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by wrs 4d ago
>They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them Um, hang on, if you meant that to be taken literally then we have a major problem. If you want to do something criminal, you just need to ask ChatGPT to do it f
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by wrs 5d ago
I’m a bit baffled by how one could learn math without doing the homework. In my experience the homework is how you learn the math! So the exams would essentially already be testing whether you did the homework.
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by wrs 8d ago
I don’t quite understand why the author says Context doesn’t count here. I’ve certainly experienced a top-down version where because a function starts accepting a Context, and therefore needs to be cancelable, lots of functions it calls now
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by wrs 9d ago
We’re talking about the UI here, not the binary executable. Finder was extensively reworked in 2001 from the file manager in NeXT to be much closer to the original Finder, and most of the complaints here are about UI decisions taken from th
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by wrs 10d ago
“Weird for the sake of being weird”…you know Finder existed first , right?
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by wrs 11d ago
Aaargh! OK, you made me look it up. :) The word is "chordophone" (an instrument that makes sound from vibrating strings). A "fretted" instrument is a chordphone whose pitches are fixed by frets. But I can't find a w
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by wrs 11d ago
I've tried (admittedly for just a few minutes) to come up with a case where you'd need to compare two pointers to ZSTs in any real algorithm, and failed. Can you think of one?
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by wrs 11d ago
And yet people don't, because it would reduce quarterly profits. So one market (for equities) does kind of magically prevent workers from being trained, by not allowing rational participation in another market (for workers).
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by wrs 12d ago
And piano is a stringed instrument, oops! How about “fretted instrument”?
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by wrs 12d ago
That’s exactly why I didn’t say it privileges the major scale; I said it privileges modes of the major scale. Bjork did have a pretty big song in Locrian that one time. :)
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by wrs 13d ago
Yeah, that sounds great — the ideal is product and engineering engaged on a common and realistic view of what the business is trying to do. You want a staff meeting where everyone’s contributing their skills to the problem, not defending or
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by wrs 13d ago
I haven’t been directly involved in networking for a while, so it was funny to tune back in and see that now not only is 10Gbps apparently no big deal, they even put it on the management interface!
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by wrs 13d ago
A lot of Chesterton’s Fence going on here… I remember thinking this way when I still had a pretty low-level understanding of music (like, “I’m reading arbitrary pitches and pushing the matching keys on the piano”), but once I started unders
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by wrs 14d ago
A quick way to lose your engineers’ trust is to claim you “trust your engineers” and then unilaterally deprioritize an engineering task. Not saying there aren’t clueless or myopic engineers, just that you should be honest about the relation
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by wrs 14d ago
I was quite happy when I could type search keywords in, Google searched for relevant pages with those keywords, and I went and read those pages. Haven’t really been happy since they broke it quite a while ago.
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by wrs 14d ago
Same is true of Google search “summaries” where quite often I click on the link provided and it doesn’t support the statement Google made. BTW, this post would be more convincing if it wasn’t written in Claude voice itself!
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by wrs 16d ago
This president’s view appears to be that if it happens in the executive branch he has 100% arbitrary personal control over it. He’s the CEO of the government and he makes the calls. If someone claims there’s a legal reason he can’t do it, h
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by wrs 16d ago
Any examples of the previous time a major feature was renamed purely by executive order and justified only by a trade dispute?
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by wrs 17d ago
I have a similar problem, except I needed to ring the actual doorbell. Currently I'm using a HomeKit-compatible video doorbell that communicates over proprietary radio to its wifi gateway that triggers a HomeKit automation (which presu
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by wrs 26d ago
My current theory is that this reflects a weakness in Claude’s ability to see the “big picture”. When writing code, I have to explicitly tell it how to structure things at a high level, or the result is sort of a flattened spaghetti. Simila
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by wrs 27d ago
That’s fair, there are cases where the transaction itself has some worth to the buyer for reputational or other reasons, independent of the item being purchased. Those are rather unusual cases, but they happen. There are contracts that in
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by wrs 27d ago
APIs, sure, but do they provide the semi-magical consistency, atomicity, durability, and latency guarantees that this depends on?
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by wrs 27d ago
There’s a trend of doing impressive things by pushing many of the hard problems into S3 and assuming S3 “just works”, then not bothering to explain how S3 works. I guess we do the same thing all the time with other miraculous solutions to h
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by wrs 29d ago
On the contrary, you would be demonstrating that, to at least one buyer, it was worth that. By definition. I think the argument you’re really looking to contradict is this: if 1% of a company is worth $1B to somebody, then somebody would
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by wrs 29d ago
“Behind” = less capable, less used, less resourced. Safety and alignment don’t necessarily correlate with market dominance. If they did, no safety regulations would be needed.
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by wrs 1mo ago
A lot of people wanted to talk about this at the time, and the election result was after the training cutoff, so I’d guess they threw this in there to reduce waste due to hallucinations and/or web searches.
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by wrs 1mo ago
There is no valid public interest in having secret police.
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by wrs 1mo ago
Good news, we now know up front what an independent port would cost, and it’s not much. So no reason AWS, Google, and friends couldn’t bang out their own port if they want, binary-compatible with this one. What we don’t know for sure is whe
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by wrs 1mo ago
That question makes me think about Boeing. Or NASA. Or Enron. Reality always wins, no matter what management and Investor Relations says.
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by wrs 2mo ago
I have seen elevators, usually in a big building with a lot of elevators, that do act that way (presumably using weight sensors?). I’ve read that some elevators also have a “kid mode” that does the opposite: if some kid pushes all the butto

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