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by skybrian 5mo ago
Have any commercially interesting alloys been found? This article seems to be all about research.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
You're dismissing LLM-generated text as the "merest resemblance of thinking" when the way it resembles thinking is becoming increasingly useful. When I prompt a coding agent to fix a bug, it outputs text describing a hypothes
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Sounds like a nice setup. The way exe.dev does things seems somewhat similar.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Who wants to deal with YAML? Sometimes the easiest way to set up a VM is by talking to your phone: https://commaok.xyz/ai/just-in-time-software/ I mean, I don't do that, but I'll type a prompt.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
This is just one detail, but I think something must have gone wrong if you go for a walk and even the "city-owned sidewalk" seems part of an alienating scene? How are sidewalks part of the problem?
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by skybrian 5mo ago
> Scientists speculated that the uptick in attacks has been driven by a growing bear population, coupled with the year's bad acorn harvest, USA TODAY previously reported. These conditions created an area "overcrowded with hungr
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by skybrian 5mo ago
The article assumes there are people who want clusters. But a single Linux VM in the cloud can scale pretty far. Separate VM's for different apps works well for isolation. Why do I need a cluster?
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Writing property tests on functions that work with strings is a good way to find lots of Unicode issues.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
You can do that but you're laundering ignorance into precise-seeming mathematics. Better to just say "we're probably somewhere in the middle, not at the beginning or end" and leave it at that. Calling a peak is hard.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Yes, but figuring out when is the hard part.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Seems to me that the default is "I don't know what's going to happen" and if you're making a confident prediction, bring evidence. Scott makes a Lindy effect argument which is plausible, but don't let that fool
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by skybrian 6mo ago
I imagine we'll get to "good enough" for hobbyist programmers fairly quickly, but businesses will still be willing to pay more for faster and smarter. Why make your programmers wait?
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by skybrian 6mo ago
I tried Codex web. It kinda sucks and OpenAI doesn't seem to be promoting it? Look elsewhere if you want a Linux VM in the cloud. (I quite like exe.dev and they do have good mobile support.)
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by skybrian 6mo ago
I think the author agrees with that. He uses the history of the East India company as an example.
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by skybrian 6mo ago
Well, not in a simplistic way. He kind of fudges it: > The title Against Money is trying to do a few different things. First, it highlights the distinction between the network of money payments and values, on the one hand, and on the oth
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by skybrian 6mo ago
The first author is a professor of economics who seems to be some kind of socialist, but they readily admit that money is very useful. They're trying to get to grips with the nature of it. They're saying that some abstractions abo
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by skybrian 6mo ago
I found a newer blog post based on a speech the author gave with some ideas from their book. It's very long because he's talking about multiple related ideas, but I excerpted some quotes here: https://skybrian-links.exe
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by skybrian 6mo ago
For personal software, I'm using Linux VM's in the cloud that host personal websites. Using exe.dev has convinced me that's the way. For example, in this particular case, a native app limits you to viewing Markdown on your la
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by skybrian 6mo ago
This is a book excerpt. I didn’t find any in-depth reviews, but one of the authors posted a summary of the book here: https://jwmason.org/slackwire/against-money/
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by skybrian 6mo ago
> a team dedicated to the IntelliJ integration was formed around 2015 I don't know which team that was, but to add to that, official support for IntelliJ at Google started quite a bit earlier. I was the second person to join a team
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by skybrian 6mo ago
What’s an example where they took a side on taxes?
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by skybrian 6mo ago
> all mass and energy available is outside of Earth Manufacturing capabilities are quite lacking, though, in the short and medium terms, so this doesn't seem all that relevant. Maybe a self-contained, modular solar panel / radi
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by skybrian 6mo ago
There's a joke about how Win32 is the most stable API on Linux. Maybe they could do that :-) It might be a good way to get Steam compatibility?
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by skybrian 6mo ago
I don't know, but they do let you run Linux in a VM already on Chromebook. Hopefully that will continue.
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by skybrian 6mo ago
This seems sort of like asking whether a chatbot should answer you in English or Japanese. Obviously, it should use whichever language you understand. If you understand Python best, why not write code in Python? But on the other hand, maybe
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by skybrian 6mo ago
It doesn’t follow because the results for curl don’t necessarily generalize to other codebases. It’s evidence against Mythos being particularly dangerous, but it’s just one datapoint. It doesn’t invalidate the other security bugs Mythos all
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by skybrian 6mo ago
Yes, it requires you to have an approved device for certain tasks. But you can own multiple devices. You can use an approved device specifically for banking or Netflix and whatever device you like for all your other tasks. Maybe you could u
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by skybrian 6mo ago
If so that seems like an opportunity for people who want to work on applied math? There’s a big backlog of techniques that so far have not been useful.
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by skybrian 6mo ago
Ideally I'd like to standardize on something that disconnects easily rather than breaking a different part.
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by skybrian 6mo ago
Wouldn't they be more likely to give ChatGPT access to a Google Drive folder or some such? The tools the agent has for editing documents will be whatever the app they used implemented.

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