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by skybrian 7mo ago
I think for this to work you need some kind of complexity budget. AI's are good at optimizing but you need to give them the right goals.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
I think you're underestimating the difficulty, even for exact copies of text (which AI mostly isn't doing). What sort of Orwellian anti-cheat system would prevent copy and paste from working? What sort of law would mandate that? T
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by skybrian 7mo ago
On the other hand, if a dead person can do it better than you can, it's not that much of an accomplishment.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
What's an example of a decentralized system that protects people from scammers?
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by skybrian 7mo ago
There are alternate implementations of the whole Bluesky stack, though they don't have many users yet.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Which fediverse leaders do you mean?
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by skybrian 7mo ago
The Bluesky API's are much more open than the Twitter API's ever were. There are people building alternate implementations of the entire stack. The alternatives don't have many users (maybe a few hundred to a few thousand), b
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by skybrian 7mo ago
The people doing the building seem pretty positive, but on Bluesky there are some pretty vocal complainers who apparently hate everything.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
I'm a fan of smaller communities that are semi-open: invite-only, but invites aren't that hard to get. Lobsters works that way. The BlueSky folks are designing "permission spaces" [1] that might be used to build that, th
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Pretty much everyone would hate it if a relative lost their life savings to a scammer, though they may not know it yet. The idea isn't to protect the power users or average users. It's to protect the most vulnerable. Android is fo
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by skybrian 7mo ago
How about putting an idea or a vibe-coded demo out there in hopes that others will copy it, because you want it to exist and become more common? But it's less work if someone else maintains it. This is free as in free puppy.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
One potential reason is that Go does drop support for older OSes sometimes. For example, Go 1.22 is the newest version that works with older Mac OSes. https://go.dev/doc/go1.22#darwin
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by skybrian 7mo ago
You could think of what they did in the first study as constructing an exam to test how well various LLM's do as an advice columnist. They wanted a lot of personal advice questions where the LLM should not affirm by default. If a few
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Getting your directions from Google Maps might make you seem more knowledgeable about a city's geography than you actually are. However, what does it mean to say that's deceptive? It means you care more about social signalling tha
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by skybrian 7mo ago
The git repo is here: https://github.com/scip-code/scip Looks like it's defined using protocol buffers, with "rich Go and Rust bindings" and links to implementations for many other languages.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Before calling it "the worst", I'd like more detail on how to do the comparison with the oil crises of the 1970's. My guess is that modern economies might be somewhat less oil-dependent than they were then, because the a
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by skybrian 7mo ago
These "truths" are more like concerns. Skills do atrophy if you don't practice them, but also, refreshing your memory about some technology you haven't used in a while, or even learning something new, is easier than ever
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by skybrian 7mo ago
The economics for seasonal storage are very tough. Taking advantage of the day-night cycle is a lot more doable; assuming capital costs are the same, storage pays for itself many times faster.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Pre-cooling makes sense. Also, in the evening, whole house fans are pretty great. It seems like we have a lot of options? I’m in the SF bay area, though, so that’s playing on easy mode.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
The safety improvements seem pretty substantial, though.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
AC use largely corresponds with peak solar, though, so it doesn't seem like a particularly tough problem to solve? In California, there's often a surplus of solar energy on hot days.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Sadly it doesn’t seem to do anything innovative to protect your api keys from getting exfiltrated by tricking the AI. Looks like they are stored in an ordinary config file: https://docs.stripe.com/stripe-cli/keys
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by skybrian 7mo ago
It will be a boost for renewables, but hardly the end for natural gas. Keep in mind that while ~20% of natural gas was supplied via the Persian Gulf, that means 80% was not. I expect that batteries will eventually solve the day-night cycle
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by skybrian 7mo ago
Haven't tried it, but this rewrite might be better? https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/beads_rust
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by skybrian 7mo ago
I think you're just recalling the few software products that were actually good. There was plenty of crap software that would crash and lose your work in the old days.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
People don't realize how much software engineering has improved. I remember when most teams didn't use version control, and if we did have it, it was crappy. Go through the Joel Test [1] and think about what it was like at compani
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by skybrian 7mo ago
This doesn't seem like a good cost-benefit analysis for AI. Not sure what that would look like, but it seems like making some attempt to quantify the benefits would help.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
This seems to be an inference-time optimization and they are putting AI on every search result page. That seems like plenty of incentive to optimize.
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by skybrian 7mo ago
It's not like how it's done in that paper, but oddly enough I did end up implementing some conversions in both directions, from an array of choices to a JavaScript object and back again. https://jsr.io/@skybrian&#x
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by skybrian 7mo ago
True, but I think you still want to avoid Homebrew if you're interested in older Mac versions. A specific project might have some support for the version you're interested in. For example, the Go 1.23 toolchain (which isn't t

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