johncolanduoni

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by johncolanduoni 2mo ago
A halfway decent synthetic biology lab (no need to invoke CRISPR) can make e.g. smallpox without a sample of the original disease, just from the gene sequences. Basically all state actors could do this if they wanted to without an LLM. What
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by johncolanduoni 2mo ago
What does Bun’s governance look like? Now that Anthropic bought the company are there significant external contributors that would expected to have input on a decision like this?
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by johncolanduoni 3mo ago
OOM killing in WebAssembly is trivial, since it’s all in a growable linear memory. All the runtimes I’m aware of have a simple maximum memory setting, and they’ll trap any allocation requests after that point.
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by johncolanduoni 3mo ago
We can argue over the definition of scaremongering and what people we’ve never met “really think”, or we can argue over what the actual risks of AI are. I know which one I’d prefer…
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by johncolanduoni 3mo ago
They said why they think it’s a sincere belief: past statements from before the AI hype cycle took off. I take it you have other evidence?
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by johncolanduoni 4mo ago
Dario Amodei is not Elon Musk. Most powerful people do not internalize the emotions of others (though obviously some do). If you think powerful people are disproportionately sociopaths, you either agree with me or are not using the word cor
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by johncolanduoni 4mo ago
They generally care about what powerful/influential people think. I’m not powerful or influential, but I guess maybe the person I was talking to is. If so I apologize for the miscommunication.
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by johncolanduoni 4mo ago
If he wasn’t willing to change his mind after he saw the results, then why would he do it at all? Can you explain the false motivation that you think he communicated in the original kerfuffle about this?
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by johncolanduoni 4mo ago
I’m not asking you to prove my point, but I think you’re being myopic. * Vikor Orban was just ousted by a popular protest movement. This took years due to structural electoral issues but it did work eventually. And it wouldn’t if the people
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by johncolanduoni 4mo ago
Not by trading the same suspicions on the internet with fellow true believers over and over again, I think the past 10 years have proven that pretty conclusively. Maybe people should try some of the things previous social movements did, see
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by johncolanduoni 4mo ago
Did I say it wasn’t real? Or tell you that you couldn’t talk about it? No, I just pointed out that it’s all anybody talks about and it’s boring and doesn’t engage with anything specific about this stunt/project. And I can make melodram
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by johncolanduoni 4mo ago
Based on their actions, I don’t think the LLM vendors take anti-AI sentiment very seriously. If anything they court it, though I think it’s more likely they’re just high on their own supply. I doubt the Zig statement had any effect on the t
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by johncolanduoni 4mo ago
What do you think one would have to pay to have flesh-and-blood engineers get a cross-language port of a codebase of over half a million lines with a broad test suite to over 99% conformance? I think it would be astronomically high, especia
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by johncolanduoni 4mo ago
Powerful people figured out how to make suspicion work for them long ago. You have every right to be unconditionally suspicious, but it’s not a good way of accomplishing any change. Also their feelings are not hurt by what you or I think, t
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by johncolanduoni 4mo ago
Running an experiment, the experiment being more successful than you thought, and then deciding to put more effort into a bigger experiment is not hypocrisy. It’s engineering. If you think some of the objective facts they’re putting out (li
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by johncolanduoni 4mo ago
I don’t think the Zig project adopting a strict ‘no LLM’ policy affects the LLM vendors at all. How many developers are working on the Zig project itself that will (maybe) now not buy a Claude subscription? I can buy that this is a marketin
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by johncolanduoni 5mo ago
I’m not clear on who is supposed to do the translating that isn’t doing it today, or why the mapped IPv4 addresses don’t qualify. Virtually all ISPs either give you an IPv4 address or do the translation for you, and the software you write d
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by johncolanduoni 5mo ago
You can do this quite easily on all the major OSes by opening a single dual-stack socket. On most Linux distributions that is the default, and then mapped addresses will work fine if the machine has a v4 address or a 464XLAT configuration.
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by johncolanduoni 5mo ago
This already exists in two forms, and has for basically the entire history of production dual stack deployments. The first are IPv4 mapped addresses (of the form ::ffff:x.x.x.x) which instruct the local machine’s network stack to use a loca
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by johncolanduoni 5mo ago
Yes, but CGNAT is an inherently stateful system and as a result will always be more expensive to operate per packet than a stateless router. The reason we are seeing steady (if slow) growth in native IPv6 is because the workarounds for IPv4
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by johncolanduoni 5mo ago
How would this have worked in practice, in a way that the NAT464/NAT64 schemes that most mobile operators use haven’t? Would IANA have dedicated some blocks of IPv4 to be used for IPv4-compatible IPv6 addresses on the public internet?
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by johncolanduoni 5mo ago
There are some reasons, which is why you do see IPv6 use increasing. IPv4 exhaustion means that almost all mobile (and in some countries landline) internet connections have to access the IPv4 internet through Carrier Grade NAT. ISPs have to
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by johncolanduoni 6mo ago
Yes, and the Xbox One has mechanisms to do just that. But they turned out to not be fully sufficient.
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by johncolanduoni 6mo ago
I'm not saying there's definitely no coordination, but nobody had to get together to decide that 2026 was the year for 90s fashion to make a comeback. Human society is very prone to fads in all areas.
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by johncolanduoni 6mo ago
They may be including maintainers who are explicitly employed to maintain the respective projects (e.g. some RedHat employees). This is not common, but not vanishingly rare either.
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by johncolanduoni 6mo ago
Just because the US won’t literally run out of oil doesn’t mean the economy (or populace) will be unaffected by a supply crunch. As everyone in the country can already see when they go to fill up their tank.
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by johncolanduoni 6mo ago
Considering nobody blocks the entirety of Verizon, apparently a long time. You can act like this is some insane plan, but it’s happening all the time and while it can lead to annoyance for end users the internet chugs on. Which it wouldn’t
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by johncolanduoni 6mo ago
Once an IP in a botnet attacks someone, it ends up on a blocklist and can’t attack anyone else who uses that blocklist. This is a big part of Cloudflare’s DDoS model: if you attack one CF property (with non-volumetric DDoS) you will not be
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by johncolanduoni 6mo ago
Large DDoS botnets will have hundreds of thousands of return-path-capable IP addresses. Your temporary blocks will have to be very sensitive (i.e. trigger on a relatively small number of requests within the time window) for an application-l
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by johncolanduoni 6mo ago
The law can be bad and a specific legal argument against it can be wrong at the same time. Would you logically accept (as opposed to mere political convenience) every potential argument whose conclusion is that this law is invalid? If not,

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