Spivak

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by Spivak 8mo ago
I genuinely wish they would flip it around and put me in the driver's seat. I would easily turn to a "Meta Product Search" over search engines or Amazon or whatever.
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by Spivak 8mo ago
We're talking about allowing an "essentially" generic version of an existing FDA approved drug made by licensed compounding pharmacies that has been legally distributed for years due to the shortage. If it's safe enough
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by Spivak 8mo ago
And they provide a valuable service to their customers, I have a very positive association with various drug dealers I've had over the years. Say what you want but they're literally out on the streets serving their local community
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by Spivak 8mo ago
As always, depends on the law. This is a bright line example of companies breaking the law to the direct tangible benefit of not only their customers but the population at large. Letting Novo Nordisk jack the price back up and deprive the v
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by Spivak 8mo ago
Because the point is for the AI to take the prompt, figure out what that prompt means in the context of the code base, and then make an issue that provides additional information. It's asking the AI to takes its best guess at what you
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by Spivak 8mo ago
Globbing is a matching library. It just means match a/c or b/c if they exist. You should get an iterator of somewhere between zero and two elements.
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by Spivak 8mo ago
Sure, but Google isn't maintaining two sets of documentation here, the MCP server is just a thin wrapper around the webpage with a little search tool. So it's still the docs for humans just with a different delivery mechanism. Whi
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by Spivak 8mo ago
This article is super weird because it's looking at an issue from orbit where the only things you can see are vague things like "funding" where the problem is on the ground and probably can't be solved by the levers avai
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by Spivak 8mo ago
Well yeah because investigative journalism and original reporting outside of the spectacle of buying a plane ticket to a warzone or weather disaster to the reporter can have a dramatic background is too expensive when people come to you in
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by Spivak 8mo ago
Meanwhile in real life IG and TikTok ads are the only ones normal people seem to generally trust. I've only ever heard people talking about getting Instagram or TikTok ads for things and actually buying them in a way that would sound g
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by Spivak 8mo ago
I like only getting *.domain for this reason. No expectation of hiding the domain but if they want to figure out where other things are hosted they'll have to guess.
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by Spivak 8mo ago
For your actual production systems you might consider systemd-creds along with the LoadCredential= and LoadCredentialEncrypted= directives which do the* right thing. Nothing is exposed and credentials are placed in non-swappable memory. You
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by Spivak 8mo ago
I mean it's not like people get advanced notice of search warrants of that police ask pretty please. I agree that the way people use the term it's a fine usage but the person using is trying to paint a picture of a SWAT team busti
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by Spivak 8mo ago
All of that last one really says is that broadly speaking the average person has no idea what free speech actually is and the kinds of things that it covers. I put it in the same bucket as like the young kids uploading to YouTube with the c
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by Spivak 8mo ago
Hollywood sure, publishers sure, but tech? Where? The pro piracy pro game cracking open source p2p distribution people?
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by Spivak 8mo ago
Am I missing something because what you describe as the pack of stuff sounds like S tier documentation. I get full working examples and a pre-populated database it works on?
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by Spivak 8mo ago
I mean yeah… getting cars into your city is like the whole point. Cars are filled with people and people work and spend money. Specifically outside money. This is a city that has no subway or rail, vehicles are the only means of moving peop
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by Spivak 8mo ago
Parking at a train station or even a subway entrance sounds like heaven compared to ours which is a surface lot with a bus stop. But I'm not sure if "just have a subway or train network" is going to work for cities like Syrac
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by Spivak 8mo ago
I mean that's "Park and Ride" which already exists but the problem is that people, kinda rightfully, hate it. All the downsides of a car with all the downsides of a bus. The solution, which has done in my city to genuinely sm
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by Spivak 8mo ago
I don't think it's the admissions office's fault. This is one of the lessons I will have to impose on my future kids once they get to high school age. Being, like, really really good at school is cool and all but if what you
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by Spivak 8mo ago
Doesn't it help you sleep at night that your 401k might be managed by analysts #yoloing their financial modeling tools with an LLM?
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by Spivak 8mo ago
I mean we kinda did when we decided that emergency services calls would be special and give first responders the ability to find you. Wireless carriers are required to provide GPS quality (actually better than GPS) location data to EMS an
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by Spivak 9mo ago
Sure, but then you're playing a very annoying and boring game of model-whispering to specific versions of models that are ever changing as well as trying to hopefully get it to respond correctly with who knows what user input surrounds
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by Spivak 9mo ago
So to I guess spite Microsoft or something you're going to make your data less secure? Turning off SecureBoot only means any rando can decide what software runs on your device and install a bootkit. Not authenticating the rest of the b
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by Spivak 9mo ago
Yes you. The parts being expanded upon happen after the shim is authenticated by SecureBoot and are fully in your control. The scary part has already happened, Linux distros support SecureBoot right now and have for a while. Right now the
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by Spivak 9mo ago
People's standards for when they're willing to cede control over their lives both as the passenger and the pedestrian in the situation to a machine are higher than a human. And for not totally irrational reasons like machine follo
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by Spivak 9mo ago
I don't think it's low-key at all, it's plainly obvious that there's a recession "on the ground" except that people's stock portfolios are being spared. If you're looking for employment right now or a
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by Spivak 9mo ago
This underestimation has a name, "Normal Weight Obesity." Known by the slang "hot guy/girl fit" where the person looks like they would be physically fit because they're skinny but there's no muscle under t
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by Spivak 9mo ago
What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with general purpose computing and everything to do with allowing you to authenticate the parts of the Linux boot process that must by necessity be left unencrypted in order to actually boo
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by Spivak 9mo ago
Sorta, if you live in a blue city—so really just a city at this point-then it wraps around a small amount and your local police are, at least when it comes to this crap, largely on your side. ICE is making huge messes and leaving it to the

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