All the terribly kept tenements that housed 10 families on two floors were also "traditional," but you can't even find them now. Even in places where there are some left, the ones still standing were probably the best of the bunch AND have been extensively repaired since.

The more complex the rules become, the more difficult it will be for alternative providers to exist, unless they have explicit carve outs. So far, with age verification and user id laws, there doesn't seem to be much appetite from politicians to create exceptions for open source and smaller projects. By comparison, in the US the regional banks have special exemptions for many of the really onerous regs, which is why they are still a bunch of them.

for some reason I couldn't find any way to download it from that website.

Now I don't even know! Colleagues send me graphs they made with Copilot and then we discover that the LLM did mental arithmetic or whatever to produce the results and they are wrong. Computers used to be able to do math !

I think upper management are hoping they can replace a possibly reticent or AI skeptical "old guard" with AI native Gen Zs. In practice, the young out of school kids are much less excited about AI than the 50 year olds, so I don't know how well it will work.

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/training-ai-machine-generated-t...

In practice you can do it a bit (generated data from a better / different model is fine, some generated data might be useful if there is non generated data etc.)

Alignement is the idea that we should be worried about dishonest smart LLMs when really most of the problems are due to dumb lazy gullible LLMs. It's critihype.

(It's not as portable as C though, and the compilers have more bugs.)

https://hypermedia.systems/

I came to the conclusion that the best frontend is no frontend.

Anyway in general, corporations are sticky. They save resources through scale and collaboration. Famously this is a problem for free market true believers because if you believe that the market is the most efficient mean of organizing people then you would expect firms to operate internally as free markets (or disappear). There is a whole body of work about it,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm

In practice you can't just become your own boss and compete against firms.

It's security in depth. You build your server in a way that it doesn't allow remote code execution, and then you run it with an unprivileged user so that if it does allow it, the consequences are limited. And if running arbitrary code is a feature (you are github or whatever) you use VMs.

I think it would be hard to get any kind of usable capability system without algebraic effects like those of Koka or Scala libraries.

EDIT: Apparently Security Managers are deprecated and slated for removal.

You find a C or fortran library that hasn't been touched in 20 years and (sometimes) it's just because it's complete and there hasn't been any reason to update any parts of it. You can just add it to your project and it will build and be usable immediately. I wish we had more of those.

The real reason is that it is a deliberate choice by the CPython project to prefer extensibility and maintainability to performance. The result is that python is a much more hackable language, with much better C interop than V8 or JVM.

Maybe branching was an important reason to adopt git but now we'd probably be ok with a vcs that doesn't even support them.

More importantly, it's an article about using Claude from a company about using Claude. I think on the balance it's very likely that they would use Claude to write their technical blog posts.