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Why not use a distributed benchmark? Tokens are shared across volunteers; everyone gets informed of the nerf simultaneously. No one need be surprised.

Cool stuff. Inspired by [1], our brains observe by taking a measurement, which collapses the billiard ball's color to be red, "instantaneous velocity."

While otherwise unattended, the billiard ball only has metadata about its original color, but is otherwise every color and no color (to us). The physics are only computed separate from maximal energy conservation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50410122

Write like James Joyce.

Invent a conlang, and then communicate only in that.

Franchise your work, so the universe has multiple authors. Let your audience also be creators.

Encrypt stuff and send out license keys. More friction, more adversarial cost.

Use a non-English Unicode programming language, where content (data) is in a binary.

Mess with formats. A static image is slightly tweaked and served base64-encoded. A video just shows the same thing for hours.

Distribute works on floppy disks, or only offer to fax the https:// link.

Create something that is an amalgamation of various Library of Babel artifacts, so the collage is merely a novel derivative.

The whole thing or the last sentence? Would have revised the last to be

  Basically, if LLM's output is relicensed for
  different intent, courts should realize that.

LLMs are not human, so they can't violate licenses. Licenses are for humans to adhere to (or not).

However, the intent to reverse engineer without source--only public API and analysis of data streams--for commercial use almost certainly violates OSS, since it's to evade strictures.

Private use like retrocomputing, "right to repair," should support the individual.

Basically, if LLM's output is relicensed for different intent, courts should see through that.

Maybe it's like picking a decade of music: clear limits in time and space, plenty of existing history, a feeling of affordability but also a sense of what's a collectible (scoped hierarchy), and being able to specialize among genre, artist, or any number of categories.

Picking a suitable "radar chart" of preferences, or surveying what's already there, is also part of the fun. Shopping for gear, too (turntables and headphones versus keyboards and serial consoles).

Why collect pre-JDK 8 docs? (Why not?)

Hasn't it been, when we have the genie before us, to wish for more wishes? And a certain thread that goes we ought to wish it free.

Please expand on this.

That sort of counters the advice to get three quotes. If every bidder has that info, it may be harder to get the "best" price.

A chef drives over and makes a homemade meal. Healthy eating could be insurance-subsidized.

Inevitably for ads.

What if students use their phones instead?

Also every image that could ever exist within the bounds:

https://babelia.libraryofbabel.info/slideshow.html

Haven't checked stuff from him since Sourcegraph, but his writing was fun to read. Try to get a selfie.

That sounds about right. Maybe they track that. The data gets fed up to Cloudflare general and diffuses back out to the operating sites.

How long do you spend on the page?

A projector can cover a large chunk of wall. The potato resolution emphasizes other aspects of the medium: motion and cinematography, dialogue and other audio. When the display is dull, other senses compensate.

Scaffold the lunar observatory.

Sovereign countries should self-host, sure. How to pay for it?

Compiled code could have various annotations that generate a smart contract, such that a SECFIX triggers terms & conditions for funding and resolution by escrow.

Both parties have to go through agentic workflows; it's not scalable when stuff isn't cleanly resolved.

Maybe the cost to make the customer whole after the fact is less than the cost to fix the bug. Legacy systems need to be stable, and bugfixes without experts around could cause later issues.

You also have to be able to terminate the program.

Patching

More like the politics of music. Was expecting the music of politics to be rhythm, frequency, and tempo of traditionally non-musical elements as symbolism, like

The chosen venue of a speech, the history as context.

The cadence of an adhoc aside at a rally versus the teleprompted, formal utterance.

The jabs and hooks of a debate, accompanied by the truth or falsehood of the preparatory work beforehand.

The ebb and flow of a voting record, and whether compromises fulfilled campaign promises to their constituents.

Bummer. Doesn't mean some pottery teacher somewhere tried it for real.

A couple other ideas in the vein of getting better with consistent practice:

The "1% better every day," where small habits make overall gains. (Then again, maybe scope it better: https://durmonski.com/self-improvement/1-better-every-day/)

The Marginal Advantage (2007): maintaining the lead in a non-greedy way.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250614213613/https://tl.net/fo...

It feels like even with compatibilities across distros, a personal bin/ of shell-script sanity checks is the only way to true weirdness with reality.

If we're inside a black hole, even if we turn everything into compute, there's not enough to figure how to leave.

Applications: implications, simulations, and experiments. Gobble the frontier; wring out the usable.

Kepner-Tregoe is mentioned at the end, unifying a system of business analysis with software development.

As the candidate, ask good questions:

An Engineering Leader's Behavioral Interview Template (2025) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799184