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by bloppe 11mo ago
How are the tradeoffs meaningfully different? Imagine that, instead of passing an `Io` object around, you just had to add an `async` keyword to the function, and that was simply syntactic sugar for an implied `Io` argument, and you could us
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Skew is an inherent problem of networked systems no matter what the encoding is. But, once the decoding is done, assuming there were no decoding errors in either case, at least with protobuf you have a statically typed object. You could als
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by bloppe 11mo ago
https://auth0.com/blog/beating-json-performance-with-protobu...
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I read most of your comment thinking OAI was the incumbent and Google was the underdog lol
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I mean, non-profits also have to make money to stay alive, they're just not allowed to pay dividends to investors.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I'll indulge your straw man because it's actually pretty good at illustrating my point. 99.9% of people are not psychopaths. But you only need .1% of people to be psychopaths. In a world where you get $5 and no threat of prosecuti
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I think it's easy to talk past one another on this subject. To be sure, I love Claude code. I wish I could pay for several years in advance at today's prices. But the consumer's is not the important perspective for the AI hyp
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I don't care about the benchmarks. I care about how helpful coding agents are for my work. And I can barely tell the difference between the models this year and the models last year. Everyone's raving about Opus but I bet about 50
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by bloppe 11mo ago
What makes it too complex in your opinion?
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I think you're missing the point of "AI winter". It's not about how good the products are now. It's about how quickly the products are improving and creating the potential for profit. That's what drives investm
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I don't think anybody expects AI development to stop. A winter is defined by a relative drying-up of investment and, importantly, it's almost certain that any winter will eventually be followed by another summer. The pace of inv
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I don't think that's a distorted picture at all. Google is still handling billions of searches per day. A huge number of those include AI answers. To all those billions of people who still reach for the omnibar first, Gemini is be
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by bloppe 11mo ago
To be fair, businesses should assume that customers actually "want" what they create demand for. In the case of misleading or dangerously addictive products, regulation should fall to government, because that's the only act
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Well if/when GH eliminates the free tier, I'll probably churn. I agree that's the main thing keeping me there.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
If you want bang for your buck, and you use free GitHub Actions, then no.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
If you're publishing your code anywhere, it's getting trained on. MS does not restrict themselves to only training on GH-hosted code.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
It probably starts with a reexamination of copyright law, which has always been a pragmatic rather than a principled system, but has not noticeably changed since the digital revolution. Copyright is meant to encourage more publication by pr
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by bloppe 11mo ago
"Updating this environment would not be technically meaningful" This is Kremlin-level deflection.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Amazon makes an LLM?
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Switching a complex cloud deployment from AWS to GCP might take a dedicated team of engineers several months. Switching between models can be done by a single person in an afternoon (often just 5 minutes). That's what we're talkin
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I wouldn't call it a moat. A moat is more about switching costs rather than quality differentiation. You have a moat when your customers don't want to switch to a competitor despite that competitor having a superior product at a b
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by bloppe 11mo ago
The AWS moat is a web of bespoke product lock-in and exorbitant egress fees. Switching cloud providers can be a huge hassle if you didn't architect your whole system to be as vendor-agnostic as possible. If OpenAI eliminated their free
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Which republic lol we're on #5
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by bloppe 11mo ago
I don't think allowing developers to use their discretion to share state is "certainly inconsistent". Not sure what your threshold is for "quite hard" but it seems pretty low to me.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
While I agree with you in principle, there is a small but important caveat about large codebases with hundreds of contributors or more. It only takes 1 bad apple to ruin the bunch. I'll always love a greenfield C project, though!
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Who is "they"? This isn't Rust. It's still up to the developer to follow the advice. Anyway, I would stop short of saying "Go chose shared memory". They've always been clear that that's plan B.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Go famously summed up their preferred approach to shared state: > Don't communicate by sharing memory; share memory by communicating.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Surprising because you'd think the hardware itself would be their primary moat.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
Windows 8 was a pretty big overhaul. But I agree with the author it was a most unwelcome overhaul.
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by bloppe 11mo ago
How is this related to the bitter lesson?

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