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by jnwatson 5mo ago
It wasn't at all. There's still a serious problem with shoplifting. Wal-mart would not be removing self-checkout if this were just a PR campaign. At my local CVS, they just started locking up the bulk candy. You don't take
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by jnwatson 5mo ago
I don't have Office installed, nor do a significant majority of my peers. Given that sqlite is installed by default on Macs, a sqlite file is far more portable than an Excel file.
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by jnwatson 5mo ago
What happens when the price of tokens goes to 0? The open weight models are nipping on the heels of frontier models. The frontier labs have to make forward progress and keep tokens cheap in order to maintain marketshare. Eventually, we&#x2
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by jnwatson 5mo ago
Android is working on it. See AppFunctions. https://developer.android.com/ai/appfunctions
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by jnwatson 5mo ago
A modest-sized security patch is routinely several gigabytes. Hell, a few hours of browsing Tiktok or Youtube will take more bandwidth. This is fake engagement bait.
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by jnwatson 5mo ago
Just like a manager, you don't need to look at the code. You need to set up quality systems to provide evidence the code does what it is supposed to do, just like a manager.
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by jnwatson 6mo ago
Apple is letting the market "commoditize its complements" without lifting a finger.
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by jnwatson 6mo ago
That's a really good point to remember and counters the article's claim that there were no major recalls. Still, the M series laptops are so much better than offerings from competitors I am hesitant to even put them in the same pr
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by jnwatson 6mo ago
But what value could this possibly be to Anthropic? I'm usually the last one to suggest that you can vibe code a SaaS clone, but this is an exception. JIRA clone is generic enough that it might even be a good agent benchmark.
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by jnwatson 6mo ago
Does Deezer charge per song? Sounds like a free backup service to me.
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by jnwatson 6mo ago
I think it is more the other direction. I asked Claude how to save money on my cloud costs, and it suggested migrating from DO to Hetzner.
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by jnwatson 6mo ago
There's another important aspect of being wealthy that I've noticed myself. The less money you have, the more of your brainpower is spent in conserving it. Figuring out how to make rent this month, balancing your checkbook so you
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by jnwatson 6mo ago
We all have to face the reality that people are going to use our software in ways we don't like. Any productivity improvement software in the wrong hands could make doing bad things more efficient.
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by jnwatson 6mo ago
It is completely unfounded speculation that AI was involved.
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by jnwatson 6mo ago
I certainly haven't heard of that technique to get rid of bubbles in the cement.
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by jnwatson 6mo ago
Horrible
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by jnwatson 7mo ago
Really? You don't know any Naval Academy graduates then.
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by jnwatson 7mo ago
Ukraine thought Russia was just posturing and look where it got them.
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by jnwatson 7mo ago
LLM writing is like AI-generated photos in that you don't notice the good instances of LLM writing, i.e. you don't know your false negative rate.
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by jnwatson 7mo ago
According to the interview, this was a pulsed microwave weapon, not acoustic.
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by jnwatson 7mo ago
I am curious whether wearing a tin foil hat would prevent this attack.
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by jnwatson 7mo ago
This is the best argument against early egg retrieval. If it were just a matter of money, the argument holds. However, the treatment involves pumping you with hormones that make you feel like crap the week before and after. Almost daily blo
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by jnwatson 7mo ago
Transitioning to an interim CEO is never a good look. Should have waited until conclusion of the executive search.
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by jnwatson 7mo ago
I think your second point is interesting, and it has actually already happened a couple of times. It used to be a lot easier to find devs that knew assembly and could navigate call stacks through memory by hand because a lot of folks had to
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by jnwatson 7mo ago
Google, Meta, Deepseek, Alibaba, and Mistral all offer models you can run yourself. The market can decide whether privacy should be the highest priority.
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by jnwatson 7mo ago
Talk about timely. I was just experimenting with a data provider's new MCP server, and I was able to use up my entire Claude Max token limit in under a minute.
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by jnwatson 8mo ago
It is happening in embedded as well. I noticed just the upgrade from Gemini 2.5 to 3.0 Pro went from "I can get the assembly syntax mostly right but I don't understand register lifetimes" to "I can generate perfect asse
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by jnwatson 8mo ago
I am firmly in both camps. On one hand, getting stuff working has its own thrill. On the other hand, I step back, look at the progress made in just the last year, and realize that not only is my job soon to be gone, but pretty much everyone
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by jnwatson 8mo ago
Exactly. I don't want to wade through a whole session log just to get to reasoning, and more importantly, I don't want to taint my current agent context with a bunch of old context. Context management is still an important human s
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by jnwatson 8mo ago
A lot of people see how good recent agents are at coding and wonder if you could just give all your data to an agent and have it be a universal assistant. Plus some folks just want "Her". I think that's absolutely crazy town

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