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by brookst 5mo ago
In the same way there’s a distinction between writers and typists, and you really don’t hear anything about typists these days.
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by brookst 5mo ago
Anthropic is 5 minutes, though you can pay more to get 60 minutes I believe. The #1 was to make Claude code token quota go further is to never let the 5 minute cache TTL expire. Either send a new request within the window, or use /clea
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by brookst 5mo ago
Can you elaborate? How could it be more efficient and bad for revenue? Would it also be bad for profit?
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by brookst 5mo ago
I appreciate the perspective. From where I sit in America, morale is as dead as it gets. The president wrote himself a $2B check, and both his supporters and opponents are resigned to this massive theft. Restrictions on voting are nonsensic
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by brookst 5mo ago
See also: Windows / Notepad / M365 / GitHub / Paint / Xbox / Azure / Solitaire / D365 / Security Copilot.
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by brookst 5mo ago
We’ve really hit that point, where our institutions are transparently corrupt, and everyone knows it, and both the guilty and the public just say “yep, we’re doing the corrupt thing”. It’s depressing as hell, and it’s going to go out with t
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by brookst 5mo ago
Joke’s on you, I am literally made of meat.
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by brookst 5mo ago
There should be a law!
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by brookst 5mo ago
Or, the odds of a random 64-bit integer being a 32-bit integer are the same as you or me guessing a random 32 bit integer.
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by brookst 5mo ago
Wait how is being late worse than not doing it at all? Is it true for mortgage payments and apologies?
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by brookst 5mo ago
That’s a better question. So far the answer seems to be yes. Large companies and banks see >95% fraud on sign in / sign up flows. It’s a constant battle and the law of large numbers says even a tiny false negative rate can be catast
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by brookst 5mo ago
Analogies are like metaphors, they’re illustrative rather than literal.
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by brookst 5mo ago
How does that view align with Anthropic leasing data centers from others? I don’t know OpenAI’s infra, but to the extent they are buying GPUs and building data centers with their own money, that sounds like a bad move. Satya has mismanaged
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by brookst 5mo ago
I don’t think discrete vs continuous is as definitive as you believe. Where in this chain does it flip from zero to one? Amoeba, plankton, jellyfish, roundworm, fruit fly, salmon, frog, rat, chimp, human.
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by brookst 5mo ago
Sounds great. Link us to your project?
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by brookst 5mo ago
Because the work would be done by the compromised residential device. No bothnet owner is going to care if their 100,000 rooted routers have to do a little more work. It’s still “free” from their perspective.
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by brookst 5mo ago
I mean coal power plants work, so building new ones is not stupid by that standard. I think we have to expand the definition of stupid to include things that work but have net negative externalities. Not sure where PoW falls in that way of
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by brookst 5mo ago
It’s always amusing when someone brings up the “just tell banks that if they reduce account takeovers by 80%, it will drive off 3 customers a year (and those are the same 3 customers who call site support to complain the website doesn’t wor
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by brookst 5mo ago
Sure, this is the age-old “knife used to cut steak is indistinguishable from knife used to stab people” thing. Tools are inherently amoral; only people can have motives we can celebrate or condemn.
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by brookst 5mo ago
Not for high volumes of data.
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by brookst 5mo ago
<html><body bgcolor=“#FF0000”><blink><font size=“+3” color=“#0000FF”>Me too!</font></body></blink></html>
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by brookst 5mo ago
> most of the parties operating web sites are themselves bad actors Wait, what? “Most” by percentage of people who operate at least one website, or by percentage of websites that are “bad”? The latter maaaybe, given auto-generated web sp
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by brookst 5mo ago
> How are they different? Take a look at Semantic Web[1] SW is about data interchange and standardizing semantic representations… it relies on formal, structured taxonomies of All The Nouns and then All The Verbs For Those Nouns. MCP is
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by brookst 5mo ago
The car metaphor isn’t working. SUVs range from $30k to $500k and up. Sports cars range from $30k to $500k and up. Sedans range from $30k to $500k and up. I used to love sports cars because I’d get out to the track a few times a year, and e
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by brookst 5mo ago
Wait even the taproot vegetables are getting in on this?
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by brookst 5mo ago
Ok, this is fun. Perhaps a little on-the-nose, but then again, so is much of the “AI isn’t really thinking, it’s just doing the same work and producing the same output” claptrap. The last couple of years have changed my thinking on lots o
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by brookst 5mo ago
Wait so cross ventilation, where a breeze will flow through a house if windows are open on opposite sides at a much greater rate than if windows are only open on the upwind side… isn’t really a thing?
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by brookst 5mo ago
I’m working on an AI-assisted music composition and criticism tool (giant project, may or may not pan out). It covers audio (samples, levels, etc), theory (harmony, rhythm), genre (classical, Motown), song intent, etc. Working on the melody
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by brookst 5mo ago
I hear you. I’m just in the camp of using the best tool available today, and if things change in another tool becomes better(either because the new tool is an improvement, or because the old tool gets worse) then I will switch. Perhaps beca
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by brookst 5mo ago
You did exactly what GP was commenting on - conflating something that happened occasionally in the past with policy that mandates it should happen every time today. Yes, grants were given and revoked for political purposes in the past. Bu

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