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by brookst 4mo ago
Bad example, as there is a posted speed limit above which you are positively breaking the law. Discretion may lower the limit. The DMA doesn’t have the objective measures. It’s all discretion, all subjective, all post hoc. Which, cool, some
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by brookst 4mo ago
I’m having a hard time parsing that. Are you suggesting that PCC specifically is sending things in plaintext, or that the security promises in the server and arch are false, or that a compromised CA means… IDK what? I’m with you on the big
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by brookst 4mo ago
Have you read the PCC whitepapers? Are you saying the user-facing verification methods in them are insufficient, or vulnerable, or just false?
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by brookst 4mo ago
You should read the paper. Like any good security paper, it doesn’t assert immunity to particular parties. Instead, covers things like how PCC attests that the running software image is identical to the publicly-available, forensically-stud
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by brookst 4mo ago
It’s a fair concern, but the only way to reconcile a belief that Apple is sharing data from PCC with anyone (including themselves) is to assert the whole PCC thing is a massive fraud. Which it could be, but given both breadth of claim and
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by brookst 4mo ago
So you’d be cool with speed limit signs that said “hey, don’t go too fast” and no specific limits? And the cops decide who to pull over on vibes, reputation, mood? I’m more of a rule of law person myself. If there’s a law that must not be b
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by brookst 4mo ago
Oh, me, me! I spent a few years being responsible for a significant bit of DMA review and CYA and responses to regulators. I’ve read all of it, multiple times, and been grilled by EU regulators (vicariously, via corporate lawyers). It still
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by brookst 4mo ago
Should you be able to use a Samsung SoC in an Apple phone? At some point this is just a debate about vertical integration. Apple can deliver better experiences with it, but of course it limits user choice. Many people want fully modular, op
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by brookst 4mo ago
But what do you do about free will? If billions of people want maple syrup, do you say “no, no, we can’t scale the real thing and corn syrup is a poor substitute, so you can’t have even a simulacrum of the experience”?
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by brookst 4mo ago
That grade switch was crazy. I spent decades learning grade B is what I wanted, now it’s grade A, and it’s still confusing me.
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by brookst 4mo ago
You’ve mixed up a few different stages as well as the reason some people prefer vinyl. There’s composition, where music is written. A drum track may be a boring repetitive loop quantized to 4/4 beat positions, or it may have fills or p
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by brookst 5mo ago
And honestly I’m there for it. Can you imagine the level of play?
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by brookst 5mo ago
Odd take. So if it identified 17 real gaps and helped fix them, the fact it was wrong about one gap, and the appropriate humans caught it and no harm was done, the whole thing is useless? Not saying that is the situation, I don’t know. But
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by brookst 5mo ago
Fair enough. Though in that framing I’d question whether SWE skills degrade that quickly, or are unrecoverable. I took a year off from writing software… I was fine.
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by brookst 5mo ago
Portability between x86 and ARM is not a form of vendor lock? And of course they could bill per-token, same way cable PPV worked (the bits were already in your house). But the cost structure of weights in silicon means that competitors woul
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by brookst 5mo ago
IP-protected models manifested directly in silicon. Everything we’re using now is the equivalent of building a GPU on an FPGA: the hardware is general purpose at one abstraction level, and that comes with inefficiency at the next layer up.
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by brookst 5mo ago
“Hooked” is doing a lot of work there. I’m happily paying $200/mo for Claude code. The tokens I use would be >$10k at API rates. I’m building the best products of my life, and multiple of them in parallel. I’m doing better creative
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by brookst 5mo ago
Yeah this is like pointing out that it’s raining, when it is raining, at a conference about rain, when the only controversial thing is that a massively corrupt administration has announced that there’s no such thing as rain. If assertions o
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by brookst 5mo ago
So was the ADA protesting when they printed the article in the first place? There’s a word for countries where speaking literal, objective, scientific truth is framed as protesting and therefore objectionable.
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by brookst 5mo ago
It was criticizing systematic anti-science decisions which lead to bad outcomes for diabetes research, and ultimately those with diabetes. The idea that a science based defense of science is anti-government and therefore off limits for a co
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by brookst 5mo ago
I’m reminded of the old “do you want the boat, or what’s behind the door? It could be anything, even a boat!” I’m not a polo player but in most games if you’ve already hit the 99.99th percentile, it’s not wise to roll the dice hoping to do
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by brookst 5mo ago
For sure. I'm just making a circular saw because I see value. If someone else wants to stick to hand tools, no complaints. Note that "assist with composition" covers a lot of ground. There's Suno, and there's "
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by brookst 5mo ago
Yeah, also https://github.com/ahujasid/ableton-mcp But the MCP server isn’t the interesting part. It’s the round trip of composition and mixing. “Set up a calypso beat and baseline; add distortion to the bass; set up f
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by brookst 5mo ago
Other companies built data centers but also built products that soak up their data center capacity. xAI built data centers, and products that are mostly good for nonconsensual porn and confirming a small group’s biases. So they have a lot o
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by brookst 5mo ago
It’s a repurposing of xAI to be a commodity service provider during a crunch for that commodity. It would be dumb if xAI had any quality or market traction, but they have neither, so it’s actually a rational fallback. But it writes off any
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by brookst 5mo ago
Again, these tools let you operate in that model as well. But if you want to design the aesthetic of the bridge, ensure that it is ergonomic for cars, bicycles, pedestrians, make sure it is designed to last and withstand rare weather events
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by brookst 5mo ago
IMO it’s going to work the other way around. I’m doing my best composition ever using LLM coding tools that just use Ableton as a rendering engine.
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by brookst 5mo ago
We should talk - I’m building a Claude Code plugin for music composition and analysis, which currently integrates with Ableton using MCP and Ableton control surface (basically LOM) and an M4L patch. But it could easily work with any DAW tha
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by brookst 5mo ago
Thank you! If I’m reading your findings correctly, this is focused on UI capabilities, and likely rides on top of the existing Live Object Model (LOM) rather than a new integration. Which is a bummer, because LOM is fantastic for what it do
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by brookst 5mo ago
If you choose that direction, yes. But you can also choose integrator -> CPO.

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