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by crowcroft 1y ago
I think we're probably over using MCPs. If you're a large org with an API that an ecosystem of other partners use then you should host a remote MCP and then people should connect LLMs to it. The current model of someone bundling t
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by crowcroft 1y ago
A lot of people don't use containers/don't want to use containers. I guess Bluefin might just not be for them though.
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Hardware typically gets faster and cheaper over time. Unless we hit hard a wall because of physics then I don't see any reason that won't continue to be true.
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Mainframes are the only viable way to build computers. Micro processors will never figure out how to get small and fast enough for personal computers to reach escape velocity.
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by crowcroft 1y ago
If I had to guess most of the most negative experiences involve YYZ.
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Yes, I boarded a full flight that ran out of overhead bin space and people walking up and down aisles with suitcases then exiting off the plane and then coming back on was an absolute shitshow.
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Air Canada get an overly bad reputation imo. 1. They are significantly larger with more complex operations than either Westjet or Porter. If people flew Porter or Westjet as frequently as Air Canada, I'm sure they'd suddenly have
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Most people use Tailwind with components, and so when you talk about breaking things out into paragraphs, that would be the equivalent. Sure that html looks a bit messy, but once you write it once you're never looking at it again. In y
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Is that more or less verbose than button { position: relative; cursor: pointer; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 0.375rem; border: 1px solid #0a0a0a; background-color: #171717; padding: 6px 12px; color: #
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Tailwind is just a different way of writing CSS. UI libraries and websites all end up converging on a common set of ideas because of usability and readability, perhaps you're conflating Tailwind UI libraries with Tailwind itself. Tailw
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by crowcroft 1y ago
O-1 isn't a genius visa, it is for [1] Individuals with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement, the government website specifically calls out categories that are not research or engineering. [1] https://www.uscis.gov/work
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Podcasts are a very significant medium, and Dwarkesh is probably comfortably in the top 1% of podcasts. Isn't that exactly what O-1 is for?
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Almost anyone can add something to people's calendars as well (of course people don't accept random invites but they can appear). If this kind of agent becomes wide spread hackers would be silly not to send out phishing email invi
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Point 2 is true to an extent, assuming you aren't monetizing your traffic though, wouldn't earning citations still be more valuable than not showing up in Google at all? You should also consider that a large proportion of search i
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Another common unintended consequence I've seen is conflating crawling and indexing with regards to robots.txt. If you make a new page and never want it to enter the Google search index, adding it to robots.txt is fine, Google will nev
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Bubble or not these kinds of deals could put a chill on the tech startup sector as well. Things move fast in tech because there isn't nearly as much red tape and litigation as there are in other mature industries. This is because there
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by crowcroft 1y ago
For something to endure so long in the web dev world is a real testament to all the people in the community that do the mundane 'gardening' work each day. Pruning back 'dead' parts of the framework and smoothing out roug
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Grok is pretty good, both the model in the API and the consumer products built on top. Llama is way behind, and the meta.ai app is much worse than the leading chat assistant products.
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Semi related, what’s the best source for a consumer to buy mini-itx boards with the processor on? I want to get a board (ideally with two gigabit Ethernet) and BYO ram, SSD and enclosure.
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by crowcroft 1y ago
This sounds like the same kind of issue ‘real’ engineers have with software ‘engineering’.
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by crowcroft 1y ago
I think beyond the technical aspect it's a product and packaging problem. All the effort is in productizing foundational models and apps built on top of them, but as that plateaus distilled models and new approaches will probably get m
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Yes, and people buying random GPUs for ether etc. I'm not a huge fan of what crypto has become but there was something exciting about hacking stuff together at home for it which is currently missing in AI IMO. Maybe it's not reall
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by crowcroft 1y ago
If current LLMs hit a scaling wall and the game becomes about efficiency, I wonder if there's going to be space in the market for small models focussed on specific use cases. I use Gemini to extract structured data from images and the
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Jack's greatest sin was transforming a manufacturing company into a financial institute. Similar to a family that takes on debt to appear wealthy it looks good in the short term but the debt always comes due eventually. It never came d
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by crowcroft 1y ago
The point being that they think they need those sensors in order to create a secure system.
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Apple has clearly done a lot of work in this space and have decided to retain Touch ID on Macbooks. I think this is fairly instructive.
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by crowcroft 1y ago
I think the complaint would be two things, however IANAL 1. Lack of access to compute resource. Microsoft intentionally slowing OpenAI's ability to scale up and grow dominant quickly vs. Copilot, a competing product. Microsoft shouldn&
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Would love to see how that plays out. It’s a pretty absurd situation to eagerly sign the deal and take the funding and then when better deals start showing up turn around and try blow it up.
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Even with their failures Microsoft still has OpenAI over a barrel. Access to their IP, and 20% of revenue (not profit).
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by crowcroft 1y ago
To me the question is, so what's a better alternative? At least queues can be designed to handle timeouts, errors, and flakey APIs.

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