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by xpe 7mo ago
CONVENIENCE > SECURITY : until no convenience b/c no system to run on
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by xpe 7mo ago
"A witty saying proves nothing." ― Voltaire 1767 Tytler's quote is trying to say too much. It might be acceptable as historical commentary, but it carries little weight to me; it seems overly confident about what the future m
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by xpe 7mo ago
CEL looks interesting and useful, though it isn't common nor familiar imo (not for me at least). Quoting from https://github.com/google/cel-spec # Common Expression Language The Common Expression La
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by xpe 7mo ago
Not "new" but hopefully useful. Some earlier discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28259104 (2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29363054 (2021) https://news
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SQLite has STRICT typing (since 3.37, 2021)(sqlite.org)
4 points by xpe 7mo ago|1 comments
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by xpe 7mo ago
> Fun fact: Palantir is powered entirely by Claude Charitably, this is ambiguous. What does the commenter mean exactly by "entirely"?
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by xpe 7mo ago
> All things equal, you’d be better off not exposing yourself to risk of financial harm or other punitive measures. This isn't necessarily true. This is a complex decision; the logic above frames the decision narrowly, with a short-
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by xpe 7mo ago
> and incompatible with grep syntax, which makes it useless to most system admins I wonder how much the above reflects a dated and/or stereotyped view? Who here works with "sysadmins"? I mean... devops-all-the-places now,
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by xpe 7mo ago
> we're working on a new terminal sequence specification that would allow terminal programs to expose any of their actions directly in the command palette (e.g. imagine Neovim commands being fully available in the command palette).
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by xpe 7mo ago
Not just macOS: "The command palette is bound by default to ctrl+shift+p on GTK and cmd+shift+p on macOS." > The command palette exposes almost every available keybind. > This has some immediate benefits, namely that you can
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Command Palette ⌘⇧P since Ghostty 1.2 (2025-09-15)(ghostty.org)
1 points by xpe 7mo ago|2 comments
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by xpe 7mo ago
Definitely a wild read. Bill has a certain style of writing; here is my favorite part: > So I gave up and sent mail to Amir saying - where is > this Moviemaker download? Does it exist? > > So they told me that using th
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by xpe 7mo ago
Do you think the design direction of “chat first” is compatible with editor first? I don’t know if any tools do both well. Seems like a fork in the road, design wise.
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by xpe 7mo ago
If Bill is reading this: Another way to commit to quality would be (a) fund a $200M+ open source foundation to migrate/port/rewrite all of Windows (drivers, utilities, applications) to Linux; (b) give the foundation full IP rights
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by xpe 7mo ago
I would broaden the list of risks: - Pandas is interwoven into downstream projects. So it will be here to stay for a long time. This is good for maintenance and stability. Advantage: Pandas. - OTOH, the Pandas experience is awful; this was
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by xpe 7mo ago
> [Polars] is much more logical and has far fewer surprises compared to Pandas A kind understatement imo. For me, the following experiences are highly coupled in my brain: "I'm using Pandas" + "I'm feeling a weir
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by xpe 7mo ago
What kinds of actionable plans ever result from blaming people (as a category)? Where will it get you? Expecting some people to behave differently... just "because"? What kinds of plans flow downstream from blaming human nature? W
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by xpe 7mo ago
> Will humans take this to heart and actually do the right thing? Sadly, probably not. Don’t blame the people, blame the system. Identifying the problem is just the first step. Building consensus and finding pragmatic solutions is hard.
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by xpe 7mo ago
Well said: > Before LLMs, [high quality code contribution] was easier to sense because you were limited to communicating what you understood. With LLMs, it’s much easier to communicate a sense of understanding to the reviewer, but the re
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by xpe 7mo ago
Public service announcement to hopefully reduce unnecessary knife fights*: There are two compatible and important (but different) questions in play: 1. Is a program correct relative to a formal specification? 2. Is the formal specificatio
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by xpe 7mo ago
Yes “open weights” conveys the reality more clearly: merely having the parameters is very different than able to run a process that creates them. Without openness of the full process start to finish, much is hidden.* Remember, language is
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by xpe 7mo ago
> I don't know why you created a new account for this What value does this add to the conversation? I’m not seeing it: am I missing something? It comes across as a kind of insult. They made a good point in my opinion! (The “Uhm no”
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by xpe 7mo ago
The main point I want to make now is: running different experiments based on different policies and approaches is valuable. Different online communities navigate this space in different ways. > Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and
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LessWrong Policy on LLM Use(lesswrong.com)
10 points by xpe 7mo ago|4 comments
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by xpe 7mo ago
The balls-from-the-sky sieve-style animation* showing classifications literally falling out of the decision tree is my favorite part. I haven't seen this anywhere else (yet); this visualization technique deserves more percolation (pun
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by xpe 7mo ago
Hello and welcome. I appreciate your philosophical background; we need more of that around here imo. In a totally unrelated question /s, have you seen the movie Get Out by Jordan Peele? :P For philosophical discussions of AI, I much pr
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by xpe 7mo ago
First, please don't take this as an endorsement of minimum-effort posting (of any kind, whether LLM-assisted or not). I feel the need to say this because people seem to be on hair-trigger alert for anything that seems in any way to den
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by xpe 7mo ago
It seems like ^ and ^^ agree to me. Am I missing something?
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by xpe 7mo ago
> but proving correctness is one of those basically impossible tasks. To aim for a meeting of the minds... Would you help me out and unpack what you mean so there is less ambiguity? This might be minor terminological confusion. It is pos
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by xpe 7mo ago
I want to point out two conversational disconnects and offer some feedback, person to person. I edited my post a bit, so maybe you replied to a previous draft of mine. Anyhow, in terms of what we can see now, I want to clear up a few things

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