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This explains it pretty well: https://academy.claude.com/courses/building-with-the-claude-...

> inherent non-determinism in current AI architectures

There's nothing inherent about non-determinism in transformer architectures. All of it is removable.

I wonder whether he's vested any options, and whether he's exercised them.

Thanks -- much better now!

Hopefully you have a bit more impact on the decision making of your marriage shareholders than on public company executives.

Be careful when loving shareholder-driven endeavors; they're a single executive decision away from breaking your heart.

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Testing this on a Macbook Pro M4 Max, dragging is still so choppy that it makes the game significantly less fun.

Playing this on an iPhone 15 Pro, I was wondering — did the frame rate of dragging have to be so painfully low?

Arguably, the only resource you need to get better at it, is time.

Every next solder makes you better at soldering.

Get through your first 1000 solders as soon as possible, and then keep going. The rest will figure itself out along the way.

Fascinating; I find myself a lot more stressed and overstimulated when facing a problem alone than with a friend.

Yes.

But then, is any and all public communication about a product or a service originating from a stakeholder of said product or feature basically an ad?

I'm not sure why this is being downvoted.

Do people care? What signs of this are there?

Does it matter to the average person that the society is marching further and further down the road of digital monopolies and surveillance capitalism? My impression certainly is that the percentage of people who care about this is so small that it might as well be a rounding error, while on the other side I see tremendous momentum, effort, and cunning.

Hasn't the computer already been spending time with your wife?

This is the kind of feature that would potentially make me switch, but I feel like at this point AI has disrupted web search for me in such a fundamental way that I rarely use a search engine nowadays.

Not sure about digital cameras or database engines, but computers and the Internet were, in large part, created for military needs first and foremost.

Yes.

But also, the very point of this entire thread was that even these highly idiosyncratic goods were orders of magnitude more accessible to the median American household back in 1975.

Despite that very same household being orders of magnitude more productive in 2026, thanks to GPS (and the rest of technology).

I don't know, friend. I am not a moral absolutist.

There's nothing that makes my heart tremble like starting the propeller of a small GA airplane. On that moment I reconnect with my nine year old self. You may call me evil, vulgar, stupid, shallow, vicious even. I know what I feel inside. The rest of the world can disappear on that moment.

Sorry.

it absolutely did. Those were the crumbs I was referring to.

It enrages me, because "they" took all the value, and told us "my god, how immoral and vulgar it would be of you to covet the vapid trappings of conspicuous consumption! Instead, how wonderful it is that you can drive your car from your house to our offices in the morning, and our businesses in the evenings, avoiding traffic in service of shareholder value, while teaching our systems everything about yourself, so that we can market even more goods and services to you, even more insidiously, all thanks to GPS!"

They told us this while driving the Ferraris and flying the private airplanes.

And so many of us now come and say "oh, how immoral -- desiring an object of desire! Isn't it so nice that we can now build shareholder value more productively using GPS?"

Sorry, but no. It isn't nice.

The whole point is that it is not to the "working people" that the "real value" is "delivered". The real people got the crumbs and were told to appreciate it.

Almost all of the value went to those who one might call "unreal" people.

My friend, the 2026 Cessna 182 is basically the same airplane as it was in 1975, with digital screens instead of analog gauges, except now it costs about $750,000.

That's a whopping $735,000 increase over its base price of ~$15,000 USD back in 1975 for a brand-new airplane.

I promise, those avionics aren't worth $735,000. We've just gotten much, much poorer.

EDIT: Heck, if this doesn't convince you, here's another set of numbers:

1. $15,000 of 1975 dollars is about ~$95,000 of 2026 dollars

2. A heavily used 1975 Cessna 182 today costs about $150,000

What 2021-2024?

Check the prices of the flagship 1975 Ferrari, the flagship 1975 Hasselblad camera, or, I don't know, a 1975 Cessna 182 in reference to median 1975 household income.

Then check it again for 2026.

Oh, but we have GPS, Amazon Prime, and doomscrolling now.

Thanks, I'd rather take the Cessna.

The workflow is paradigmically different, and that may throw many people off.

There's no rebase, on principle. Branch names are permanent attributes of commits. Even abandoned branches remain visible forever. Code review is post-hoc.

People who are extremely accustomed to Git workflows may find the paradigm alienating.

If only there was a convention for storing PRs and issues and wiki inside the repository itself, similar to how Fossil[1] does it.

Then all the GitHubs and Gitlabs of this world would be limited to just providing UI and would be unable to hold our data hostage by design.

[1] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

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> There was a time Cloudflare just made the internet better

This is the kind of naive thinking that enabled what's going on today. Sadly, the decentralized Internet is now destroyed and will never exist again.

How do you find the donors?

No, I'm complaining that it doesn't ask me to pay before it takes my time to perform a complete scan of my disk (ideally before it even gives me a download of the app).

We both know it does so intentionally, and we also know exactly what the intent is.

This would only be true if it didn't take your time before asking you to pay to not waste the time that it took.

> It's like some decision-maker thinks it's OK to waste memory as long as it's someone (everyone) elses' memory

My friend, you're giving them way too much credit.

Nobody, especially no decision-maker involved with this, has ever spent a single thought anywhere near any concept related to memory.

It just literally never crossed anyone's mind.