Aaron Kimball

Christopher Lloyd as uncle Fester holding a knife with the subtitle “you fought well, Atreides”

I think I downloaded the wrong Dune 2

I think one story of the last 20 years is Israel massively overestimating how many American Jews still supported the politics of their bullshit, and being shocked during the last two years how many of us really disapproved of their tactics.

(Jack Donaghy voice) "Lemon, I'm going to give you one of my ties."

As a comp sci person myself, I did find it super funny when someone once told me "if they put 'science' in the name, it's not *really* science. They don't need to call those other departments 'Biology Science' or 'Physics Science.'"

I am only part way thru but this keeps getting more insane. This is like a movie plot.

.... And at the end of the day, is "some other guy's emails" worth that to protect?

Yea I mean even if somehow resource-independent (solar or nuke power on the oil rig, food grown onsite, water via desalination)... Do the people aboard eventually want to take shore leave?

And if not: how long would they resist a chopper full of Navy SEALs assigned to capture you and the servers?

Goddamn I miss him being in charge.

Better leadership is possible

Earlier today, Claude told me it couldn't do a thing because it couldn't connect to the mcp server. (Which was a stdio script I knew was still where I last left it.)

My next prompt was literally "try harder" and it worked. This job, man.

Yea, it's beautiful.

I've made cable harnesses with small zip ties myself, and it's both still bulky, and the zip tie plastic could dig into the jacket on some of the wires if there was repeated vibration. Fine for my static application but wouldn't pass muster in auto/aero/space cases.

Ooh, people should zoom in on that. I thought it was accomplished with a dozen small black zip ties (still a very neat job) but it is so much more intricate than that.

The impending civil suit seems like it'll be interesting

Either way it's kind of mind blowing

It says "one sheet of paper"... Are there folds in that? Or is all the depth you can see (eg between the octopus's arms) simulated?

The challenge I have is that half my predictions massively underestimate the future models and the other half massively overestimate.

My aggregate estimate is dead center, but without a single shot hitting the target.

I mean, that's true. But also "only" being able to use vs code isn't exactly freezing people out of the job market either.

Genuinely, tho, what is the value of yet-another-lsp-enabled text editor *without* the LLM features?

Putting the "X" in "text editor"

The strike beginning not even four hours after Altman's statement is almost too perfect. Absolutely impeccable timing on his part.

What this means for our customers Secretary Hegseth has implied this designation would restrict anyone who does business with the military from doing business with Anthropic. The Secretary does not have the statutory authority to back up this statement. Legally, a supply chain risk designation under 10 USC 3252 can only extend to the use of Claude as part of Department of War contracts—it cannot affect how contractors use Claude to serve other customers.

shorter Anthropic: lol fuck you, you’re way out over your skis and we’re going to beat your asses in court

I mean that's true of all ERP solutions. Oracle Financials would not be dissimilar

Oh, I wouldn't either. But given Anthropic has like infinite money and the goodwill mandate of heaven, I don't think they'd be hurting for top-tier legal talent relishing to argue on their behalf. Results could be interesting.

Counterpoint: better tech than Oracle's (certainly better per $) has existed for 15+ years.

The people paying Oracle are not going to turn to some new vibe-coded hotness because it is better OR cheaper. They value stability of what they have and are willing to pay absurd $ to not have to adapt.

Anthropic would go to trial and idk if the govt, with the DoJ's current track record, wants to risk confirming in Federal court exactly how limited the DPA is and setting a binding precedent...

Starts getting dangerously close to the US V Apple case over the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone which they abruptly pulled before trial; they didn't actually want to risk a court declaring the All Writs Act couldn't compel directed software engineering.

So, they have actually used "warfighter" for a long time. DARPA has had "Aiding the American Warfighter" as its mission for well over 10 yrs.

Soldiers are in the Army. Sailors, the Navy. "Warfighter" is actually the DoD term for members of all US armed forces branches.

Also I am not an expert but I think DPA basically requires that you divert your supply of whatever you make to govt procurement (ie "sell it to the USA, not your other customers).

I don't think they can force you to modify your software to operate in a way it doesn't already.

It takes a special kind of mindset to potentially get into shooting action when you're on a fiberglass boat.

And yet the phrase "Israel's wars" implies a uniformity of posture, purpose, support, morality, etc. that is not reasonable.

I think the level of concrete specifics required to discuss these questions is high, so it's not possible to draw lessons about any of these topics in terms of large classes.

Even there, Israel has fought a lot of defensive actions in the past and it's not "Zionism" to fight for your own survival. You can't paint anything with a single broad brush as good/bad or done exclusively by one group or another.