jeffparsons

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by jeffparsons 1mo ago
> just stops shy of asking Australian tech companies, like Fastmail, to build backdoors into their products so that the government can "legally access" data from them It stops just short of saying that you must do this preempti
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by jeffparsons 2mo ago
Basically the same phrasing was widespread before LLMs were invented. So I don't think it's specifically motivated by that.
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by jeffparsons 4mo ago
I don't have any special certification or arrangement with Anthropic; this is vanilla Opus 4.x via Claude Code.
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by jeffparsons 4mo ago
It may be worth noting that Claude can and will (if it believes you own the code, at least) produce PoC exploits for exploitable bugs that it finds. My only source for this is personal experience, and no, I can't share any evidence of
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by jeffparsons 4mo ago
I've regularly heard something similar said of consulting work, too. Many people new to the game worry about charging too much, because if a client is paying more then surely the pressure will be higher. Instead they end up experiencin
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by jeffparsons 7mo ago
Amazon, for example, charges us for cloud resources and then charges us again (handsomely) for the privilege of submitting bug reports to them. And then sometimes, even with a clear, deterministic repro for a bug with no plausible workaroun
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by jeffparsons 7mo ago
Claude won't answer questions about what cities you should nuke in what order. The Pentagon wants Claude to answer those sorts of questions for them. Edit: oops, I misunderstood. This seems to be more about contractual restrictions.
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by jeffparsons 9mo ago
Or in case some folks find the addition of a computer confusing here, if someone sends you a physical letter and they've used correction tape or a black marker to obscure some parts of the letter, and you scratch away the correction ta
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by jeffparsons 10mo ago
It's possible without specific hardware acceleration, but murderous for mobile devices.
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by jeffparsons 10mo ago
RDS, Route53, and Elasticache are decent, too. But yes, I've also been bitten badly in the distant past by attempting to rely on their higher-level services. I guess some things don't change. I wonder if the difference is stuff th
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by jeffparsons 10mo ago
Additionally, what has been the correct choice five years in a row might be catastrophically wrong in the sixth year. We need some randomness injected into our behaviour so that some people are always making "suboptimal" choices,
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by jeffparsons 11mo ago
And with a little work you can even use them to map ranges of keys to values in a way that's reminiscent of interval trees — e.g. https://crates.io/crates/rangemap . (Disclosure: that's my crate.)
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by jeffparsons 11mo ago
This email is from a Debian maintainer, about Debian introducing a new hard dependency on Rust. It's not some random Rust advocate telling Debian folks that they should use Rust against their will. Yes there are absolutely some obnoxio
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by jeffparsons 11mo ago
Good question. I'm not primarily blaming Discord or the other company for this (even though they both obviously share some responsibility, too) — I'm blaming government/legislators. I'm arguing that the government agenci
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by jeffparsons 11mo ago
The third party company shouldn't ever need to see the IDs, either. Same issue.
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by jeffparsons 11mo ago
There is no reason for a company like Discord to ever see the ID. The owner of each relevant form of ID — usually a government agency/department — should provide an attestation service, such that users prove their identity to the agenc
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by jeffparsons 11mo ago
Don't get confused here: they didn't decide that their policy change was wrong — they just didn't expect quite as much backlash. Make your purchasing decisions accordingly.
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by jeffparsons 1y ago
I think the person you were replying to might have intended sarcasm.
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by jeffparsons 1y ago
My Android phone prevents me from taking screenshots if an app author doesn't want me to. My Android phone prevents me from recording phone calls at the request of my carrier, even though it's totally legal for me to do so in my j
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by jeffparsons 1y ago
In Australia: Centrelink, Service Victoria, Medicare, myID (formerly MyGovID), ATO (tax) — for a start. There's no great reason for these to be Android/Apple specific. I'm just offering examples as requested.
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by jeffparsons 1y ago
I took a swing at something vaguely similar a long time ago now: https://github.com/jeffparsons/planetkit My approach was to build a hex grid on a geodesic sphere. It's a very different trade-off.
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by jeffparsons 1y ago
I didn't specify the challenge clearly. I meant to allow blocks in any orientation, as long as they would be stable. So you can, for example, have blocks sloping down from the edge of the table by sandwiching one end of them between tw
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by jeffparsons 1y ago
This would be easily solved for customers who care about it by allowing you to pay a one-off fee to reserve the name for ~100 years. Or they could just absorb that. Any idea why it works that way? Have they offered an explanation? I'm
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by jeffparsons 1y ago
That's basically the direction I was going in my head. I just remembered we have a bunch of Kapla blocks in the house, so I may be able to do this "IRL"!
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by jeffparsons 1y ago
> My goal here is to develop an intuitive sense of comfort with the behaviors of these stacks. If I succeed, you will not just understand that the physics allows the stacks to be stable, but you will feel that it is proper and just. I lo
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by jeffparsons 1y ago
How about this one: Assume an arbitrarily high coefficient of friction between all surfaces. Can you stack the blocks on the table such that at least one block is wholly below the top of the table? I think I have an answer to this, but I&
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by jeffparsons 1y ago
I've often thought that I'd prefer it to check by default in release builds, too, but I understand that comes with a performance penalty that a lot of folks aren't happy with. I assume this implies that common processor archi
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by jeffparsons 1y ago
Why is Rust a bad example? Of the code bases I've tried Claude on so far, it's done the best job with the Rust ones. I guess having all the type signatures there and meaningful feedback from the compiler help to steer it in the ri
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by jeffparsons 1y ago
I don't have a source for this, so take it with a huge grain of salt... but for some reason I have a memory of someone telling me that the older versions of Word saved and loaded documents by writing the bytes of in-memory data structu
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by jeffparsons 1y ago
Another reason to use LaTeX for papers back in the day was that Microsoft Word would routinely corrupt large documents in terrifying ways. Sometimes the root of the corruption existed in the document somehow long before any of it was visibl

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