bastawhiz

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by bastawhiz 4mo ago
I'm not sure how I missed that npm was acquired by GitHub, but man, a lot of stuff suddenly makes a lot of sense. I really can't think of a worse home for such a critical part of the Node ecosystem.
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by bastawhiz 4mo ago
It doesn't even have to be circular. One company is juicing another company's valuation to make their stake worth more. Down the road they'll sell their stake, end the deal, and leave everyone else holding the bag. Nothing ab
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
If your service shares state globally across all users (like a social network) not really. If individual customers are mostly centered around one geographic location and their data isn't shared with other customers, yes.
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
But it does mean you gracefully degrade so the majority of the company sees the target latency <100ms and the rest of the company sees "not geo-optimized" latency.
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
This is super cool, but man... writing something as complex as a browser from scratch in 2026 in a memory unsafe language feels like setting yourself up for so much trouble. I love the explosion of small from-scratch browsers that are poppi
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
"why the hell are we paying to get rid of flies in Mexico? kill it!"
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
It's unsurprising to see the current administration blame the problem on the Biden administration. We don't know why screwworm made a resurgence. But scientists have suggested that supply chain disruptions in producing sterile fli
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
> It also directs the Justice Department to pursue criminal cases against any individuals who use AI models to hack into computer systems. Were we not pursuing criminal cases against these individuals previously? Or have we only just dec
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
I looked for this in the article and I couldn't find any mention of it. I suspect no. And I suspect that's why it's not mentioned in the article: they think people won't notice.
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
Junior hiring was clearly depressed thanks to COVID, but AI has absolutely made that depression worse. We know this because it's what the tech leaders keep saying. They can't fucking shut up about it. It's as though the only
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
Especially in an era where RAM is so expensive, the obvious answer is to simply never use memory. If your data can't fit in the plethora of CPU registers at your disposal, your software is probably too complicated. /s
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
Microsoft mistreated a security researcher, the researcher publicly dumped a horde of Microsoft zero days, Microsoft was decidedly miffed, the researcher says they'll "shatter Microsoft's bones" on July 14.
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
Interesting that the deadline is checks notes one day before the Nightmare deadline. Definitely not a coincidence, right?
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
Your argument comes down to the meaning of "voxel", then. Voxels have volume, and they are represented with polygon faces. If you think that applies here, I guess more power to you.
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
It's kind of weird to call them "columns of voxels" when the columns can't have gaps and the "voxels" below the topmost are ignored completely. Which is to say, they're just columns...which is (definitiona
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
In many cases, the people who have more money and are stupider than you are other executives . Sam Altman is arguably one of the executives who know how the game is played. OpenAI is at the front. Microsoft's executives are an example
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
It's a bad take to suggest that organizations should look past a person's loud supportive positions on eugenics because they might give a good tech talk. If Justine is as controversial as this post suggests (and it doesn't
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
Exactly. It doesn't matter how smart or talented you are if you have no soft skills. You can't treat employees as black boxes where business needs go in and business value comes out. Soft skills are the vehicle through which someo
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
It's well within the realm of possibility that a parent, holding the remote, approaches the bassinet and sets the remote down in a location where it's reachable by the child. Perhaps even in the bassinet! And especially so if the
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
That's ten days ago. As the commenter pointed out, without a web search tool there's no possible way for the model to know whether it's true or not, and the people conducting the study didn't give the models a way to res
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
The research paper: https://hannesweissteiner.com/pdfs/frost.pdf Not too exciting of an issue, unfortunately. It only really works if you have one application or website open in addition to the malicious page. They don
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
I came here to say this. I'm highly confident the site was built with Claude. I asked Claude how it was built and Claude was confident it was built with Claude. Kind of ironic, honestly.
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
Besides fire detectors you might also want some fire putter-outers as well. Oh, wait...
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
At least when I put money in the stock market, I own a piece of the companies I'm invested in. I get some small amount of voting rights. You don't get anything outside of winnings or losses from your bets on a "prediction mar
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
Do you think it won't? How many weeks do you think it'll take to review all that code, or do you admit a 1M line PR is unreviewable?
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
One week to four weeks doesn't make it better.
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
> to adequately test against How does one determine what "adequate" looks like for a million lines of code? You can't fit a million lines of code in a 1M token context window unless every line of code is one token. So you&
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
> it wouldn't necessarily be hard to find something they violated. The incident report says this was a platform wide automated action. This argument falls apart.
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
Absolutely not. 1. This isn't self service GCP, this is an enterprise contract. You don't build your medium sized business on a provider without one. Once you're a certain size, you don't get binding arbitration, you go
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by bastawhiz 5mo ago
You clearly didn't read my second paragraph, which starts "But that's not what will happen..."

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