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The pluperfect baseball player will have had one foot large enough to touch two bases at once.
October 28, 2025 at 7:38 AM
The pluperfect baseball player will have had one foot large enough to touch two bases at once.
Hey I have one of those...
September 22, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Hey I have one of those...
I'll start taking AI alignment seriously when their results yield meaningful insights on human alignment, which is far from solved.
September 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I'll start taking AI alignment seriously when their results yield meaningful insights on human alignment, which is far from solved.
It'll be measured in kilodogpiles/second.
August 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It'll be measured in kilodogpiles/second.
"I, for one, welcome out new Torment Nexus."
August 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
"I, for one, welcome out new Torment Nexus."
That is perhaps the exact pessimal algocracy idea.
August 2, 2025 at 3:37 AM
That is perhaps the exact pessimal algocracy idea.
That's the book where "Just read the instructions" and "Of course I still love you" came from. It sounds like he really has read only one book.
July 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
That's the book where "Just read the instructions" and "Of course I still love you" came from. It sounds like he really has read only one book.
I understand this is a bitter pill, because it means for that to not happen, you have to accept continuing injustice for more generations than you're going live. Any dictatorship promises a quick, direct solution that turns out to be counterfeit.
June 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I understand this is a bitter pill, because it means for that to not happen, you have to accept continuing injustice for more generations than you're going live. Any dictatorship promises a quick, direct solution that turns out to be counterfeit.
How you capture it is that you persuade those people that your values are worth sharing. The fewer people involved, the easier it is to capture something, which has always been the fatal flaw in the dictatorship of the proletariat - it always gets captured because there are too few people in it.
June 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
How you capture it is that you persuade those people that your values are worth sharing. The fewer people involved, the easier it is to capture something, which has always been the fatal flaw in the dictatorship of the proletariat - it always gets captured because there are too few people in it.
I learned an important life lesson in high school dodge ball. The 3 best players made a pact to not throw at each other and it worked. Time and again only they would be left. The gym teacher told them to stop and they said no and he had not recourse but to start the whole thing again.
June 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I learned an important life lesson in high school dodge ball. The 3 best players made a pact to not throw at each other and it worked. Time and again only they would be left. The gym teacher told them to stop and they said no and he had not recourse but to start the whole thing again.
I have a favorite thought experiment. Pick a country you like, and a country you don't. The experiment is they're going to swap constitutions, courts and laws, but the people stay the same, including judges, public officials, civil servants, police and politicians. Which one do you want to live in?
June 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I have a favorite thought experiment. Pick a country you like, and a country you don't. The experiment is they're going to swap constitutions, courts and laws, but the people stay the same, including judges, public officials, civil servants, police and politicians. Which one do you want to live in?
I once had a driver tell me that no, she's not deaf, but she'd accidentally clicked that box because she thought it meant she'd be willing to take deaf passengers or something like that, and now she couldn't find a way to undo it.
June 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I once had a driver tell me that no, she's not deaf, but she'd accidentally clicked that box because she thought it meant she'd be willing to take deaf passengers or something like that, and now she couldn't find a way to undo it.
I've started using uv for my projects for the reasons you mentioned, but I haven't used conda (or even mamba) in at least the last year and a half because its inefficiencies have ground it to a halt.
To access the conda projects with PyPi, there's pixi.
pixi.sh/v0.43.0/pyth...
To access the conda projects with PyPi, there's pixi.
pixi.sh/v0.43.0/pyth...
Introduction - PDM
pdm-project.org
June 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I've started using uv for my projects for the reasons you mentioned, but I haven't used conda (or even mamba) in at least the last year and a half because its inefficiencies have ground it to a halt.
To access the conda projects with PyPi, there's pixi.
pixi.sh/v0.43.0/pyth...
To access the conda projects with PyPi, there's pixi.
pixi.sh/v0.43.0/pyth...
One could claim that's just hindsight, but at the time I was telling everyone who would listen that SpaceX was the one I thought most likely to succeed. Their approach was radical in the right ways and also conservative in the right ways, and you only had to do a little reading to see that.
June 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
One could claim that's just hindsight, but at the time I was telling everyone who would listen that SpaceX was the one I thought most likely to succeed. Their approach was radical in the right ways and also conservative in the right ways, and you only had to do a little reading to see that.
I realized recently that the reason SpaceX succeeded where others failed isnt because Elon is a genius, but because his peer competitors at the time were dumb / badly informed. Pioneer, Kistler, Roton, even Virgin G. had bad approaches. Now, electron, firefly etc. are all basically doing it right.
June 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I realized recently that the reason SpaceX succeeded where others failed isnt because Elon is a genius, but because his peer competitors at the time were dumb / badly informed. Pioneer, Kistler, Roton, even Virgin G. had bad approaches. Now, electron, firefly etc. are all basically doing it right.
To make any progress beyond this point we would need to get into what "narrow" means, which I'm not going to do. My point is that if it isn't the best tool for everything then someone has a fair right to argue that it's "narrow" for their purposes, and you can take it up with them.
May 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
To make any progress beyond this point we would need to get into what "narrow" means, which I'm not going to do. My point is that if it isn't the best tool for everything then someone has a fair right to argue that it's "narrow" for their purposes, and you can take it up with them.
If you have to tell people that it's useful - even if it really is - then that means it's mostly useful for things you do and others don't, and that's what "narrow set of problems" means.
May 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
If you have to tell people that it's useful - even if it really is - then that means it's mostly useful for things you do and others don't, and that's what "narrow set of problems" means.
"I am Brian of Nazareth, and so is my wife."
April 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"I am Brian of Nazareth, and so is my wife."
This is the lawful-good internet of things.
April 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This is the lawful-good internet of things.
More impressed that the REST API is actually open. It's like the internet of things if someone wanted it to be good.
April 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
More impressed that the REST API is actually open. It's like the internet of things if someone wanted it to be good.
Fair enough, though I think there were still troll farms back then.
That said, maybe you're right. I guess sometimes I feel bothered if I can't explain why people are jerks.
That said, maybe you're right. I guess sometimes I feel bothered if I can't explain why people are jerks.
April 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Fair enough, though I think there were still troll farms back then.
That said, maybe you're right. I guess sometimes I feel bothered if I can't explain why people are jerks.
That said, maybe you're right. I guess sometimes I feel bothered if I can't explain why people are jerks.