stillpointlab

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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
I've heard it said that true understanding is demonstrated when someone can explain difficult concepts well. Tao manages to convey complex ideas without making me feel like he is condescending to me. His depth of understanding is unmis
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
I've been using Firefox as my main browser since I switched from Windows to Linux. No real complaints so far, haven't really noticed any difference from Chrome to be honest which is about as good a recommendation as I could give.
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
Also, they can literally train the LLM inside the VM they create so it becomes an expert in whatever tools are there. And since they control the entire sandbox, less permission issues are likely. I think they will become extremely vertical
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
Thank you, those were very helpful backgrounds on the situation in Fedora. I suspect it will take some time for their community process to digest and it suggests there is no explicit ruling at this time. But I would still love a page that w
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
I try not to think in black/white, good/evil kinds of terms. I think of forces and dynamic systems. There appears to be some force that promotes one particular way of thinking, perhaps the inevitable consequence of accumulated exp
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
"Human understanding" is not yet an objectively quantifiable metric that can be applied to code change sets. As it would only ever be self-reported (a claim made by a user submitting to a repo), I see little to no value in it.
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
One thing people go through as they age is an elevation of cynicism and general misanthropy. After decades of being disappointed when naive idealism and speculative optimism fail, one can just get down on it all. It is really hard not to su
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
Is anyone tracking how the different distros are coming down on the question? I was curious how Fedora is moving on this question, but I don't know where to look. And if one wants to hop distro either towards or away from AI, it would
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
I think 10 levels here is too much and hints that someone anchored on 10 as a round number and then forced the levels to fit after the fact. I don't really see much value beyond the 3 levels of AI disclosure that have been floating aro
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
What doesn't follow? Who said we should repeal section 230? Or to do so without replacing it? Not me, I said I was ambivalent about it; don't put words in my mouth. My words were: "there would have to be some similar provis
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
You are mostly right about my ambivalence (re: liability) but wrong about the conclusion. > no website could accept user content, ever, and you are effectively suggesting the end of public communication on the internet? That does not fol
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
I believe there is a double standard here compared to section 230 of the communications act. Platforms can't be held liable for speech on their platforms for a reason. For full disclosure: I feel ambivalent about that. I don't kno
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
I suppose it is a question of balance between: the entire web being better for all those that require accessibility vs. a subsection of that community holding their jobs. And it raises the possibility that the increased accessibility could
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
The state of affairs in the last 6 months bears almost no resemblance to the state of affairs in the last decade. No need to apologize, neither of us can predict the future. I am optimistic Fable-level models can succeed where the old not-a
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
I think people outside of enterprise have no idea the cost to audit and fix a massive website. The law is a forcing function here. Lawsuits can and do happen when sites of a certain size fail to implement government-mandated laws. This is a
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
I believe AI can be huge here. Things like ADA are often mechanical (adding the correct attributes to the most important page elements). It is the perfect work to audit and fix using agents. It is a business opportunity as well. I worked at
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
Having a SotA model do that sounds expensive. Who is paying for that? I think if OSS maintainers start pushing that financial burden out to potential contributors then there will be a big outcry. OSS may become pay-to-play.
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
Many CDNs do not support arbitrary Vary headers. Cloudfront, for example asks you to create a "Cache and Origin Request Policies" that gives you the ability to choose what headers are part of the request that gets sent to your o
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
I've spent time finally learning what tailscale is and how it works and I'm impressed. It's a rare thing in the technology world but I'm glad I finally took the time. I literally just figured out how tsnet fits into the
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
It took me some time to wrap my head around why WebMCP even exists. I was thinking that regular MCP + SSE/Websockets could cover almost all of the uses cases. One interesting use case for WebMCP is cross-site activities that a browser
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
100% - the iPod wasn't just good enough, it was more than enough for almost everyone. The Zune was firmly in the diminishing returns category by the time it came out.
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
I think we might just end up in an argument about what constitutes "weird", or an argument about how good record keeping for killings over the last 6000 years have been. Although I think we could agree that Texas keeps better reco
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
What Yegge describes in this post is something I have seen to a lesser extent in my own agent use. But one specific thing I noticed, which his inline comic lampoons, is Fable (especially) explicitly stating "[User] has ruled", or
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
Morality advances when those who see they could, decide that they should not. In fact, one might see true morality as requiring a decline of reward. If one abandons their principles as soon as a sufficient reward is offered, then they h
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
Of course there are many options, but the benefit of the SQLite approach is the existing tooling, support, etc. Like others have said, one could just write a SQL interface over a set of virtual tables derived from the actual elf (if one jus
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
It's interesting if you think of Solidarity in these terms. There is a kind of solidarity of persistence under harsh natural conditions. And another kind of solidarity of persistence under laws. So it might follow that the former group
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
This brought to mind the often quoted assumption that intelligence and compression are intimately related. A well edited letter may therefore be a sign of intelligence.
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
I'd give it some more time. My first interactions with Sol were not good. It cut a dangerous corner and I had to call it out. But I continued to work with it and found that it was mostly my own style of interacting that needed to chang
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
I think this is a narrow take, a bit like suggesting that women weren't historically discriminated against and putting forward Cleopatra as an example. Surely, rich and noble eccentrics have existed in the past with several notable exa
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by stillpointlab 1mo ago
I don't want to disagree with this article, my motivated reasoning as a weird person is strong. But my contrarian nature is winning. Uniformity seems to be a feature of scale. Institutions are just one form of scaled human intelligence

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