StephenHerlihyy

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by StephenHerlihyy 7mo ago
I had heard of that but it wasn’t until you posted the link that I actually read through it. My question after actually reading it though is simple - how does it prevent fraud? Like you just need GPS and a selfie to verify. No bank account
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by StephenHerlihyy 7mo ago
Honestly understanding and applying 3d transformations should be a new LLM benchmark. Three.js, OpenSCAD, even Nano Banano prompts. The moment you add that extra dimension any semblance of ‘intelligence’ goes right out the window. Every mod
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by StephenHerlihyy 7mo ago
At what point does the cost of reimplementation shrink below the benefits of obfuscation? Consider a new CVE in Linux. Well maybe my Linux is not the same as the public one. Maybe I just set a swarm of AI agents on making me a drop in re
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by StephenHerlihyy 8mo ago
This is sort of where I think he is going with it. Run the compute part super cold (-60C) in a dielectric fluid. Maybe even at a low pressure. It boils off, gets collected, and is then condensed into something way hotter. Like boiling water
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by StephenHerlihyy 8mo ago
What amazes me the most is the speed at which things are advancing. Go back a year or even a year before that and all these incremental improvements have compounded. Things that used to require real effort to consistently solve, either with
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by StephenHerlihyy 8mo ago
I don’t use OpenAI too much, but I follow a similar work flow. Use Opus for design/architecture work. Move it to Sonnet for implementation and build out. Then finally over to Gemini for review, QC and standards check. There is an absol
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by StephenHerlihyy 9mo ago
That’s fair enough. Part of it is the Trump effect. I tend to dive pretty deep into things when they catch my interest. A lot of time we write things off as crazy simply because we don’t understand the context behind the presumption of insa
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by StephenHerlihyy 9mo ago
The lack of public awareness is honestly the biggest issue. I’ve got nothing personally against Canada or the Canadian people. And I certainly don’t think Trump’s approach has benefitted the situation. But I also recognize that his grievanc
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by StephenHerlihyy 9mo ago
And then waiting 4 years to actually ban his company from operating in Canada.
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by StephenHerlihyy 9mo ago
1) Multi-year delay in banning Huawei from 5G networks: https://www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-statement-huawei-ban-canadian-5g... Took Canada 4-years longer than the rest of the Five Eyes alliance to ban them, prompting the Bide
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by StephenHerlihyy 9mo ago
Yes, Britain and France have aircraft carriers but they are old, small and likely to be sunk by modern hyper-sonics. Europe's inability to project power is well documented though. Most of the 2025 literature is more related to overland
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by StephenHerlihyy 9mo ago
I have many complaints about Trump's handling of foreign policy. Don't mistake my tone for approval of his approach. He is needlessly aggressive and domineering. We have tried the carrot approach though. Coalition of the willing.
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by StephenHerlihyy 9mo ago
Honestly I would have done 20 years if I had been so lucky. My body had other plans however. I'm trying to get back into the embedded/defense space though. I was a low-level C/C++ programmer back in my early tech days and so
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by StephenHerlihyy 9mo ago
Over the past 15 years the European economy has grown from 16.25 to 18.50 trillion per World Bank. In 2008 the combined economic strength of the EU was 110% of the United State's. Today it's ~65%. By and large the European economy
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by StephenHerlihyy 9mo ago
I left technology about a decade ago to join the Military. It was an adjustment, but honestly was the greatest job I've ever had. Compared to tech where everything seemed high stress and had terrible work life balance, my military care
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by StephenHerlihyy 9mo ago
We spent the 4-years under Biden capturing foreign investment via high interest rates. Now we are trapping them here via poor conversion rates. In a geopolitical, macro-economic sense we are "Elon Musking". Overpromise and under d
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by StephenHerlihyy 9mo ago
The opposition to American hegemony shifted from Europe (ie the USSR) to Asia (ie China). To that end, NATO lacks the capacity to meaningfully impact a conflict in the Pacific. The EU simply does not have the means to project power in that
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by StephenHerlihyy 9mo ago
I don’t know why anyone would still be trying to pull data off the open internet. Too much signal to noise. So much AI influence already baked into the corpus. You are just going to be reinforcing existing bias. I’m more worried about the d
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by StephenHerlihyy 9mo ago
My biggest hope for Elon’s Mars plan is the chance to create a whole new Calendar system that makes sense. Like honestly. 7 days in a week? Random days per month? Uneven quarters? Who the hell decided to put the leap day in February! Clearl
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by StephenHerlihyy 9mo ago
Little bit of both. Pi still uses a sort of unique boot sequence due to it’s heritage. Most devices will have the CPU load the bootloader and then have the OS bring up the GPU. Pi sort of inverts this, having the GPU leading the charge with
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by StephenHerlihyy 10mo ago
McDonald's has an executive focused on beverages... which bringing it full circle is primarily Coke products.
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by StephenHerlihyy 10mo ago
It’s not about putting data centers into orbit. It’s about the cost-yield inversion to data centers cooling infrastructure that happens at terawatt scale. All things being equal - a chilled circuit performs better and produces less heat tha
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by StephenHerlihyy 11mo ago
A younger me would have had the same gusto. Age has taught me that attempting to improve the AC, in ways that my family can neither appreciate or understand, is merely going to lead to disaster.
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by StephenHerlihyy 11mo ago
Living in a cold room with an evil presence is better than roasting in hell with an angry wife.
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by StephenHerlihyy 11mo ago
Sure. Tim Bray’s Grokipedia: https://grokipedia.com/page/Tim_Bray Relevant text: Serving as the FTC's infrastructure expert, he testified on technical aspects such as service speed and user perceptions of responsi
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by StephenHerlihyy 11mo ago
I don’t really know who Tim Bray is and until now I had never been to Grokipedia. I don’t really like Grok - I tried Superheavy and it was slow, bloated and no better than Claude Opus. But I have a bad habit of fact checking. It’s the engin
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by StephenHerlihyy 1y ago
My understanding is that model are already merely a confederation of many smaller sub-models being used as "tools" to derive answers. I am surprised that it took us this long to solve the "AI + Microservices = GOLD!" equ
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by StephenHerlihyy 1y ago
What's fun is that I have had Anthropic's AI support give me blatantly false information. It tried to tell me that I could get a full year's worth of Claude Max for only $200 dollars. When I asked if that was true it quickl
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by StephenHerlihyy 1y ago
Modules provide more than just speed. Compile time benefits are great and the article is right about build-time bloat being the bane of every developer. But modules serve a deeper purpose. Explicit sub-unit encapsulation. True isolation. No
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by StephenHerlihyy 1y ago
I would argue they need to go even further - warranty. I’ve seen vehicles 100% maintained by contractors need full engine or power train replacements after 5000 miles of light driving. Never been off road, never been deployed, just shuttlin

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