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  • to be even more pedantic, if we follow the relevant official RFCs for http (formerly 2616, but now 7230-7235 which have relevant changes), a 403 can substitute for a 401, but a 401 has specific requirements:

    The server generating a 401 response MUST send a WWW-Authenticate header field (Section 4.1) containing at least one challenge applicable to the target resource.

    (the old 2616 said 403 must not respond with a request for authentication but the new versions don’t seem to mention that)





  • many words should run into the same issue, since LLMs generally use less tokens per word than there are letters in the word. So they don’t have direct access to the letters composing the word, and have to go off indirect associations between “strawberry” and the letter “R”

    duckassist seems to get most right but it claimed “ouroboros” contains 3 o’s and “phrasebook” contains one c.



  • Actually I think he has already had an adequate amount of recognition:

    • “In 1999, Red Hat and VA Linux, both leading developers of Linux-based software, presented Torvalds with stock options in gratitude for his creation.[29] That year both companies went public and Torvalds’s share value briefly shot up to about US$20 million”

    • his autobiography is in several hundred library collections worldwide

    Awards he’s received:

    • 2 honorary doctorates

    • 2 celestial objects named after him

    • Lovelace Medal

    • IEEE Computer Pioneer Award

    • EFF Pioneer Award

    • Vollum Award

    • Hall of Fellows of the Computer History Museum

    • C&C prize

    • Millenium Technology Prize

    • Internet Hall of Fame

    • IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award

    • Great Immigrants Award


  • is-number is a one-line function. (though it’s debatable if a function that complex should be compressed to one line)

    You may have heard of a similar if more extreme “microdependency” called is-even. When you use an NPM package, you also need all the dependencies of that package, and the dependencies of those dependencies recursively. Each package has some overhead, eventually leading to this moment in time.