Still waiting for progress from the team trying to get WSL approved for use at our org. We get a "still working through the red tape" update every couple months.
You don't need WSL to run Claude code on windows.
Readit Newsrichk449 commented on Shall I implement it? No gist.github.com/bretonium... · Posted by u/breton
richk449 commented on Rydberg atoms detect clear signals from a handheld radio phys.org/news/2026-02-ryd... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
We demonstrated simultaneous reception of neighboring channels with strong isolation between them." This enabled the researchers to monitor numerous radio channels at once, instead of tuning into them individually.
Can anyone elaborate on this? How does a single receiver produce multiple concurrent outputs, and how are they isolated in this context?
Unlike conventional cars that require expensive safety systems such as air bags and seat belts, the mover3000's top speed of one mile per hour makes it intrinsically safe.
richk449 commented on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran cnn.com/2026/02/28/middle... · Posted by u/lavp
> No approval from Congress.
I don't support it but there's blanket approval from Congress from the AUMF.
This authorizes an attack on Iran?
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This joint resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Authorization for Use of Military Force’’. SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES. (a) IN GENERAL.—That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.
richk449 commented on San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz sfgate.com/local/article/... · Posted by u/kaycebasques
This sort of thing is a huge problem here in New Zealand. The only native mammal here is a bat, we have mostly birds which evolved for a really long time with only avian predators. So they’re hilariously poorly adapted for surviving standard predators (cats, rats, dogs etc) which first the Maori and subsequently Europeans brought. For example, many of them are flightless and tend to freeze when threatened - works well against eagles but is a terrible idea when threatened by a cat.
As a result, we have many animals, mostly birds, which are totally unique and also critically endangered. Many of them can only survive on offshore islands which have been comprehensively cleared of predators at vast effort and expense. The islands need to be relatively accessible since humans have to get to them to maintain them, but it turns out that once in a while a predator will swim quite vast distances for no apparent reason, and it only takes one to mess up years of painstaking work. Quite apart from killing a bunch of birds whose total remaining numbers might range from the tens to the hundreds of individuals.
I love the visual of humans desperately trying to preserve what they consider the natural world, and when they turn their backs evolution does it's thing.
richk449 commented on Facts will not save you – AI, history and Soviet sci-fi hegemon.substack.com/p/fa... · Posted by u/veqq
I agree with this whole-heartedly.
Certainly some facts can imply a certain understanding of the world, but they don't require that understanding in order to remain true. The map may require the territory, but the territory does not require the map.
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Dick
In this analogy though, maps are the only things we have access to. There may be Truth, but we only approximate it with our maps.
I recently used claude code and go to build a metric receiving service for a weather station project. I had it build all the code for this. It created the SQL statements, the handlers, the deployment scripts, the systemd service files, the tests, a utility to generate api keys.
I think you are using the wrong language to be honest. LLMs are best at languages like Python, Javascript and Go. Relatively simple structures and huge amounts of reference code. Rust is a less common language which is much harder to write.
Did you give claude code tests and the ability to compile in a loop? It's pretty good in go at least at debugging and fixing issues when allowed to loop.
How do you give cc the ability to compile in a loop?
richk449 commented on Ask HN: New RevOps guy wants to switch us from M365 to GSuite+Slack · Posted by u/9dev
Slack is orders of magnitude better than Teams.
Google docs is better than Microsoft office, but only by a little.
Google drive is many many orders of magnitude better than Sharepoint.
richk449 commented on I don't think AGI is right around the corner dwarkesh.com/p/timelines-... · Posted by u/mooreds
Our silicon machines exist in a countable state space (you can easily assign a unique natural number to any state for a given machine). However, 'standard biological mechanisms' exist in an uncountable state space - you need real numbers to properly describe them. Cantor showed that the uncountable is infinitely more infinite (pardon the word tangle) than the countable. I posit that the 'special sauce' for sentience/intelligence/sapience exists beyond the countable, and so is unreachable with our silicon machines as currently envisaged.
I call this the 'Cardinality Barrier'
It sounds like you are making a distinction between digital (silicon computers) and analog (biological brains).
As far as possible reasons that a computer can’t achieve AGI go, this seems like the best one (assuming computer means digital computer of course).
But in a philosophical sense, a computer obeys the same laws of physics that a brain does, and the transistors are analog devices that are being used to create a digital architecture. So whatever makes you brain have uncountable states would also make a real digital computer have uncountable states. Of course we can claim that only the digital layer on top matters, but why?
Does HFSS visualize the field in real-time or a user needs to set the geometry/parameters then precalculate the field and only then be able to explore the visualization?
Say, if I wanted to see immediate effects of changing an incidence angle, could I just "scroll" the incidence parameter?
HFSS does a typical FEM matrix solve then displays the results. It is often used for very complex or large problems, so as far as I know it isn’t set up for instant display of results. That would be a neat feature for small problems.
richk449 commented on Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately thealgorithmicbridge.com/... · Posted by u/baylearn
Related to your point: if these tools are close to having super-human intelligence, and they make humans so much more productive, why aren't we seeing improvements at a much faster rate than we are now? Why aren't inherent problems like hallucination already solved, or at least less of an issue? Surely the smartest researchers and engineers money can buy would be dogfooding, no?
This is the main point that proves to me that these companies are mostly selling us snake oil. Yes, there is a great deal of utility from even the current technology. It can detect patterns in data that no human could; that alone can be revolutionary in some fields. It can generate data that mimics anything humans have produced, and certain permutations of that can be insightful. It can produce fascinating images, audio, and video. Some of these capabilities raise safety concerns, particularly in the wrong hands, and important questions that society needs to address. These hurdles are surmountable, but they require focusing on the reality of what these tools can do, instead of on whatever a group of serial tech entrepreneurs looking for the next cashout opportunity tell us they can do.
The constant anthropomorphization of this technology is dishonest at best, and harmful and dangerous at worst.
> if these tools are close to having super-human intelligence, and they make humans so much more productive, why aren't we seeing improvements at a much faster rate than we are now? Why aren't inherent problems like hallucination already solved, or at least less of an issue? Surely the smartest researchers and engineers money can buy would be dogfooding, no?
Hallucination does seem to be much less of an issue now. I hardly even hear about it - like it just faded away.
As far as I can tell smart engineers are using AI tools, particularly people doing coding, but even non-coding roles.
The criticism feels about three years out of date.