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As the models get better we're increasingly into splitting hairs territory with these comparisons. A model might be more effective at Common Lisp than at Turbo Pascal but we're talking perhaps few tens of percent rather than some orders of magnitude differences. It doesn't really matter all that much any longer.

I use agents heavily on Common Lisp in some parts of production projects. Typically Codex on whatever is the current top model with vibe-patched Tron MCP. REPL-based agent development via MCP does feel faster but I haven't ever bothered to benchmark it.

I think that misses the point of the memo. The 6600 was certainly something IBM had resources to design and market yet for some reason it couldn't.

Thing is scanning provided a way to share with community for the brief decade when photo clubs and magazines have died out but photo sites and forums still lived.

Nowadays photography feels utterly pointless (doubly so with advent of genAI). And oddly (non-phone) digital camera photography feels more antiquated than shooting film.

Seeing the Plustek scanner on his desk I was excited that he came up with some physical automation for film strip handling. Alas it's software again.

Again AI exponential curve stops where emptying the dishwasher starts.

Last week I asked a frontier model draw me a backplane PCB and it placed daughterboard slots side by side in a chain.

For all very real SpaceX achievements there's certain Musk fatigue if you haven't noticed. He's done enormous job to sour people on the idea of becoming multiplanetary species.

Holding a rounded handle with a rectangular profile slider is inherently unstable as it's extremely sensitive to the pinch point.

And the bowl has a radius that make orthogonal grip impractical.

Still there are fundamental limitations. Holding a bowl full of liquid, a heavy jug with a rounded handle etc.

You're not learning anything if you don't put in your hours. Maybe you're fine with that but make sure you realize what you're getting into.

Musk was the only figure that heard reconciliatory rhetoric from Trump/Vance after their spat. Perhaps because knowing how instrumental he was to bringing them into power they realize how detrimental he can be as the enemy.

Putin could be making a huge mistake here by alienating a largely benevolent Musk.

I have a clear, experience based understanding of my personal limits that makes me feel entitled to comment.

Cowardice is the greatest of the sins for it begets many of the others. Or if you insist on colloquial Russian: не можешь срать - не мучай жопу.

Fantastic build.

Do you know by any chance a source for Q-Bus edge sockets?

I don't think it ever was a feature on HN. Although I've seen that on Lobsters and some other forums.

I could swear "in the US" part wasn't there when I replied. Oh well.

That was not a part of the cables released by Manning.

I was definitely around in 2013. And it was quite clear at the time there will be government persecution for the leaks, I mean that's why he ran in the first place.

If you stand on the path of martyrdom for your people you should be prepared to follow it to conclusion rather than fleeing to the sworn enemy.

Gave up his life? Why, he may have been living his best. A fully funded expat life in Moscow with some Jason Bourne cachet instead of scrapping by as a Sharepoint admin in the age of AI.

Noone in position of power was threatened by the contents of Snowden's leaks.

Which crimes had Manning exposed? There has to be a list somewhere.

The quickest way to redraw a screen or otherwise copy a memory region on Spectrum of is to use POP/PUSH instructions while flipping the stack pointer. Good luck getting that with C.

If you don't know how the artefact you ordered works you haven't built it in any meaningful sense of the word.

Fields medalists aren't made on some Fields factory. These are 25 people from different backgrounds, generations, educational institutions and countries. It's kind of incredible you guys think they decided to collude against OpenAI rather than simply addressing a concern about their field they believe is important.

From your other replies it's clear you still haven't read the letter. There is little to discuss so far.

I can only envy the insight you have into thought processes of 25 fields medalists. Wish I could have that.

Sure we are free to tinker, like the guys doing model railways. With about the same impact.

I can only suggest reading the letter with open mind and literally, without uncharitable bias towards the authors or conspiracy mindset.

Nobody is going to recognize anything if the institutions of mathematics are torn down.

I mean sure? It's clear PLT and other applied CS fields are now as good as dead. You're never seeing new React or Python emerging ever again.

And unfortunately mathematics is much more fundamental to human endeavor than this.