igregoryca

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by igregoryca 1mo ago
As someone not super familiar with bankruptcy procedure: why do they auction off exclusive access to the data? Couldn't they make more money by, say, taking the top N offers, where N is "small" (e.g., ≤5)? Or does that depres
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by igregoryca 2mo ago
That's what thinking output is for, right? Mixing random tokens that live roughly in the same semantic realm, throwing them at the wall, and seeing what sticks? Hopefully, this backticks concern didn't stick.
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by igregoryca 2mo ago
Could've been as simple as installing and configuring some off-the-shelf "analytics" and "cookie banner" plugins for their content management system. Unfortunately, the chain of incompetence is that long, because th
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by igregoryca 2mo ago
At least for Claude Code, putting "run /simplify at the end" in an "implement the plan" skill helps a little. It still often leaves new code in bizarre places, and/or with bad/alien-sounding names and comm
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by igregoryca 2mo ago
Sloppy, non-privacy-preserving "analytics" set up by some communications intern ≠ malice. They can mean well and still do a poor job. True privacy on the internet is notoriously hard.
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by igregoryca 2mo ago
I suspect many competent devs in the industry would find it sensible if Anthropic used their products as light-touch "assistants" sometimes. But yeah, it wouldn't fit the outside narrative that's formed and conveniently
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by igregoryca 3mo ago
It seems "Mythos is really good at finding vulnerabilities" has been what people took away from the Project Glassing announcement, which makes sense. Unfortunately for Anthropic, most seem to have forgotten the best argument Anthr
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by igregoryca 3mo ago
I know this is a tangent, but > Introduce and enforce structs for passing context and input shapes around. So as to stop fighting with NULLs, lack of keys in maps and other maddening cases that inflate your coding lines for no other reas
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by igregoryca 3mo ago
Some type theory, some abstract algebra... Communication skills, teamwork skills... How to cook better, maintain relationships better, keep a tidier space... Not perfect! But time well spent.
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by igregoryca 3mo ago
Once upon a time, I thought I wanted to learn cursive handwriting. Except this version of me was already in his 20s, would be out of school in a matter of months, and quickly realized the skill would be of such marginal utility in the futur
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by igregoryca 3mo ago
Does "applying knowledge" necessitate human-like intentionality and theory of mind? If you insist it does, and this is a category error, then we need a new category. By analogy, consider that many have referred to classical, deter
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by igregoryca 3mo ago
Claude in general probably increases observed bugs in rsync, because it can churn out vulnerability reports that necessitate tons of changes to software that people are accustomed to working flawlessly in non-pathological use cases. I don
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by igregoryca 4mo ago
The baffling part is why it takes hours for the npm security team to unpublish packages that contain malware, as attested by multiple independent sources? That should be able to happen in minutes.
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by igregoryca 4mo ago
Postinstall scripts have remained an effective attack vector for quite a while – which, ironically, has meant the worm's authors had little incentive to try something else, so it was easier to inoculate yourself. Alas, you're righ
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by igregoryca 4mo ago
Can't speak for intelligent autocomplete writ large, but I treat it as an ergonomic feature, and Cursor's implementation is pretty good (though I'm not sure it's improved all that much in the past year). It constantly ta
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by igregoryca 4mo ago
Goroutines/"fibers"/"green threads" are usually scheduled by the runtime system across a small pool of actual OS threads.
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by igregoryca 5mo ago
Article: > To avoid this, you will probably need to intentionally write in a very different style than you usually do (or to have AIs rewrite all your prose for you, but, ugh, that’s not a world I look forward to living in). I agree. The
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Apple WWDC 2014 scrapped opening video(archive.org)
3 points by igregoryca 5mo ago|1 comments
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by igregoryca 5mo ago
The (shift+)cmd+` order also resets to match the window z-order whenever you switch apps. So if the order is windows A, B, C, then you select window B, cmd+tab away, then cmd+tab back, the order will now be B, A, C. I've developed an i
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by igregoryca 6mo ago
What can Bank X do to stop phone malware from scraping the user's session token from the Bank X app or website? Yes, banks should (and sometimes do) double- and triple-check with you before allowing large transfers/withdrawals, bu
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by igregoryca 7mo ago
Wood is edible when processed correctly, but it's not legally considered "food" because there are a bunch of nontrivial steps to get it into that state. Likewise, any reasonable interpretation of "general purpose compute
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by igregoryca 7mo ago
The irony is that web searches for an explanation of something often lead to a discussion thread where the poster is downvoted and berated for daring to ask people instead of Google. And then there's one commenter who actually actually
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by igregoryca 7mo ago
It's kind of nice, though, because you can click anywhere on a window to focus it. If you want to interact with a background window without focusing it, hold Cmd and click.
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by igregoryca 7mo ago
This is already the pre-26 bounding box, isn't it? It's the new graphics that don't line up. (Not a great excuse, but the graphics are here to stay at least for a little while.)
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by igregoryca 9mo ago
The lack of a "refresh" option has been a problem with iCloud for years. Back in the iOS 8/9 days, I'd write in Pages on an iPad and then try to open the document on a Mac or the Pages web app. Pages itself was (and is)
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by igregoryca 9mo ago
I think most people struggle to one-shot Lisp parens. Visual guides or structured editing are sorta necessary. LLMs don't have that kind of UI (yet?)
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by igregoryca 10mo ago
The only languages that eliminate logic bugs are formally verified ones, as the article points out. (And even then, your program is only as correct as your specification.) Ordinary Rust code is not formally verified. Anyone who claims Rust
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by igregoryca 10mo ago
Some people appreciate it when terminal output is easier to read. If chalk emits sequences that aren't supported by your terminal, then that's a deficiency in chalk, not the programs that wanted to produce colored output. It'
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by igregoryca 10mo ago
Most of your supply chain attack surface is social engineering attack surface. Doesn't really matter if I use Lodash, or 20 different single-function libraries, if I end up trusting the exact same people to not backdoor my server. Of c
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by igregoryca 10mo ago
1) Null pointer derefs can sometimes lead to privilege escalation (look up "mapping the zero page", for instance). 2) As I understand it (could be off base), if you're already doing static checking for other memory bugs, elim

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