paulddraper

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by paulddraper 4d ago
“if X then Y” means “(not X) or Y” E.g. “If it’s raining, the sidewalk is wet.” That statement holds if it’s not raining or the sidewalk is wet. This is a common occurrence in mathematics, where someone might not be able to unconditionally
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by paulddraper 13d ago
Just imagine how much slop they could make if licensing wasn't holding them back
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by paulddraper 13d ago
OpenAI, Anthropic, and X... Need to have a 4th string backup (Gemini).
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by paulddraper 13d ago
Bad take. HTML is abysmally lacking for any interactive (which is what this article is about). Decades later, even something as common as a combobox is unsupported. EDIT: Downvotes but no argument.
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by paulddraper 13d ago
Yeah, I’m pro-compete but this stance is not hard to understand.
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by paulddraper 13d ago
Spoiler: developers also prefer their own code over others’.
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by paulddraper 14d ago
Between 10% and 100% ? Am I understanding that right?
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by paulddraper 14d ago
Sure. Your point was studios recycle IP a lot. My point is without copyright studios would recycle it even more . And your point now is that it would be higher quality.
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by paulddraper 15d ago
Getting rid of copyright is going to make that problem worse not better... I'm wondering if you are reasoning correctly about this.
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by paulddraper 19d ago
That’s probably the worst example you could have chosen. You shouldn’t assume anything about relative date of 2.7 and 3.1.
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by paulddraper 24d ago
https://x.com/wolframs91/status/2090159644849353058 What if: - Opus 4.6 was the last Opus generation that got a lot of use by Anthropic's own employees - After that they primarily used Mythos internally - 4.7
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by paulddraper 25d ago
Sort of. The article just references Thread.interrupt
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by paulddraper 25d ago
It’s NIMBY in another form
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by paulddraper 26d ago
The goal posts always move
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by paulddraper 26d ago
But it will definitely improve, either speed or volume.
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by paulddraper 26d ago
> is that it is still fundamentally a statistical model — an algorithmic construct — and does not possess any real intelligence or critical thought whatsoever What makes you so convinced that a algorithmic construct of neural nets cannot
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by paulddraper 26d ago
Cheaper than the next closest competitor
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by paulddraper 29d ago
Unfortunately, accidents are quasi commonplace among my commute.
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by paulddraper 1mo ago
That’s a bit of a garbage in, garbage out moment.
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by paulddraper 1mo ago
Direnv's first stable release was in 2013, .env was 2012 (adopted by Heroku). So no, if anything direnv makes you hip and edgy.
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by paulddraper 1mo ago
> they just want 1 of every book. That's the point I come to. Books are not original manuscripts. Even in low volume cases, they are usually printed hundreds of times. (And usually low volume works aren't all that great...hence
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by paulddraper 1mo ago
Well, yes. There is always some form of it on TCP. But your HTTP/2 reverse proxy won't block fast responses on slow responses. As long as your WebSocket reverse proxy does the same, you're fine. (And same stipulation for your
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by paulddraper 1mo ago
WebSockets have head-of-line blocking. HTTP/2 does not.
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by paulddraper 1mo ago
I assume you got the email about them increasing prices "significantly" soon (but no hint on what significantly means).
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by paulddraper 1mo ago
Wait until you have to exit the video call because you haven't yet granted screenshare permissions to the current app, and it needs a restart.
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by paulddraper 1mo ago
> ... in the US Dallas in the United States.
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by paulddraper 1mo ago
Genealogy apps, e.g. Ancestry.com
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by paulddraper 1mo ago
But you understand that if it were required, everyplace that doesn’t specify today, would slap allergens on the whole menu.
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by paulddraper 1mo ago
> “I asked Claude what happened, and it spit out this 300 line response. Can you read it for me and see if it’s right?” It’s the equivalent of choosing words from a conversation and sending you the dictionary entries. I could do that mys
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by paulddraper 1mo ago
While it’s true Unicode pushes the boundaries of “plain text” having a consistent font face, font size, font weight, letter spacing, font color, text wrapping, etc is good. I don’t want one title 16pt and another 28pt. Or one Helvetica and

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