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by bloppe 7mo ago
> live in UTC Technically, nobody lives in "UTC". You might say people live in UTC+0, which is a standard time zone around the prime meridian. UTC refers to the system of standard time zones, not a single time zone, but in comm
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by bloppe 7mo ago
> hard time jump every few thousands years This is never going to happen. If handling 1 leap second every year or two is so hard and destructive, imagine the anxiety of introducing 30 all at once after 100 years of complacent software de
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by bloppe 7mo ago
If that were true, then everyone I know is violating that tos
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by bloppe 7mo ago
Luckily, the CM exists as a well-decoupled layer on top of core modules, which are just basic numeric types. So people can pretty easily just ignore the whole thing if they don't like it. But for the other 99% of devs who just want to
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by bloppe 7mo ago
> I'm perfectly happy with integers and floats as common interface types Most people at least want strings too. And once you add strings, you need to make sure the format is correct (JS uses UTF-16, C uses NULL-termination, etc).
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by bloppe 7mo ago
This article ignores the other side of the coin. You can argue that AI makes "clean room" re-implementation so cheap that copyleft is doomed. But then it follows that re-implementing proprietary software as free software would als
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by bloppe 7mo ago
The dev-ex issues largely occur at the boundaries between environments. In the browser, that's often a JS-Rust boundary or a JS-C++ boundary. On embedded runtimes, it could be a Go-Rust boundary, or a Zig-Python boundary. To bridge eve
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by bloppe 7mo ago
> I’m a strong supporter of putting things in the open with as little license enforcement as possible. I think society is better off when we share, and I consider the GPL to run against that spirit by restricting what can be done with it
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by bloppe 7mo ago
C has had fixed size int types since C99. And you've always been able to define struct layouts with perfect precision (struct padding is well defined and deterministic, and you can always use __attribute__(packed) and bit fields for ma
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by bloppe 8mo ago
I've been thinking about this a lot lately in terms of my personal clauding, and it's hard for me to think of a scenario where an mcp server makes more sense than CLI tools and AGENTS.md. But if you're deploying an agentic pr
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by bloppe 8mo ago
May I ask which large company with military contracts you work for?
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by bloppe 8mo ago
You can imagine all sorts of hypothetical scenarios where Anthropic doesn't suffer too much. You can also imagine them losing a lot of big business. The point is that the DoD is sending a very clear signal: "if you don't do w
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by bloppe 8mo ago
It's normal to simply go to a competitor when one supplier isn't giving you what you want. It's not normal to try to ruin their business relationships with everyone else in retribution.
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by bloppe 8mo ago
> they'll just have to show how they mitigated the "risk" If Hegseth is the one who decides whether the risk has been mitigated (he is), you think he's gonna be overcome by a sudden spirit of good faith and make impar
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by bloppe 8mo ago
If you were a customer, what would you do? Keep paying for Claude but be extra careful about preventing all the people working on anything that might potentially be construed as related to the DoD work from using it, for fear of a retributi
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by bloppe 8mo ago
Any company that does business with the military will be prohibited from being a customer. That's basically all the biggest companies, who will all choose to keep their multi-billion dollar military contracts and simply use codex inste
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by bloppe 8mo ago
> You can still buy some Anthropic. If they're designated a "supply chain risk", then any company that does any business with the military cannot be a customer. That includes basically all the largest companies, many of wh
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by bloppe 8mo ago
I think the people who use more than they pay for vastly outnumber those who pay for more than they use. It takes intention to sign up (not the default, like health care) and once you do, you quickly get in the habit of using it.
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by bloppe 8mo ago
Your human partner must be active on stack overflow.
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by bloppe 8mo ago
95% of cases are settled before reaching jury trial. Usually a plea bargain for criminal cases. Settlement for civil cases. Or dismissal. The other 5% are expensive.
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by bloppe 8mo ago
Just take off those glasses and everyone will realize you're secretly hot
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by bloppe 8mo ago
I expect it to, eventually. But then the cutting edge will have simply moved to something else. I agree that it's very destabilizing. It's sort of like inflation for expertise. You spend all this time and effort saving up expertis
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by bloppe 8mo ago
The acceleration of AI has thrown into sharp relief that we have long lumped all sorts of highly distinct practices under this giant umbrella called "coding". I use CC extensively, and yet I still find myself constantly editing by
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by bloppe 8mo ago
I think the bitter lesson has an answer to that question. The best AI language is whichever one has the largest corpus of high quality training data. Perhaps new language designers will come up with new ways to create large, high quality co
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by bloppe 8mo ago
The bar has been significantly lowered in the last year since the US has decided to commit bigly to unpredictability. Another 3 years of these kinds of manipulations and the Yuan could very well look like the lesser evil to a lot of countri
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by bloppe 8mo ago
Actually, it sounds very serious and appropriate.
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by bloppe 8mo ago
If Bob says "kilobyte" to Alice, and Bob means 5432 bytes, and Alice perceives him to mean 5432 bytes, then in that context, "kilobyte" means 5432 bytes.
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by bloppe 8mo ago
I only integrate with models via MCP. I highly encourage everybody to do the same to preserve the commodity status
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by bloppe 8mo ago
> For years, I opposed Universal Basic Income, firmly and reflexively. Bold to open your economic diatribe by discrediting your own economic reasoning.
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by bloppe 9mo ago
Buy rugs?

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