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by api 9mo ago
The problem isn’t direct overhead. The problem is shit APIs like blocking I/O that we constantly have to work around via heroic extensions like io_uring, an inefficient threading model that forces every app to roll its own scheduler (a
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by api 9mo ago
An open secret in our field is: the current market leading OSes and (to some extent) system architectures are antiquated and sub-optimal at their foundation due to backward compatibility requirements. If we started green field today and man
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by api 9mo ago
Yeah, "resume driven development" is a second major force pushing complexity that I didn't mention. People want to be able to get experience with as many buzzwords and technologies and stacks as they can for obvious personal
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by api 9mo ago
The biggest one that resonates with me is that cleverness is overhead. My #1 issue with mid level engineers is that they like complexity and find complexity fun and interesting. An experienced engineer knows that complexity is irritating an
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by api 9mo ago
It might not be called that anymore but it’s in all kinds of things. Alt-med/MAHA is heavily new age influenced, as is “conspirituality.” New age itself descends from the occult revival and things like Theosophy and the I AM movement.
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by api 9mo ago
PGP is horrible and way overly complicated but this article concludes by trading that for a long list of piecemeal solutions, some of which are cloud based and semi or fully proprietary. PGP has hung on for a long time because it “works” an
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by api 9mo ago
This effect is why pseudoprofound bullshit works so well, like pretty much all of the “new age.” It strikes me as a broken heuristic. We use elegance as a proxy for intelligence and education and thus likelihood of something being true, but
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by api 9mo ago
I kinda think we could fix/save IPv6 by taking away almost everything but the 128-bit address extension.
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by api 9mo ago
You don't, and that's fine.
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by api 9mo ago
As an EV owner, and not even of a top end model (Nissan Leaf 220mi range model), the last paragraph is nuts. If you can charge at home it’s like 1/4 the price of driving on gasoline per mile. That’s not counting the fact that it takes
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by api 9mo ago
Weren’t US industries like this before the huge consolidation we saw towards the end of the 20th century?
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by api 9mo ago
All Linux desktop has to do is stay still and it will catch up with Windows, which is progressively getting worse.
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by api 9mo ago
You need the cloud for vendor lock in and spying. That being said, most users can’t set up home assistant. But the reason for that is that HA lacks the funding to do the insane amount of work required to offer a near zero touch setup proces
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by api 9mo ago
I always have the cynical take that the real feature is “more spying on users and more opportunities to make features pointlessly require a subscription.” The seemingly minor or pointless benefits are just to get the stuff out there.
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by api 9mo ago
That same money could replace a lot more emissions with other sources of energy. How much solar and batteries does it buy? It’s always struck me as a moonshot project for people who don’t understand thermodynamics. You could probably unstir
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by api 9mo ago
If performance indeed asymptotes, and if we are not at the end of silicon scaling or decreasing cost of compute, then it will eventually be possible to run the very best models at home on reasonably priced hardware. Eventually the curves cr
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by api 9mo ago
I feel like this principle could be codified as "the system is not a workspace." The use of the system as a workspace goes back to when computers were either very small and always personal only to one user, or when they were ver
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by api 9mo ago
Your reasoning process here is: There is a "demo" button on synthesizers that plays a canned melody, therefore playing canned melodies is all synthesizers can do, therefore nobody that uses a synthesizer is a real musician.
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by api 9mo ago
Tangent but... I kinda like the Python language. What I don't like about Python is the way environments are managed. This is something I generally believe, but I think it's particularly important for things like languages and runt
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by api 9mo ago
Nutty idea: train on ASM code. Create an LLM that compiles prompts directly to machine code.
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by api 9mo ago
Totally agreed. I read somewhere that the only place these features help is sports. They should not be defaults. They make shows and films look like total crap.
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by api 9mo ago
"AI art" today is mostly play, which is usually the first thing you get with new artistic tools. People just fool around with them in an un-serious way. There's also some porn. Porn is always early. It was one of the first us
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by api 9mo ago
How much room for creativity is there with a camera? Angle, lighting, F-stop, film type, film processing? I have a local image generator app called Draw Things that has many times more options than this. Early synthesizers weren't that
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by api 9mo ago
In previous eras there were many purists who considered photography not-art, sequencer and synthesizer made music not-music, other forms of (non-AI) digital art less legitimate than their more manual classical counterparts, etc. This is the
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by api 9mo ago
But did you check the vibes?
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by api 9mo ago
Not "wasted." Handed to allies of the administration. It's just naked kleptocracy. I suspect that the "ball room" attachment to the White House will also still be a hole by the end of the administration, but a lot o
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by api 9mo ago
I’m shocked that a 256 core Epyc can’t do millions of requests per second at a minimum. Is it limited by the net connection or is there still this much inefficiency?
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by api 9mo ago
All the non-technical people I know loved it. It's pretty. It's neat. It looks cool. Apple is a consumer products company. My personal feeling on it is just "meh." My productivity with my laptop hasn't changed. I&#x
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by api 9mo ago
Paid media is better. If you pay for a monthly subscription or for individual pieces of media, revenue is no longer tied to “engagement.” If you pay for Netflix and watch three hours a month or thirty, it makes little difference. Ads tie re
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by api 9mo ago
No, our nature is to satiate our dopamine system. That system evolved to keep us fed, nourished, and to make us make friends and belong and have sex to make more humans. The problem is that we are now so smart and clever that we can start l

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