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by 015a 2y ago
The article literally reads: > I recently argued that many Weird Nerds (I called them autistics, but people really hated that) These are the same thing. The author recognizes that. Everyone recognizes that.
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Yeah; the "trick" of the question is "a straight line along a curved surface is actually a curved line", but even this isn't taking into account the Y-axis curvature of the earth; and thus the assumed-to-be "st
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I strongly feel that the "this is the holy grail of computer feature" take is tech-industry mindbubble. This line in the article hits very hard: > A lot of Windows users just want their PCs so they can play games, watch porn,
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by 015a 2y ago
Yup, we saw the same thing. Everyone wants RPC. That's it. We keep inventing crazy complicated patterns on top of RPC that serve mostly as good fodder to yell about in meetings, when `POST /list_users` and `POST /create_user`
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Then you can hit the db. I don't understand this argument against JWTs; if instantaneous session revocation is important for your use-case, versus JWTs more typical 5 minute or 60 minute expiration, there is nothing about JWTs which ma
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> Not enough building, and also the inequality in ownership of land and houses. Its really just building. I grew up in a somewhat rural part of the US, basically just farm land and forests, but a few dozen miles from a city of ~100,000 p
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IMO takes like this are problematic. The problem is not enough building. That's it. All the other stuff you said is just noise that confuses people into believing this is some hyper-complicated modern-financial-system problem that&#x27
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I recently had my Apple Watch (Series 9, few months old) touch screen refuse to respond to touch input, and instead issue seemingly random pokes and drags until it eventually worked its way toward calling 911. After assuring the operator th
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I'm not sure if you've checked the link out, but that's what this article is announcing; a $900 Mac Mini-style devkit you can pre-order today.
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12 cores, possibly all of them P-cores (they've said that SXE comes in bins up to 12 p-cores), and some early benchmarks are putting SXE cores as ~15% slower than M3? That indicates this is a $900 machine comparable to the entry-tier $
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by 015a 2y ago
I also find the word "Slack" in that interesting. I assume they mean "employees of Slack", but the word "Slack" obviously means all the company's assets and agents, systems, computers, servers, AI models,
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Yeah; a few weeks ago a family member asked me if I was concerned that AI is going to eat up all the software engineering jobs. I'm pretty unconcerned about it; but I am a little more concerned that hiring decision makers will think
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Looks like we found of the "people with no taste now being able to lean on the trained taste of everyone else" people I was talking about.
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I think you bring up some good points. One thing I'd add: If we enter a world where the ability to build some product, movie, song, novel, whatever is so widespread and cheap that anyone can do it (and I do emphasize the word "if&
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I feel that Google IO today was rather sad. There was a couple things I'd use. But there was weirdly nothing I'd pay money for? I can't square in my mind the amount of money and hype in this industry with how, like, 30% excit
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Apple's representatives have said, I believe under oath, that they don't know and don't calculate how profitable the App Store is [1]. So, keep that in mind when asserting whether or not Apple has done the math on something;
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Tesla's corporate motto is literally "accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy". Unhappy with the world's previous progress and velocity, they aimed to move faster.
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Peoples' "capacity for impatience" is literally the reason why these things move so quick. These are not feelings at-odds with each other; they're the same thing. Its magical; now its boring; where's the magic; le
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Yeah; its concerning how depressingly similar Sam's recent language is to, say, SBF's in his prime. Waxing poetically with faux-intellectualism about the sheer addressable market his business will capture (all of humanity) (and fu
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It also feels like there's one pretty damn critical building block of modern society and space travel that would be galactically rare: hydrocarbon fuel. If we didn't have oil, coal, etc in the insane quantities we have it in, we&#
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Nah we'd probably be fine paying temporal cloud to host the control plane. Their billing is a little weird; I know quite a bit about temporal-the-technology, and the pricing page is literally the first time I've ever seen the word
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We migrated from an in-house redis queuing system. Temporal has its own way of doing things; there's rules about what you can and cant do in workflows, what has to live in activities, etc. Its generally quite easy to adapt existing cod
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At some point it escalates to where the media providers make watching their media so expensive, time consuming, and difficult that piracy ramps back up. It sounds dumb, like "why would companies shoot themselves in the foot like this&q
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I did not ask "who is buying iPads"; I asked who is buying the iPad Pro, especially now that the Air is available at the 13" size.
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I genuinely don't grok who is buying iPad Pros; outside of maybe artists & graphic designers? Maybe? But even there, wacomb-like tablets on Mac is still super popular, and the iPad Air in a bigger size is going to be crazy popular.
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Sure, but you literally cannot use any other kind of SSD with the n4-class instances, and n4 are the only instances they offer on Emerald Rapids; they're advertised as general purpose, flexible, and high performance, basically their wo
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Its the only instance class that's on Emerald Rapids. So if you want the best that Intel has to offer, you need to adopt hyperdisks. But, to be clear: We're not.
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We're absolutely seeing the same thing even in non-GPU traditional servers. Here is an estimated monthly cost breakdown for a new GCP instance type, the n4-standard-2, in us-central1: 2 vCPU + 8 GB memory: $69.18 10 GB Hyperd
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Entertainment in general; another great example of this is ticket prices for concerts and drink prices inside the venues. Obviously drink prices have always been high, but a pint of domestic beer has been very steadily creeping up by $1-$2
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I've literally never seen an LLM respond negatively to being told "hold on that's not right"; they always say "Oh, you're right!" even if you aren't right. GPT-4 today: "Hey are you sure that

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