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by bhouston 11mo ago
Nice engineering work and very clear write-up. I love these types of optimizations. BTW found this writeup on the Wikipedia CDN: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/CDN
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by bhouston 11mo ago
More details: - https://www.tipranks.com/news/the-fly/shopify-fired-single-d... - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-shopify-say... Single digit were fired or admitted to it? It
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by bhouston 11mo ago
Sounds like hell. But I do really dislike Kubernetes: https://benhouston3d.com/blog/why-i-left-kubernetes-for-goog...
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by bhouston 11mo ago
Why specifically? Your comment isn't very informative. Anyhow, here a Claude.ai comparison: https://claude.ai/share/72d2c34c-2c86-44c4-99ec-2a638f10e3f0
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by bhouston 11mo ago
Pnpm (a very popular npm replacement) makes completely locked packages easy and natural and ultra fast: https://pnpm.io/cli/install Benchmarks: https://pnpm.io/benchmarks
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by bhouston 11mo ago
Based in Singapore / Japan according to X: https://x.com/HelixGuard_ai
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by bhouston 11mo ago
Google Maps, since it is WebGL-based, I think would not support these advanced font rendering features out of the box. Probably could be added?
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by bhouston 11mo ago
Beautiful.
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by bhouston 11mo ago
> I still don't know why we needed a sequel... $$$. I think they need to design a long-term monetization strategy that does not require new major releases, but rather just more DLC, seasons, etc.
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by bhouston 11mo ago
It does feel like they bet on Unity's High Definition Render Pipeline and it locked them into a specific way of development that was hard to escape from once it proved problematic. City simulation games (Sim City, Factorio, etc.) are s
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by bhouston 11mo ago
> ChatGPT has brand recognition and adoption, but not the best product anymore. Companies with worse products win all the time based on brand and adoption. So it isn't clear to me at all that Google can win.
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by bhouston 11mo ago
Everything will have periods of unreliability. The only solution is to be multi-everything (multi-provider for most things), but the costs for that are quite high and hard to see the value in that.
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by bhouston 11mo ago
Huh? What were they on before? The acquisition by MSFT is 7 years ago, they maintained their own infrastructure for that long?
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by bhouston 11mo ago
I cannot push/pull to any repos. Scared me for a second, but of course I then checked here.
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by bhouston 1y ago
I think that is a result of this being their first entry into the ARM market. IT takes a while to get all the hardware and drivers in sync. Hopefully they don't give up and also upgrade to a better CPU.
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by bhouston 1y ago
I've owned a couple and Minisforum has generally been amazing.
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by bhouston 1y ago
I really like Minisforum in general and the current generation of AMD-powered Mini PCs. I have one as a media PC and I replaced my dad's desktop with one. They are cheap, fast and silent. I was thinking of getting a high end AMD one
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by bhouston 1y ago
> History shows us that large corporations tend to prioritize their bottom line over ideology. Yes, companies cooperating with the state is the norm, even when the state is committing atrocities, because companies exist to some degree at
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by bhouston 1y ago
I would suggest that FFmpeg spin up a commercial arm that gets support contracts with Google, Amazon, etc, but with a tight leash so that it does not undermine the open source project. Would need clean guidance as to what the commercial ar
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by bhouston 1y ago
Microsoft has to follow US sanctions, even if they are misplaced. This isn't a choice on Microsoft's part here. The ICC was applauded in the US in the when it went after Russia but when it goes after Israel it is sanctioned. It
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by bhouston 1y ago
This past week I rarely see quoted tweets now in the main timeline, it just says not available. So something about viewing RT is broken.
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by bhouston 1y ago
It can be super hard to moderate before an image is generated though. People can write in cryptic language and then say decode this message and generate an image the result, etc. The downside of LLMs is that they are super hard to moderat
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by bhouston 1y ago
I am not totally sure about this. I think that AI writing is just a progression of current trends. Many things have made writing easier and lower cost - printing press, typewriters, word processors, grammer/spell checkers, electronic
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by bhouston 1y ago
> That’s crazy because the most explicit antisemitism I see now days is on Facebook. And I mean real antisemitism. I haven't seen that on Facebook but I guess it depends on context. I see the absolute worst racism of all types (ant
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by bhouston 1y ago
> What is inconsistent between banning hate speech and banning advocacy for terrorism? Two things, Meta has reduced controls for hate speech except in the areas relating to Israel and Zionism. That seems inconsistent - Meta hasn't
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by bhouston 1y ago
You are aware that when HRW is talking about the systematic censorship of Palestinian voices by Meta, they are not talking about jihadists. I encourage you to read the article rather than that just repeating prejudices: > "Of the 1
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by bhouston 1y ago
Meta's censorship policies reflect the ideology of their owner. They have loosened hate speech restrictions in some areas to curry favour with Trump but declared that Zionism is a protected category while they have banned a ton of Pale
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by bhouston 1y ago
Maybe we need to decouple downvote wars from the content of the article?
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by bhouston 1y ago
This article should NOT be flagged
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by bhouston 1y ago
An edge lord is being deliberately provocative for attention ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgelord ), but Shaun Maguire instead is just expressing his actual opinion, which is worse in my opinion.

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