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by alwa 3mo ago
The ones that strike me are the ones exaggerating certitude, to an inappropriate degree and with a certain degree of excitement: “Exact” “Honest” “Load-bearing” “Root cause” I know there are more that are slipping my addled mind. But what s
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by alwa 3mo ago
I mean Honestly from a BoM and version control standpoint, the fax might work out to be superior… they come timestamped; pop them in a filing cabinet, and…
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by alwa 3mo ago
I think that’s right, yes… from TFA: > It's two times stronger than steel, three times stronger than aluminum, and twice as strong as the same alloy made in a conventional way. The source paper in Science, fwiw: https:/&#x2F
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by alwa 3mo ago
I try not to hold strong opinions, and to be equinanimous, but—don’t let location be the guide. As an Old, let me assure you… 2-3 years is so much less time than it seems to you now. You can live anywhere for the duration of a Master’s pr
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by alwa 3mo ago
Cambridge. Train the human, not the machine. Amazon will still be there, if that’s what you decide for your soul afterward. If you made the cut now, you’ll make the cut again in future. The world is so much bigger than commerce. Even if you
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by alwa 3mo ago
I think the engineers tend to say nuclear makes much more sense than solar for baseload right? That, and “most of the cost and delay is in these obscenely overcautious regulations?”
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by alwa 3mo ago
Sounds to me like the claim is—with the perspective of somebody who has lived an entire professional life within the federal research award system—that it actually was highly efficient. So whether or not they were competent, and whether o
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by alwa 3mo ago
And payment method, presumably. At least until they get the KYC stuff revved up… https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-ver... > Being responsible with powerful technology starts with knowing
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by alwa 3mo ago
Rumor is that you do in fact get a black mark [0]… or, conversely, a “vetted” mark [1]… tied back certainly to your payment method and increasingly to your government name [2]. [0] e.g. https://docs.bswen.com/blog/2026-
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by alwa 3mo ago
I didn’t get the sense from TFA that STRICT is strictly better, only that it’s how this person prefers to operate in their time and context and experience. At some level, shouldn’t choices where one option is strictly better not surface a
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by alwa 3mo ago
Is it better to learn that it exists through surprise , by way of an engine upgrade suddenly changing the behavior of the software you wrote while in the bliss of your ignorance?
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by alwa 3mo ago
https://archive.is/iOP0s
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by alwa 3mo ago
I'm timer-ambivalent--at the very least, I'd like to be able to continue through the sequence after getting stumped on one. Maybe distinguish perfect/timely runs with the "trophy" you mention, or a "rank"
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by alwa 3mo ago
I would support this Patreon. Particularly to the extent that something like that allows the funding vehicle to remain behind the scenes / separate from the main publication you’ve so lovingly polished and shared with the world over al
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by alwa 3mo ago
For the uninitiated: https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/gaming/a28954/new-j... A full-scale arcade version in this genre, evolving since 1996. Realistic controls, some seem even to include train crew un
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by alwa 3mo ago
I thought it was the very first line of the product announcement, where they defined what it was they were calling "Fable" as opposed to "Mythos" in the first place: https://www.anthropic.com/news/cl
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by alwa 3mo ago
Tangentially related: @pg’s potted history tracing high-end watchmakers’ retrenchment upon the arrival of digital watches—the “quartz crisis”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264756 (4 months ago, 498 points, 392 com
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by alwa 3mo ago
I'm not inclined to click through the Google Safe Browsing warning, but should one trust an archive to strip active content: https://archive.ph/gQcRU Appears to be a forensic walkthrough, working backward to calculate
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by alwa 3mo ago
I suspect the intention is to give specific but dense notes with minimal explanation, on the theory that the LLM will fill in the appropriate hand-holding along the way
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by alwa 3mo ago
I have a beautiful memory from a summer night long ago, in Barceloneta on the evening of the summer solstice—the festival of Saint Joan [0]. I didn’t know it was coming, which was its own special sort of astonishment… walked in to eat dinne
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by alwa 4mo ago
Related: “Good News: Egg Prices Are Down. Bad News: They’re Hurting Farmers.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/business/egg-prices-down.... And Levine’s column, which Stoller links to (with rather less
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by alwa 4mo ago
Makes sense to me! I'd gone off the 404 Media article originally linked. The way you put it in your blog timeline (now the link of record) makes perfect sense to me: > We hope that Apple will take steps to limit the attack surface
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by alwa 4mo ago
It’s hard for me to assess how real this risk is. Without details, we’re just extrapolating from circumstantial vibes. What’s described sounds like it might be spooky. It might also be a magic trick to some degree… Mr. Cox’s PoC—“I gave a f
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by alwa 4mo ago
That may be, but if I do in fact live in a place where my "government are the baddies," why does it follow that open software should punish me—for nothing more than happening to be alive within that jurisdiction—by provoking my &q
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by alwa 4mo ago
Which is a shame, as there are only hundreds of millions possible… and they still have to include room in that 9-digit namespace for non-social-security-involved ITINs and employer ID numbers!
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by alwa 4mo ago
Was your prior assumption that forensic evidence must exist in every case—and that if it doesn’t, then there’s no way to convince a jury of someone’s guilt? As in, as long as I clean up really well afterward, I can pretty much do what I w
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by alwa 4mo ago
They had me at “scar tissue grown over a real wound.”
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by alwa 4mo ago
“A man with a watch knows the time; a man with two watches is never sure.” I imagine reasons for what you’re asking might include: * Prompting an LLM is work , and they’re already overworked just doctoring—every conversation with a comput
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by alwa 4mo ago
I may have missed the joke but no, https://fastsleep.app/ is not iPhone only!
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by alwa 4mo ago
For sure, but I suspect the law might look similarly dimly on the argument that “machines systematically generated all possibilities in the problem space” === “somebody already had this idea.” I’d imagine maybe by reading specific human int

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