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Comment · 6 days ago
Debian is a special case (probably even among open source projects) because it has a well-developed system of governance:

https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution

It sounds like in this case someone is not following an agreed-upon policy. And of course, even with governance like this one, the rest of the maintainers can move in a direction you don't agree with.

Comment · 11 days ago
Anything that compiles to a static site will be nearly immune!
Comment · 2 months ago
This made me think of https://e4rat.sourceforge.net/, which moves boot files into sequential runs, which was helpful on spinning disks where seeks were slow but sequential reads were fast.

Just as an idea for a feature your defragmenter could have.

(Also this is a side thought; but I wonder if AWS AMIs and EBS volumes will boot faster if also organized sequentially.)

Comment · 2 months ago
My understanding is that the harness is the set of function calls (or tool calls) that let the LLM interact with your codebase. It's independent of the IDE or CLI.

The tool calls will be, among other things, something like ReadFile, RipGrep, PatchFile, Shell.

When people talk about the value of different harnesses, they're also implicitly talking about the quality of the system prompt.

The same exact model, when given a different set of tools and a different system prompt, can behave differently.

Comment · 2 months ago
Even if your files are properly encrypted, if you keep them on, say, Google Drive, then you might lose access to them if your account gets inadvertently blocked.

I think GP is trying to say something along those lines. Not that encryption isn't trustworthy, but that even with homomorphic encryption you still give up autonomy.

Comment · 3 months ago
"Hobbyhacking"?
Comment · 3 months ago
I believe it's a reference to a joke meme that goes something like "Write Windows 12 from scratch. Make no mistakes." At least that's the first context I heard it in.
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
Interesting. Can you elaborate on which harness you've tried it with? I'd love to switch to deepseek for my personal use.

Also, which SOTA western models are you comparing it with? Just to give more flavor.

Comment · 5 months ago
As an alternative to the VoIP phone: Redpocket has a $2.67/mo plan. We loaded that SIM into a small android phone (Unihertz Jelly phone).

It works great as a home phone but has the additional advantage of being able to wander if a pre-cellularized needs to go somewhere. For example, my 13-year-old takes it when going on a long bike-ride with his friends.

We keep it in our closet and only comes out when needed. They aren't allowed to give the number out to friends.

Comment · 5 months ago
Also the consumption of AI-generated text could be having an influence on the tone of how people write.

So even if AI was not used to write an article, it could "smell" like AI to someone who consumes less of it.

Comment · 10 months ago
"If it's not worth writing, it's not worth reading."

  - https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/
Comment · 10 months ago
The way I think you'd set this up is you'd create a trust with the millions and then the trustees would pay the company its monthly fee from the trust's funds.

With enough funds, the trust should be able to both pay for your preservation and grow its balance. You'd even be able to inherit the remaining funds when revived.

Of course in practice there is still the possibility of the trustees being corrupt.

Comment · 11 months ago

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