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It lets me focus on the software architecture, not the minutiae. It feels exactly like when I ran a team of brand new interns. They require a lot of hand holding but with the right direction they get good at their jobs very fast.

There isn’t an easy way. There may be a way to enforce it when you connect to a remote site, but that requires the remote computer to implement it, not you.

Yeah I’ve used Rufus before to provision large numbers of windows machines… if this helps preserve the local account setup that’s a big deal to my workflow.

Huh that could be quite useful, I’ll keep that in mind next time I need to do maintenance on a friend’s computer.

Can it be easily set up without a Microsoft account?

Plus more biomass = more chances of something getting cancer in there somewhere.

I don’t think I ever used a divide symbol like that beyond elementary school. In practice always use fraction style notation for division because it’s not ambiguous or a gotcha.

When old memory of ordering stuff is out of the context window, she completely forgets what she has ordered in the past

Look I agree that AI is probably a terrible business manager… but this is irresponsible design on the researcher’s part. AI breaks past the context window with tool calling. If it doesn’t have a list inventory tool, it will obviously fail to do this correctly.

These techniques are built into virtually every coding harness today, if you’re not using them for a business harness, that’s negligent.

Not precisely true. Most LLMs (all frontier LLMs) are in fact designed at a fundamental level to increase engagement, using a technique called RLHF (reinforcement learning by human feedback). Essentially whichever responses cause people to use an LLM more are baked into its weights.

I’m more of an RFC 3339 kinda guy

They’re on Hoth

Ah, that’s what I was missing, and the article didn’t seem to mention at all. If you’re being paid by a foreign government while being paid by the domestic government that is a conflict of interest.

pleaded guilty to bribery

Ah yeah upon rereading again this is the phrase I missed.

So is it being paid by Beijing then? If so that makes perfect sense.

Yes, I’m aware. Does posting news articles really count as “acting as a foreign agent” though? It’s not like she was exfiltrating national secrets.

I’m sorry, what did she do that is considered illegal? Is that not free speech?

Unless the “propaganda” was making death threats, there’s nothing illegal about intentionally spreading foreign propaganda, is there?

Barocalorics is a really important field right now. I don’t actually think this category of tech is bullshit based on the core research I’ve been following.

Maybe this particular startup is, but the field is actually ready for a breakthrough. We need startups to take the risk of doing an initial manufacturing run or nothing will ever happen.

It would be embarrassing yes, but more likely to cause panic and death than a “farcical chase”.

I think they must be pushing back on the term “extortion” in the title, when it’s really “harassment“. I don’t think they implied that it’s fine, just that the title was not representative of the actual story.

Definitely Syndrome

Difficult to do it in a way that is physically consistent with a camera lens/sensor.

I don’t see any of the expected issues with AI (garbled text, impossible geometry, strange anatomy, etc) in this picture. Of course it’s quite possible to just edit a portion of an existing picture with AI, and it will match the rest. So I may have been overstating the difficulty.