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by jp57 5mo ago
Well, he is standing still, the camera is stationary. For just that last segment, it is easy to answer "how did he do it?" Write out his remarks, rehearse with a timer, then figure out at what point in the countdown to begin sp
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by jp57 5mo ago
They mention Meta's layoffs, which probably have more impact on employee morale than the AI stuff. My current theory of tech layoffs is that over the last decade or so, churn-inducing practices like stack-ranking have gone out of vogue
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by jp57 5mo ago
But are they actually serious people? I had corporate astroturf accounts arguing with me on my otherwise-ignored blog as early as 2004. All this time later, I just assume that every serious corporation employs PR firms using sock-puppet
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by jp57 5mo ago
Claude is a mediocre programmer that can do great things with great supervision, but it can't make mediocre human programmers into good ones, because they can't provide great supervision. It will try and try and try, though.
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by jp57 5mo ago
IDK. I was just reporting what Boris said. In any case the litany of reports of slop inside Claude Code speaks for itself.
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by jp57 5mo ago
There’s all kinds of stuff there that’s not the Claude Code app.
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by jp57 5mo ago
I saw a talk by Boris where he said, basically that Claude codes itself now. They have it automatically writing features and reviewing PRs, apparently. I suspect that much of the code has never been seen by human eyes within Anthropic.
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by jp57 5mo ago
Ha. Yes. "Speedrunning enshittification" is the phrase that's been in my head. The flat-rate plans were the top of the slippery slope to enshittification, really. If everyone were on metered billing there'd be no reaso
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by jp57 5mo ago
I have my doubts about the value of a two-alternative forced choice task for this. I was pretty much answering randomly both of the time because I wouldn't ncessarily have called either green or blue.
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by jp57 6mo ago
Tokens have replaced LOC as the dumb productivity metric of choice.
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by jp57 6mo ago
Not everything sells out right away, though. I've bought concert tickets on the day of the show more than once. Somehow they still managed to have all the concessions staffed. But regardless, the formula for decreasing the price coul
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by jp57 6mo ago
Our basic findings suggest that the auctions “worked”: price discovery substantially improved; artist revenues roughly doubled versus the fixed-price counterfactual; and, perhaps most importantly, the auctions eliminated or at least subs
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by jp57 6mo ago
The horizontal control of venues is only one issue. A perhaps bigger issue is the vertical integration (if that's the right term) of first-party ticket sales and resale in one company. Ticketmaster has no real incentive to try to pre
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by jp57 6mo ago
This reminds me of the Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling by Mark Twain. https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.html
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by jp57 6mo ago
Except that the mere existence of the market with the question posed for people to consider, probably activates the availability heuristic[1], causing people to overestimate the likelihood. [1] https://philopedia.org/topics&
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by jp57 6mo ago
AI tools right now remind me of the old days of single-user PC/Mac operating systems without protected memory or preemptive multitasking. You could read any file, write directly to video memory, load machine code into the heap and the
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by jp57 6mo ago
IDK. The neediest possession I own is my sailboat. It is never finished. And it’s incredibly low tech. The highest tech part of it, the gps chart plotter, is not internet connected and it more or less works like that guy’s old watch. Meanw
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by jp57 6mo ago
I can't tell from the issue if they're asserting a problem with the Claude model, or Claude Code, i.e. in how Claude Code specifically calls the model. I've been using Roo Code with Claude 4.6 and have not noticed any differ
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by jp57 6mo ago
Haven't many of the non-zero-g challenges been at least partly solved on nuclear submarines, that carry large crews and stay submerged for months at time? Of course there are more challenges, but you do have people living in a pressur
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by jp57 6mo ago
This. At work I have described this phenomenon as the equivalent of tinkering with the margins and fonts in your word processor instead of just writing your paper.
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by jp57 6mo ago
Honest question: Is inference actually being sold at a loss? I.e. does inference itself cost more to run than we're being charged, or are the companies operating at a loss because they're spending more on training than the margi
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by jp57 7mo ago
This is interesting, though I'd point out that "consensus" actually means something different than a simple majority agreement. It means "broad agreement". Almost nobody would consider a 51/49 vote split amon
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by jp57 7mo ago
Because there are no instructions at all about what will happen when you click, I almost immediately created a "transporter accident" where I spawned in a new shape that intersected with an existing shape. They became locked toge
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by jp57 7mo ago
Same thing happened in the USA with 867-5309/Jenny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny#Popularity_and_...
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by jp57 7mo ago
Am I the only one who finds this post weird because this is a solved problem? I've worked for 18 years at companies where everyone had to badge into every building. There have never been lines of people waiting to get in. Once I wor
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by jp57 8mo ago
But the semantics of python is that variables contain references to lists and lists are mutable while constants are not.
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by jp57 8mo ago
The author's expectations seem strange. Take another example: a = b = random.random() I would not expect a and b to get different values. It would be very strange if using `[]` had different behavior than a function call in t
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by jp57 8mo ago
Which have longer lifecycles, LLM model versions, or trends in SRE practices?
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by jp57 9mo ago
Is this not under copyright?
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by jp57 9mo ago
An interesting article to revisit 8+ years later. Now, in 2026, men's tennis is dominated by Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, both under 25 years of age Also, I don't think women's tennis has shown the same cartel effect in

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