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by Insanity 4mo ago
The article doesn’t really make the point as clear as the snappy headline suggests. Regardless of that, Belgium should IMO follow some of the other EU countries and invest in OSS solutions that they host/control rather than rely on US
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Watching? I just finished reading “I, Claudius” and “Cladius the God” this month. Didn’t know there was a series / movie, would you recommend it? (I highly recommend the books FWIW, although I prefer the more modern writing style of th
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by Insanity 4mo ago
He has smart people working for him whom he can rely on.
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Ah, well that makes sense. Will be interesting to see what adoption looks like for a model that’s billed at a more realistic price-point towards profitability.
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Too expensive, yet probably still too cheap to make up for their cost of developing and running it. Don’t expect prices to go down. Or if they superficially go down, the models just consume more tokens per task so your bill still increases
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by Insanity 4mo ago
To nitpick, the “M” in XM is “mark”, no?
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Would have been nicer if they stayed in the literary sphere rather than films. But funny nonetheless lol.
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by Insanity 4mo ago
To a certain extend I can fully accept that GH has scaling issues because of the insane traffic increase from AI generated code. But they are owned by one of the largest technology companies in the world, who also happens to run a hyperscal
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Hardly newsworthy, everything is mocked on the internal slack lol.
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by Insanity 4mo ago
9 is next to 0, so my guess was typo.
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Which is pretty much aligned with what more level-headed people predicted would happen, if my memory is correct. There was a strong push for UK to leave EU, but it was more based on emotion than rational. Of course the 'right' use
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by Insanity 4mo ago
To add to the other posters, keep-the-lights-on usually means a product has no active feature development. It’s just supported with on-call and maybe some bug fixes depending on capacity. No clue if Cognito actually was KTLO though.
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Yeah this is my feeling as well. I have a handful of friends in different countries, when we are near each other we just send a quick text. I don’t need Facebook to tell me someone I vaguely remember from high school is in my area to then m
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by Insanity 4mo ago
I was in high school when Facebook took off in my country (2008). And fair enough, first few years were maybe more “social-ish”. I left the platform by 2012 though. Might also say more about me and my social behaviour than the social media
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Social media was never really “social” in my opinion. Reading updates from hundreds of people you have shallow interactions with offers the illusion of having a social life. So I’m not sure if this change to “fads” makes it meaningfully les
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by Insanity 4mo ago
+1, and how does that relate to meth?
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Yup, agreed. I worked fully remote for a few years and never felt like I lacked social interaction. Apart from being married, I had some hobbies where I'd meet people and was fortunate to have a tight-knit group of friends who I'd
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Yeah. Compare mental health of those with families in remote vs non-remote work and it might flip entirely. It is valuable though to point out that loneliness is a real issue and remote work could exacerbate that. For my part, being forced
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by Insanity 4mo ago
I wrote a python script that I run locally which scrapes read.amazon.com (think this is the URL, I’ll double check when I’m home). Kindle highlights are automatically synced there. The Python scraper extracts all highlights into a json file
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by Insanity 4mo ago
I highlight often when reading on my kindle. I have created a small program that scrapes my highlights and sends me a daily email with one of them. I get it before I wake up and it’s the first thing I read once I check my email (usually tha
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Necessity is the mother of innovation. I guess they’re pretty optimistic that they can automate away the humans needed to sustain an aging population. Not a bet I would be willing to take though lol.
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by Insanity 4mo ago
+1. And honestly you can injure yourself pretty badly by just falling down. Especially if you’re a bit older.
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by Insanity 4mo ago
I actually was about to post this quote for another reason as well. Usually you make these references to “known sizes” so people can relate. But no one has seen Napoleon in the flesh _and_ they underestimate his size. This was a useless com
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Interesting experience. I set up 2 iPad pros, basically one shot experience that took a few minutes. Even the first one I owned was straightforward
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Using both Linux (at home) and Mac (at work), the differences are small for development. But my dev stack is basically just Neovim & CLI tools. That said, I’ll never work on Windows. 15ish years ago I did some .net work. C# was a fun la
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Or, an iPad. I’ve only traveled with my work computer and my personal iPad the past 5 years. Roughly on business trips once every ~2-3 months for a week and I’ve found I can do all I need on the iPad Pro.
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Price per M/tokens is also a fuzzy metric when newer models reason longer, and then burn more tokens while doing so.
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Fair enough, experiences do differ. But how are you evaluating those POCs? Just based on 'visually what looks better', or architecturally etc? In my experience, the slow parts are around making sure you're aligning on a long-
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Yeah, there's just this massive wave of AI delusion turning into disillusion. Writing code was never the slow part of enterprise development. We've made the slow part _somewhat_ faster, trading off quality in turn all while burnin
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Yeah milk is problematic. I don’t think people always realize that cows don’t magically generate milk, they need to be impregnated before you get to milk them. It sounds obvious but I’m not sure if it’s commonly known. Also, milk has plenty

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