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by spankalee 8mo ago
I really don't understand why a zip file isn't a good solution here. Just because is requires "special" zip software on the server?
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by spankalee 8mo ago
Wow, this looks potentially amazing! I've been look for a way to use Git for smaller, high volume document storage - think something like Google docs where every doc is a repo and every change is a commit - but also, where the vast maj
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by spankalee 8mo ago
Since a human can also be a "plagiarism machine" (it's a potential copyright violation for both me and an LLM alike to create images of Mickey Mouse for commercial uses) it'll matter exactly what the output is, won'
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by spankalee 8mo ago
> the ones who are having a magic robot write a thousand lines of code that almost, but not quite, does something sensible Gee, I wonder which "side" you're on? It's not true that all AI generated code looks like it d
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by spankalee 8mo ago
Not really. One version of this might look like implementing agents and tools in WASM and running generated code in WASM, and gluing together many restricted fine-grained WASM components in a way that's safe but allows from high-level
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by spankalee 8mo ago
I think at least a few teams are working on information flow control systems for orchestrating secured agents with minimal permissions. It's a critical area to address if we really want agents out there doing arbitrary useful stuff for
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by spankalee 8mo ago
This is very, very wrong, IMO. We need more sandboxes and more granular sandboxes. A VM is too coarse grained and doesn't know how to deal with sensitive data in a structured and secure way. Everything's just in the same big box.
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by spankalee 8mo ago
SBA loans and other state funding...
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by spankalee 8mo ago
> The topology shouldn't be hardcoded; it should emerge from the task's entropy What does this even mean?
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by spankalee 8mo ago
I'd be curious about situations where human drivers have caused the deaths of people who didn't sign the driver's TOS.
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by spankalee 8mo ago
I'm not a C programmer - having coded in high-level languages only for the past 20 years - but I've been doing a lot of WASM recently, and eagerly looking forward to the stack switching proposal so I don't have to implement a
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by spankalee 8mo ago
Wireit does both DAG and content-addressing. It figerprints the inputs and outputs of dependencies. And you run scripts externally with plain `npm run` commands. It's really beautiful.
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by spankalee 8mo ago
Wireit really is that. The script declares dependencies and input, Wireit caches based on the direct inputs and dependency outputs.
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by spankalee 8mo ago
This happens with all agents I've used and package.json files for npm. Instead of using `npm i foo` the agent string-edits package.json and hallucinates some version to install. Usually it's a kind of ok version, but it's not
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by spankalee 8mo ago
Parallel and sequential, especially at the command level, are really the wrong abstractions for running scripts. If you have multiple packages, each with builds, there's a high chance you have dependencies and multiple packages dependi
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by spankalee 8mo ago
I'm working on what I hope is an AI-first language now, but I'm taking the opposite approach: something like Swift/DartTypeScript with plenty of high level constructs that compactly describe intent. I'm focusing on very
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by spankalee 8mo ago
Large swaths of many European cities are like this. Copenhagen has a huge pedestrianized shopping area and it's amazing.
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by spankalee 8mo ago
Good thing that this article is not arguing for the elimination of parking!
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by spankalee 8mo ago
There are almost no Walmarts in urban centers.
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by spankalee 8mo ago
Solar panels do not solve the problem of parking lots being community dead zones. You can put solar panels on anything - it'd be better if it were housing, a store, a pub, etc. than a parking lot.
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by spankalee 8mo ago
Changing street parking prices is a lot easier than changing buildings built with previous parking requirements. I'd say change the requirements first, then if there's a surge in street parking demand there will be natural pressur
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by spankalee 9mo ago
I used to work for a competitor of NI that went out of business years ago. NI's polish, attention to detail, and focus on UX was always pretty extraordinary, I could just tell at the time they were going to crush us even when they were
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by spankalee 9mo ago
There is actually a huge difference between checking in all of your dependencies and checking in a lock-file. Some people work with hundreds of repositories on their local machine and checking in dependencies would lead to massive bloat. It
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by spankalee 9mo ago
Yeah, npm never has "version lock" where it can't figure out a valid solution to the version constraints. This is mostly good, but version lock does encourage packages to accept wide ranges of dependencies, and to update thei
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by spankalee 9mo ago
They had a lot more than metadata on Enrique Tarrio.
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by spankalee 9mo ago
The J6 insurrectionists committed real crimes, and it's very good that they were rounded up, but afaiu most of the evidence had to do with them provably assaulting officers, damaging property, and breaking into a government building. N
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by spankalee 9mo ago
I think if you're going to argue that we shouldn't have contemporary immigration because of the harm to native Americans, then you should show what harm is caused _now_, that native Americans actually oppose immigration, and proba
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by spankalee 9mo ago
American is built on immigration, and nearly all of us are immigrants or very recent descendants of immigrants. How in the world has immigration harmed Americans?
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by spankalee 9mo ago
Yes - very, very dumb people did vote for him.
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by spankalee 9mo ago
If they could arrest people for what they've been doing, they would have already arrested people. And they have arrested a few here and there for "assault" (things like daring to react when being shoved by an annoyed officer)

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