danpalmer

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by danpalmer 3mo ago
> It's more art than engineering I'd say games can be either art or hype. Call of Duty is not art, really, it's hype. In the same way that no one thinks Marvel films are moving film forward, but they are hugely popular. GT
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
I've not seen anyone yet implement a true cost to productivity assessment or guardrails for AI usage yet. Sure this is hard to do with people, but performance management is a well understood field with a hundred years of practice for k
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
It's also about competition. Consoles are a significant investment, to only be able to buy content from one source creates monopolies. An equivalent would be if TVs were sold by Netflix or Disney, and only played content purchased from
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
I think there's a measure of success in thought leadership and/or product. Apple is wildly successful at both, arguably more so the leadership than the actual product. Amazon, despite its faults, has a ton of businesses many of wh
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
Rails takes this approach[1] to some extent, but it's still possible to plug in different things, it's still all flexible enough to build any type of web app pretty much, and it still requires a ton of developer (or LLM) involveme
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
Something I'm thinking about and doing a bit of experimentation with is using LLMs to write specialist higher level code. Rather than ask them to write web-apps in webby languages with open source frameworks etc, providing a very fixed
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
At some point these things become cheap enough that you might as well. The price difference between 500MB and 1GB for me is very little, and so for the peak usage time improvements and few times a month that I download a steam game or movie
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
The Australian system is much better than the US system, even with 1/10th the country-level density. The internet here is generally faster and cheaper than the suburban US, with a similar system to Switzerland.
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
But the article does point out that 1G plans are very widely available at low prices. US consumers would love that but it's not available anywhere near as widely as in Switzerland.
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
I can also get 400Gbit in my office, that doesn't mean it's a useful benchmark for the country. The article seems to represent the state of the 3 countries compared pretty well. Where exactly is Ziply available? Their website is v
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
I ran speed tests a lot more when I had internet that varied from 5-20MB depending on the day/weather/etc. Now I'm on >1GB it's so rarely a concern that I don't bother. I suspect this skews the data significantly
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
It's fair to critique this article not covering this, but I also think this is largely a red herring. The vast majority of the issue in the US is suburban, where density isn't really a problem. The US has a lot of rural areas, but
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
I like the idea at a social level/product level, but at this point I don't think I'd use any social network that wasn't open at a protocol level in some way. ATProto/etc would be a great tech backbone for this, and
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
The competition here is hiring a cleaner. Cleaners are insured. And it's even more than that, it only does a very few jobs, so we're talking a total of <5m of human time per day that it currently automates.
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
But it can't lean and balance. Making a bed requires reaching potentially 1m across a surface that might also be 0.5m high. That requires balance, humans can bend and balance like that very naturally, but that's hard for a robot,
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
> Handles loaded hampers What does it mean "handles"? It doesn't say it puts on a wash, but that's what I'd want. I can only assume they're vague because it doesn't do anything useful. > Makes beds A
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
Why didn't they just make it "Staff SWE-Bench", would be much better smh. /s But seriously, as an industry we're terrible at assessing engineering levels, I've worked with "senior engineers" who can&#
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
This sort of model is fine for small problems, when used in the right way. I think there's probably a version of Resume analysis that would work well with this model, but "hey clanker, what projects has this person done" is n
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
N5105 boards are also super cheap, and low power draw, but still with the transcoding hardware. Great experience with mine.
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
Which is on the side of the distributor, not the end recipient.
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
Anything that explores triple stores in production more is interesting to me, nice one! That said, the load test immediately stuck out to me as being too small scale. Triple stores can have performance issues, and the amount of operations i
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
Maybe I'm lucky, but I've not seen this. Sure I've seen this from junior developers who aren't thinking through the actual requirements they have, but I've not seen it on a team with any real level of experience. I
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
Lots of the alternatives that this site claims Postgres will do are things you'd only consider well past the point that Postgres would be viable. Kafka? No one wants to operate Kafka, if it's a serious contender it's because
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
Where are you sourcing all your puzzles? I remember the blocker to a Sudoku app I was making in secondary school was just getting good puzzles. They're hard to make, particularly if you're signing up to make a new one every day. I
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
The focus on speed is interesting here, it's something I think less and less about with agents. I'm not waiting for git operations, and at the rate agents run it's just not a major factor. Agentic development is all about thr
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
That's exactly what the article is about.
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
AI: Why not both?
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
> Mistral nails it, and when it doesn't its so fast to iterate I'm starting to see more and more of this: speed matters more than model, skills matter more than model, cost matters more, harness matters more than model. It seem
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
There are other apps, other user data hosting (including personal hosting), and other backend services. It is decentralised in both theory and practice. The only thing you could potentially say is that because Blue sky run the biggest parts
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
Most software is not a single finished artifact though, it's a community, a process, knowledge, documentation, and mindshare. This has none of those, so by default it'll die as a project immediately. To gain any of those is a much

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