

it’s said that he used to get drunk at dinners, lean over to the person sitting next to him, and repeatedly say “i’m going to annihilate you”


the only languages that don’t have an escape hatch of some sort are languages with no safety in the first place. the escape hatch is an important part of treating your developer like an adult


who’s gonna stop them? if they strike before iran’s nukes are ready, what will the consequences be for the entity?


is it possible that if iran does start developing nukes the zionists will launch their own nukes to try to stop it?


i agree with everything you said about signal, but i’m uncomfortable with a lot of the alternatives. a cryptographer i follow has written about a couple of these: xmpp, matrix three or four times (linked in the introduction to the post), others


maybe his $PS1 just happens to have a tilde in it


china is making webpages that are less than 20 megabytes…but at what cost?
it’s tokenization and it’s so racist


yeah, like where the “any” key is on their keyboard


that’s why aldous huxley was a better author


that’s a great point but wouldn’t the output for a solved problem like “make a working C compiler in rust” work better if the temperature/randomness were zero? or am i fundamentally misunderstanding?


they don’t care. they expect to be able to say “our AI agent made a C compiler that passed 99% of our tests”


any llm must have several C compilers in its training data, so it would be a reasonably competent almost-clone of gcc/clang/msvc anyway, right?
is what i would have said if you didn’t put that last part
looks optional, for now…