CapeTheory

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by CapeTheory 2y ago
Take that, Jassy.
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
"Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
Doesn't even take that much. Today I did some basic Terraform with the help of GenAI - it can certainly print out the fundamentals (VPC, subnets) faster than I can type them myself, but the wheels came off quickly. It hallucinated 2 or
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
I was just about to try it, but the idea of allowing Firefox access to my audio/video to talk to a machine-generated person gave me such a bad feeling, I couldn't go through with it even fuelled by my morbid curiosity.
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
One day someone will create an AR/VR product which doesn't look ridiculous - but it is not this day.
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
> Price is supposed to cut in half every 3-4 years Citation needed > if it isn't it is largely because cloud vendors can't bear to take less Even if we choose to accept your original premise, I think anti-competitive behavio
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
I would love to attend a UK cryptography conference just to see how they deal with the dual meaning of "nonce" and the number of jokes which inevitably follow.
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
It is simply a lack of skilled staff. The industry has plenty of mediocre people who struggle to follow a playbook, but hardly any people who can write the playbook. It is a common trope that the government is like this, but over the last 5
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
I've been using a reMarkable since the first release and have never experienced what you describe. Yes, the updated focus on typing more recently - but what else can they really do for the writing experience without new hardware? Lots
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
The only bit of animal behaviour research I have ever found to be really interesting or meaningful is that on cephalopods. Their nervous system is very different to ours, and it seems like that difference shows clearly in their learning abi
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
Holy double-dipping Batman, that's an expensive way to run some EC2 instances.
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
Same here. If I found Zed now I would probably avoid it, but having tried it already I'm glad to have it, and will just turn off the intrusive bits.
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
The SPICE must flow (Small Particles Inside the Crust of the Earth)
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
I'd equate it to running RHEL Vs Ubuntu, but with the difficulty stepped up a notch or two. If you understand what is happening at a conceptual level you can change between providers and be productive - but there are going to be pitfal
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
You won't believe what the Mysterons did next
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
Evidently you dodge bullets well, you should consider running for office.
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
That would be the vending machine on the skis.
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
This is consistent with my own experience that Claude is just downright better than ChatGPT.
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
The only way cloud providers are making money on "AI" is via obscene mark-ups on access to GPUs used by companies who are deluded into thinking that (re-)training their own LLM is what their own shareholders want to see.
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
Never thought of it in those terms, but I'm afraid you've nailed it. We're really fucked, aren't we?
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
I have fallen in love with Zed on Mac, so glad to see it will still be an option when I switch back to Linux. My main concern is the collaboration features; just seems like a nonsensical addition. I have zero influence over what editors my
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
IMO the absolute most important thing with a tool like this is performance. I have to sign in to a handful of cloud desktops each week and interact with customer Jira/Confluence/AzureDevOps/etc pages, and the big thing which
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
I agree, but with "funding model" rather than "ecosystem". With VC funding the cost of failure is low, and arguably failing to scale will make you look worse than simply running out of money. In a bootstrapped business,
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
Anecdotally, I am hearing scientific computing customers who are unhappy after moving to Rocky - the window where each minor OS version is "supported" is too small and their hardware vendors have trouble staying current. Have seen
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
User manuals are for tools.
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
AWS is a (collection of) service(s) which can scale and have low marginal cost of reproduction. Fire Tablets are a real thing you can buy, but they are shit so nobody does.
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
Sorry should have said "big tech", as commonly used to refer to FAANG companies who focus more on software and/or services.
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
They can't make them fast enough to satisfy hype-driven demand; they are not scaling like a tech company, but their market cap is being inflated like one.
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
> Google is not just ads. Bad example given how aggressively they terminate products which don't generate the same revenue as ads. > Apple is not. Best example, they have done a fantastic job of being both a tech company and pseu
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
The DAX is only 40 companies, most of which make real products rather than advertising mechanisms. Making real physical things just doesn't scale, and never will. While I would enjoy a US tech salary, I'm not sure we want a world

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