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by eadmund 1y ago
… are ‘private data, untrusted content, and external communication.’
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The lethal trifecta for AI agents(simonwillison.net)
2 points by eadmund 1y ago|1 comments
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by eadmund 1y ago
> code - not pseudocode, simplified code, draft code, but actual code of a program - is one of the worst possible representations to be thinking and working in. It depends on the language. In my experience, well-written Lisp with judi
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by eadmund 1y ago
I wonder why they are going with Discord rather than Mattermost. One would think that they would have learned a lesson about relying on third parties.
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by eadmund 1y ago
At the end of the day, servers and software engineers cost money. One way to pay for things is ads, but ads are hostile to integrations (because there is no good way to guarantee ads will be shown) — I believe this is why Twitter and Reddi
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Lisp is an incredible experience to write and experiment in, unlike any other language I've ever worked in. I think that the experienced of Smalltalk is very similar in some ways, despite the languages themselves being very differ
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by eadmund 1y ago
That brings back memories! As does running the desktop from one’s .xinitrc: panel & background-properties --init & keyboard-properties --init & mouse-properties --init & fvwm2 -f .fvwm2rc.gnome Hone
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by eadmund 1y ago
> ChatGPT uses a combination of characters to fingerprint its output. Does it, or are you inferring a fingerprint based on your own experiences? > Most humans type straight quotes instead of using shortcuts like Alt+0146 or Option +
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by eadmund 1y ago
> I’ve always used em-dashes (mild typography nerd) but recently have been considering stopping, for exactly this reason. They always flew under the radar a little, but I’d always notice when others used them, so it’s a shame and I’ll mi
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by eadmund 1y ago
Just use bignums. Seriously, a decent type system can use smaller representations for efficiency and not accidentally break the world. That way, one can represent the numbers found in cryptography as … numbers, instead of opaque Base64- or
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by eadmund 1y ago
> There will be an abundance of talent that is finally able to create their vision rather than nepotism their way into one of 500 limited annual roles of autonomy. Is it possible that part of what creates quality is having to collaborate
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Whistleblower: Lockheed Martin Awarded Bonuses Based on Race(city-journal.org)
9 points by eadmund 1y ago|0 comments
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Is there mobile push technology which is actually fundamentally push, all the way down to the transport layer? Like open socket, listening for incoming packets only, no notifications-> no traffic? That’s the end-to-end principle. E
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by eadmund 1y ago
Ditto. I’ve been using them for literally decades (because the old Macs made them so easy to type). And with X11 and xkb they’re even easier! I do worry that some of my comments have been downvoted by kids blindly downvoting anything with
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Don't McBlock Me(schneems.com)
3 points by eadmund 1y ago|5 comments
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by eadmund 1y ago
> A “planned order” was to replace the “senseless chaos” of the world. The trouble with this is the implicit assumption that planned order is better. If there’s a plan, then there must be a planner, who is after all only human. He’ll h
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by eadmund 1y ago
I’m pretty sure that he meant ‘æsthetic.’
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Taxes reduces taxes? Yes. It’s a second-order effect. Imagine if there were a 100% tax: the government would probably get no taxes, because there would be no economy. > So are you saying that 0% rate taxes would capture the most
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by eadmund 1y ago
If there is no attorney-client privilege with AI (I believe there is not), then could the opposing party demand discovery of all of one’s communications with the AI pertaining to the case?
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by eadmund 1y ago
I really liked the suggestion someone else posted in a discussion, that IP-encumbered assets should require amortisation of expenses over the lifetime of the IP (and of course the owner can always immediately write them off by releasing the
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by eadmund 1y ago
> what is the corporate tax rate? 21% > It's not 100%, so you're deducting a fraction developer's salary from your income, right, you're not saving that much on your tax bill each year. you're paying tax on th
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Maybe this is a dumb question, but if you only deduct part of their salary in the first year, what happens if you have a software developer for several years? Not dumb at all! In the second year, you get to deduct ⅕th of the previous
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Lisp, Smalltalk, and the Power of Symmetry (2014)(insearchofsecrets.com)
8 points by eadmund 1y ago|1 comments
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by eadmund 1y ago
Also in 1798, Congress passed the Sedition Act, which violated the First Amendment. The simple fact that a Congress included many Founders does not necessarily imply that its acts were all in compliance with the Constitution those same Fou
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by eadmund 1y ago
No, it was not standard conversational English to use the third person plural to refer to a known individual man or woman. It has been used to refer to a non-specific person.
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by eadmund 1y ago
The issue is that one’s fridge or light bulb becomes a lodgment from which an adversary can launch LAN attacks (e.g. via Ethernet) on one’s more-sensitive devices, such as one’s personal computer (which contains more-or-less one’s entire li
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by eadmund 1y ago
That’s appalling. I really feel like a fool — I had thought the world of Tailscale but no longer. This needs to be more widely known.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Like 'hey cool if I use this tool to interact with your site for this and that reason?' They do ask: they make an HTTP request. How the server responds to that request is up to the owner. As in the article, the owner can
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by eadmund 1y ago
Honestly, I believe that the Web would have been better had we stuck to those expectations more diligently and evolved more slowly and thoughtfully. That one can does not imply that one should. Blue links and purple visited links were fine
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Useit didn't change its design over the years. By the Web 2.0 period, it was seen my most in the web design profession as being hopelessly outdated. Oddly enough, I much prefer it to the corporate NNGroup site. And that last vers

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