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Comment · 3 days ago
Heh. We can’t even get people to stop using languages like C and C++ after all these decades of memory corruption exploits.
Comment · 3 days ago
I agree at the top, and it certainly trickles down to some degree. Still, a lot of the everyday engineers who actually make the stuff at every place I’ve ever been just care about making things that are good.
Comment · 1 month ago
My nissan has a one-click opt-out… but like… every… single… trip. :(
Comment · 1 month ago
It’s expensive? We were quoted 60k last year. Maybe a scammy company but that’s a lot up front.
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
Does the human find enough bugs that they stay on guard, or just rubber stamp everything without really looking at it? It’s hard to stay vigilant when stuff looks plausible.
Comment · 1 month ago
NATO is certainly weaker with the USA having lost her mind. But Russia seems to have gotten herself into a total quagmire in Ukraine and she is bleeding badly with no end in sight. Nobody is winning here.
Comment · 1 month ago
I like this mindset and I’m going to steal this quote. Everyone is figuring things on their own skill journey with their hobbies and careers. Wherever you are, you can learn more and help people to come with you.
Comment · 1 month ago
Hrmn. Maybe you’re about to lose everything you have anyway, you’re ticked off about it, and you don’t value any life besides your own. Like, say, a total narcissist nearing end of life/reign.
Comment · 1 month ago
It’s common for formal proof efforts about software and hardware to involve thousands to tens of thousands of small lemmas.

13M lines does seem extreme and there is probably a lot of inefficiency given the way the proof was developed. Cutting it down is probably a long road, but is also a very well defined problem that AIs can probably just go do with enough time and budget now.

Comment · 1 month ago
Nah. At the end of the day it’s candidate A vs. B. Once they’re all corrupt you still have to decide between them and pick the lesser evil as you see it. They’re creatures of ambition and incentives, and the corruption is a feature of the system. It sucks but what can you do but vote for the corrupt dems or the corrupt republicans?
Comment · 2 months ago
2025-09 would be helpful context for the article link
Comment · 2 months ago
Haha. Yeah. I somehow find Claude Code’s utter lack of time reasoning to be very fun. “The work we did two weeks ago…” oh friend that was this morning…

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