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by asah 2y ago
+1 to residential proxy providers like joinmassive.com ! #proudinvestor
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by asah 2y ago
"what is the population of manhattan below central park" ChatGPT-o1-preview: 647,000 (based on 2023 data, breaking it down by community board area): https://chatgpt.com/share/674b3f5b-29c4-8007-b1b6-5e0a4ae
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Australian Parliament bans social media for under-16s(apnews.com)
192 points by asah 2y ago|331 comments
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by asah 2y ago
Does this affect the Sagan equation?
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by asah 2y ago
How does this work for access controlled data ? I don't see how to pass auth credentials? Required for - corporate data sources, e g. Salesforce - APIs with key limits and non-trivial costs - personal data sources e.g. email It appears
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by asah 2y ago
great article but it tries to (ahem) separate drinking water from other uses, which doesn't seem practical: - in the poorest places, they can't afford desal. - in non-poorest places, most water is delivered by unified piping syste
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by asah 2y ago
Not a fan of everything-is-a-function because it's oversimplistic and often unhelpful. Some of the issues: - functions that don't fit in cache, RAM, disk, etc. - functions that have explosive big-O, including N way JOINs, search&#
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by asah 2y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=bike+shedding
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by asah 2y ago
-1 to the conclusion. Counterexamples include LinkedIn, HN and various subreddits (not all) - they're operating at large scale, very lively but low levels of nasty (as a percentage).
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by asah 2y ago
Twitter was never a majority of Americans let alone 80-90+% share that justifies being a single outlet for a taxpayer funded agency.
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by asah 2y ago
one click to add from the first message = $1 total cost. contractors can add this to their invoices if they care.
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by asah 2y ago
I can't help but wonder if real systems have additional (perhaps subtle) signals, which can be provided to a neural network, which then outperforms these simple algorithms. For example, customers arrive at the grocery store in clusters
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by asah 2y ago
"so far"
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by asah 2y ago
Alas, this is everyone's "circus" - you'll see.
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by asah 2y ago
Workaround for now: just install multiple client apps. Annoying of course, but it'll let you get work done... plus, fluffycats !
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by asah 2y ago
Just use connection pooling, which is available point/click as AWS RDS Proxy.
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by asah 2y ago
It's one less thing to manage in production. Start with postgresql then add niche systems for performance, scaling, cost.
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by asah 2y ago
Fixed price works great if the client's expectations are easy to meet and you've done the work many times before in a fraction of the time that others would take by the hour.
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by asah 2y ago
I create two: 30min and 45min, then for longer (rare) I just ask people to book two adjacent slots. I've had no pushback.
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by asah 2y ago
Every big techco was the target of numerous buyout offers along the way. Yahoo! tried to buy Google and Facebook got any number of offers. It makes sense when the growing company doesn't have a path forward (e.g. YouTube's bandwid
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by asah 2y ago
I turned on search the web to compare vs google search + AI labs, and ran a battery of typical tests. Google was instantaneous vs gpt-4o which wrote out each letter. Subjectively, I'm not switching for quick searched - google remains l
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by asah 2y ago
you mean like pingpong? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/man-v...
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by asah 2y ago
As one friend put it, he "works for Silicon Valley Inc, <name of company> division."
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by asah 2y ago
Sadly, there's has no system for long term reviews. In my dreams, Amazon/etc would engage customers about their durable products and ask how often you still use the product and it/when you're thinking of replacing it...
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by asah 2y ago
meh - the LLM code I'm seeing isn't particularly more verbose. And as others have said, if you want tighter code, just add that to the prompt. fun story: today I had an LLM write me a non-trivial perl one-liner. It tried to be ver
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by asah 2y ago
Spam is close enough.
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by asah 2y ago
naive q: why not just add a workaround that skips the auth process for local dev? also helps test automation.
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by asah 2y ago
depends on scale - at small scale, fully managed services are a godsend but at <x> scale (esp per-service) then it pays to self-manage or use low cost or FOSS mgmt tools.
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by asah 2y ago
Company of mine just migrated from AWS for a high bandwidth service. Full payback in month one, plus more savings as they scale. They're leaving other things on AWS, i.e. partial migration is quite doable.
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by asah 2y ago
Correct. A single stall is a single stall.

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