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541.
by brookst 4mo ago
True story: until about 10-15 years ago it was impossible to get iced tea in London. Even Starbucks simply didn’t have ice.
542.
by brookst 4mo ago
Grasshopper is massively successful in the CAD space. If you’ve looked at a building and thought “that doesn’t seem possible”, it’s probably grasshopper. See: https://www.grasshopper3d.com/page/architecture-projects Bu
543.
by brookst 4mo ago
Sure, a Delaware Corporation, like a Long Island Iced Tea.
544.
by brookst 4mo ago
Wait so they’re perfectly efficient?
545.
by brookst 4mo ago
Sure. And each car is just a drop in the ocean of CO2. And each plane flight. And smoking one cigarette. Humans have a really hard time understanding compounding risk. But there are billions of us. How many billions of drops can you handwav
546.
by brookst 4mo ago
So 95% uptime / 5% downtime is two nines?
547.
by brookst 4mo ago
Sure. But could it be k8s config? Could it be Nvidia Bright Cluster? Could it be load balancing? I'm not saying Anthropic isn't to blame for a system that is literally approaching one-nine uptime; they certainly are. I am saying t
548.
by brookst 4mo ago
If you're really committed to the "no difference between datacenter hardware engineering and claude code harness engineering, they must all use the same practices, anything true for one is true for the other" bit, fair enough
549.
by brookst 4mo ago
You just said "it's not the 'must be veganism' thing, it's the 'must be veganism thing'" Unless you have inside knowledge of their infra ops and management tools, it is just guessing and blaming vegan
550.
by brookst 4mo ago
Is there any indication these errors are related to Anthropic-written code as opposed to operational issues from the fastest-growing infra buildout ever? Layer-wise, the app is pretty far removed from request routing to GPU pools.
551.
by brookst 4mo ago
Hire developers who will be happy to take merely 100% higher rates? Use an Anthropic competitor?
552.
by brookst 4mo ago
Claude is 0.89% downtime. Getting close to one nine. There aren't many tools that remain useful at that rate.
553.
by brookst 4mo ago
This. It’s bizarre to claim that it’s impossible to drive safely in a country where you don’t speak the language. I’ve driven plenty in remote parts of the Middle East despite not reading Arabic, and never once went into oncoming traffic.
554.
by brookst 4mo ago
“Theoretical tennis”
555.
by brookst 4mo ago
It’s rationalization for what people want to do anyway. Like buying a new car today and taking on gas, parking, etc, expenses in case the bus route you’re using goes away at some point in the future. It’s not an economic decision, it’s a de
556.
by brookst 4mo ago
Politicians DGAF about sin taxes or creating bureaucracies that tbey have no control over. But the lobbyist money, the campaign donations? Those are the drivers.
557.
by brookst 4mo ago
What percent of ID verifications do you think are from stolen wallets / purses?
558.
by brookst 4mo ago
The downside is this service is not up-to-the-minute accurate. I rented a new-construction house and it was the better part of a year before it made it into the USPS address correction database, despite receiving mail just fine. Might be ac
559.
by brookst 4mo ago
There are three issues here: 1. Identity verification as a way to validate real-personness and mitigate distillation by e.g. North Korea 2. Identity veriiication as a way to limit model usage to US residents / citizens 3. The level of
560.
by brookst 4mo ago
It is false to claim that there was a moment when electricity went from unknown and opaque to understood and producible. That “moment” was thousands of years and all incremental.
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by brookst 4mo ago
Disagree. If the objection is just cost/complexiry, that’s really just a statement of how long until it’s practical. GPS itself was computationally impossible in the 1950’s. If the math works, and it’s just the domain of one-off ridicu
562.
by brookst 4mo ago
Did you mean sentient?
563.
by brookst 4mo ago
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564.
by brookst 4mo ago
I’ve always dreamt of building a mesh network of loud vehicle detectors that would map current loud noises and track where loud vehicles live, coupled with very powerful parametric speakers. So when e.g. the network detects a loud motorcycl
565.
by brookst 4mo ago
Is it really not possible to converge a location from implicit signals like frequency shift from relative motion? My intuition, maybe wrong, is that with enough compute and a thorough enough ephemeris of what should be broadcasting what, yo
566.
by brookst 4mo ago
Because it’s focused on advancing Musk’s causes to the exclusion of user benefit. I want great software, great advice, great analysis. Not MAGA propaganda.
567.
by brookst 4mo ago
Sure. So you’re saying MPAA was right and you’ve come around? Creative works have always been accretive. There had never been a creative work made out of whole cloth, with no debt to any previous work. The fact your opinions about creative
568.
by brookst 4mo ago
This is so false. Try doing the research to back up your risible claim. Tell me the date when humanity went from oblivious to electricity to generating and using it.
569.
by brookst 4mo ago
Great. So when you say electricity, do you mean the batteries of 600BCE and the precursors before them?
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by brookst 4mo ago
Yeah I cut my teeth on 6502 assembly and know IDK how many languages. I get it. It’s still typing in code.

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