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by cbsmith 1y ago
So the idea is that it SHOULD cost OpenAI a trillion dollars to do what you can accomplish with a potato?
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by cbsmith 1y ago
So if your AI compute needs are handled by an Apple TV, I'd be really curious how those same needs served by the cloud work out to a trillion dollars.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
I didn't like how this essay misunderstood the design principles in Java's class files. With dynamic binding to the runtime, you can't know for certain the layout of a data structure in memory (e.g. what is the ideal memory a
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by cbsmith 1y ago
> Nobody wants to pay for a trillion dollar cloud bill. Buying dedicated hardware as a way to keep your AI bill down seems like a tough proposition for your average consumer. Unless you're using AI constantly, renting AI capacity wh
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by cbsmith 1y ago
s/providers/insurers/
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by cbsmith 1y ago
As an old Perl programmer, I knew immediately what the /o would do. ;-)
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by cbsmith 1y ago
Is there a good way to lay off 150 people?
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by cbsmith 1y ago
Yeah, but you need energy to desalinate so...
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by cbsmith 1y ago
"sharding party" Man, that made me laugh. I'm using that.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
> We do get compared to Elasticsearch a lot. While we support some of its APIs, Manticore isn't a drop-in replacement. Thank you for saying that up front. I read a description of your product and the first thing I thought was, &quot
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by cbsmith 1y ago
Yeah, this title for the article is really terrible. The "why" that scientists are investigating is not why many lung cancers aren't in nonsmokers. The "why" they are investigating is "why are these non smokers
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by cbsmith 1y ago
> What you’re describing is incidental complexity. It is not a good thing. Yes.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
/me feigns shock
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by cbsmith 1y ago
> Really? Perhaps read the 'Principle of Least Astonishment' [1] to see why this is a problem. If I create a new object I would expect the 'init time' properties to be initialised. The Principle of Least Astonishment
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by cbsmith 1y ago
> It isn't, that's why there's a blog article documenting how unexpected it is. The behaviour is expected for the language design. Whether developers using the language expect it is a separate matter. The with operator cle
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by cbsmith 1y ago
Yeah, there's a long and tangled history with UNESCO that spans multiple administrations. That said, the wording of the statement is... problematic.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
Yeah, I remember using untagged unions because the code "knew" which type was the right one to use at the right time and you wanted to save space (and wanted your structures to fit well in registers --and later cache lines).
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by cbsmith 1y ago
Just a wee bit.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
I'm pretty sure when they got the gold medal they weren't allowed to judge themselves.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
As guy named Chris Smith, I really appreciated this story.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
Pretty sure Jon Udell remembers XUL.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
So what if it is a fiber channel over ethernet drive? I got bad news for you: they're always unreliable. I've got a setup where the network filesystem is more reliable than the local filesystem. The local filesystem is running on
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by cbsmith 1y ago
I love the irony.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
PGDv6 is still closed source, yeah?
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by cbsmith 1y ago
Except the Windsurf team is already moving in that direction...
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by cbsmith 1y ago
Canada is "much more socialist" in that it has socialized medical insurance. Aside from that, it's maybe a tiny bit more socialist, though one could argue it's not more socialist at all. The systems are different, but
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by cbsmith 1y ago
I still don't understand equality in JavaScript. ;-)
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by cbsmith 1y ago
That's an amusing perspective. I really struggle with watching any video at double speed, but I've never had trouble listening to any of his talks at 1x. To me, he seems to speak at a perfectly reasonable pace.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
It seems counter intuitive that the reader would no longer have that authorial instinct due to lack of writing. Like, maybe they never had it, in which case, yes. But being exposed to a lot of different "writing opinions" tends to
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by cbsmith 1y ago
Fair enough. ;-) I'm actually curious about the "lose their skills" angle though. In the open source community it's well understood that if anything reviewing a lot of code tends to sharpen your skills.

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