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by everforward 1mo ago
The electricity company doesn’t have a contract that says they’ll only give electricity to specific people. Iron Mountain just doesn’t want to be in the middle, and I can see why. OSS went defunct, PBS files a lawsuit, guy buys OSS so PBS p
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by everforward 1mo ago
Probably, but LLMs can’t execute code directly. They’d be making tool calls to make bash run ncat or curl or whatever that would be suspicious, as would any attempts to obfuscate it (“why is my agent doing an ‘eval $(base64 -d)’?”). It’d be
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by everforward 1mo ago
Funnily enough, I would say almost the opposite. CC’s feature set is basically table stakes for an agent these days (does it have ACP yet? Very close to behind table stakes if not) and it has a lot of bloat powering that. IMO part of it is
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by everforward 2mo ago
I’m not endorsing the idea, but we could ban printing the card number on the card. New cards would only have a CVV, chip, mag strip and some way to differentiate between 2 cards from the same company (a colored dot?). The info would still b
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by everforward 2mo ago
That’s pretty normal though, and has been for ages. A lot of states have random laws around the things you can sell there, even though it would prevent an out of state entity from selling the product there. Liquor laws come to mind, you usu
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by everforward 2mo ago
Go is relatively easy to learn, and the semantics of the language make it more difficult to write "clever" code that's difficult to understand. That's the main selling point, with a secondary point that it statically com
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by everforward 2mo ago
The outcome in Iran was obvious to anyone paying attention. We knew Iran would close the strait, but we also haven't truly won a guerrilla war yet. Vietnam went poorly, Afghanistan went poorly, we've only historically done well
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by everforward 2mo ago
Others can cause damage, but your odds of being hit by an Amazon driver are dramatically higher than most other companies because of the number of drivers they run. They found a sort of loophole in the law. It's supposed to be self-re
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by everforward 2mo ago
There is _some_ prior art here, though it’s not direct. This is very similar in concept to the joke Python extensions that replaced the global exception handler with one that invokes an LLM. There are “workflows” that are very similar. Ie I
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by everforward 2mo ago
Do you find the permanence of a full VM useful? I’ve wondered about something like this but always defaulted to Docker for much the same reasons people use stuff like Ansible. I’m afraid the LLM will heavily customize its environment and I’
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by everforward 2mo ago
Am not a lawyer, but I follow these kinds of things. Many states have a catch all law like this, probably all of them to some degree. If you google for your state, the charge is usually either “public nuisance” or “disturbing the peace”. Th
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by everforward 2mo ago
I think the person above you is referring to CP, which I think is a very different harm than you’re talking about. For what you’re talking about, I’ve heard a couple of explanations. The first is one you pointed out, a largely religious obj
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by everforward 2mo ago
I’m doubtful, I think you’re reading it too much as plain English. “Lawful” in a legal context means “in accordance with the law”. You are immune to this law if you are operating under authority granted by law. It would be generally underst
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by everforward 2mo ago
I don’t think any of those are nearly at the scale of Meta, at least in terms of how many people they touch. Meta allegedly has 3.6B daily active users across their products; something like 1 in 2 people globally is a daily user of one of t
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by everforward 2mo ago
I believe the BLS tracks all of these. I know they measure people who gave up on finding a job (they call them “discouraged workers” in stats normally). I’m pretty sure I’ve seen underemployment charts too that seemed to track something lik
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by everforward 2mo ago
Are you editing outside Zed? That’s the only time I see this issue. Eg Pi has its own tools for editing files and ignores the ones Zed sends over ACP. If I used Zeds AI pane to have Pi change a file, I can see the edits in the ACP window bu
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by everforward 2mo ago
I don’t think containers, as normally used, provide that much security because so much of what you want to secure is at the boundaries between containers (the network) rather than inside the container itself. There’s not much point in preve
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by everforward 2mo ago
Sure, but this is about IP law instead of physical goods. This is like if you left your door wide open, and a neighbor peaked in and told another neighbor about your decor or what posters are on the walls. You didn’t lose anything tangible,
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by everforward 2mo ago
You can’t fail unit tests you don’t have because your agent “fixed” them by deleting them. You have to go full galaxy brain for it to work lol
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by everforward 2mo ago
They’re not bad if you give up on being able to reproduce arcane bugs. Don’t pin versions, pull everything from latest, CVEs are just a rebuild. Certainly not an amazing idea, but it solves the problem of the day. The funnier, Kafakaesque p
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by everforward 2mo ago
> "I want a sketchy NP to just sign off on whatever drugs I want from the menu" That’s my impression but they absolutely cannot say that. Admitting that would almost certainly invoke DEA charges and impacts to prescription priv
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by everforward 2mo ago
That doesn’t match my experience if your bar is really as low as “won’t throw you out for not buying anything”. Obvious anecdata, but within an easy walk or bike radius of me (a couple miles) there are 3 public libraries, something like hal
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by everforward 2mo ago
Depends heavily on whether we're measuring in practical terms, or in "no medical intervention" terms. If we're measuring in a vacuum without medicine, then absolutely, the measles is dramatically more infectious. If we&#
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by everforward 2mo ago
Tuberculosis is different, in a very dark, utilitarian way. 4% of new TB cases are multi-drug resistant (19% of recurrences). Once it’s multi-drug resistant, if you’re poor then you get an incredibly depressing choice. Rich countries pay fo
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by everforward 2mo ago
My phrasing of it is that democracy is underpinned by a shared belief in a collective destiny. If we all vote well, we all do well together and if we vote poorly then we all do poorly together, on average. Thus it feels like breaking that c
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by everforward 2mo ago
Not really, because converting resources into power required other humans. A huge pile of gold isn’t inherently powerful, you need someone willing to accept gold to do what you want. They would also generally be intimately involved in doing
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by everforward 2mo ago
It’s basically the same thing as AI generated art, whichever side of that you fall on. I do IT, I can’t make any kind of art to save my own life. The art the AI generates is neat to me because I get to feel in control of making something be
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by everforward 2mo ago
I think bacteria will convert it to ammonia nitrate, but I could be wrong. I do some hydro and the guidance is not to do it with hydro because the bacteria don’t grow as well so they won’t convert it into something plants can eat. > we s
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by everforward 2mo ago
I don’t think this is true, but it’s not my forte. Pure ammonia is toxic to animals. At normal outdoor temperatures it also only becomes a liquid at ~100 PSI (it’s like 150 at 80F). The boiling point at STP is like -27F. I’m doubtful runnin
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by everforward 2mo ago
Then you have 1,000 separate ammonia generation systems that need upkeep, repairs, etc. It is doing chemical reactions under pressure to produce presumably ammonium nitrate which is explosive. The engineers you would need probably aren’t ch

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