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by bandrami 6mo ago
I'm pretty sure the navigation shortcuts date back to when Emacs was literally just a set of TECO macros, and GNU Readline adopted them
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One of the most fascinating facts about this (to me at least) is that in 1850 Manchester was the second richest city in the empire and the world's largest textile producer, while by 1900 Bombay was both of those things (though the Amer
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by bandrami 6mo ago
This is a big question that makes my employer nervous about using LLM-generated code, along with the even-more-unresolved question "what happens if the LLM outputs an algorithm that is protected by patent?" (particularly worrying
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by bandrami 6mo ago
Not always. Before dice bought them they didn't do the ads. I even remember early on when you had to submit a project for approval before you got a CVS repo.
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You're asking why a businessman would downplay the use of a competing product line?
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Equally you can't rule out innovation that makes deepseek more relevant than American models
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by bandrami 6mo ago
Yes, they raised $30b at valuation of $350b. And this round they're still valued at $350b. What happened to that $30b they raised?
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by bandrami 6mo ago
If they're investing at the same valuation Anthropic had in their last round, what happened to all that previous money?
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by bandrami 6mo ago
It's weird though: everybody wants to be seen to be building data centers but nobody is actually willing to put down the money to do this (except Oracle and I think it's universally agreed they're probably going to be destr
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by bandrami 6mo ago
That's just not my experience. Making the software in the first place is never even the cost center.
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> Why should anyone waste time on poorer results? Because in almost no real-world project is "programming time" the limiting factor?
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by bandrami 6mo ago
The thing is, in 9 months you'll still say that, talking about now. I know this because I've been hearing this for two years.
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by bandrami 6mo ago
I'm not seeing it if that's true. None of my vendors, none of my open source upstreams, and our own dev team haven't actually been getting software out faster than they were a couple of years ago. As a sysadmin docker had a b
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by bandrami 6mo ago
I think the bigger issue is employees who can largely just not be replaced. For all the hype about the 1X vs 10X distinction the real stumbling block is how many 0Xes there are out there and how frequently they tend to make it through hirin
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by bandrami 6mo ago
Because I think "1 employee can do the work of 3 now" still hasn't actually been demonstrated
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The former; I think there's simply not the capacity to build the infrastructure that would be required to significantly improve the current tech as much as is expected (and there may never be the capacity to build that much infrastruct
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The problem is "insider trading" has a definition and acting based on knowledge of government secrets isn't what it is.
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by bandrami 6mo ago
The worst part is that inevitably the frameworks end up being harder to learn than CSS due to feature accretion
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Meta plays that game too; they're on the hook to buy compute that CoreWeave has yet to build (and may never be able to build) which counts as "revenue" for CoreWeave and an "asset" for Meta even though no actual mon
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by bandrami 6mo ago
I don't mind that High Flyer completely ripped off Anthropic to do this so much as I mind that they very obviously waited long enough for the GAB to add several dozen xz-level easter eggs to it.
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by bandrami 6mo ago
Though not all of that capex is cash; there's a whole phantom wampum AI economy where the big players are trading promissory notes for compute that doesn't exist yet (and may never exist) some time in the future and booking it as
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by bandrami 6mo ago
I think any company that is seen to reduce capex right now is going to be the Bear Sterns of this cycle
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This is exactly right and I've got to wonder what the AI conversation would be like in the alternate timeline where tech didn't massively overhire in the wake of Covid.
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This is interesting because it's a case of "AI taking jobs" but not in the way people normally mean; these massive layoffs are happening not because AI is doing the work they used to do but because capex is sucking all of the
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by bandrami 6mo ago
Similarly Twitter; I signed up in I think 2007 and only used SMS for the next several years until they finally stopped it. Once I switched to the web/app version I was frankly appalled.
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And as recently as two or three years ago it was universally agreed that the only way to reliably and securely deliver software was via repeatable builds with an attested chain of custody and auditable bill of materials and everybody just g
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Cool. Now there will be a week or "this is the greatest model ever and I think mine just gained sentience", followed by a week of "I think they must have just nerfed it because it's not as good as it was a week ago"
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by bandrami 6mo ago
Not Python, it looked like Standard ML, and the interpreter is quite good
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This has been a solved problem for over two decades now with Nix but people can't be asked
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If you're in a situation where you want reproducibility you're using nix to build your own packages anyways, not relying on their packages

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