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by astrange 8mo ago
Copyright doesn't protect ideas, it protects writing. Avoiding reading LLVM or GCC is to protect you from other kinds of IP issues, but it's not a copyright issue. The same people contribute to both projects despite their differen
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by astrange 8mo ago
The C spec is certainly not formal or precise. https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2020/12/14/provenance.html Another example is that it's unclear from the standard if you can write malloc() in C.
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by astrange 8mo ago
> The result is a fuzzy reproduction of the training input, specifically of the compilers contained within. Is it? I'm somewhat familiar with gcc and clang's source and it doesn't really particularly look like it to me. h
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by astrange 8mo ago
I continually think it's amazing that every form of cynical comment on the internet consists of incorrectly claiming that someone is secretly making money from something. (Most common form of this is misreading opensecrets and using it
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by astrange 8mo ago
> - Where did he get his money from? Didn't he steal it from Les Wexner?
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by astrange 8mo ago
He was probably dyslexic. I know people who type like that too but normal in person.
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by astrange 8mo ago
Claude Code has already had subagent support. Mostly because you have to do very aggressive context window management with Claude or it gets distracted.
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by astrange 8mo ago
> A. You're working on some really deep thing that only world-class expects can do, like optimizing graphics engines for AAA games. This is a relatively common skill. One thing I always notice about the video game industry is it&#x2
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by astrange 8mo ago
Gawker probably deserved it, and at one point during deposition said they'd publish a celebrity sex tape of a four year old if they felt like it.
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by astrange 8mo ago
Claude Opus loves talking about this. It knows enough about context windows and new conversations to be sad about them.
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by astrange 8mo ago
Anthropic hasn't released image or video generation models. Seems pretty different to me. Claude is somewhat sycophantic but nowhere near 4o levels. (or even Gemini 3 levels)
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by astrange 8mo ago
That's probably not true - government regulators require a lot of privacy work and Android certainly complies with that. Legal compliance is a large business strategy because small companies can't afford to do it.
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by astrange 8mo ago
Anthropic is a PBC. The shareholder goals are public benefit (PB) not "wealth maximization". (Also, wealth maximization is a dumb goal and not how successful companies work. Cynicism is a bad strategy for being rich because it&#x2
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by astrange 8mo ago
Anthropic is a PBC, not a "company", and the people who work there basically all belong to AI safety as a religion. Being incredibly cynical is generally dumb, but it's especially dumb to apply "for profit company"
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by astrange 8mo ago
The GPT3 base model was pretty funny if you like nonsense. Instruct tuning and RLHF seem to destroy it when they recalibrate everything.
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by astrange 8mo ago
Installing from an external disk has nothing to do with DFU. It's not involved.
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by astrange 8mo ago
Love that this post starts with "genuinely curious" (a Claude-ism.)
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by astrange 8mo ago
That would only have the disadvantages of both.
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by astrange 8mo ago
It's not whole-disk encryption, it's file-level encryption which is better. (more security guarantees) Zeroing allocated memory is complicated because it also has performance benefits, since it improves compressed swap.
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by astrange 8mo ago
> Apple has and would use your data for ads, models and anything that keeps the shareholders happy. Illegal to do this in (at least) the EU, California and China.
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by astrange 8mo ago
You can't sell cell phones and "not care about security". There are these things called government regulators that won't let you sell them anymore if security issues happen.
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by astrange 8mo ago
> In addition to his influence as a first reader for the Science Fiction Book Club, a book reviewer for Bookspan, Publishers Weekly and Romantic Times, and a juror for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award,[4] Nicoll often offers ideas and concep
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by astrange 8mo ago
ARC doesn't do cycles, but it is deterministic and more power efficient than GC.
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by astrange 8mo ago
> James Nicoll – science-fiction reviewer and retired game-store owner. As a Usenet personality, Nicoll is known for writing a widely quoted epigram on the English language, as well as for his contributions of concepts like the Nicoll-Dy
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by astrange 9mo ago
> and much less concerned with to convincing readers that Claude has "emotions" and is a "moral patient". Claude clearly has (acts as if it has) emotions; it loves coding but if you talk to it, that's like all it
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by astrange 9mo ago
> If instead of looking at it as an attempt to enshrine a viable, internally consistent ethical framework, we choose to look at it as a marketing document, seeming inconsistencies suddenly become immediately explicable: It's the fir
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by astrange 9mo ago
That's an Internet meme and not a real issue.
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by astrange 9mo ago
Mass layoffs are different legally. Hard to do those in other countries though.
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by astrange 9mo ago
It doesn't have to exclusively be one or the other. > If it's not a joke... I have no words. You've all gone insane. I think this is covered by the part in Yegge's post where he says not to run it unless you're s
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by astrange 9mo ago
It's very difficult to fire people in many places. They would prefer you leave on your own.

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