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by davedx 10mo ago
There was a great blog post by an early employee on here a while back that did a deep dive. It's a good read: https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/reflections-on-palantir
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by davedx 10mo ago
> Many people invest for ideological reasons, myself included, and that's fine. It's fine if you don't mind losing your shirt. For us normal people, we invest to try and grow the money we've saved for the future (in m
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by davedx 10mo ago
> a few hundred nodes and maybe 10,000 containers, relatively small And that's just your CI jobs, right? ;)
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Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?(martinalderson.com)
241 points by davedx 11mo ago|194 comments
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by davedx 11mo ago
And don't even mention the Cybertrucks cruising around who knows where. Granted, I've not seen any parked at the Albert Heijn quite yet.
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by davedx 11mo ago
Does this count as enshittification?
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by davedx 11mo ago
Yeah this is one reason I've ordered a OnePlus as my next phone.
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by davedx 11mo ago
"Ultra-efficient" Searched the article, no mention of gzip, and how most of the time all that text data (html, js and css too!) you're sending over the wire will be automatically compressed to...... an efficient binary format
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by davedx 11mo ago
Your careers website could use some attention. It scrolls around weirdly, the image aspect ratio is wrong, and there's no way to hyperlink to the individual jobs. This makes sharing them with others or on other websites difficult.
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by davedx 11mo ago
> Breaking backward compatibility isn't collateral damage, it's the point. LOL, if you say so. Honestly, I don't know how anyone decides to build something on top of the software the react router team puts out. I went thro
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by davedx 11mo ago
Thanks, that's really useful, I had no idea this table existed.
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by davedx 11mo ago
> we use Sentence Transformers (all-MiniLM-L6-v2) as our default (solid all-around performer for speed and retrieval, English-only). Huh, interesting. I might be building a German-language RAG at some point in my future and I never even
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by davedx 11mo ago
I actually spoke too soon, and accept I have egg on my face! Apparently prisma's `npm exec prisma generate` command tries to download "engine binaries" from https://binaries.prisma.sh , which is behind... guess wha
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by davedx 11mo ago
All my stuff is working. Things on GCP. Things on Fly.io. Tooling I use. "Only" 10% of the internet is behind Cloudflare so far ;)
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by davedx 11mo ago
The ORM is great! I usually setup my projects so the Prisma generated types are shared with the front end and build my own types on top of those. I like the prisma schema first way of specifying my models too. It’s pretty intuitive and read
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by davedx 11mo ago
Wait. Will I be able to play Subnautica 2 on this?
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by davedx 11mo ago
SteamPhone sounds…… metal as fuck. I’d buy it for the name alone
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by davedx 11mo ago
Ah okay, a bit confusing wording there. I really think they should make that clearer...
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by davedx 11mo ago
Yes that was the next thing I tried, but only the device "owner" can do development on it. The only solutions were 1) factory reset and take ownership of my son's device 2) buy another Quest
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by davedx 11mo ago
It looks stunning, great design there There's a devkit... I'm disappointed, that's the Sony method? I actually tried to do dev for the Meta Quest 2 the other week and was disappointed there because it's my son's, an
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by davedx 11mo ago
I'm working on a lightweight next.js alternative named after my dog: https://github.com/davedx/dex.ts/ It's going fairly well, I'm more or less as feature complete as I want to be. I might do someth
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YC Guide to Co-Founder Matching(docs.google.com)
2 points by davedx 11mo ago|0 comments
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by davedx 11mo ago
I use Prisma on almost all my node.js projects these days, and I wish that part of schema migrations was also automated by Prisma. But last I checked, it doesn't even rename columns properly. I feel like maybe they should invest more R
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by davedx 11mo ago
I think in the very long term though what will happen is countries like India will actually end up with salaries comparable to western workers, so even though the gap might be smaller, the cost/benefit ratio will change again.
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by davedx 11mo ago
The problem isn't with the MIT study itself -- it's with all the media framing of it as if "AI has failed", when the study was about pilots rapidly generating significant revenue .
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by davedx 11mo ago
No, you're not "on the hook". You're definitely motivated to increase profits - most senior leadership's compensation will be heavily equity weighted, and net profit growth tends to result in share price growth -
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by davedx 11mo ago
I'm not sure if this is a tongue in cheek comment or not, but it's a myth that leadership has a fiduciary duty to maximize profits at all costs .
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by davedx 11mo ago
I've seen both: people handpicked in India that are all high quality employees, and big corps using companies like Infosys to wholesale replace huge numbers of onshore employees with the "cheapest and best" India can offer. T
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by davedx 11mo ago
UK (let's say London) level TC is quite a bit higher than 110K US. For real talent you can easily double that. (TC, not cash)
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by davedx 11mo ago
Yup! I've seen it at a big American cable company too - I was even a part of the initial team responsible for re-shoring, and now I'm seeing them offshoring everything back to (one of the worst) huge Indian outsourcing companies a

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