Very long time fluent speaker / daily writer of business Japanese here. I also worked as a professional JP to EN translator so am very familiar with translation issues. I have found Claude Opus to be extremely helpful in two situations:

1) Reviewing Japanese email / document I have written.
- Finds typos
- Gives good advice (sometimes too stiff so I don't listen anyway)
- Points out awkward phrasing and offers better. It does follow some patterns too frequently, and sometimes it stops sounding like me. Yes I would like Claude to have better Japanese skills and I would not want to write with his "tone" but still, very useful.
- I actually learn from it.
- It helps me reduce the length of my email while maintaining important content. This actually would have been good for me to have years ago just for shortening English email.

2) Helps me understand difficult to penetrate email from nontechnical client. It has allowed me to reduce the need for clarifications. Sometimes I have read through an email that seemed obtuse and just asked Claude what I am missing or why this person seems to not understand what I wrote. It can be a combination of being nontechnical while also being more subtle. I think it has helped me improve comprehension even after years of it.

Has this destroyed your life? I remember a few phone numbers, but that’s about it. It has not ended the world.

This is a weird analogy for everyone to pick. If i don’t have to remember the 4 arguments that I have to add to every single API call I make, that’s a win in my book.

Two memorized phone numbers will get me through the rest of my life without having to waste memory space on others. Claude allowing me to drop a metric fuckton of idiosyncrasies and syntax is of even more value.

Thankfully not a windows user, but if passwords are in memory and you ran a claw bot wouldn't Claude be able to just find your passwords in memory or from a core dump? Whereas if they are hashed on disk and hopefully not kept around, no?

Don't have kids what are you on about?

I have often seen small tablets with edutainment content being used to keep small children quiet in restaurants. Yes, it works and probably I would have loved it or an eink tablet if I was at that age, but yeah you have to wonder what the impact is. Toddlers even want to go right up to a TV to look at the pixels, doesn't mean they should.

This is great! Mythos = lots of eyeballs. Now tell us how many of each severity level were found, how many of those could be fixed automatically, and how many fixes both auto and manual then were found to introduce a vulnerability upon reanalysis. Though if there was even one critical severity bug found out of 271 that makes it worth it.

p.s. for people saying it is a good way to need rockets, okay. And I am definitely all for going to space. But you can also build megarobots that can shrug off Antarctica and be self-driven / self-walking. Personally they are both cool to me. And both would be useful for building a Moon base too.

Just wondering why not just build the data centers somewhere really cold? Antarctica has got to be easier than working in space.. at least you can get there without a rocket, and you can dig underground. I am not sure I understand the economic argument for space-based data centers as opposed to ground-based data centers. Space might have more solar flux than the poles but has anyone actually compared the costs?

This is really creepy / nauseating to me, and also creates a high value target at World. You can reset leaked passwords, but you cannot reset your retina. If you choose to believe 100% in this service and willfully ignore implementing patterns to combat social engineering this could end up worse. From what I can gather (from Gemini), deepfakes take advantage of organizational social pressure, like a CEO demanding something instantaneously, or hackers being inside your email system for a long time. Perhaps this could be short-circuited by an organization actually requiring people to always call back officials on a secure phone number, confirm with shared personal knowledge, and never respond to a demand without out of band verification. I also wonder what if Zoom just calls the participants in such high-stakes meetings, instead of allowing participants to click on a link they trust because someone emailed it to them. Then the corporate security office can just verify the Zoom server. And iPhone/Macbook already have biometric sensors too but have Secure Enclave.. yes there is a big value in being able to identify someone for sure but putting it all in a single company's hands sounds like waiting for them to be attacked.

I used to have a workstation that had a sliding cover for the camera. Maybe it was an SGI Indy? I forget. I think only some linux laptops have hardware covers / kill switches for camera and mic? I would *really* like such for MacBook Pro, how about a physical low-profile sideways cover / toggle switch that disables camera and mic together? As for biometrics, I was always against it. But then.. iPhone Face ID, so useful. And kind of necessary with the default settings though maybe we should just keep them unlocked for longer? And then the Macbook's finger print scanner button. Actually super useful. Mainly to get around system password prompts. And local keychain fine. But then I tried Google's passkey. Also quite useful though scary, it seems to use a passkey Apple hands out if your fingerprint works. The only thing is, if your fingerprint ever is allowed one day leave your machine (probably it has already) then your biometrics are in somebody's cloud, and in a year or two someone could deepfake it. That's the obvious part. Retinas? Don't get me started. I'm guessing it probably will be robust even after laser surgery.

AGC used to be called Asahi Glass and has been one of the world leaders in functionality glass for a long time and though I don’t know a ton about them have admired their innovations.They’ve been making glass antennas of one kind or another since at least 2022 according to Google. Here is a page I found that discusses this product. https://www.agc-automotive.com...

Since this is news for nerds, is there a simple way to use these European or latin American gateways SaaS / AIaaS type services? Or is everything dependent on a merchant account with the local Visa gateway or Google Pay? Not a fan of crypto stuff, just curious about the state of OSS payments and whether usable for time based or token/API based billing.

Deere has been the most famous poster child of sticking it to the consumer and locking them in for a very long time. So it is startlingly good news that anything is happening... but it sounds like very little compared to their gains and damage caused. Also I don't get why just 10 years, these things last a long time. This kind of equipment can cost a lot of money per hour of downtime. (Caveat: I've worked on afterservice parts software for a big mining and construction machinery manufacturer... afterservice parts is like the razorblades business model multiplied by lots of expensive time constraints and logistics) Tldr; but what is needed is a law about afterservice parts. Are the owners of the equipment going to be able to buy parts from based on like Cummins parts catalog and run telemetry if that is a thing in Deere? After 10 years if their model's parts and software is no longer supported will they open source it, provide 3D design files or equivalent parts in major catalogs? Will they be able to only provide windows binaries that work with windows 11? Can machines and support packages be transferred? New machines need to become as maintainable as old machines, for as long as the materials last. Probably, they probably have a lot of ways left to fuck with people and still have a big incentive to do so. Not doing so will cut into potential profit.

I've been through a few Kindles, honestly would be surprised anything lasts that long. Mainly Kindle Unlimited is an amazing deal. But, if there was a better ereader that is light, book dimensions, e-ink and has big letters with similar library even if I have to pay for each book I would switch. The two main glaring issues besides KU being really addictive are: 1) DRM, and 2) absolutely miniscule system font size. They allow very large text font size, but the fonts used in the file list, UI, About this book etc. are so tiny it is painful to read. They also keep messing with the UI without delivering much that is useful while continuing to ignore that e-ink users might need larger text.

I have Google Maps and Apple Maps next to each other on my iPhone. I really tried to give Apple a shot but it has always been a sub-par experience for me. And I already highly detest ads (goodbye iTunes). This has to stop. Like forcing an iOS upgrade that throttles my phone to being far less usable than before, while I am simultaneously budgeting to buy the highest end Mac hardware I can, before rampocalypse, is so frustrating. And you know what? I am finding my M2 Max MBP and iPhone 11 Pro Max are.. maybe.. enough. I did buy AirPods Pro but you know what? I hate em and will likely spend more time on over the ear headphones. If you want to kill the excitement, just keep on shitting everything up, Apple.