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by jameshart 2mo ago
It only inserts a sku and a quantity into a Postgres database - yeah, there’s a few things missing from this purchase scenario. Might have been better to have made it clicking a ‘like’ button.
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by jameshart 2mo ago
I do find it interesting that while modern map apps do a great job of replacing road atlases, and we can get satellite and photogrammetry overlays that give us immense insight into how maps relate to the context on the ground, and we do hav
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by jameshart 3mo ago
You’re right. RC4 was what I meant. See sibling comment. 128bit SSL precedes the AES contest.
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by jameshart 3mo ago
You’re right - 128bit SSL 2/3 used RC4 not 3DES. I was misremembering - one did occasional see marketing describe 3DES with two 56bit keys with 8 bit parity checks as 128bit (actual key strength: 112bit) and I was thinking that Netscap
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by jameshart 3mo ago
Is it really? I think the assumption that there is some sort of formal ‘reasoning’ process that is inherently superior to whatever ‘non-reason-based’ decision process ‘non-reasoning’ systems use is not immediately justifiable. Most reasonin
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by jameshart 3mo ago
Slight timeline correction: 25 years ago in 2001 Blowfish was no longer contraband - the crypto export rules had been changed by 2000. As of January 2000 Netscape and IE were both shipping 128bit DES internationally. Still, the t-shirts wit
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by jameshart 3mo ago
An automated car assembly line is highly specialized to the production of a specific car. Reconfiguring the assembly line to produce a different car requires people or general purpose robots.
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by jameshart 3mo ago
If it can make any robot then it’s not very specialized.
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by jameshart 3mo ago
A product doesn’t need to appeal to or reach the average American to be a viable product.
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by jameshart 3mo ago
Robot lawnmowers are mostly over $1000 already and they only do one thing. Heck, a lot of lawnmowers are over $1000. You can pay over $500 for an automatic cat litter box. Robot vacuums can be cheap but run to $600 or so. Household applia
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by jameshart 3mo ago
The AI will need generalized robots to build the highly specialized ones.
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by jameshart 3mo ago
Good thing they asked for people with experience of professional app development then.
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by jameshart 3mo ago
These are the kinds of prompts you can get away with using when your token budget is unlimited.
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by jameshart 3mo ago
This sounds like it’s just an app development role, not a security analysis position, so I’m not sure what your complaint is.
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by jameshart 3mo ago
So I think what’s a little unfair there is that “you could have invented container runtimes”[1] is an article which really tries to answer ‘how does someone who works in traditional software development with an understanding of operating sy
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by jameshart 3mo ago
Math educators like Grant Sanderson (3blue1brown) use it in a very specific way: the goal of a mathematical explanation is to make the learner feel like they could have come up with something. And a really good mathematical communicator can
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by jameshart 3mo ago
That was the data. Point of Collosus was to analyze ciphertexts; the text goes on the loop. It’s looped so your program can run over the data multiple times, since it’s sequential access only.
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by jameshart 3mo ago
‘Stored program’ is where the debate is. Colossus was ‘programmable’ but the program was not a series of instructions executed in a sequence - it was a single data process executed on the input data against a set of stored registers. Defini
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by jameshart 3mo ago
One problem is that agents are notoriously bad at handling ‘me’ vs ‘you’ over an extended conversation. ‘Without my approval’ far back in the context of an extended session gets fuzzy about who ‘me’ is.
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by jameshart 3mo ago
Let’s see…: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877%E2%80%931878_El_Ni%C3%B1o... > widespread drought and famine in multiple countries, causing the death of more than 50 million people. Disasters associated with it inclu
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by jameshart 3mo ago
This technique is frequently used by towing companies impounding cars and reposession agents collecting cars for loan defaults - absolutely you can pick up and take a car away with the right hardware. Just for most people a stolen locked ca
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by jameshart 3mo ago
All of these are, actually, a long way removed from the ‘stream of octets’ which TCP delivers between applications. All the Wikipedia actually means by ‘stream of octets’ is ‘sequence of numbers between 0 and 255’. TCP is a protocol concern
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by jameshart 3mo ago
Now we’re talking about bits, I thought we were talking about bytes (or was it octets?) I’m not sure this gets us any closer to a jargon-free explanation of what TCP does.
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by jameshart 3mo ago
Wow and TCP sends a stream of those microscopic memory cells?
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by jameshart 3mo ago
A ‘Byte’ is not a concrete thing and the fact you think it is speaks to the degree to which you have immersed yourself in a mental model which thinks of ‘information’ as if it is a real concrete thing, to the extent that you don’t even real
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by jameshart 3mo ago
> Most people, especially non-tech technical people, could crash through the TCP article and come out the other side with at least a high level understanding of it. Careful, I think you might be committing an https://xkcd.com&
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by jameshart 3mo ago
Neuschwanstein was completed in 1886. Undeniably a very archetypal castle. So much so that of course it was the basis for Disney's Sleeping Beauty castle, which opened at Disneyland in Anaheim in 1955 - at which time the castle it took
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by jameshart 3mo ago
There is no taxonomy of these things you could make that will not cause some eyebrow raising choices. It counts Clarence House in London in its top 100 as a world famous ‘palace’ - it’s a Georgian townhouse. Age of sail trading post forts s
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by jameshart 3mo ago
Housing - more generally real estate property - can absolutely be a legitimate asset class, sustaining speculation and global investment; that is how we get capital invested in building out housing infrastructure. But you shouldn’t have to
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by jameshart 3mo ago
The ability of LLMs to solve problems is not confined to the training data they ingested. Claude knows how to read mathematical papers because of its training data, but it can and will pull in literature relevant to a specific problem into

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