the great thing about sales tax is rich people spend a lot of money on dumb shit

Not relative to their income tho. Sales taxes are regressive and get more money from the poor

They get less money from the poor but it's a higher percentage of that person's income. There is a difference.

The great thing about sales tax is that everyone can bypass it. You don't need to be the kind of person who can hire a tax expert to coach you; all you need to do is drive over the state line!

Not enough to make it preferable to income taxes.

Oh the Philippines, an actual American colonial holding!

> no I dont know how O(n) is calculated when reading a function

   1. Confidently state "O(n)"
   2. If they give you a look, say "O(1) with some tricks"
   3. If they still give you a look, say "Just joking! O(nlogn)"

O(no idea)

>no I dont know how O(n) is calculated when reading a function

This is really, honestly not hard. Spend a few minutes reading about this, or even better, ask a LLM to explain it to you and clear your misconceptions if regular blog posts don't do it for you. This is one of the concepts that sounds scarier than it is.

edit: To be clear there are tough academic cases where complexity is harder to compute, with weird functions in O(sqrt(n)) or O(log(log(n)) or worse, but most real world code complexity is really easy to tell at glance.

its not hard. Accounting isnt that hard either. I just know more business crap than programming

Do you mean you aren't able to use AI to make software?

The thing you fear is the thing that you could just use to improve yourself?

Why fear a shovel?

Also, I never claimed to be a good programmer either. Just don't see the point fearing something that makes it infinitely easier and faster to get work done.

I suspect the value you bring to the table is that you are good enough a programmer to translate the problems of the people you work with into working code.

LLMs can do it somewhat, but it can probably leetcode better than even most of the the people who went to MIT.

Uh not really. I am already having Claude read and then one-shot proprietary ERP code written in vintage closed source language OOP oriented BASIC with sparse documentation.... just needed to feed it in the millions of lines of code i have and it works.

I'm sure claude does great at that, but it would be objectively better, for a large variety of reasons, if claude didn't have to keep syntax examples in it's context.

for sure. About 6 months ago it absolutely couldn't do it and kept getting cofnused even when i tried to do RAG against the manuals provided (only downloadable from a shady .ru site LOL) but now .. like butter. The context seems to mostly be it reading and writing related stuff?

GAAP doesn't work here really. the R&D treadmill means you are always betting on next year and its NOT inventory or something you can defer your cost on. It's an upfront R&D expense.

so what happens on year 10 when Anthropic hits a $10B training and only returns $8T? they're cooked

Yeah, that's kind of what I'm wondering about.

It's an interesting story about how even though all metrics show massive losses actually they have massive gains.

Accounting is a rather mature field, so I figure that someone in the past has tried this stunt and there should probably be ways for dealing with it.

Or do they always flame out after losing all the money? Knowing the history here would be informative.

conversely, and well, popularly, long sentences were given the kibosh thanks to authors like Hemmingway.

I was told the ellipses is the mark of a 4th grade poet and to never use it.

funny how things change!

I've been.... and they genuinely... And honestly? the real x is that. it went from X to Y.

dang permaban this AI slop please

Dont forget .gif webcam streams! Just keep sending new frames!

Indeed. The problem with that was that the browser would cache the whole bloody stream and that quickly led to issues. That's why we switched to JPEG, which also greatly improved the image quality over the GIF format, which really wasn't designed for dealing with camera generated images.

That's a nice find. People rely a little heavily on this, and it only says in the manual "This directive allows certain functions to be disabled." but its not a security sandbox.

I think PHP has in the past explicitly stated its not a security feature.

There have been a few issues over the years with this.

Anyway - good OS security is required anytime you run software!

heres one from 6 years ago https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76047

PHP loads all available functions into a giant hashset (see zend_disable_function in PHP's source). 'disable_functions' removes the functions from the hashset, making them unavailable to be called. Due to its interpreted nature, this indirection works much like a sandbox would.

> I think PHP has in the past explicitly stated its not a security feature.

I'm struggling to think what it's for then?

likely intended more as a lint than a security feature, it's not unusual to want to exclude commonly misused features from your code and any libraries you use.

Knowing the mess that is the php standard library, I imagine many applications would want to just straight up ban the really bad parts.

> I'm struggling to think what it's for then?

Placating some users - mainly shared web hosting providers - who still think that disabling functions like system() and exec() is an effective security measure.

a lazy security feature that stops 90% of problems?

I built a Erlang based chat server implementing a JMAP extension that Claude wrote the RFC and then wrote the server for

Erlang FTW. I remember the days at the ol' lab!

i have no use for it at my work, i wish i did, so i did this project for run intead.