danpalmer

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by danpalmer 5mo ago
But it costs $1.3m USD a month to run, not including their salaries. That's the cost of a team of 50-200 staff, depending on where you're hiring. I don't think there's any way most people would call that lean. It's
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
Anyone can burn tokens. Using them for something useful is the hard part.
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
"All that automation allows us to run extremely lean" He has a different opinion of what it means to be lean than almost everyone else. That's fine, he's allowed to, but it's something you have to understand to make
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
In fact to go further, even just the inclusion of an item on a "race to the bottom" page implies negativity. In isolation, "cheap food" is a pretty positive thing, the emphasis may be on "food" and we all need
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
The framing of some of these is interesting. Not a criticism, just an observation. I think many trigger a visceral negative reaction, like animal testing, but most of these can be broken up into sub-parts that are both obviously good and ob
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
But almost every business is using Windows and depending on its security.
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
I've never seen or interacted with Fin that I've noticed. Admittedly I've seen a lot less of Intercom over the last 5 years, they used to be on every SaaS site, but it seems there's a ton of competition there now. One of
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
> Sometimes you see a corporate announcement that’s so obvious and so late, it’s almost an admission of failure. ...is this one of those times? Where does "Fin" come from? I have a lot of mindshare built-up for Intercom based o
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
Of course, which is why I said "increasing". NASA is propaganda, but when the focus is on scientific advancement I can get behind that (as a non-American). The problem is the recent shift away from science towards a more performat
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
This used to be my rationalisation, but my understanding is that Shotwell is the driving force behind the commercial and Falcon sides of the business and that there's a quite strong cultural divide between that and the Starship/St
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
I hoped to get across that I still find this to be a nuanced issue. I like the content, I just dislike the discourse around it, which makes it hard for me to get excited about the content. I too would like it to just be about the content, b
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
It's funny how every paragraph is almost the same length, like you don't even have to read the words to know it's AI.
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
Google models are well known for being quite terse and efficient on cost – reasonably low pricing for what they are and reasonably low token use for what they achieve. But as I said do reach out if you are actually a googler, as my points a
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
Right but it's not your responsibility to direct the UI. Your responsibility is backend services, possibly at a stretch, the architecture of apps as they relate to using those backend services, but it's most definitely not the aes
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
> Remember! AESTHETICS ARE VERY IMPORTANT. All apps should LOOK AMAZING Why are your database instructions giving instructions about the UI design?
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
Tell that to Segment. Hopefully they've fixed that, but they didn't seem to think it was a problem years ago (spoiler: it was a big problem).
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
I remember hearing about Segment (analytics company) had their entire product based around UUIDs generated in web browsers. There were collisions all over the place, the product was seemingly incapable of producing useful data at a fundamen
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
It reveals the time you created the UUID, for one. That can lead to a bunch of problems.
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
It is a sad state of affairs if there's nothing a kid cares about at school.
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
In this case it was at roughly age 8-10. It was a sporty school and I don't think it prioritised that above student wellbeing, not at the level of one individual player anyway. That said, I know school sports is a way bigger deal in th
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
Happy to chat internally if you want, feel free to reach out. I see a lot of people swearing by one model, but without trying others. I see a lot of opinions based on a snapshot of tooling from ~January, when for example Claude Code was exc
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
Yeah exactly, it's hard to do and requires effort. It's a sad state of affairs if there's nothing at school a child cares about, and rules prohibiting using those things as leverage may make sense in some way at a population
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
The only effective punishment/threat that I saw work on my bullies at school was the threat to remove one of them from the football team and prevent him from playing for the school. He turned it around and was ok after that. It was hig
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
Yes. The models are good, the models are fast , and the internal tooling has caught up at this point too. There's a lot of UI/UX/tooling stuff that's still being worked through, integrations with VCS, and solving deeper
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
It stayed in stock in other countries for longer than the US. I ordered mine late on Tuesday, many hours after it launched. Was quoted "6-10 business days" for delivery, and it arrived this morning, approx 3 days after ordering.
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
...in the US. Other countries have stock.
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
There's a ton of selection bias going on here. Terence writes mostly about open web standards and topics that would be of significant interest to folks with an RSS feed reader. Also, RSS readers are generally automated. I know I'v
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
Metadata and structure beats AI every time.
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by danpalmer 6mo ago
When I talk about fundamental limitations, I mean limitations that can't be solved, even if they could be improved. We have improved hallucinations significantly, and yet it seems clear that they are inherent to the technology and so w

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