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by skybrian 5mo ago
That's too simple to get much adoption. It's unreasonable to expect websites to drop out of Google search.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I largely agree, but the RTA header doesn't seem to be good enough for most websites to use. When a website wants to block browsers with parental controls on, but it isn't porn and it shouldn't be blocked by SafeSearch, what
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by skybrian 5mo ago
It's unlikely to be oil either. Sometimes it's natural gas.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Maybe this just counts as “light use” since I’m a hobbyist programmer and I only run one coding agent session at a time, but I get about as much done as I did back when I was working while spending a lot of time browsing the Internet, etc.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
At some point you’ll have to do it without insurance or mortgages though. There are places on the island of Hawaii where neither are available due to volcano risk.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I wish we didn't have to guess about these things.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Shouldn't more supply result in lower prices?
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I guess you had bad luck working for teams that worked long hours. But as another datapoint, I worked at Google for more than a decade around that time period, for several different teams. Google did have a lot of amenities and people would
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Sometimes it will make a mess, but a coding agent is also very useful during the cleanup phase. Yes, that's assuming you take time to clean up now and then. If you don't, that's on you.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
People have dumbed down the Turing Test. The original was a party game like Werewolf/Mafia. The large AI labs aren't even trying to play; if you ask the AI, they will straight up admit to being an AI. They'd also have to get
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Great to see Firefox getting on board. I wrote an alternative to Arduino's serial plotter that works in Chrome. Hopefully it's not too hard to get Firefox working too? Patches welcome: https://github.com/skybrian&#
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by skybrian 5mo ago
RAM is a boom-and-bust industry, so memory manufacturers were reluctant to invest. Here's a good blog post on the economics: https://davidoks.blog/p/ai-is-killing-the-cheap-smartphone Maybe long-term purchase agre
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I'm doubtful that the companies telling their employees to burn more tokens are doing careful evaluations of cost versus benefit. People on an expense account don't shop around much. Maybe they'll penny-pinch later after runn
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by skybrian 5mo ago
My guess is that the popular US providers get a lot more traffic and are supply-limited. No point in lowering prices unless you can serve the traffic that will result.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
It can't see images so it doesn't do everything Sonnet will do. Still a good deal though.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Alternative article: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/china3...
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Leaving out types in public API's makes type errors hard to understand. Types should be declared in the API and bidirectional type inference used in the implementation. https://jimmyhmiller.com/easiest-way-to-build-type
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Don't focus on the headline too much. They diagnosed the problem and figured out a fix. > There were gaps in our safety training that led to Claude not appropriately learn how it should behave in the agentic misalignment scenarios a
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by skybrian 5mo ago
In a higher-level language, you wouldn't need to write code like this: const sp_fs_entry_t* a = (const sp_fs_entry_t*)pa; const sp_fs_entry_t* b = (const sp_fs_entry_t*)pb; return sp_str_compare_alphabetical(a->name, b->n
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Being first isn't necessarily good if you get it wrong, though. Laziness by default and Hindley-Milner type inference seem like mistakes that simply aren't going to get cleaned up. Other languages make their own mistakes too.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Apparently you haven't travelled much in the US. Outside the major cities it can be pretty desolate.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Whenever possible, I ask leading questions rather than telling it explicitly what to do. I give it a problem and ask it what changes would be needed and if there are any complications. If I don't like the plan it comes up with, then I
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by skybrian 5mo ago
It seems like GiveDirectly has figured it out somehow?
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by skybrian 5mo ago
On the other hand, those links have distracting ads and animations. And the article answers questions that I had based on the Google I/O announcement. (I don't normally read what's reported by rumor sites before the announcem
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by skybrian 5mo ago
My impression of the sample programs is that they're unreadably noisy, but maybe this would be a good compiler target if you're writing your own language?
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Could you share more about the rate increases? The newspaper articles I've seen seemed sketchy on how people were affected.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I don't see why they couldn't contract out to an American security firm that has access?
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by skybrian 5mo ago
As the article explains, they mostly haven't been disclosed, because they're not fixed. They're giving people 90 days, or 45 after a patch is made.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Different people can have different experiences without contradiction. Maybe the curl source code was pretty clean to begin with?
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Step-up basis is important for anyone who inherits property from their parents. That can be substantial in places like California where real estate has gone up a lot. And for inherited rental property, there is another huge loophole: you ca

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