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by edschofield 4d ago
I thought this post would be about something that to me is so significant and obvious but I have never seen discussed: that labs like Anthropic are deliberately misaligning their models with their users’ goals. Fable’s refusal to secure y
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by edschofield 10d ago
The parent commenter described exactly how Macs work. I have a beautiful 10-core iMac 27” with 72 GB of RAM from 2020 that Apple has now decided to turn into a lemon. macOS Tahoe runs as slow as molasses and no more macOS upgrades will be f
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by edschofield 21d ago
I had the same experience as you. I bought a super-fast 10-core iMac 27” with 72 GB of RAM in 2020. It ran beautifully until the moment I “upgraded” to Tahoe, when it instantly became unusably slow. This cost me half a day wiping the disk,
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by edschofield 22d ago
Thanks for the laugh!
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by edschofield 5mo ago
Claude Code does now have integration with Telegram, Discord, and iMessage as of a few weeks ago: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/channels I haven't used OpenClaw since then ...
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by edschofield 5mo ago
Any company worth more could (in principle) acquire it with a share swap [1]. Even a smaller company could buy it with an LBO [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_swap [2] https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by edschofield 6mo ago
This is not an edge case. Most HN commenters describe the latest two versions of macOS as being objectively worse than earlier versions: slower, less stable, more broken. There are significant numbers of “power users” who deliberately avoid
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by edschofield 7mo ago
I like “Clawboard”.
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by edschofield 8mo ago
The design of Pandas is inferior in every way to Polars: API, memory use, speed, expressiveness. Pandas has been strictly worse since late 2023 and will never close the gap. Polars is multithreaded by default, written in a low-level languag
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by edschofield 8mo ago
Yes, ChatGPT 5.2 Pro absolutely still does this. Just ask it for a pivot table using Polars and it will probably spit out code with Pandas arguments that doesn’t work.
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by edschofield 9mo ago
Thanks for the link! I didn’t know Monday existed. I laughed so hard at its output. But I fear that using it regularly would poison my soul…
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by edschofield 10mo ago
Numerical integration methods suffer from the “curse of dimensionality”: they require exponentially more points in higher dimensions. Monte Carlo integration methods have an error that is independent of dimension, so they scale much better.
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by edschofield 1y ago
Here's an interesting way to understand it: https://pricedingold.com The true value of gold is quite stable over time (since new gold is mined at a slow rate). Fiat currencies are constantly being debased. Hard assets fluct
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by edschofield 1y ago
That's a Dutch auction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction . I agree that reverse auctions would be a simple solution the current scalper problem. If demand outweighs supply, scalpers drive up the prices t
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by edschofield 3y ago
“The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes”, by Zachary D. Carter.
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by edschofield 3y ago
> the unpopular touch bar which initially removed a physical ESC key. I still have the scars: I no longer use a Caps Lock key, even on my newer computers — it’s permanently mapped to ESC…