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511.
by baq 5mo ago
it was not massively more expensive in the first half of 2025.
512.
by baq 5mo ago
> I think it's a nonsensical idea, but that's the relevant driver. Nice to hear from an optimist sometimes, but it’s hard to be one when meat compute substrate can do all those amazing things in a 4U package on 20W and you extr
513.
by baq 5mo ago
They can’t, they’re selling backwards compatibility - but it matters less and less each year as more stuff moves to the browsers.
514.
by baq 6mo ago
'yes, you should' needs to be reconciled with 'it's f*g expensive' and 'risk is low'. nowadays, 'risk is low' isn't true anymore and it's actually cheaper to have a robot spit out a rei
515.
by baq 6mo ago
god forbid a person wants to understand and have fun doing that
516.
by baq 6mo ago
'incompatible with C' isn't a serious problem nowadays and won't be a problem at all in a couple years.
517.
by baq 6mo ago
this is the top reason for a reasonably complex project, but it can be worked around by preplanning crates. the other reason is if you really want async as is in vogue nowadays, function coloring - but this is rapidly becoming irrelevant, s
518.
by baq 6mo ago
African or European?
519.
by baq 6mo ago
lots of interesting things happen in anecdotes.
520.
by baq 6mo ago
my sides the kubernetes reveal had me literally in tears
521.
by baq 6mo ago
The implications are very different if everyone owns them even if they aren’t public. They may have no choice whether to share, but the owners which have the privilege to know (not everyone because earlier owners aren’t stupid) don’t act th
522.
by baq 6mo ago
Everyone owns them at this point and Google is outright public.
523.
by baq 6mo ago
You should try GPT, I’d be really interested to hear if it works better. (Exclusively using GPT for systems work at $DAYJOB, but compare with opus every couple weeks and GPT consistently gives me better results)
524.
by baq 6mo ago
The saving grace here is a rewrite of a project with a good test suite is the sweet spot: LLMs are great at translation and do great with verifiable goals. I agree it’s still mind blowing compared to before times, though.
525.
by baq 6mo ago
Much less than what it’d costs for a team of rust engineers. This is both amazing and scary; has been for a while now.
526.
by baq 6mo ago
Shareholders are not insiders. Public companies do secret projects all the time of which shareholders know absolutely nothing about and may never learn the details of them if they get cancelled.
527.
by baq 6mo ago
If I was a frontier lab and I solved continual learning, as of today I would absolutely not release it - the society isn't ready for this; society isn't even ready for widespread diffusion of current publicly available frontier mo
528.
by baq 6mo ago
you can tell where on the sigmoid we're currently sitting? frontier lab folks can't - chapeau bas good sir
529.
by baq 6mo ago
Apple standards not being followed by Apple has nothing to do with the topic?
530.
by baq 6mo ago
> Apple standards Apple hardware standards. Apple software could use some of these.
531.
by baq 6mo ago
What’s our prior for p(doom) today…?
532.
by baq 6mo ago
foreign dollars and euros being spent in the country definitely counts as growth no matter how you slice it and regardless whether you like it or not.
533.
by baq 6mo ago
this is Poland for you. everyone complains about everything. perhaps that's the secret to success - there's always something to complain about and one in a hundred (or thousand) people actually does something about it.
534.
by baq 6mo ago
the vm you're running on virtualized all the entropy away.
535.
by baq 6mo ago
you have your supply chain risk still, it's just frozen as of 2009 and whatever you vendored back then is as of today swiss cheese; also you'd better have the compiler suite vendored, too (as you should with this strategy). there&
536.
by baq 6mo ago
Concerned? Yes. Should you panic, though? Absolutely not.
537.
by baq 6mo ago
> Total Cases > 9+ > As of May 8, 2026 I'm as concerned about this outbreak as anyone, but this number is pure FUD and can go up on a tweet of somebody's grandma sneezing at an airport. Keep the lab confirmed one.
538.
by baq 6mo ago
Laying off people with experience which only 1% of their younger colleagues will learn because LLMs made it redundant enough is misguided today. If I were a CEO I’d hold on to my 15-20 yoe engineers for my dear life; can lay them off in 202
539.
by baq 6mo ago
If you’re running any sort of CI you’re probably going to have a bad couple of days if everything goes well
540.
by baq 6mo ago
With how things are going the question should be ‘is twice a day often enough?’

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