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New comment by ExoticPearTree in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

ExoticPearTree — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:54:04 +0000

It's pretty simple: you work as much as we tell you or we fire you. And good luck finding another job super fast with another company willing to sponsor a visa. This is the abuse. Plus, I think the pay is also not that great compared to US counterparts.

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

ExoticPearTree — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:32:57 +0000

While I "vibe code" more and more these days, an IDE that still does code highlighting, I can use it to look up functions source and so on, it is very useful to be able to figure out what the LLM did.

And yes, there are people who use vim in a screen session, but I don't fit into that category. I like my GoLand IDE.

And while there are a ton of IDEs out there, I use what I'm used to.

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "Red Hat being phased out of existence?"

ExoticPearTree — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:32:43 +0000

RedHat Virtualization is pretty expensive too.

Regarding k8s, I am not aware of any emerging technology being developed to replace it.

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities"

ExoticPearTree — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:30:23 +0000

Maybe Anthropic is in some kind of trouble and if the IPO does not go the way they dream of, there is a scapegoat they can blame.

Or Amodei is really far gone in his beliefs.

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities"

ExoticPearTree — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:26:32 +0000

Right, because this is what tge world is missing right now: a black market for AI models.

For all the good things Anthropic makes, it is a very unhinged company.

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta"

ExoticPearTree — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:27:31 +0000

> He's never going to be hired as CEO by anybody for the rest of his career.

You must be new to the corporate world or incredibly naive.

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

ExoticPearTree — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:23:22 +0000

> What do you think happens if they refuse to do it?

In war time they can be shot on the spot for disobeying orders.

> Either nothing, or if they get sued or prosecuted for not doing it then they get brought in front of a court, and a judge who is doing their job would say that they were right not to do it.

I think you confuse the military with corporate environments. Worst thing that can happen in the private sector is that you get fired.

In the military you can spend the rest of your life in prison if “you did not feel like obeying orders”. The military is built ob discipline and followimg orders, not Gen Z mood swings.

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

ExoticPearTree — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:51:00 +0000

I don't think you understand what "No warranty" means in a software license. It means Anthropic cannot be held liable for results if the software misbehaves and instead of bombing a terrorist compound it bombs a wedding (I chose this example because the US has a tradition to bomb weddings in Iraq and Afghanistan). But in no form does it mean "yeah, I don't feel like doing what you prompted me".

Hence, Anthropic sabotaged the models on purpose to not respond properly to all prompts.

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

ExoticPearTree — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:09:42 +0000

That means that the software was not tested for every scenario. Not that the user cannot try to use it in a way it was never intended to.

If, on the other hand, Anthropic deliberately blocks the user from doing something, then it is sabotage.

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

ExoticPearTree — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:00:23 +0000

Yes, a very small list of NOs. Everything else goes.

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

ExoticPearTree — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:19:32 +0000

Again: if Anthropic deliberately blocks a user from ordering it to prosecute a target, then it is degrading the software capability on purpose.

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

ExoticPearTree — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:07:59 +0000

There is a dfference between “our product can’t do X” and “our product can do X, but we don’t want you to use it to do X”.

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

ExoticPearTree — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:00:54 +0000

Say we have this prompt for Claude at the Pentagon: “You have control over these 50 drones, fly them to Ethiopia and eliminate all possible terrorists you can using the maximum endurance of the drons. In this folder you have all the necessary intel. Confidence rate needs to be at least 70%. Report back when all drones have landed back at the base”

Why is this not considered human in the loop? And let’s say human in the loop will just press Y; what is the difference?

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

ExoticPearTree — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:01:22 +0000

> They're clearly fine with it, but they wanted human-in-the-loop on decision making.

And the Pentagon does not want that. Plain and simple.

And now Anthropic is learning the hard way what happens when you say no to the Pentagon.

It is truly mind boggling that anyone thinks Anthropic can dictate terms to the military.

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

ExoticPearTree — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:24:41 +0000

The passed a law directing the military to round-up and arrest every japanese in the US and hold them indefinetely, and the military did so.

The military will kill anyone instructed to kill. Especially if it is in the body of a law passed by Congress.

Do you think in the military you can just be like “Yeah, I don’t feel it today, I’m going to take s sick day”?

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

ExoticPearTree — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:20:21 +0000

> The US is a constitutional republic, it does not have a system where anything Congress decides is law.

Really now? Then why does it say in the Constitution that it was created to pass laws?

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told"

ExoticPearTree — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:31:10 +0000

I thought after 60,000 feet MSL a country's airspace ends.

So, who's the UK actually attacking?

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?"

ExoticPearTree — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:15:23 +0000

Ah. My reasoning, with the normal distribution, was that zero was at the left most end of the curve and with a pretty much non-existent chance of appearing.

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?"

ExoticPearTree — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:02:58 +0000

> You definitely would expect a roughly equal number of 0s as any other of those numbers since it's uniformly distributed.

How would random numbers be uniformly distributed?

New comment by ExoticPearTree in "AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?"

ExoticPearTree — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:22:58 +0000

The probability of generating a zero is incredibly low if you use the normal distribution curve.

So it is not necessarily that it doesn't generate zero, they did not run enough times to increase the probability of actually generating a zero.