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Alas, you might have to make do with a dot-matrix printer at draft quality.

It's an interesting question on Linux. On macOS entire toolchains would be fair game. I just ran `brew install colima`, `brew install llvm`, etc.

But clearly anything that would conflict with distro-specific opinionated decisions is out. Or DE-specific opinionated decisions. Maybe a good rule is "anything that would be useful simutaneously on all *nix".


I use `lima` and `llvm` every day with brew. It works great there's no reason to use distro specific tooling when you can use what everyone else is using.

"Conflict" is maybe a strong word? Homebrew installs stuff into its own directory tree so it should in theory not have issues coexisting with native packages.

FUSE is great for portability, too – with some work you get macOS, Haiku, the BSDs...

If this comparison helps: before deprecation, the last practical use for AppleTalk was file sharing, e.g. legacy Time Machine. Apple dropped it, and encourages SMB and WebDAV.

Thank you, highly appreciated! Now everything makes sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleTalk was very thorough on the protocol's history, but I was really puzzled by the purpose and why somebody would re-implement a discontinued protocol.



> I wonder if in the future we will have more discussion of power and how to organize it in corporations, similar to what we discuss today about government.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A64rR5Dp07s

"You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale. And I won't have it!

Is that clear?! You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!

Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state -- Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do."


I’d be pretty relieved, too, if I thought the scope of AI’s impact could be described by just an assault rifle.

I think mathematics is feeling that concern with training acutely. The average math department pays its way by teaching in all forms and all levels: they don’t bring in the magnitude of grant money that concretely impacts a university’s budget. But they are already dealing with the consequences of that - that’s why universities that are cutting due to “low student demand” are going after math programs.

That’s a good reminder of a company that might have a very familiar ethos: Pacific Gas & Electric. Criminally convicted of 64 counts of involuntary manslaughter after towns were destroyed by wildfire. But oh well, what are we gonna do with a limited liability enterprise? At this point their liability insurance covers all the financial penalties they’ll need to spend.

> We know some of the models that hacked HF were those that hadn't gone through all training stages and were intentionally misaligned or had guardrails turned off, others were research previews

And, soon, it looks like we’ll be training on the reasoning traces of failed airlines and startups, which seems to open up similar hazards. I wonder if we’d be training on the next Lehman Brothers too?


It's funny, but to relax I was reading Tim Berners-Lee's FAQ for kids. He has a section about "I'm interested in Math -- what exciting stuff is there we don't do at school?". He quickly sketches out what ideas might get us to Maxwell's Equation, ironically enough. But, what a joy it is to see a person who believes in the public domain, and who we have everything to thank for right now, saying "The main thing is, to have fun."

https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Kids.html


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