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by fergie 4mo ago
I was a diehard spaces-over-tabs person until I saw this scene in Silicon Valley. I had rather naively assumed that the tab-indent default in emacs was an oversight rather than a considered decision. This scene actually educated me.
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by fergie 4mo ago
Bro- read the article before commenting!
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by fergie 4mo ago
Must be a rockstar
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by fergie 4mo ago
It raises an interesting moral question: If an un-guardrailed version of a model is capable of detecting security flaws, should it be kept secret? Should everybody be able to use these models to find (and fix) security flaws? Are we ok with
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by fergie 4mo ago
Fair. What I mean is no internet connectivity, and no electronics outside of the drivetrain.
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by fergie 5mo ago
What I actually want is a no-tech, half-price, electric car with a long range.
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by fergie 5mo ago
Personally I find that every llm I use is unable to consistently identify the latest npm version numbers of the node packages that I use.
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by fergie 5mo ago
Can't not read stuff like this. Fascinating.
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by fergie 5mo ago
> The entire AI industry has been (not so secretly) paying a lot of experts in many fields to generate large amounts of novel training data. Novel training data that isn't found anywhere else--they hoard it--and which could actually
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by fergie 5mo ago
> I think the idea is that you can launder your team or product AI spend through your AWS account. Can confirm that this is the one and only reason that we use Claude through AWS
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by fergie 5mo ago
Agreed- node/npm are exceptionally well run and designed. Personally I also prefer the non-TypeScriptiness.
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by fergie 6mo ago
Reminder that New York Airways used to operate helicopter flights to the top of the Pan Am building until a 1977 accident killed five people.
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by fergie 6mo ago
I want a half-price no-tech electric car.
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by fergie 6mo ago
Very cool and satisfying.
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by fergie 6mo ago
I'm missing some context here: Why do we want to extract strontium nitrate anyway?
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by fergie 6mo ago
Started a volunteer run, drop-in, bicycle workshop a few years ago. Its still going strong- something about the vibe, the practicality, and bike maintenance being just the right level of hard. I don't run it any more, but I drop in fro
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by fergie 7mo ago
As somebody who has spent a bit of time in academia, I have often been slightly alarmed by some of the research (and opinon) that comes out of business schools. One thing is that it is often unsubstantiated and just plain wrong, another is
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by fergie 7mo ago
Thats probably what this was all about then (use Google Translate) -> https://www.nrk.no/norge/gradert-sak-behandlet-i-ekstraordin...
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by fergie 7mo ago
> They do not see Google, Meta, Amazon, etc, recruiting on campus Really? As in FAANG has stopped recruiting graduates?
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by fergie 7mo ago
> it's nobody else's business Human origin certification is coming. It might be hard to enforce, but you should probably respect the intent if a project tries to enforce it.
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by fergie 7mo ago
> A court still might rule that all AI-generated code is in the public domain, because there was not enough human input in it. That’s quite possible, though probably not very likely. Its not only likely, it is in fact the current positio
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by fergie 7mo ago
Answer: probably not, as API-topography is also a part of copyright Edit: this is wrong
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by fergie 7mo ago
Right, but surely swagger/openapi has been providing robust API discovery for years? I just don't get what LLMs don't like about it (apart from it possibly using slightly more tokens than MCP)
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by fergie 7mo ago
> gws doesn't ship a static list of commands. It reads Google's own Discovery Service at runtime and builds its entire command surface dynamically. What is the practical difference between a "discovery service"+API an
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by fergie 7mo ago
Getting all of this to work on Windows seems like a bit of a thankless task. If customisability is important, why wouldn't you just go over to Linux?
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by fergie 7mo ago
UPVOTED IN HOPE
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by fergie 7mo ago
I'm pretty confident that these would be illegal in public spaces in Norway.
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by fergie 8mo ago
> I have strong signal that Dario, Jared, and Sam would genuinely burn at the stake before acceding to something that's a) against their values, and b) they think is a net negative in the long term. Sure, but what happens when the
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by fergie 8mo ago
Given that most of the utility of Typescript is to make VSCode play nice for its human operator, _should_ we be using Typescript for systems that are written by machines?
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by fergie 8mo ago
Is it OK that these firms aren't public?

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