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Comment · 12 hours ago
From the promo video:

> completion from language servers

That's exactly the thing that I like about idea: It's better than that.

Comment · 10 days ago
same here, but with 19.4.3
Comment · 15 days ago
From the article: > The U.S. government is still reporting that its gold reserves are unchanged, so these exports look to be coming from current mine output and recycling operations.

Not sure if "The U.S governments gold reserves" also includes the ones from other countries though.

Comment · 15 days ago
Sure that happens, but over _years_. LLMs can make this happen over _days_.
Comment · 19 days ago
They should concentrate on their models instead. If claude code is any measure, their software engineering is atrocious. I would only use something like source control from them if they force me to, at which point I would rather do something else.
Comment · 29 days ago
would you be safe in using --recursive always? (e.g. shell scripts)
Comment · 1 month ago
completely agreed. Regardless of AI or not, the blog post completely lacks any kind of introduction and context at the start. I had to stop after the first two paragraphs because I just didn't understand anything.
Comment · 1 month ago
I don't think any new languages will easily beat the existing ones, simply because of the mass of training data that is available. An LLM will have a much easier time one-shotting Java than even Rust today because it doesn't have to look up much and the ecosystem was stable for many years, so the internet is filled with content that is still up2date. Building a new language (or even altering existing ones) will take much longer to get into the models.

LLMs that have to constantly fix their code and look up libraries or features are much slower, more expensive and more prone to create inefficient and slightly wrong code. Sure, an LLM can just create a new web framework from scratch, but you usually don't want to spend your tokens on that.

I also think that with LLMs, new languages will have more trouble building an ecosystem, because until now, the popular libraries had a "proof of work" that kinda also made sure that they were well-trodden and maintained. Now, anyone can just push their new generated library and we have no clue on how to compare (and tbh reading LLM-generated READMEs is also not pleasant).

Comment · 1 month ago
I hope my company (if I have one) can also blame a continent for not buying my product instead of trying to sell better :D

( /s)

Comment · 1 month ago
All of those verbs basically mean "degrade an existing system, after the fact". If anthropic states beforehand that certain use cases are not possible, it should be fine, no?

To give another (bad) analogy: The Pens aren't made to be weapons themselves, they are not intended for that. If the DoD now tries to shoot pens as projectiles and they just melt, that's no reason to classify the pen manufacturer as a supply chain risk, the product was not altered after the fact.

Of course, there _is_ a difference in "It could do that, but it shouldn't" and "It cannot do that". But it is not that large. That's why I don't see it as that clear cut.

Comment · 1 month ago
> Hydro can be impacted by droughts which will be more common

You did read the news this summer? Like https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/03/europe/hungary-nuclear-pl... ?

Most of the environmentalists will tell you that it's dumb to shut down nuclear, but building new plants just takes too long and is too expensive. Why then not just put the money into things that are cheap now and will get even cheaper tomorrow?

Hedging against downtime is comparatively easy, just diversify by location and improve the grid, which is way less expensive than building out power plants.

Comment · 1 month ago
Where in comparable countries (= in europe) did new reactors take less than 10 years (from scratch even)? So we are at at least 10 years. But more realistically, taking recent megaprojects into account, its 20 years. In that time, batteries are way ahead and you can overbuild _so_ _much_ renewables and people even do it without subsidies (strangely, nobody builds nuclear plants without subsidies).

regarding the "stable energy" point: germany has one of the most (if not _the_ most) stable grids in the world and that is even with 50+ % renewables. And given it sits in the center of europe with grid connections all around, it's far cheaper to buy from whomever has the most favourable weather anyways (and sell to them if they don't). Thats why one of the biggest issues right now is not nuclear, but grids.

Comment · 1 month ago
One more idea:

- Unicode-as-a-character, meaning: a whole text displayed as if it were one character, made for infinite zooming

Comment · 1 month ago
2-3 bytes are not much space for anything. Sure, you could use multiple successive ones of these code points and define your own "continuation" encoding in these ranges, but that doesn't seem right to me somehow

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