
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by dannyobrien 8mo ago
For those in the thread worrying that KK may have been mooching off people, and would not reciprocate: many years ago, I opened up our back yard for people who wanted to come to O'Reilly's Emerging Tech conference, but could not a
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AI Psychosis, AI Apotheosis(oblomovka.com)
18 points by dannyobrien 8mo ago|0 comments
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by dannyobrien 9mo ago
I was expecting Google's IPv6 availability monitor[1] to show a crossover to a (slim) majority of their users accessing their services over IPv6 sometime soon, though it's sort of fascinating how close it gets to 50% recently with
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by dannyobrien 9mo ago
The odd thing about all of this (well, I guess it's not odd, just ironic), is that when Google AdWords started, one of the notable things about it was that anyone could start serving or buying ads. You just needed a credit-card. I thin
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Micron Is Exiting Its "Crucial" Consumer Business(servethehome.com)
4 points by dannyobrien 10mo ago|1 comments
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by dannyobrien 10mo ago
We interviewed their founder Zach Latta on the EFF podcast[1] a few years back: I hadn't heard of them either, but he was pretty impressive, both on the goals and the political issues. [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks&
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by dannyobrien 10mo ago
broadly yes, but the real question is: what's your threat model? https://ssd.eff.org/glossary/threat-model
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by dannyobrien 10mo ago
After the supply constraints of the post-covid period, are graphics cards really that more expensive? How long do you estimate this period of supply constraint will be? Will manufacturers continue to be greedy, or will they grow less greedy
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by dannyobrien 10mo ago
More info on jury nullification -- and how you can be prepared when asked to judge your peers: https://fija.org/ (For those outside the US: being called to serve on a jury is a surprisingly frequent event for Americans, and
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by dannyobrien 10mo ago
https://github.com/simonw/llm-jq for those following along at home https://github.com/simonw/llm-cmd is what i use as the "actually good ffmpeg etc front end" and just to toot my own hor

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