3cats-in-a-coat

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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
I often think this is the crux to the Great Filter. To overcome our natural, purely economic behavior, such as this paradox, and act intelligently considering long-term effects and sustainability. Because it's easy to just drift along
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Keep in mind optimization effects can be counter-intuitive, as you need to consider unexpected second-order effects. Say what if my queries being slow forced me into optimizing them via cache that I wouldn't use otherwise, resulting in
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
I'll try to explain why this is a solution looking for a problem. Yes, breadth-first is always an option, but JSON is a heterogenous structured data source, so assuming that breadth-first will help the app start rendering faster is oft
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Everything, always, returns to a main event loop, even the actual hardware threads on your CPU. So JavaScript developers don't get a pass on this. The problem is you keep creating async requests, they need to be stored somewhere, and t
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
"Better" is relative to context. It's a multi-dimensional metric flattened to a single comparison. And humans don't always win that comparison. LLMs are faster, and when the task can be synthetically tested for correctne
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Nothing lasts forever. I've pondered that a lot in my system design which bears some resemblance to the principles of REST. I have split resources in ephemeral (and mutable), and immutable, reference counted (or otherwise GC-ed), which
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Prove it with SQL.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
And this, kids, is a Markov chain.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
This seems like a marketing piece, very poorly justified. First, large context models essentially index their context as it grows bigger, or else they can't access the relevant parts of it. However it can't be as comprehensive as
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Thing is, if you store delta change from one frame to another, then pixels which aren't changed are just zeroes. Compressing zero sequences is the most trivial exercise for lossless compression and unlike the bloom filter, it has no fa
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
I wonder how many more decades we need until we realize database and programming language belong together. We can still separate infrastructure in persistence, backend, frontend, that's not the point. Every one of them should have a na
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
We could generalize having a tree of known authorities upstream with what a CRDT does, resulting in both being two special cases of a more general consistent event processing model. CRDT makes the order of events commutative, hence the &quo
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
OpenAI spinning into consumer hardware is a significant loss of focus for the company. I can only explain it with them recognizing that their strongest asset is brand mindshare. This is actually really bad for their outlook as AI model pion
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
"State transfer is not state synchronization" is such an obscure point to make. State sync over REST can be rather trivial by keeping resources immutable (hence also cacheable), and delivering a root resource during the initial en
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 2y ago
I feel the ideas listed here range from nice-to-haves to fundamental weaknesses of all languages that derived from the C/Python/Java family, which almost all mainstream languages seem to be. I'm working on a platform that tri
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 2y ago
Is it possible your process counts updates as installs?
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 2y ago
Li-ion batteries will quickly show themselves a terrible way to smooth out renewables. I mean purely economically. Initial cost, unreliable range in hot or cold weather, and over time. Although considering they needed helicopters dropping 5
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 2y ago
Drama is the only way for him to continue covering up the massive Ponzi that his businesses have evolved into. Tesla won't last much longer. Their numbers are objectively terrible, and they're puffed up, the truth is even uglier.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 2y ago
I feel if Musk sets a foot in Brazil, he won't have a foot two seconds later.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 2y ago
It could though. Every rule has exceptions, doesn't it.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 2y ago
So Musk can keep diverting his attention to new startups and Tesla should keep throwing billions at them. Great plan, bro.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 2y ago
They hack existing Google/YouTube accounts, delete their videos and rebrand it to an Elon Musk scam. This is why they have so many users. Google is a joke.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 2y ago
Here it is: https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/cn/doc/openharmony-can... It's still using English keywords, and is very similar to a mix of Python and JavaScript, touch of Java. It's a typical mo
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 2y ago
I think you've seen a few cheap Huawei phones and you don't know even 1/10 of their products. Don't be so dismissive and don't underestimate China.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 2y ago
Cult & tribal mentality is in essence the willingness to always explain someone's behavior in a specific light (always positive or always negative) instead of analyzing the situation on merit. Musk has cult-ivated (heh) a large fol
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 2y ago
The phone app still says "X: Formerly Twitter". Which says it all, doesn't it.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 2y ago
Reason is dropping demand and financial panic by Musk, there's no another reason. He'll never spell that out, because it looks bad for Tesla. Not saying they won't recover, but the chargers were a huge moat for them, they los
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 2y ago
Basically. There's only one scenario in which I see this being useful. Let's say some world crisis and most of our chip manufacturing capacity is bombed/destroyed or unavailable in some other way, while our computing needs ar
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 2y ago
There won't be revenue stream for other owners or Tesla from this, because computing this way is far less efficient than simply doing it locally in a datacenter, with high speed interconnects between machines. Meaning if he sells that
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 2y ago
Poe's Law claims another victim.

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