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by jason_s 7mo ago
Where can I find out more information about sandboxing Claude and other agents?
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by jason_s 7mo ago
OOH! Neat! I looked on my mobile phone enough to get a sense of what this is. I'm not in the petroleum industry, but about 45 years ago I was mesmerized at an energy fair at my elementary school by this Exxon magazine that showed the r
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by jason_s 7mo ago
Not sure I would call Remez "simple"... it's all relative; I prefer Chebyshev approximation which is simpler than Remez.
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by jason_s 7mo ago
While I'm glad to see the OP got a good minimax solution at the end, it seems like the article missed clarifying one of the key points: error waveforms over a specified interval are critical, and if you don't see the characteristi
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by jason_s 7mo ago
Thank you for posting! We need more good examples.
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by jason_s 7mo ago
Can we please encourage variable-width fonts for text, fixed-width fonts for code? It improves readability.
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by jason_s 7mo ago
Please use a variable-width typeface for readability
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by jason_s 8mo ago
Author should have put RFC9842 in the headline. ( https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9842 )
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by jason_s 8mo ago
Is there any similar ecosystem hook for a zip-like archive? It would be great to have something like .zip file containers for zstd/brotli which can contain a small number of dictionaries and then the decompression utility automatically
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Ask HN: How does the cost of CPU-bound computations scale in cloud computing?
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by jason_s 8mo ago
Intriguing article. Sometimes practical issues override theoretical ones, and it would be interesting to see which one dominates in networking. (side note: does anyone else get thrown off by the Epilogue font? It looks very wide in some cas
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by jason_s 8mo ago
Thank you for posting an archived link... these are bizarre times.
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by jason_s 8mo ago
How do you verify them? How do you verify they do not create security risks?
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by jason_s 8mo ago
I'll bite: How is your job improving or affected by this AI surge?
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by jason_s 9mo ago
curious: which field are you in professionally?
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by jason_s 9mo ago
> have it produce several hundred lines of code with a shebang at the top. Am I the only one who worries about agents creating malicious/unsafe code to execute?
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by jason_s 9mo ago
Interesting. The syntax looks like C and Scheme had an illegitimate child together. (Don't get me wrong, I do like the unambiguity of prefix notation.)
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by jason_s 9mo ago
Sigh. I will forever hate Atlassian for killing Bitbucket hg hosting. What code review tools do you prefer?
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by jason_s 9mo ago
> Senior developers: Position yourself as the guardian of quality and complexity. Agreed but it's not an easy charge to fulfill.
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by jason_s 9mo ago
TIL about the Welland Canal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welland_Canal
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by jason_s 9mo ago
Ah, yes, the DRAM game of musical chairs. The whole history of DRAM competition is a really interesting one. I read Jeho Lee's article and a few other sources while researching background material for Supply Chain Games: Part II --- h
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by jason_s 9mo ago
whoa -- I've never run into these. I've seen interactive puzzle ads, but the "X" to close always pops up in 20-30 seconds.
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by jason_s 9mo ago
I just uninstalled a game from my mobile phone this morning that had heavy ad usage. It was interesting to note the different ad display strategies. From least to most annoying: - display a static ad, have the "x" to close appear
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by jason_s 9mo ago
In case you wanted a more reputable source: https://theinvestor.vn/online-video-advertisements-in-vietna...
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by jason_s 10mo ago
Please don't use fixed-width fonts to write text. Please use fixed-width fonts to write code.
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by jason_s 10mo ago
Yes -- you're right. And it was more colorful than this speech, but with the same essential conclusion. https://www.drjez.com/uco/Misc/Feynman.htm https://archive.org/details/surelyyourej
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by jason_s 1y ago
> I wish John McCain was still around... he would have had the courage to stand up and talk sense into these people. At one point I would have agreed, but then in 2017, McCain made his "We will regret what we are about to do"
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by jason_s 1y ago
> since for some reason in FP languages quicksort is typically next after "hello world" How does FP handle the random selection?
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by jason_s 1y ago
Or John McPhee's "Atchafalaya".
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by jason_s 1y ago
You talking about the Imperial Valley or the Central Valley? The former is naturally desert, the latter was naturally abundant in wetlands and flood-prone grasslands, before agriculture took over. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi

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