stillpointlab

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by stillpointlab 3d ago
I read the prompt on the OP, it did not say not to cheat. But again, people cheat on tests. They steal answers or pay other people to take them on their behalf. People show up to interviews with AI assistants printing out perfect answers to
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by stillpointlab 3d ago
As much I love a good old "Why don't you just ..." response that terrifically misses the point - in this particular case I was watching YouTube through their Apple TV app. Now, there may be another "why don't you j
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by stillpointlab 3d ago
I mean, I'm not sure I've ever played a game of Monopoly where somebody didn't cheat. In fact, the accusations of cheating in the chess world are pretty rife. Same with online sports. So people should play games without che
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by stillpointlab 3d ago
I don't think it is fair to pin this on Google - I get the worst ads on X. But something about how the X ad network works means that even when I report the ad, block the ad poster, etc. there is this army of alternate ad accounts that
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by stillpointlab 3d ago
I find this kind of test a bit puzzling. There is a way that we are redefining "alignment" to be a particular kind of moral virtue, one that isn't clearly defined to me. At one moment, it is a level of moral perfection that n
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by stillpointlab 6d ago
For some reason this question reminds me of all of the drama about Navier-Stokes from the last few days. Tangential to the ethical questions are tons of examples where in history when word gets out about a solution to a problem, not even th
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by stillpointlab 6d ago
I was thinking of the public clash in 2025 between Christoph Hellwig which lead to the resignation of Hector Martin, lead of the Asahi Linux project. It looks like later, in December 2025, Rust was officially moved from experimental to offi
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by stillpointlab 6d ago
I thought it got pushed back out? Wasn't there a big drama about this and Linus weighed in? Linus is a wise operator at this point. I often see him come in like a hammer to bash down squabbling, but then he allows the situation to evol
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by stillpointlab 6d ago
I haven't made a full switch yet, at this point I'm experimenting more heavily in Rust. First I built a wrapper for a very simple text editor based on KDEs KTextEditor (basically bindings around Qt C++) then a wasm wrapper around
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by stillpointlab 7d ago
In one social group I am part of, Garmin just became the new trend. Watches have historically been status symbols even more than they are functional. Someone drops a few hundred/thousand/whatever and then brags about the newest ne
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by stillpointlab 7d ago
I mean, you might find this hard to believe since you have a fixed view, but I'm old enough that we had one of those old-school rotary phones. My family literally leased that phone as part of our phone bill up until the late 90s. I rec
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by stillpointlab 7d ago
These threads are often amusing with people obliviously asking: why doesn't Apple make exactly what I want? And then stating with certainty how well their custom requirements would sell. I'll probably wait and see how this phone
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by stillpointlab 7d ago
I get the joke, but none of the offered prompts are close to how I speak with coding agents. I felt like I was being forced to feed garbage into the machine and then I'm supposed to act surprised when garbage came out.
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by stillpointlab 7d ago
I'm surprised I haven't seen this called out more directly and more often. This is a frequent error state. And not just backwards compatibility, but migration scripts and all of the testing and machinery around it. I'll liter
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by stillpointlab 12d ago
Note: Incident Command is almost certain an allusion (or implementation) of the Incident Command System [1] It is a common system in all kinds of emergency response scenarios, including local emergency services (fire/police/ambula
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by stillpointlab 13d ago
> superintelligence is, like rocket fuel, an extremely powerful force that has a default tendency to break containment and go boom what evidence do we have this is the case?
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by stillpointlab 14d ago
To experiment. Given the availability of new tools there is opportunity to try new things.
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by stillpointlab 14d ago
I didn't try Sublime on the same machine so I can't compare. Kate is less polished but genuinely a good choice if someone wants FOSS. I would have no qualms recommending either.
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by stillpointlab 15d ago
Very few features on purpose. Every editor I tested had all the features I added and more. It is worth noting that KTextEditor is a fully-featured library. Like, line numbers+gutter (for eventual git status icons), undo/redo, save, war
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by stillpointlab 15d ago
No shade on keeping using what is working. I was moving from Windows to Linux Fedora so I was in the market for a new editor. VSCode just wasn't working for me any more. I considered a bunch of options, including vim or neovim or lazyv
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by stillpointlab 15d ago
I was planning to. It is 100% vibe coded, the first project I did that way. I'm one of those who've been reading all the code in my major projects. But when I got frustrated with editors and off-handed mentioned to Fable something
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by stillpointlab 15d ago
I literally just got Fable to write me a text editor. Well, I'll be honest, I got it to wrap the KDE KTextEditor library which is like 90% of a text editor. I had been using Kate which was what an LLM suggested was the closest to somet
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by stillpointlab 15d ago
> I now see relationships as their own domain rather than an attribute attached to a contact I mostly skimmed this announcement, but this seems pretty obvious to me? Relationships form a graph, so it seems reasonable to use graph modelin
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by stillpointlab 15d ago
My only concern is that sooner or later the best models will be priced out of my ability to pay. I have been happy with Fable 5, it has done great work for me so far. Very excited to try out Fable 5.1 and see what differences and improvemen
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by stillpointlab 15d ago
I didn't see it anywhere on their announcements, but when I restarted Claude (on a Claude Max account) I see the model is now Fable 5.1
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by stillpointlab 16d ago
I've heard it said that true understanding is demonstrated when someone can explain difficult concepts well. Tao manages to convey complex ideas without making me feel like he is condescending to me. His depth of understanding is unmis
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by stillpointlab 16d ago
I've been using Firefox as my main browser since I switched from Windows to Linux. No real complaints so far, haven't really noticed any difference from Chrome to be honest which is about as good a recommendation as I could give.
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by stillpointlab 17d ago
Also, they can literally train the LLM inside the VM they create so it becomes an expert in whatever tools are there. And since they control the entire sandbox, less permission issues are likely. I think they will become extremely vertical
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by stillpointlab 18d ago
Thank you, those were very helpful backgrounds on the situation in Fedora. I suspect it will take some time for their community process to digest and it suggests there is no explicit ruling at this time. But I would still love a page that w
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by stillpointlab 18d ago
I try not to think in black/white, good/evil kinds of terms. I think of forces and dynamic systems. There appears to be some force that promotes one particular way of thinking, perhaps the inevitable consequence of accumulated exp

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