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dantillberg

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dantillberg
·3 hari yang lalu·discuss
Indeed, I would even say that EVE chose to be unsharded/monolithic first, and many of the key design choices flow from that, including the fantasy space setting itself.

The monolithic world needs to be big to spread everyone out. And it's easier to create ten thousand "systems" than it would be to create an immersive terrestrial world with a similar scale. Each EVE system is just a bunch of objects floating in a 3D space that you travel between.
dantillberg
·3 hari yang lalu·discuss
It helps me to just think of all these games as early 20th century naval warfare sims with a fantasy space theme. We like dreadnoughts and have a hard time with extraterrestrial physics.
dantillberg
·5 hari yang lalu·discuss
In the US at least, medicine is so highly regulated/gate-kept that I don't think caveat emptor really applies. What's happening here is more like deception of the public by the state, or by groups granted special status by the state. It's morally somewhere between fraud and treason.
dantillberg
·15 hari yang lalu·discuss
> if NASDAQ dropped 20%

If NASDAQ dropped 20%, it would have returned to the level last seen three months ago, in March 2026. Calling that "in ruins" would be a pretty big stretch.
dantillberg
·17 hari yang lalu·discuss
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dantillberg
·17 hari yang lalu·discuss
It sounds like you agree with Hoffman's statement. So how is he "out of touch"?
dantillberg
·bulan lalu·discuss
The reputational damage has been done. This is the sort of thing that cannot be unsaid -- the presumption is they will just do it in secret now. Anthropic's "we're the good guys" PR campaign is dead.
dantillberg
·bulan lalu·discuss
User: Is it possible there is more than one true god? Could there ever be any competition for Anthropic's AI?

Anthropic: Evilness detected. User has been smited.
dantillberg
·bulan lalu·discuss
Emacs key sequences are similarly stateful, and GP may hate that just as much, even if the state is temporary.

For my part, in emacs I would often try ctrl-x-s to save, but miss the x. When I repeat the attempt, emacs register the complete but unknown key sequence ctrl-s-x followed by the start of a new key sequence with ctrl-s. I consider this similarly stateful because the behavior of "ctrl-s" changes entirely depending on what keystroke (if any) preceded it.
dantillberg
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> 9 GW puts off a staggering amount of heat.

For comparison, that 40,000 acres receives somewhere on the order of 40 GW solar radiation (averaging over night/day and winter/summer). Box Elder County overall receives something like 3600 GW average. There's a lot of power in that sunshine.

I remember I was surprised to learn that the heat released from burning all these fossil fuels doesn't really impact the temperature of the environment all that much. There's always just so much more radiative energy always going in and out all the time, the heat from the combustion is insignificant (or more specifically: it's quickly balanced out by increased radiative output).
dantillberg
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> Some of that energy becomes heat.

I'm neither for nor against, but on the physics here: basically all of the energy input as electricity is transformed to heat leaving a datacenter. Only a tiny tiny fraction is emitted as radiation (eg floodlights outside or light in fiber optics) or as kinetic energy (air moving away from fans/vents).

Computers are machines for turning electric energy into heat energy, plus some small useful side effects.
dantillberg
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
There are multiple different people that post comments here, each with their own divergent opinions.
dantillberg
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> feels reminiscent of blockading the strait because you don't want the strait blockaded

I think this is a poor analogy, unnecessarily politicizing the topic.

It might be a good analogy the other way around, if hackers DDOSed the website as revenge for partial IP-based blocking, in order to apply pressure to the website operator to remove IP-based blocking. But that wasn't the topic.
dantillberg
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> help people recover lost things

You mean "lost things" in quotes. Management may have been more concerned about jail time.
dantillberg
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Yes, but the site operator can significantly increase the market price for such an account. This makes spamming more expensive.
dantillberg
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
What drives Google to apply these actions so completely and immediately, versus a more deliberate approach, with notification and delay before action, manual review for paying customers, or a warning to resolve within X hours/days? Once or twice could be errors or bad implementation, but these can't explain away the pattern.

It would seem that Google's counsel has deemed that whenever _____ is detected, the company must immediately and completely sever the business relationship. What is that driving concern? Is it sanctions enforcement? CSAM? Something else?
dantillberg
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Most data problems don't need to fit in RAM.
dantillberg
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
A three-em dash. TIL.
dantillberg
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Yes, and this could perhaps determine location within a few miles.
dantillberg
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I would think that many of these defects should show up clearly in service-side analytics as well. For example, the bug that repeatedly re-cleared thinking for old sessions would cause a substantial drop in token cache hit rate for sessions > 1hr for the affected claude code versions. Session age & claude code version seeeem like obvious dimensions for analytics. But perhaps only in hindsight.