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by brookst 7mo ago
So following this through, does it mean that autocracy is the preferred government for a country that sleepwalked past the tipping point where corruption is entrenched because the institutions that could uproot it are themselves deeply corr
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by brookst 8mo ago
No. When you order a vanilla ice cream cone and the underpaid server is like “sorry, we’re out of vanilla”, it is NOT a reasonable response to weave a conspiracy theory about billionaires. There are conspiracies and abuses, for sure. That d
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by brookst 8mo ago
Certainly!
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by brookst 8mo ago
Eh, language was fine, runtime was pretty bad.
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by brookst 8mo ago
I’m with you, perhaps I just misread some kind of condescension into the “outsourcing your thinking” comment. We all have limited context windows, the world’s always worked that way, just seemed odd to (mis)read someone saying there’s somet
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by brookst 8mo ago
Interesting take. Does that mean SWE's are outsourcing their thinking by relying on management to run the company, designers to do UX, support folks to handle customers? Or is thinking about source code line by line the only valid fo
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by brookst 8mo ago
Claude code also gives you a granular breakdown of what’s using context window (system prompt, tools, conversation history, etc). /context
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by brookst 8mo ago
Cache reads don’t count as input tokens you pay for lol. https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/how-prompt-caching-actually...
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by brookst 8mo ago
I get very useful code from long sessions. It’s all about having a framework of clear documentation, a clear multi-step plan including validation against docs and critical code reviews, acceptance criteria, and closed-loop debugging (it ca
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by brookst 8mo ago
Is a VP of engineering “outsourcing their thinking” by having an org that can plan and write software?
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by brookst 8mo ago
You can also put guidance for when to compact and with what instructions into Claude.md. The model itself can run /compact, and while I try to remember to use it manually, I find it useful to have “If I ask for a totally different task
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by brookst 8mo ago
Jobs’ complaint wasn’t actionscript the language, it was the security and performance nightmare of the Flash runtime. Though it’s hard to imagine what the web would look like if the language had become the standard. JS is a pain but AS was
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by brookst 8mo ago
By “past actions”, do you mean doing extra work to make the bootloader support other operating systems? https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/introduction/
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by brookst 8mo ago
That was my first thought when I read the headline. It would make perfect sense, and would allow some websites to have best of both worlds: broadcasting content without being crushed by bots. (Not all sites want to broadcast, but many do)
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by brookst 8mo ago
Without a what ?
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by brookst 8mo ago
You’re right it’s a cynical take. I don’t get cynicism for the sake of it, detached from technical reality. No, this does nothing for DRM or HW attestation. The interesting thought is: not everything is a conspiracy. Yes, that’s just what a
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by brookst 8mo ago
It would be funny if the market showed women were willing to pay a premium to avoid being raped?
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by brookst 8mo ago
So when you read Uber’s annual safety reports you didn’t see anything in this vein, either as actions taken or changes in statistics?
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by brookst 8mo ago
Considering that 90% of sexual abuse in Uber’s safety report was committed by men, it seems disingenuous to frame this as some unreasonably discriminatory “oh they just want to have their own space”.
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by brookst 8mo ago
You mean a cake brokerage or something? These platforms connect service providers and consumers. That should be obvious, I think. A better challenge would be if these same platforms allowed racial selections. Which I think everyone would be
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by brookst 8mo ago
Don’t know what it is about geek culture that leans so conspiratorial. Sometimes I play a game; before clicking to read comments I try to come up with what the conspiracies will be. This one was obvious (since I’m familiar with the story).
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by brookst 8mo ago
I’m pretty close to being a free speech absolutist (side-eye to the guy who ruined the term), but IMO one of the worst things to happen to free speech is this conflation of “right to speak” with “right to be heard”. People have a right to i
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by brookst 8mo ago
An, so just semantics about “to help” and whether it involves volition.
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by brookst 8mo ago
Sorry, I wasn’t trying to make a statement about better/worse or technical equivalence, just that it’s similar.
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by brookst 8mo ago
Can’t != not prioritizing
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by brookst 8mo ago
It’s been happening since we developed language. Plenty of humans make their livings by talking others into doing dumb things. It’s not a new phenomenon.
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by brookst 8mo ago
SQL I’m injection is a great parallel. Pervasive, easy to fix individual instances, hard to fix the patterns, and people still accidentally create vulns decades later.
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by brookst 8mo ago
Citation needed. They really said they were above Swiss law?
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by brookst 8mo ago
You seem to think those two quotes make a point, but for the life of me I’m not seeing it? Are you trying to say that any compliance is by definition help? Like if the FBI subpoenas my public key and I comply, that’s helping them?
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by brookst 8mo ago
Introduced or passed into law?

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