tomviner

How do you know what to remove?

Clock faces were inspired by sun dials. The hour hand traces a version of the path the sun's shadow makes. At least in the northern hemisphere.

The Python json library is callable as a module:

    pbcopy | python -m json.tool | pbpaste

It has a load options:

    $ python -m json.tool --help
    usage: python -m json.tool [-h] [--sort-keys] [--no-ensure-ascii] [--json-lines] [--indent INDENT | --tab | --no-indent | --compact] [infile] [outfile]

    A simple command line interface for json module to validate and pretty-print JSON objects.

    positional arguments:
      infile             a JSON file to be validated or pretty-printed
      outfile            write the output of infile to outfile

    options:
      -h, --help         show this help message and exit
      --sort-keys        sort the output of dictionaries alphabetically by key
      --no-ensure-ascii  disable escaping of non-ASCII characters
      --json-lines       parse input using the JSON Lines format. Use with --no-indent or --compact to produce valid JSON Lines output.
      --indent INDENT    separate items with newlines and use this number of spaces for indentation
      --tab              separate items with newlines and use tabs for indentation
      --no-indent        separate items with spaces rather than newlines
      --compact          suppress all whitespace separation (most compact)

Anyone got stories of converting microservices into a monolith?

What's your alternative?

Copilot CLI is exactly this https://www.npmjs.com/package/@githubnext/github-copilot-cli

I wonder what's the simplest Langchain agent that can recreate this?

There's no generic solution as yet. Bing's Sydney was instructed its rules were "confidential and permanent", yet it divulged and broke them with only a little misdirection.

Is this just the first taste of AI alignment being proved to be necessarily a fundamentally hard problem?

The audiobook is worth a listen just for that one special character. Even if you've already read the book