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by pxc 6mo ago
One of Anthropic's ostensive ethical goals is to produce AI that is "understandable" as well as exceptionally "well-aligned". It's striking that some of the same properties that make AI risky also just make it
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by pxc 6mo ago
The approach you outline is totally compatible with an additional one or two day time gate for the artifact mirrors that back prod builds. Deploy in locked-down non-prod environments with strong monitoring after the scans pass, wait a few d
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by pxc 6mo ago
Install tools using a package manager that performs builds as an unprivileged user account other than your own, sandboxes builds in a way that restricts network and filesystem access, and doesn't run let packages run arbitrary pre&#x2F
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by pxc 6mo ago
How is ortholinear supposed to be better? I've never used a full-size ortholinear keyboard but every time I've had one on a portable keyboard or mobile device it has driven me nuts (and staggered keyboards of the same sizes have n
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by pxc 6mo ago
> I never thought about battery life while the lid is closed until my Framework. In the days of S3, I never thought about it either. Ironically it's on my Mac that I have to remember to hibernate if I won't use my laptop for a
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by pxc 6mo ago
Wow. For as long as I can remember it was usually the opposite for me. Even after configuring TLP and looking for things to tune manually with powertop, I usually didn't get battery usage quite as low as I wanted. I thought it was stil
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by pxc 6mo ago
HP Envy does have OLED screen options. I'd assume it's what they have, if they thought dark mode was relevant.
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by pxc 6mo ago
Is Framework open to an OLED panel option in the future? I have an eye disease that makes extremely high contrast and extremely deep blacks very helpful to me, since it means I can get good contrast with less total light. I can still read L
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by pxc 6mo ago
Me, neither! I just had someone suggest to me yesterday that I was "holding it wrong" for preferring a real click mechanism on my trackpads.
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by pxc 6mo ago
I doubt they had one. Context.ai got acquihired by OpenAI when it was still a very small company. I think they were winding down the original business, so it's unlikely that it grew after that.
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by pxc 6mo ago
Some of these are consequences of what makes them feel "premium" or even "solid". Aluminum is a terrible material for bumps and drops because it dents , and that often damages the internal components.
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by pxc 6mo ago
Systems that have trackpoints have physical mouse buttons, so you can just do real right clicks. Scrolling typically has its own input combo: hold the middle mouse button plus push the trackpoint to scroll in whatever direction you're
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by pxc 6mo ago
Sure, I can tell you one thing that's different right now: I use third-party software to get a three-finger middle click. If Apple's operating system weren't missing basic features like the ability to middle click via the tra
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by pxc 6mo ago
Amarok was way better than iTunes in that era. Massively better UI, separation of playback queue from collection browsing, plugin ecosystem, better metadata fetching including lyrics support... And its dynamic playlists were way more capabl
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by pxc 6mo ago
It's also annoying that macOS doesn't already have at least basic per-app volume mixing. So much pain in macOS is in areas like this, trying to hack basic features back into the anemic OS. Apple's "OS" updates typic
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by pxc 6mo ago
> I don't know about Thinkpads, but the utterly pleasant glass trackpad is still one of the things I cannot find on most non-Mac laptops, despite every manufacturer being able to copy it for years. I was never a trackpad person unti
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by pxc 6mo ago
A fun little adventure either way! I'm sure you won't regret having learned a little more about these writing systems. :)
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by pxc 6mo ago
> UX problem, blame the engineer. [...] Documentation problem, blame the engineer. I see UX and usable documentation as among my responsibilities as a developer. It's not that I "blame" myself if the documentation is confu
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by pxc 6mo ago
There are manners of speaking (and whole languages) that are more explicit and manners of speaking that are more implicit/contextual. There's a tradeoff between doing disambiguation work in expression vs. in interpretation, and pe
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by pxc 6mo ago
OpenAI owns Contexts.ai, doesn't it?
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by pxc 6mo ago
Absent any distinctive Japanese scripts or other Japanese writing in context, it probably makes more sense to call those Chinese characters, since those characters for numbers were taken directly from Chinese and still retain the same/
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by pxc 6mo ago
> One thing I immediately like more than Claude is that Codex seems much more transparent about what it’s thinking and what it wants to do next. I find it much easier to interrupt or jump in the middle if things are going to wrong direct
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by pxc 6mo ago
That's true, but the leakage component is characteristic of many kinds of breaches and not specific to ransomware. Likewise its defenses are not ransomware-specific.
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by pxc 6mo ago
> If you have a limited budget of tokens as a defender, maybe the best thing to spend them on is not red teaming, but formalizing proofs of your code's security. You can only do this if you have a very clear sense of what your code
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by pxc 6mo ago
Could this be a bit of a Dropbox moment? What it adds is making this kind of thing easy for normies , even if it's neither the best way to do things nor very difficult for hobbyists to do using existing tech. Maybe it's the wrong
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by pxc 6mo ago
If you log in only by the code or magic link, it's not 2FA because there's only one factor
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by pxc 6mo ago
It does stuff like this all the time. It loves doing this with scripts with sed, so I'm not surprised to hear about it trying to do this with binaries. It's definitely wilder, though
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by pxc 6mo ago
The bigger problem for me is that the realtime voice modes lack tool use, so they can't look anything up or do anything. Model strength definitely also matters, but even dumb models can be helpful when they can look things up and try t
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by pxc 6mo ago
It's not often presented as "we should be spending more", but it's absolutely true that cybersecurity is predominated by a reflexive "more is better" bias. "Defense in depth" is at least as often invo
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by pxc 6mo ago
Companies spend a ton of money on very sophisticated, powerful, invasive, and expensive software to protect themselves against ransomware. But the best antidote to many forms of ransomware isn't security software at all— it's offl

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