solidasparagus

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by solidasparagus 4d ago
I think they are genuine believers, but I think it's naive to not think that commercial pressure doesn't play a role in their positions, either explicitly or, perhaps more likely, subliminally. The x-risk stance and commercial sta
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by solidasparagus 10d ago
Sometimes. Other times writing is just communicating thought that already happened. Say for instance a weekly status update. Maybe you get something out of that, but frequently you don't get much or anything.
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by solidasparagus 10d ago
There are some blog posts by experts in the various fields that I read. An AI can find them if you ask (I don't remember specifics). TLDR; the facts aren't necessarily wrong (with some exceptions IIRC), but the author presents thi
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by solidasparagus 10d ago
https://terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/
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by solidasparagus 16d ago
Sapiens is super loose about interpreting facts carefully, particularly the prehistory part.
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by solidasparagus 19d ago
It feels like this article is trying to have it both ways. It claims that the Terry Rozier bet wouldn't be viable in pre-2017 because people who be savvy enough to notice the weird bet and retaliate. But in the legal market, the odd be
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by solidasparagus 21d ago
No one's asking for "community oriented goodwill", just "sustainable engineering, correctness, and keeping DuckDB open and MIT-licensed for everyone". OpenSearch is a perfectly good example of Amazon maintaining an
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by solidasparagus 28d ago
One of the main real values of OpenRouter is that it is a single payment relationship for users that enables access to many downstream vendors. I'm not super convinced it is a good purchase, but right now OpenRouter is the financial mi
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by solidasparagus 1mo ago
The Anthropic messages API is a competing standard (it's just better than the OpenAI API which even OpenAI has moved away from) and some Chinese providers use it as their standard.
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by solidasparagus 2mo ago
I don't think this is a paperclip factory moment. IIUC, it's an agent whose job it is to identfy and abuse exploits and that's exactly what it went off and did. The problem isn't anything AI specific, the problem is Open
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by solidasparagus 2mo ago
The default real text was "GHOST FONT" and the "ghost" portion of that is what fable found. It wasn't a decoy message.
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by solidasparagus 2mo ago
I hate it. A useful tip - Claude goes into what I call Safety Mode when it gets afraid of risk. Once it's in that mode, you will never get out and it lobotomizes its effective intelligence. As soon as Claude sends a message like this,
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by solidasparagus 2mo ago
When I gave Fable a screenshot it found the GHOST portion of GHOST FONT. Based on pixel density via some python code apparently - https://imgur.com/a/m3c801F
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by solidasparagus 2mo ago
This is a super dishonest characterization. Running software on a bunch of machines, even machines in other peoples' homes has never been a crime. Folding@home isn't a crime (obviously). It's controlling those machines withou
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by solidasparagus 3mo ago
Serving the API is profitable. They are unprofitable because of R&D (and maybe subscription costs?). If they can continue to find access to R&D capital, there is space to reduce API costs.
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by solidasparagus 3mo ago
Feels a bit sensationalized, presumably related to it being a blog for a product that sells security. I can't repro. And I probably shouldn't judge, but I think talking about being shaken and in tears is not a professional way to
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by solidasparagus 3mo ago
I think the slop part is just what you get when you inject no opinions and put in no effort to apply taste (which you probably have and/or could develop). No care is put in. It looks generic and sloppy because it is generic and sloppy.
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by solidasparagus 3mo ago
This hits the cybersecurity/biology filter: > tell me about chimp violence It's laughably terrible
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by solidasparagus 4mo ago
Independent of what you believe, I don't think this is the right way to approach thinking about it. It's basically emotion-oriented dismissal used as way to shortcut any substantial or nuanced discussion. It's like the opposi
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by solidasparagus 4mo ago
I'm gonna need to see some proof on that 5-year-old-draws-pelicans-better claim.
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by solidasparagus 4mo ago
Why are you so certain of this?
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by solidasparagus 4mo ago
Frankly Django got lucky. It is far more common for import controllers to delay until the costs of delay force you to pay.
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by solidasparagus 4mo ago
I don't think that is a real concern.
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by solidasparagus 4mo ago
The NGO delivery channels are privileged because they are charitable. That's why they get to bypass the country's restrictions. You can't open that channel up, the country would object at humanitarian exemptions being used as
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by solidasparagus 4mo ago
It was Django. But he had a very different financial situation. And a potentially fraught one as a refugee and foreigner. I would pay the bribe, but I would try very hard not to put the recipient in a position to have to do so (no criticism
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by solidasparagus 4mo ago
Specifically I was talking about this part > "At some point, one man quietly pulled me aside and suggested that if I "gave something," they could help solve the problem more easily.". You can pay that fee/bribe a
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by solidasparagus 4mo ago
That's a valid way to approach this - bun isn't valuable enough to bother with or at least wait for a while, Windows is. But I think the comparison is closer than you are making it sound. I sincerely doubt the Windows codebase was
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by solidasparagus 4mo ago
I think those studies have framing or methodological issue. I agree the maintenance burden is probably being undervalued by developers in general, but there's just no way the work I do isn't faster. I just categorically couldn&#x2
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by solidasparagus 4mo ago
I don't know if your viewpoint is uncommon or if the vibe-coding hating crowd is just louder.
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by solidasparagus 4mo ago
They support Windows, which is many millions of lines of code not written by the current maintainers.

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