I was actually shocked to find that Subaru in the US was this kind of safe, maybe outdoorsy brand. I had never seen anything but Imprezas inspired by WRC before I got here. Only boy racers drove them where I grew up.
Supply and demand. If you don’t want to increase supply, then you can reduce prices by turning the city into the kind of place that nobody wants to live in.
The “real public” wants math to advance so that we can reap the benefits. We don’t care what tools you are or are not using, grant money will go to whichever group is making more progress.
Sigh. It’s so tiring to argue with someone who argues about the technicalities of argument rather than actually talking about the thing they are talking about.
You’re talking about people with kids, wives, friends, hopes and dreams when you’re saying “Eggs break, period”. By reinforcing that view, you are helping to build the kind of society that just won’t care when you happen to be one of the eggs yourself.
Were they wrong? Didn’t a lot of those people end up in tenements in factory towns and down in the mines? It was a few generations before things really started to get better. I’m all for progress, but I’m not really up for disposing of people lives with a “to make an omelet you have to break some eggs” mentality.
This is the kind of mistake I dread, where a normal human would be able to say "oh, sure of course this is a mistake, sorry about that", but you don't get to talk to a human. A corporation can wait months for resolution, but an individual can't.
When did you create that workflow? I ask because I used to have something with a lot of carefully designed stuff like that back in Spring, but as the Summer progressed I found that getting out of the agent's way more and more has worked really well. I've been coding for 17 years, so this year has been a real journey as I've let go of some of the control of "this is how each step must be done". Those years of experience do mean that problems jump out pretty readily after the fact and and once you point out the problems to the agent it's pretty good at correcting them.
Today, I generally spend a few hours on a spec, let the agent run for 4 to 6 hours and I'm 90% there, with maybe a couple of days of tweaks, then a couple of days of iterations coming from user feedback after that. I've stopped using skills almost entirely now, mainly using them just to keep discovery of MCP or API docs out of context until needed. I have a few bullet points on testing and style in AGENTS.md, but I'm pretty sure it would probably run pretty close to what I'm looking for even without those these days.
I got an iPad mini a few years ago and tried to use it like this. There’s almost no actual utility to it that “Siri set a timer for 12 minutes” or “Siri what’s the weather like” doesn’t already do on my phone.
Why wouldn’t you just rebuild the VM every day? Then you don’t have to run around trying to catch and delete things, it’s set up with exactly what you want.
It’s more like a chainsaw I think, in that if you hold it the wrong way it can cause serious irreparable harm… except with AI there’s a whole load of different, conflicting advice on how to hold it.
This is gross. It says a lot about a company that they feel like they have to spy on people. Also, I’d be ashamed to work for a company that creates spyware like this in the e first place.
He’s making the same argument I’ve heard software developers make for the past 3 years. Lawyers are saying similar types of things. Knowledge work isn’t as special as we all thought it was. Now, it’s Terence Tao’s turn to go through the same motions we’ve had to go through over the past few years.
I guess the issue with that is that the understanding is important to mathematicians. The majority of people outside mathematics don’t understand it whether it’s humans doing the work or AI. If AI can generate useful results more quickly, then to the general public it is more valuable.
What do you mean when you say “orientation relative to its axis”?
The Earth is essentially a spinning ball of liquid that flows around and with a crust floating on top that we can walk around on. Pretty much the only ‘orientation’ it can have is the axis that it spins around.
The headline makes it seem like the Earth actually flips over (which is impossible for a spinning ball of liquid as far as I can reason about it). The article is about the magnetic poles.
It’s not the current use of the data that’s concerning, it’s its future use. Who’s to say that some facet of your life that is ordinary now will not one day paint you as the target of some future regime? It happened in Europe a few decades ago, and in many other countries around the world.
I started writing specs recently in a directory that I don’t allow the agent to write to. There has to be somewhere that the engineering intention behind the app is recorded. But it’s terse, minimal and all human generated, not like “hey Claude, write me specs for an app”
I mean, I understand why _you_ want it that way, but that doesn’t mean that there can’t be hard budget caps for other people. You could even have both, with alerts at a level lower than the cap. I just want some kind of control over it.
I’m also looking for tips. I feel like I get the gist, but if I sat down to use it, I don’t know what I want to start with. Like, I know it’s customizable, but what’s the on-ramp so I can figure out what that looks like?
Regular people understand the decimal system and they understand rounding in that system. The floating point system is a different system that they don't understand. People need to trust that the mechanics of payments are correct or they feel like they're being ripped off, and you can't really trust what you don't understand. Rounding of decimal pennies means that people get payments systems they can trust at the cost of precision. Nobody cares about sometimes being up or sometimes being down a fraction of a penny.