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by phtrivier 6mo ago
Not mine, to be honest. And people keep comparing compulsive binge watching to the "infinite jest" from D.C.Wallace (I could not tell, the brick is sitting barely touched on my shelves, but I'm not insulting the future.) I&#x
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
Soma (aka tiktok) and Big Brother (aka Meta) already happened without government coercion, only makes sense that we optimize ourselves for newspeak. Thank God there is still neverending wars, otherwise authoritarian governments would have n
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
Colbert spent months riffing on the "pee-pee-tape". Which, as far as I know, has never been substantiated. So, of course, maybe Moscow has something about Trump. Or maybe Trump is just playing everyone, including himself.
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
To be honest, I was thinking as much about Russia as about China, but I fumbled my geography by over-easting Moscow. Sorry.
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
To win the war another time, I guess ? To be fair, he told us we would get "tired of winning". On a more serious note : could it be that iranian air defense is being supplemented by an ally ? Someone further east ? Or, simply, tha
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by phtrivier 6mo ago
At some point someone will stop joking that Trump is a "Russian asset" and start assuming that he's paid by Xi to ensure a millenia of Chinese domination. Which would be wrong of course : he's ensuring millenia of Chines
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by phtrivier 7mo ago
Oh, do we agree on that. I never said it was "smart" - I just had a theory that would explain why such code could exist (see my longer answer below).
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by phtrivier 7mo ago
You believe it's just a fake ? (That would be ironic if the fake was generated by... claude itself. Anyway.)
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by phtrivier 7mo ago
Sorry, I was not clear enough. My first word was litteraly "Yes", so I agree that a function like this is a maintenance nightmare for a human. And, sure, the code might not be "optimized" for the LLM, or token efficienc
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by phtrivier 7mo ago
Maybe the OP could clarify, I don't like reading leaked code, but I'm curious: my understanding is that is it the source code for "claude code", the coding assistant that remotely calls the LLMs. Is that correct ? The w
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by phtrivier 7mo ago
Yes, if it was made for human comprehension or maintenance. If it's entirely generated / consumed / edited by an LLM, arguably the most important metric is... test coverage, and that's it ?
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by phtrivier 7mo ago
In a battle of "this narrative has been debunked" / "no it has not", the person who can provide links to inquiry on the narrative kinda prevails over the person who does not provide links to the debunk. I say "
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by phtrivier 7mo ago
It would be on the top of banned books in Texas schools. That being said, the first few pages of "The Ministry for the future" will make a great first episode for an HBO show, someday... (or whatever network is not own by an oil c
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by phtrivier 7mo ago
I'd feel obliged to add some "but, her emails..." reference. But it feels million years away. It's interesting to wonder how you get out of a spiral of incompetence and border-line (to be polite) corrumption at the highe
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by phtrivier 7mo ago
A suggestion : is there any info to provide in diffs that is faster to parse than "left" and "right" ? Can the system have enough data to print "bob@foo.bar changed this" ?
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by phtrivier 7mo ago
> China has, however, been relatively insulated from the crisis due to its ample emergency oil reserves and high rate of electrification, with EVs representing more than half of its domestic new car sales and its grid more than 50% pow
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by phtrivier 7mo ago
Asking money to people in order to read stuff, and promoting the one people are actually ready to part with real money to read, is a first interesting step. (See: substack, Patreon,etc...) I know this is going to sound horrible, but : how a
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by phtrivier 7mo ago
Missing the joke here. The pdf if about a Common Lisp compiler, written in Common Lisp, C, and assembly for good measure.
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by phtrivier 8mo ago
I think, in the middle of all the grandiose proponents of "AGI is coming any time soon", "AI is going to cure cancer", "LLMs will fix climate change", "ChatGPT will bring back your estranged lover", e
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by phtrivier 8mo ago
It's a short and quick blog post. Bloggers used to do that once in a while (before twitter made it the only allowed mode of expression to please the advertisers.) Other posts from G.Marcus are much longer. Go read them, but be prepared
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by phtrivier 8mo ago
Verhoeven fans would simply call it "a glitch".
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by phtrivier 8mo ago
The USA were pretty clearly on the "better side" of conflicts in 1941-1945, during the Cold War (at least as far as Europe and the Marshall plan was concerned). In Koweït and central Europe during the 90s. You may even argue for A
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by phtrivier 8mo ago
I now realize that terminator 3 would have been even funnier, and even less credible, if the people plugging skynet to atomic weapons were sounding like the current US administration. Anyway. I really hope I'll get close enough to the
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by phtrivier 8mo ago
The joke used to be: "- What's tiny, yellow and very dangerous ?" "- A chick with a machine gun" Corrolary: "- What's tall, wearing camouflage, and very stupid ?" "- The military who let the chic
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by phtrivier 8mo ago
So, the next version of Jurassic Park will have a talking velociraptor ? (More honest question: is there enough info in the skeletons / fossils that we have to exclude the possiblity that birds ancestors could modulate sound enough to
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by phtrivier 8mo ago
Is anthropic using ads ? Is mistral using ads ? Is déepseek using ads ? Google, meta, and amazon, sure, of course. It's interesting that the "every company" part is only open ai... They're now part of the "bad guys
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by phtrivier 8mo ago
It's unfortunately very possible that someone else is filling the "bring underage girls to rich guys" part (seriously, we have to "teach this fantasy out" for most little boys) ; but it might be someone more discret
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by phtrivier 8mo ago
To be fair with OP, the hype about what the tool is "supposed" to be doing ("your accountants will rebuild the ERP over the week end, you don't need programmers, etc...") is setting a dev up for frustration. Personn
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by phtrivier 8mo ago
> Many people have pointed out that a lot of the viral comments were in fact posted by people posing as bots Has "people posing as bots" ever appeared in cyberpunk stories ? This sounds like the kind of thing that no author wou
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by phtrivier 8mo ago
Honest question, though I suspect you won't be able to give a complete answer : how shielded are you from political changes ? When the next president takes office, and they're more aligned with Trump than the current administratio

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