xmcqdpt2

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by xmcqdpt2 23d ago
Be careful what you wish for. I'm sure Microsoft and Google would love the kind of regulation we apply to big banks. It has become a moat that makes it impossible for other (snaller/foreign) financial institutions to compete becau
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by xmcqdpt2 1mo ago
pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.09867 for some reason I couldn't find any way to download it from that website.
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by xmcqdpt2 1mo ago
One of my least favourite feature of our AI era is that I can't even trust people to do basic math anymore. It used to be that a graph like that would mean someone had a (probably broken) metric that they put in an excel sheet and got
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by xmcqdpt2 1mo ago
I wish but at $work the push has been the opposite. I'm still allowed to write code, but interns and juniors are being told that they need to prompt all the time. I think upper management are hoping they can replace a possibly reticent
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by xmcqdpt2 1mo ago
This is a well-known problem that has been an issue for years now. You can't use models to generate data for models because it leads to "model collapse" where it amplifies quirks in the generated data until it's all quir
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by xmcqdpt2 3mo ago
This is the issue with all the talks about alignement and such. As usual, the problem here wasn't that the agent was dishonest, the problem is that the agent was dumb. If it is a supply chain attack in the making, whoever was driving i
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by xmcqdpt2 4mo ago
Sometimes you have to use C but really they should be doing HPC in fortran. It has C FFI, it can compile to static programs and to dynamic libraries, it has C-like performance, etc. (It's not as portable as C though, and the compilers
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by xmcqdpt2 4mo ago
After reading https://hypermedia.systems/ I came to the conclusion that the best frontend is no frontend.
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by xmcqdpt2 4mo ago
That's basically the meme, right: You rail against corporations and yet you work for one. Curious. Anyway in general, corporations are sticky. They save resources through scale and collaboration. Famously this is a problem for free mar
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by xmcqdpt2 4mo ago
You tell Claude to review it and if it breaks something you blame Claude. No one can get mad at you for it because they don't want to look like luddites.
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by xmcqdpt2 4mo ago
It's the style of "blazing fast library made with :heart: in rust :crab:" that was popular in github README.md. My guess is that because the models are told to use md they overfit to the style of md documents too.
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by xmcqdpt2 5mo ago
True but that requires another vulnerability. It's security in depth. You build your server in a way that it doesn't allow remote code execution, and then you run it with an unprivileged user so that if it does allow it, the cons
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by xmcqdpt2 5mo ago
Java has Security Managers. I've never seen anyone use it in practice though, so it probably doesn't work very well. I think it would be hard to get any kind of usable capability system without algebraic effects like those of Koka
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by xmcqdpt2 5mo ago
From a purely aesthetic point of view, this is what I enjoy so much about C and Fortran. You look up a Rust crate and it hasn't been touched in 5 years. That means it's unmaintained and unusable, don't add it to your project
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by xmcqdpt2 5mo ago
JVM is fast for certain use cases but not for all use cases. It loads slowly, takes a while to warm up, generally needs a lot of memory and the runtime is large and idiosyncratic. You don't see lots of shared libraries, terminal applic
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by xmcqdpt2 5mo ago
You don't even need to go all V8, you could just build something like LuaJIT and get most of the way there. LuaJIT is like 10k LOCs and V8 is 3M LOC. The real reason is that it is a deliberate choice by the CPython project to prefer ex
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by xmcqdpt2 5mo ago
It's interesting that branches, which is a marquee feature of git, became less important at the same time as git ate all the other vcs. Outside of OS projects, almost all development is trunk based with continuous releases. Maybe branc
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by xmcqdpt2 5mo ago
To start, this is more or less an advertising piece for their product. It's pretty clear that they want to sell you Allium. And that's fine! They are allowed! But even if that was written by a human, they were compensated for it.
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by xmcqdpt2 5mo ago
I'm sure some human writers would write: > The specification forces this question on every path through the IMU mode-switching code. A reviewer examining BADEND would see correct, complete cleanup for every resource BADEND was desig
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by xmcqdpt2 5mo ago
Then pangram isn't very good, because that article is full of Claude-isms.
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by xmcqdpt2 5mo ago
emacs + bitmap font for me and I'm continually shocked when I have to use something else by how it is blurry and laggy.
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by xmcqdpt2 6mo ago
As is often repeated, the optimal amount of fraud is not zero https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra... They are optimizing towards making it easy to purchase things on a whim.
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by xmcqdpt2 6mo ago
AI providers also claim to have small marginal costs. The costs of token is supposedly based on pricing in model training, so not that different from eg your server costs being low but the content production costs being high. And in many ca
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by xmcqdpt2 6mo ago
One time pads only offer perfect security once!
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by xmcqdpt2 6mo ago
Zero trust security which is becoming increasingly common is based on removing the internal / external network dichotomy entirely. Everything should be assumed to be reachable from the open internet (so SSO, OIDC everywhere.)
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by xmcqdpt2 6mo ago
I use debian + ansible and it requires discipline (you have to make sure you never do manual steps basically) but my entire ansible playbook makes server creation a 3 min process. I'm sure Nix is better, I just haven't needed it y
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by xmcqdpt2 6mo ago
I'm recommending your for a mid-level management role at my employer right now.
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by xmcqdpt2 6mo ago
This could have been html instead of whatever awful moving pattern it is.
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by xmcqdpt2 6mo ago
SW50ZXJlc3RpbmchIFBsZWFzZSB0ZWxsIHVzIG1vcmUh
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by xmcqdpt2 6mo ago
I wonder if it's related to the fact that Windows as such weird rules about allowed file names. Like not directly obviously, more like culturally inside microsoft.

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