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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
Do they, though? AWS and CloudFlare recently had the worst outages in their history, and GitHub is flirting with zero nines of uptime these days. Doesn’t seem to have cost them any business.
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
You SBF defenders have such a weird view of how the law works. If I embezzle money from my company and then bet it all on black in Vegas, intending to give it back if I win, your implication here is equivalent to saying I did commit a cri
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
"Car obeys the speed limit, drivers lucid with rage" definitely sounds like my memories of Boston.
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
Yeah I'm starting to think the BLS needs to do "Boomer aging adjustments" to jobs numbers, in a similar manner to how they do "seasonal farming adjustments". Until we get through the Boomer population bulge, healthc
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
To the extent nuclear arms control works, I think it's only because nuclear weapons are so hard to build-- uranium enrichment is hugely expensive and complicated, and plutonium weapons need actual reactors. If it was possible for ordin
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
It's the "If we don't, someone else will" effect. So long as there are competitive markets and competition between nation-states, a single player cannot unilaterally defect from the race, no matter how dangerous it is. H
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
The price of electricity is set by the marginal cost of the most expensive individual source - if your grid is 80% solar, 20% coal, the price you pay is the price of coal, because the solar providers can increase their prices to just below
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
Why do you have subscription lock-in? Even if you pay for a yearly subscription, Anthropic will refund you pro rata if you cancel early.
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
The Alaska Permanent Fund from their oil revenue is worth $90 billion and they send every resident an annual $1,000 check on top of heavily subsidized fuel. I think they can pay competitive teacher salaries.
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
Google is also issuing a bunch of debt this year. It sounds like they need a lot of capital and want to keep a particular debt/equity ratio, rather than having a strong opinion on their share price.
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
I suspect you enabled some weird setting that you've forgotten about. ghostty isn't unimaginably fast but it's faster than iTerm 2 which is plenty. And I'm sitting here with a lengthy Claude Code session open, as well as
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
> That it was pushed into other usages was a function of cold war politics (makes Russia seem larger/more intimidating) and needs to be considered in that context. Is this actually true, or was it just done "on autopilot"
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by Analemma_ 5mo ago
Does the thing where it wanted to move every conversation onto the topic of "white genocide in South Africa" not count as a filter on the output?
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by Analemma_ 5mo ago
On the one hand, yes, this is really embarrassing for Grok. On the other hand, everyone except a couple Twitter randos already thinks Grok is worthless junk: there's no reputation left for it to to lose. And Elon is crying all the way
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by Analemma_ 5mo ago
I disagree? The point of a numbers station is that it broadcasts in the clear and anyone with a receiver can get it, but only people with the appropriate decryption key can make any use of it. Since it's broadcasting all the time, ther
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by Analemma_ 5mo ago
What examples have there been in the past of a company which did all its growth in the 1-year period following the IPO, then stopped right when they were added to the index?
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by Analemma_ 5mo ago
The new stocks are still going in, they're just going in after a year (the normal rules), rather than 5 or 15 days. The outrage here wasn't that the stocks were going into the indexes at all, it's that they were going in befo
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by Analemma_ 5mo ago
I mean, you don't need to run it all the time, right? You do it once over your entire existing codebase to start and then once over the diff in your CI/CD pipeline when you make a new change. I'm sure it's not literally
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by Analemma_ 5mo ago
Oh, SpaceX already has that covered: thanks to the TX legislature, SpaceX shareholders cannot file shareholder lawsuits, you can only complain to the "Texas Business Court" or get binding arbitration [0]. [0]: https://w
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by Analemma_ 5mo ago
Oh man, thank you! I was just complaining the other day about the missing Spaces grid… when they first took it away in Lion I looked frantically for the setting to bring it back, with no such luck. Ironically, I think the reason they took i
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by Analemma_ 5mo ago
I mean, I used to be - with the disclaimer that I worked at Microsoft for a while (left in 2019), there was a hot minute when Surface devices were good and on an upward trajectory to become great. Microsoft was doing interesting things with
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by Analemma_ 5mo ago
There is a segment of Framework's customer base which is ride-or-die for Linux, but it's not their entire customer base: they still exist in a market where they need to compete on features and cost. Before the Neo, that wasn&#x2
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by Analemma_ 5mo ago
Of course, the fact that the statements they made confidently for years are now hastily getting undone in the face of public backlash only further cements their reputation as snakes who can't be trusted farther than one can throw a bow
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by Analemma_ 5mo ago
This has become a meme which is way out over its skis. Yes, run-rate is not the complete story, but "impossible to interpret" is way overstating the case.
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by Analemma_ 5mo ago
Every week there's at least one post on the HN front page bitching about API errors from Claude because Anthropic doesn't have enough serving capacity. I really don't see any signs they're "spending too much",
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by Analemma_ 5mo ago
Is that running on Rosetta 2? Rosetta 2 does (or did, maybe it's removed now) a fine job running x86 code on Apple Silicon, but boy was it cycle-hungry to do it.
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by Analemma_ 5mo ago
And the worst part is that Apple could fix this in a heartbeat. Uber is straightforwardly in violation of App Store policies about "no advertising in push notifications", but a) they're too big to fail and b) Apple advertises
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by Analemma_ 5mo ago
This is totally intentional and they play it up for all it's worth on their bus ads in SF. Personally I find it just pathetic, but what can you do.
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by Analemma_ 5mo ago
> I hope to god "investors" don't fall for the "blockbuster" IPO of SPCX. Elon would never leave that to chance, he made sure it doesn't matter if investors "fall" for it or not by bullying the ind
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by Analemma_ 5mo ago
The final fuck you from the Boomers will be that they will be dying en masse just as the consequences of their behavior really start to bite and it is no longer possible for anyone else to have what they did.

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