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He was effectively paid to by a soverign fund, the fact it aligned with his interests was a bonus.

I do remember waiting for the formulaic “aha! Tricked you! You thought we were dumb moment” and then it was just like “nope, this is just the way they are”, was definite an interesting twist.

what if the promotion of said non-fiat systems was done primarily by those looking to subvert that system? NK, Russia? What if it was further supported primarily by people to give great liquidity to illegal activity.

Something tells me that politicians that visit said locations on the 4th of July and their buddies business "leaders" looking to destablize the system are just not on the up and up. May even be corrupt.

Regardless of the current administration there is no world where the government has shown restraint in surveillance creep.

I'm not that familiar with the MacOSx system, but do they have a "minor" update path that I'm not aware of? It seems that everything is an 8gb update. Is that why this update isn't getting put out?

You’re probably not one paycheck away from homelessness, and probably have the protection of the legal system provided you don’t upset the wrong people.

But you’re probably one health scare away from it, you just don’t realize it.

Still have to trust that the model isn't doing something like reducing effectiveness in certain situations.

I've been refused to do cybersecurity (read-only investigative access against the recent brotli cve) with Opus 5.5 when I had full SSH access, so I guess you've got to have a fallback?

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"Too dangerous not to regulate!" Nobody should have general compute!

I worked on machines of the articles vintage - I would expect this technique to be common the further you go back due to the lack of power. Just a variant of CPU slicing.

I had Opus debug my laptop restarts. It pulled down windebug and pointed out the two drivers that were causing a problem.

One of them was an HDMI audio driver, which wasn't completely a surprise given I connect to a KVM and I imagine something was weird about the connection (and I don't listen to audio through my monitor anyway)

The other was the realtek/intel driver for audio as well? (updated those) Never have had a problem again. Felt pretty good. Windows laptops are pretty awful about coming out of power save, but works like a champ now.

The high level abstraction is more important than the low level implementation unless the low level implementation is leaking through, or there is a significant advantage conveyed by understanding the low level implementation.

I know a lot about how http works, and it comes in handy, but I can understand how juniors get away with not knowing it as fully as I do.

There was/is a youtube commericial I think that gave away the game to some extent with regards to this. It was selling some platform to create apps. Everybody in the office rejoicing because they were all creating apps. Inevitably, like three people in the office make the same app.

I've experienced the same thing in real life a couple of times over.

I think Einstein's quote "A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels." is apt. Apps will solve a bunch of problems, but if anyone can create those apps, there will be no market for them. I don't have the answers, but long term, it probably doesn't lie in selling apps. We've only just started.

At my regular job, we're just catching up on all the internal work we had. I think there is a real crunch in trying to figure out how to build moats and things that are hard to replicate that are sellable.

Maybe it will be the physical. Probably most of the moat will be made up of network effects and capital intensive processes. If I had the answer I'd probably be working on it right now.