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Is it easier to rewrite Bun than it is to rewrite Claude?

The claim that existing languages add inefficiency for LLM's lacks supporting evidence. The complexity of software engineering, both for people and LLM's, comes from issues other than syntax.

Many mobile J2ME games in the 2005-2015 had a similar size and were impressive too. Sometimes a time window appears and creates the economic incentives for optimization ingenuity.

I wonder if the incentive structure shaped by the internal MS metrics has been updated to reflect this commitment. Otherwise, little is going to change.

Before applying sortition to the civil service, it'd be wise to observe how it works on a smaller scale. Some corporations may attempt it. Though it's more radical than the flat structure or other organization alternatives.

It'd be great if it supported stdin&stdout for text and wav. Then it could get piped right into afplay

Is this a request to bypass the sanctions?

Once you enter the stadium or a concert, you become a part of the captive market. There exists an incentive to limit your choices and extract as much value out of you as possible. The limit to that is mostly defined by the organizer decency and the amount of pushback.

The experience is usually better at the smaller venues that aren't a part of strong fandom and more sensitive to the customer sentiment: indie cinemas, comedy clubs, etc.

In USSR they actually recognized gifted students and placed them into specialized classes and schools where they would thrive. They treated it as a matter of national security. The math circles and dedicated schools with STEM had the state support. The "equity" applied to the later stages of life - an engineer or a scientist would earn not much more than a blue collar worker.

It matters where the constraints live. Inside of a codebase they are easier to change. Updating the database schema would be harder. On the protocol level it may be impossible if not all parties can be updated. However, if the protocol is too loosely specified, it could create other problems.

I have good memories about a website with ELF's for the Siemens phones. Its name had "kebab" in it. By any chance, was it you running it?

Which tools are capable of filling in a PDF form that has javascript?

I read Catcher in the Rye as a teenager. Even then I perceived some of that rebelliousness as trying too hard. A reminder that life at school sucks and many things are meaningless is hardly an epiphany.

Those books come from the times when the counterculture barely started getting commercialized. The market niche for the angsty teenagers, who self-identify as intellectuals, is quite filled with YA, movies and games. One modern outlet that comes to mind is the rationalist community - it provides a distinct perspective to view the world, together with the feeling that you see it better than others.

I think that in the event of a such a collapse, there would be two new directions: turning the surviving advanced digital devices into general computers, and building new electronics. Reusing existing common software would be easier than building something from scratch. So, I'd expect that postmarketOS and flavours of Linux for low-power machines meets most needs.

Also, it'd be fantastic if iPhones have a doomsday switch that untethers them from Apple - that'd be the difference between a useless brick and a precious artifact of a bygone era. The post-apocalyptic setting has potential for a game that comes from the perspective of a builder, and goes deeply into civil engineering and IT - build architecture that can withstand the elements, design a water chip, write embedded software for it.

Displaying more videos gives more choice to the users. It may also be slightly better for collecting data about the user. But that's reducing the impact of the algorithmic feed and is opposite to what tiktok does. I unironically agree with the prediction that the endgame is just one video.

This depends on how well this abstraction can be encapsulated. The systems with rigorous mathematical foundations often result in simple to use products that compose well. The 3d modelling relies on linear algebra, but the designers don't need to understand those details. The regular CSS involves very complex layout calculations too.

I'd call many of the non-Trump factions of the Republican Party conservative. But the current administration is far from that given their threats to the long-term allies, weakening NATO, and swift changes to the federal govt.

I think that the autonomous drone warfare is more of a near-term milestone than the goal. The goal itself seems to be AGI and the advances in the basic research and engineering that it brings.

I think that the social media is okay as long as no algorithmic feed gets involved. Visiting a few select tech subreddits doesn't affect me negatively. On other platforms the feed can't be avoided as easily.

This story goes as mad as a sub-plot in a Philip Dick novel. If a lot of weird stuff happens, how would this affect observers' estimation for the probability that we live in a simulation? I wonder if that was one of the intents.

Is the takeaway that the idea is bad or just the implementation? On web and mobile the hostile design is commonplace, and there is plenty of incentive for that to bleed more into the real world. Especially, if the physical world business is run by people who want the degree of nudging and surveillance found online.

Formerly known as Coq prover.

How does this work in practice once you run the application? The windows games are designed for a large screen and keyboard&mouse.

Both statements are true. As a baseline it's good to consider the price of the regular TV's before they got smart.

Even at the most blood-thirsty periods USSR had programs for gifted youth, math clubs at school, and even dedicated highly selective schools. They also had cheap entertaining pop-sci books. The schools would fail the students who don't pass the tests.

However, the scientists and engineers had a rather low salary, often lower than blue-collar workers'.

The equality of outcome can take many forms.

Terminals don't take much effort to maintain compared to a browser. But most browsers rely on the ad revenue. The business models of the old Opera or Arc feel fresh.

I wish exploring the integrations were easier. The plugin details are behind the sign-up barrier. I'd like to see a short description and a screenshot.

Western intelligence agencies have questioned whether such a plot could be the result of Russian spies carrying out a plan without the full authorization of the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the matter.

In an authoritarian society the incentive structure punishes taking initiative without approval. Kremlin recently jailed or killed even some pro-war nationalist journalists who appeared to act independently. I'm sure that Kremlin gave this a full authorization.

I'd guess that making the cars depend on the cloud so much that they are unusable without it is intentional and was a part of the pitch deck.

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