> their flight plan was not communicated in advance to the Italian air force general staff, nor had the American aircraft received authorization to land,
Sounds like they might have gotten authorization if they had just told them in advance.
Aren't their databases behemoths that satisfy requirements (especially of regulatory nature) of large banks and such? I don't think they have much in common with the needs of your run-of-the-mill startup.
What do you mean? By default, Claude asks for permission for every file read, every edit, every command. It gets exhausting, so many people run it with `--dangerously-skip-permissions`.
It does not ask for permission for every file read, only those outside the project and not explicitly allowed. You can bypass project edit permission requests with “allow edits”, no need for “dangerously skip permissions”. Bash commands are harder, but you can allow-list them up to a point.
> so many people run it with `--dangerously-skip-permissions`
It's on the people then, not the "agent". But why doesn't Claude come with a decent allow list, or at least remember what the user allows, so the spam is reduced?
You have the option to "always allow command `x.*`", but even then. The more control you hand over to these things, the more powerful and useful (and dangerous) they become. It's a real dilemma and yet to be solved.
GPG keys are typically guarded much better than emails, that's the whole point. Accessing e-mails can be done by guessing a password, to get to the key you basically need command execution on the target's client system.
> When solar OVERproduces you have to literally pay someone to consume that energy,
Can't we just throttle the solar panel? In a worst case, you just pull the plug. It's not like a nuclear power plant which needs to be shut down carefully, or am I misunderstanding something?
Not sure how is situation with home installations, factory i work for runs 150kw plant for our own consumption and don't bother with selling, but i know that we can set up how much we want/are allowed to feed back.
You don't have to use net metering in residential either. Grid-supported hybrid inverters that won't export power can be installed. Bonus is that they run when the grid is down. It's effectively like having an automatic transfer switch where the grid is the backup generator when your batteries are drained. The profit margin for the pro installers is reduced so they don't promote them, but it is a viable route to save money and avoid hassles with the power company on a self-install.
> “I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies,” writes Douglas Adams in The Salmon of Doubt.
> 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
> 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
> 3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
That's probably true to some extent, but I'm not completely on board.
> 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
Television and calculators were in the world when I was born, but I never viewed them as "natural". TV always seemed to be a way to distract yourself from the world.
> 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
I was happy to get on board with the WWW, the web browser, and widespread email usage. Those were revolutionary technologies with immense values. On the other hand, I'm still not on board with text messaging, phone scrolling, or social media. If I could, I'd eliminate social media from society.
> 3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
I'm over 50 and a strong believer in the value of the LLM. It's a work tool that I can use at work and put away when I'm at home (or not, depending on my mood). It's new and exciting and revolutionary and a move in the right direction for humanity.
I chuckled when I read this. Being 55 I tend to think this is true. But I realized when looking back the things I accepted when growing up, even though they were normal, I now notice that they have had a detrimental effect on society.
So, Although age tends to have this effect on how we see the world, and some of it probably not to worry about. I think there is part of this awareness that has some wisdom and is trying to protect our species..
you need not stick to any level. Some things that always have been are still bad (slavery is an obvious example now dated enough to be uncontrolversial). Some new things are bad and others good at any age.
don't grow up too set in your ways to not learn the new. But do grow up fast/young to get some cynicism for everything. now that I'm in my 50s the first is important but when younger the later was important.
> their flight plan was not communicated in advance to the Italian air force general staff, nor had the American aircraft received authorization to land,
Sounds like they might have gotten authorization if they had just told them in advance.
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