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by arrowleaf 5d ago
No, there are many mission-driven companies from enterprises to startups, but in the USA most software engineers work for Fortune 500 (or Russell 2000, or aspiring) whose underlying mission is extracting profit from revenue.
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by arrowleaf 5d ago
"- it would cause someone to lose a job they didn’t know was under threat." Most of my life's work has been in areas of increasing productivity. Is that good or bad? On the good side of the spectrum, it reduces the time hundr
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by arrowleaf 5d ago
Why the 'but'? The article is about becoming intentional in your thoughts and not letting them be hijacked by algorithms.
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by arrowleaf 5d ago
Why would AliceGG need to reference the paper? Anyone who is vaguely aware of the LLM architecture knows about the paper title and it being a huge advancement in machine learning. This is an article about recommendation algorithms hijacking
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by arrowleaf 16d ago
Really? While reading I couldn't help but think about how I wish this article on writing well were... written well. That block quote loses me in the first sentence, I had to re-read it a few times. "Good teaching requires alternat
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by arrowleaf 16d ago
Same here, first thing I need to know when considering a distributed system is how consistency is handled. If it's eventual consistency, what is the replication lag like? If it's strong consistency, can their network handle that?
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by arrowleaf 16d ago
The first thing I want to know when looking at a distributed system is how consistency is handled, ctrl+f for "consis" on both the blog post and neki.dev has zero hits. So I can only assume it will have eventual consistency with a
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by arrowleaf 16d ago
Pareto leaked out of the sociology/econ bubble a long time ago :) Pareto principle, Pareto efficiency, Pareto distribution have been in the pop-sci buzzwords for quite awhile, I probably encountered it first in the 4-Hour Workweek. I d
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by arrowleaf 17d ago
No? Prices are market-driven in our society, not necessarily a function of labor costs. In the very long-term best case scenario, the increased profits going to the company from these efficiency gains may encourage more competitors to pop u
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by arrowleaf 17d ago
I don't know if this will be the common reaction, but after seeing this I've made a mental note to not discuss anything private with anyone wearing an Apple Watch. Makes me suspicious of iPhones, too, after years of defending them
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by arrowleaf 18d ago
Language learning is a fun hobby for some people.
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by arrowleaf 18d ago
this would be amazing, absolutely. Especially if they were able to see specifically where my power comes from, the embedded carbon in the chipsets used to serve my requests, all the costs associated with the datacenter(s), etc. A weekly bre
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by arrowleaf 18d ago
My output is easily 2-3X what it was two years ago. With the introduction of Claude to everyone in the company (HR, finance, marketing, product, dev, etc), so came the expectations of what used to take 2 quarters can now be done in a couple
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by arrowleaf 18d ago
I still don't know if I hate them because they are visually slop, or that the businesses farmed out sign creation to the slop machine
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by arrowleaf 18d ago
My browser popped up a modal saying 'Did you mean openai.com? Attackers sometimes mimic sites by making hard-to-see changes to the web address'.
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by arrowleaf 18d ago
I'm a developer at a company who has signed contracts to use Claude. I wish I had a choice in model providers, especially considering I spend around $4k in API tokens each month, my company as a whole is around a million. I desperately
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by arrowleaf 24d ago
The problem is AI and the internet's leakage into everything else. Marketing copy, prose in public spaces, even books... I really hope that society as a whole accepts that human-written text is more valuable than AI-written.
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by arrowleaf 2mo ago
I thought they are making a profit on API pricing? A quick Google shows somewhere between 50-70% margins on API inference.
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by arrowleaf 2mo ago
> Updated over 2 weeks ago I hope we get clarification on this, I can't find anything claiming that it is compatible with ZDR.
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by arrowleaf 2mo ago
I can't find anything about whether this is zero data retention, or falls under their required 30 day retention like Fable and Mythos?
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by arrowleaf 2mo ago
If your company is a certain size or cares about ZDR, you need to be on an Enterprise plan which is API pricing. $300/day here on average.
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by arrowleaf 2mo ago
Here, people tend to forget about enterprise customers. Enterprise is excluded from using these heavily subsidized subscriptions, I know of orgs that are spending around $500k/month for teams of ~100 developers actively using AI.
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by arrowleaf 2mo ago
This is the best voice/tone I've seen from any model so far. It's using filler words and phrases in places that normal people would put them, rather than sounding like a corporate customer support agent!
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by arrowleaf 3mo ago
Not having my hair and scalp act as the MIPS system is worth the $20 extra to me.
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by arrowleaf 3mo ago
There are huge backlogs of folks for imaging... Radiologists aren't exactly sitting around daydreaming all day waiting for a patient.
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by arrowleaf 4mo ago
American or corporate? I'm surprised that corporate talk overseas isn't overly enthusiastic! As an American, most of the stream has sounded very 'California' mixed with corporate.
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by arrowleaf 4mo ago
Do you really prefer webcam + opentrack over the trackir? Asking because I literally have a trackir on the way to me in the mail, and most discussions I could find were at least 2-3 years old.
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by arrowleaf 4mo ago
Most (all?) 401k plans limit you to a pre-picked list of ETFs and mutual funds you can invest in. Not to mention the standard advice for decades has been 'broad market index fund'.
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by arrowleaf 4mo ago
For F-1/OPT there is no 'pending immigrant visa case' status that lets them remain in-country after OPT expires.
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by arrowleaf 4mo ago
Our population problems, in that we need immigration to avoid population decline? Our total fertility rate is 1.6.

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