Srikumar

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

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Currently having a Brain Episode ™ and reserve the right to delete this post!!

But I find it very offensive when people on my feed are saying “how dare you not talk about this!!!”

The people who need to hear it are not following me!

The people who follow me need to hear this:

Candlepower - Wikipedia

TIL about the unit of light intensity - "candlepower" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlep... which got me thinking about a unit for "computations per unit volume per sec" in terms of "vacuum tube power".

A Steven Weinberg quote - "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion."

Maybe we should start labelling it "radical christianity", "christian fundamentalism" and such. That will complete the picture of radical-ness that's risen everywhere in the recent decade or so.

Black mirror effect at scale in the works. In a country with multiple cultures that teach detachment, services that prolong attachment to ... the dead.

Ok np. One of the things I've been doing is to also commit the Claude jsonl files to the repo that contains generated code. In case you aren't capturing these, they're useful to keep for later examination in addition to the prompts. Found at ~/.claude/projects/-the-project-path/

Maybe we should attach auto-deploying versions of the Ben Hur chariot wheel blades to bikes so cars won't come anywhere near riders😠. They're more concerned about damage to their vehicles than about damage they might cause to other people.

Do you have the "plan" output to share as well? Want to see how the output correlates with the plan.

Ok "abundit" is going to stick perhaps :)

"This is not a call for linguistic policing, but for historical listening. Attending to proxy language strengthens emancipatory politics by recognising that some of the most enduring forms of power are those that no longer sound like power at all."

"if power can speak politely, resistance must learn to listen more closely."

Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

Once again.

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

Angine de Poitrine - Mata Zyklek (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

youtu.be/Te1HkBx7rDw woo! Cool share by a friend.

For MHA I'm still kinda lost. More or less in your position.

In my case kid wrote an OPM inspired series called "one tickle man" :D I watched OPM with him and found it very LOL funny.

Wait until he gets into One Punch Man :)

Should've been captioned "Take us to this Epstein" instead.

The chorus is so haunting - perhaps attributable to it being sung by a children's choir.

www.songtell.com/arcane/to-as...

One of those rare occasions for me where I actually paid attention to the lyrics - a kind of warning for our times perhaps - genius.com/Woodkid-arca...

To Ashes and Blood Fight [Part 1] // Arcane [4K UHD] YouTube video by CinemaClips

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cLu... - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ymD...

steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampi...

So enjoyed the Vi-Jinx fight sequence in "Arcane" episode "Finally got the name right". Made me want to watch it in a theatre or something. The sound track + the flashy edits were so mesmerizing the track is still chewing my ear.

I suppose a number of ways are possible, but it can be a pain. I've done things like move the tests into a folder outside and add a script to run it from that folder. Claude code always asks for folder access and we can deny it. chmod/chown can help too perhaps but some risk of bypass is there.

Updated. I was perhaps forcing some of the boxes, but still felt worth doing/thinking about.

The pattern: get some regulation and hide behind it saying "look I'm already being regulated so you can't sue me".

If you must make test code visible to Claude, have a hold out suite at least.

I usually don't let it go along with its "plan" without me vetting it. I often need to tweak the plan, add more detail etc.. There is perhaps an art to generating good test failure messages which don't reveal the tests themselves (if you can). With many iterations, test code leaks in subtly.

Both are valid observations. Translating some code from one lang to another when you have a good test suite (+ a hold out set) is a task with strong input-output correlations and so has a high "light touch success rate". Solving a problem from scratch has a lower rate and needs heavy oversight.