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by mbreese 4mo ago
I’m not sure I agree with all of your takes either. For example, I’m not anti-AI for coding, so that immediately made me click away. I’m glad I read the comments though because I think the take of “not using your code to train AI” makes a l
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by mbreese 4mo ago
I’m not going to defend Fisher here. It was a stupid thing for someone to do. But unless you’re in the field, you won’t realize exactly how big ThermoFisher actually is. They are the major supplier of everything for molecular biology work
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by mbreese 4mo ago
This is the thing. Yes, the marketing material is bad. But, no one in lab trusts an antibody just because of where you bought it. A new antibody always gets tested and validated before use. That is to say, this looks bad for Thermo Fisher.
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by mbreese 4mo ago
She has her own GitHub account. It’s funny weird, but in a good way methinks. I’m thinking of it this way - if your spouse’s GH account was breached and blocked, would you let them use your account? I would not… This isn’t her account issue
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by mbreese 4mo ago
I have to agree. I’m interested in the project, so congrats. It’s something I might really like using. But the one thing I expected to see in the Readme was an example of: takes this tool run output: XXXXXX and converts it to: XX for a savi
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by mbreese 4mo ago
I think it’s a question of cost/benefit. For the researcher, it can take a lot of extra time and effort (and skill) that they might not have. A unoptimized job that takes four days to run is still faster than taking a week to optimize
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by mbreese 4mo ago
Yes it is common, just not always to the scale of a Veritasium video. Usually it’s just the press office for a university putting out a press release or a summary article in Scientific American. But in the case where the story is interestin
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by mbreese 4mo ago
I don't think I've ever installed a printer's app on my Mac. I have a reflex against it. The Mac has decent support for printers and scanners built-in, so did you need an App at all? That's one thing that bugs me about h
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by mbreese 5mo ago
What's coming out in two weeks?
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by mbreese 5mo ago
Many HPC jobs aren’t simulations that are CPU bound. In fact, most of the jobs on the clusters I’ve used have been single-node jobs (so technically HTC, but that term is rarely used). I do genomics work and my jobs tend to be bursty. They m
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by mbreese 5mo ago
I'm not sure that's such a bad thing. It's not going to challenge the Apple M5, but if you're specifically looking for something in the "not-Mac" market, having a laptop-sized version of the DGX is probably goi
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Open source project contains hidden instruction for "AI" agents: delete my code(osnews.com)
17 points by mbreese 5mo ago|3 comments
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by mbreese 5mo ago
Let’s not ignore that dependencies are far more common in JS than any of those other languages. My Go or Python projects generally only include a handful of external packages. Node projects on the other hand…
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by mbreese 5mo ago
(Many) Windows admins have no idea what to do with Macs. It’s very easy for overzealous agent antivirus and firewall software to suck up CPU resources. Particularly when it is written by a company with no idea how to write Mac software, bou
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by mbreese 5mo ago
Their rant was about any and all AI notices in commits. They specifically state that merge requests is where that belongs. I personally disagree and think commit messages makes the most sense. But I also think it's up to the personal p
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by mbreese 5mo ago
> Sent from my iPhone. I agree. It's both an ad and a useful signal of where the code came from or how it was created. Just like the default iPhone email signature, it's an ad and a hint that the author was typing with their
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by mbreese 5mo ago
With each manufacturer doing their own thing, you’re also dependent upon each company keeping their servers online for X years. And when they inevitably decide that this isn’t the market for them (eg Belkin Wemo), you’re stuck with switches
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by mbreese 5mo ago
Do you still need to run a Linux VM to get WiFi working? The last time I tried FreeBSD on a laptop, that was a thing. It’s just never been all that focused on laptop/mobile use. I’ve used it as a desktop (okay) and as a server (wonderf
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by mbreese 5mo ago
Yeah, I'm not sure what to think here. We know Google is not the best at customer service and has automated account suspensions. But, what I'm curious about here is why this happened. Railway hosts applications for customers. An u
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by mbreese 5mo ago
I'm not sure it's that clear, and the taxes might not be the point. If this halts construction of second homes in the higher price ranges, then those construction crews will still need to do something . So, that might make it pos
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by mbreese 5mo ago
I think the point is to add a bit more friction to the process. You want to make it so that people can do it with minimal effort and an AI bot will give up. If you're in an arms race over AI commits and PRs, this is a decent middle gro
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by mbreese 5mo ago
> the article says they sold 3,000 total in the last decade. >It also doesn't help that they seemingly had issues scaling up I think these two things were highly related. Same with the cost. They couldn’t figure out how to sc
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by mbreese 5mo ago
Even if an enterprise customer was prepaying, that would only show up on a cash balance statement, not as revenue for the month it was collected in. Yes, this is based on accrual in accounting terms. But because the revenue isn’t recognized
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by mbreese 5mo ago
When do you use it the most? I’ve noticed that it most often starts to degrade during 10-5 US East coast time. Late at night, I have the least amount of issues, but without fail, if I’m trying to do anything complex during the day, Claude g
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by mbreese 5mo ago
The kind of person who only knows Python or has learned a bit by following a Python tutorial. There are a lot more resources for people who are just starting to learn programming in Python. I can also see a use-case where there is an image
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by mbreese 5mo ago
See here [1] for more information on the rationale behind this. [1] https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/4/distributing-go-binarie...
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by mbreese 5mo ago
But every abstraction that an LLM has to write is a choice. Your way of writing Python may not match that choice. The next run of the agent might not choose the same way. Because the language gives you many different tools, an LLM generated
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by mbreese 5mo ago
I have a language I wrote for processing data pipelines. I’ve used it for years, but I can count the number of users on one hand. I wrote it partially to learn about writing a scripting language, partially because Nextflow didn’t exist yet.
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by mbreese 5mo ago
That’s what I’ve settled on. Python is so flexible that there are a million ways to organize code, pass arguments, etc. If you already have a code base to work from, an LLM can make new code in the style of the old code. But a fresh project
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by mbreese 5mo ago
Canvas will send emails when grades are posted, but not what the grade is. Or at least that’s the way in the configurations I’ve seen. So, that wouldn’t help in a case where no one can access the canvas gradebook.

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