> A fun tendency is that Claude kept getting distracted by topics of secrecy, conspiracy, and hidden systems - as if the task itself summoned a Foucault’s Pendulum mindset.
I really appreciate you mentioning this. I think this is the nature of LLMs in general. Any symbol it processes can affect its reasoning capabilities.
Lego Duplo is the best. It is a great creative toy at least from 2 to 10. Especially when you have it from early on and it is just "part of the furniture".
It's much easier to collect from the ground than Lego.
At least on desktop screens I think chronostasis might make animations seem more sluggish depending on where you looked before.
I wonder if this leads experienced users of the app in question to not like any animations, because they know click paths better and place their focus in an anticipatory manner.
Maybe one could measure click speed and reduce animation times based on that.
cool stuff! selectable text is a MUST in the browser for me. In clients and apps that do not need that or can provide it themselves, this seems to be a very nice and tiny solution.
No, it's not unique. But a GC strengthens, like dynamic typing, your ability to develop more dynamically and together with reflection or duck typing to write code that can deal with to some extent unknown input more easily. You can pass arbitrary objects (also graphs of objects) around very generously. Ysoserial is based more or less on this idea. Passing arbitrary objects around was deemed so useful, that it is also supported by java's serialization mechanism and thus could be exploited. Log4shell exploits similar mechanisms that would be a hell to implement in non-gc languages.
While I think garbage collected languages produce programs that are more safe, I also think they are often enablers for new classes of security issues. For example ysoserial, log4j etc.
Following this idea, using a memory managed language like Go, Java or C# should also prevent most security issues (at least in non-core systems). Somehow I don't think this would work.