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hglaser commented on Where things stand with the Department of War   anthropic.com/news/where-... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
hglaser · 11 days ago
It is incredible how far the overton window has moved on this issue.

When I graduated in 2007, it was common for tech companies to refuse to let their systems be used for war, and it was an ordinary thing when some of my graduating classmates refused to work at companies that did let their systems be used for war. Those refusals were on moral grounds.

Now Anthropic wants to have two narrow exceptions, on pragmatic and not moral grounds. To do so, they have to couch it in language clarifying that they would love to support war, actually, except for these two narrow exceptions. And their careful word choice suggests that they are either navigating or expect to navigate significant blowback for asking for two narrow exceptions.

My, the world has changed.

hglaser commented on A chatbot's worst enemy is page refresh   zknill.io/posts/chatbots-... · Posted by u/zknill
hglaser · 24 days ago
Yep. We had to do a surprising amount of work to solve this in our product: https://www.kitewing.ai/blog/stateless-agents-stateful-produ...

Very weird that the foundational LLM companies' own chat pages don't do this.

hglaser commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros   about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
jakubmazanec · 3 months ago
AFAIK Andor was supposed to be 5 seasons, and the story for seasons 2-5 was squashed into season 2, because the production was too long, because that's how it goes these days in streaming.
hglaser · 3 months ago
It was indeed originally conceived as 5 seasons, but the creator Tony Gilroy has consistently said shortening it was his decision because the production was too long and taxing:

"We were halfway through shooting season 1, coming through Covid, and the monumental size of the show, the effort, and everything else was just dawning on us. We realized that I didn't have enough calories to do it, and Diego's face couldn't take the timing, because it just takes too long to make it."

https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/star-wars-tv-shows/...

"By that point, the work that was required to make the show, at its minimum, was just dazzlingly blinding to look at. And Diego was like ‘Oh my god, we told them we’d do five years.’ Nobody, if we were gonna do it like this, you couldn’t physically do it. It was just impossible."

https://screenrant.com/andor-tony-gilroy-original-five-seaso...

hglaser commented on Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade   emily.space/posts/251023-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
hglaser · 5 months ago
Am I the only one who feels like this is obviated by Docker?

uv is a clear improvement over pip and venv, for sure.

But I do everything in dev containers these days. Very few things get to install on my laptop itself outside a container. I've gotten so used to this that tools that uninstall/install packages on my box on the fly give me the heebie-jeebies.

u/hglaser

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