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I get why people blame indentation like this. I don't think it's right or wrong to ignore the tooling that directly addresses minor issues with indentation or matching braces honestly.

That said, my preference is to use the tools built into my editor and available on the CLI or web to assist and fix formatting and syntax. You get instant feedback on incorrect formatting, and I generally find that synthetic scope mistakes (regardless of method) are eliminated.


Appreciate the recommendation for the quantum thief. I really enjoyed accelerando which was a recommendation from a friend so I look forward to checking this one out. If it's good I'll share it with the same friend who taught me about accelerando.

Not the first time I've come across great recommendations in the comments of HN!


https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/anthropic-expands-c...

FTA

>WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence company Anthropic on Tuesday released an expanded suite of features for lawyers using its Claude AI assistant, including tools for specialized legal topics and access within Claude to other legal research and AI products.


I stand by my prediction that when AI comes for the lawyers' jobs, that's when suddenly we'll have the Butlerian Jihad.


If there were a particular subset of people that were the absolute least likely to ever revolt against anything it could be no one other than the lawyers. They've trained their entire careers to play by rules so esoteric that people like us need to hire them just to interact with those rules safely.


They won’t do anything so gauche as a rebellion, they’ll just rule it unconstitutional and leave it to law enforcement to handle the details.


You can't exactly start the jihad being a lawyer.


Big tech went from cool corporations to enemies of the people after they made journalists less relevant. The journalists fought back. I can definitely imagine the same happening with AI and lawyers, except that lawyers are far, far more powerful.


Not lawyers-- judges. Judges, in my experience, don't take kindly to anything or anyone infringing on their power.

Edit: I've met a ton of attorneys who are bullish on LLMs preparing work for them (kinda like robo-paralegals, albeit ones apt to spout bullshit). Judges, being human (and lazy by dint of evolution), would probably lean on LLM-based analysis too. I cannot imagine they'd ever stand by and let decisions be made by a non-judge.


That already happens, in the form of arbitration.

In fact, I'll bet someone makes a bundle selling AI arbitration services that do just that. Got a beef with BigCo? What could be more fair than letting HAL settle the matter?

If I had the sense God gave a gerbil, I'd already have Claude writing up a patent application on this. (Edit, too late: https://www.adr.org/ai-arbitrator/ )


Lawyers run the US, I don’t think anything that reduces the country’s dependence on them has any chance of widespread adoption.


I hope this has future applications in laser projectors


Laser projectors already include green lasers made by the same principle, but made from separate semiconductor lasers and non-linear crystals.

With this technology, which integrates the non-linear crystal with the semiconductor laser, it may become possible to make cheaper laser projectors, either by making an integrated green laser, or perhaps even an integrated triple laser, for all 3 primaries, but the difference in cost will not be great, because the green laser is a rather small fraction of the total cost (though it may be more expensive than the red and blue lasers together).


Thank you for a great explanation!


Big fan of sane defaults like this.

I like tmux, but I no longer spend time customizing it for every server I run it on, only to be tripped up on some new server I haven't set-up yet.


Batch size has nothing to do with it


You have no idea what you're talking about. Please Google it.


I have, you're pushing nonsense.

The methanol doesn't "come out in the heads" and batch size doesn't affect the final concentration as a % because roughly the same ratio is present during a run with a slight in crease in the tails due to the with methanol bonds with water.

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/0b9...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402...

Methanol poisoning comes from tainted consumables.


Interestingly, after looking at this more closely, what I said is true of rakija, which is what I'm most familiar with (part of my family is Serbian), but appears to not be significantly true for grain distillates. Your sources mostly don't address these topics though; the latter one is mainly about copper and lead levels.


Do you have any sources on methanol concentration that support your claims? If not the sources I provided show a low risk.


Stone fruits (plumbs, apricots, the two most common fruits in rakija) have higher methanol levels:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2e9c/544909602112c2816a956b...


Nothing about batch size affecting concentration of methanol in your link.

Nothing about more methanol in the heads either.

Your claims stand as unsupported.


You want the best spread possible, by having the largest pool possible.

We can all debate and discuss the best way to get there, but mathematically it's a pool that includes most everyone.


I think we need more Software Engineers, and fewer Computer Scientists.

IME, CS as a profession, doesn't need to concern itself with maintenance, secure coding practices, administration, system implementation, etc. There's no class called "maintaining this POS code base from 10 years ago."

CS folk fail when they don't make the top of a leader board for sorting algos.

Software Engineers fail if they tell you that maintenance requires 10 manual touch points over a weekend.

Different concerns. While software engineering is built upon CS fundamentals, ultimately your concern is with what's coming years down the line when your unpatched "hack week" project is underpinning the business model.


I just don't see myself needing to cross link my DnD, work, food, and home-lab nots significantly enough to not use separate collections.


Yeah, totally valid for things like D&D - I split that out too, for the same reason.

Work and homelab overlap constantly for me though. I make heavy use of periodic notes, so even something like recipes would get linked in weekly logs for meal planning or tracking. The connections don't have to be deep to be useful - sometimes it might just be 'I made this thing on this day' and that's enough context to be worth having in one place.


I like that because it's just text, and obsidian is un-opinionated on organization, it allows us all to find workflows that suit us!


Where are the sources on your claims that ethenol is only a temporary or last ditch treatment?


Suggest you read the link in my reply to pessimizer.


If you don't want to provide a link and quote to the source, I'm going to treat it as it's unsourced.

If you want to claim the link and source are in another castle, I'm not playing games.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1306022/

> A 10% ethanol solution administered intravenously is a safe and effective antidote for severe methanol poisoning. Ethanol therapy is recommended when plasma methanol concentrations are higher than 20 mg per dl, when ingested doses are greater than 30 ml and when there is evidence of acidosis or visual abnormalities in cases of suspected methanol poisoning.



Under > 7.4. Antidotes and Elimination Enhancement

> 7.4.2. Ethanol A therapeutic blood ethanol level of about 22 mmol/L (100 mg/dL) is recommended.

...

>If ethanol was coingested with methanol and the blood ethanol level initially was >22 mmol/L (100 mg/dL), the bolus dose of ethanol can be skipped.

It's like you didn't even read your own source.

They are calling it recommended for certain conditions, and saying you can skip parts of treatment for co-ingestion!

Then in the conclusions section

> Despite its extensive use, methanol poisoning remains a critical public health concern globally, often resulting from accidental or intentional ingestion and outbreaks linked to contaminated beverages.

They've called out contaminated beverages, not outputs of distillation.

You've been had by misinformation and now you're peddling lies.


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