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by echelon 6mo ago
> Computing in the 90s meant hitting ctrl-s every 5 seconds because you never knew when the application you were using was going to crash. THIS. I lost so much work in the 90s and 00s. I was a kid, so I had patience and it didn't co
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by echelon 6mo ago
Everyone is arguing why I'm wrong or that I should have presented more data. You've got the real insight with this claim. This is the way the world is moving. Open source isn't even going where the ball is being tossed. There
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by echelon 6mo ago
Open Source isn't even within 50% of what the SOTA models are. Benchmarks are toys, real world use is vastly different, and that's where they seriously lag. Why should anyone waste time on poorer results? I'd rather pay my $2
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by echelon 6mo ago
> We're in a war in Iran for reasons that nobody can quite articulate (1) Nuclear proliferation. We once had a deal that looked as though it was holding. Trump's nixing of the deal and the happenings in Ukraine accelerated Iran
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by echelon 6mo ago
I would love to see this supposed "positive media exposure". All I see are doom and gloom forecasts, "bubble" talk, and how bad it is for the environment.
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by echelon 6mo ago
Just wait until they start killing people to win bets. It's going to happen. It'll happy by proxy too. When they figure 90% of Tesla's or SpaceX's valuation is tied to Elon, suddenly he becomes your mark.
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by echelon 6mo ago
Metrics and toy examples can be gamed. Rather than these silly examples, how does it feel ? Can you replace Claude Code Opus or Codex with this? Does it feel >80% as good on "real world" tasks you do on a day to day basis.
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by echelon 6mo ago
AI is polarizing. The rest of the world outside of the US and Europe loves AI. China is embracing it fully. Why is our Western media making the public hate it so much? It's almost as if it's a top down edict from all the news gian
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by echelon 6mo ago
Anker is a powerhouse and they've grown huge. Best chargers on the market, hands down. Best cables too. But they've gone into high end stuff. They make the Eufy brand of LiDAR smart vacuums for instance. All done in house, and con
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by echelon 6mo ago
That's because these mega monopolies have diverse income streams and have grown like cancers to tax every system and economy that touches the internet. Anthropic and OpenAI are having to fight like hell to secure market share. Google j
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by echelon 6mo ago
What do you mean? Only the foundation model companies offer cheap/subsidized compute. If you're an app layer company, you're offering a 10x worse deal to your customers. Foundation model companies are willing to lose money to
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by echelon 6mo ago
> I am starting to think that expressing thoughts in words clearly is probably the most important and general skill of the future. Without question. AI will be indistinguishable from having a team. Communicating clearly has always and wi
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by echelon 6mo ago
I would love a MBP that ran Linux. I am not a fan of MacOS (though it's one of my two daily drivers). What I really want is for other hardware vendors to catch up. I like Apple hardware but hate their software.
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by echelon 7mo ago
> Local llm or nothing at all. I'm not as familiar with LLMs as I am media models, but there can't seriously be local contenders for beating Opus, GPT-5, etc. Right? At home hardware isn't good enough. Nobody "far eno
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by echelon 7mo ago
Maintain two billing providers and migrate new subscriptions as they onboard. Then slowly migrate existing subscriptions. It's also a good bargaining chip.
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by echelon 7mo ago
Stripe's APIs have grown so complicated to support so many different shapes of large enterprise workflows that they have to color code the entities to make you think it's simple. You'll be processing events from totally diffe
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by echelon 7mo ago
No HTTP, Proto, or gRPC crate should ever find itself in the stdlib. Didn't we learn this with python? How many python http client libraries are in the dumping ground that is the python "batteries included" standard library?
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by echelon 7mo ago
Speaking of browser automation, are there any LLMs or tools that hook up to actual desktop browsers and can automate the keyboard and mouse? Which LLMs best drive these? Claude/Gemini, etc., or is anything local actually competent at i
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by echelon 7mo ago
I want a hyperscaler LLM I can fine tune and neuter. Not a platform or product. Raw weights hooked up to pure tools. This era of locked hyperscaler dominance needs to end. If a third tier LLM company made their weights available and they we
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by echelon 7mo ago
It's so shameful. We let people buy kitchen knives. But because the kitchen knife companies don't have billions of dollars, we don't go after them. We go after the LLM that might have given someone bad diet advice or made the
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by echelon 7mo ago
Another Anthropic revenue stream: Protection money from Vercel. "Pay us 10% of revenue or we switch to generating Netlify code."
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by echelon 7mo ago
It emits Actix and Axum extremely well with solid support for fully AOT type checked Sqlx. Switch to vibe coding Rust backends and freeze your supply chain. Super strong types. Immaculate error handling. Clear and easy to read code. Rock so
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by echelon 7mo ago
Maybe instead of trying to teach around the abacus, we need to teach the higher level things you can reach with MATLAB. We're doing these students a major disservice making them live in the old world. It's our fault for being infl
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by echelon 7mo ago
What value do prediction markets give to anyone not in the insider trading class? I predict these will be banned when someone finally uses them as an "assassination market".
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by echelon 7mo ago
> And some people, specifically Vietnamese and Cambodian civilians, were on the receiving end of your fun little brain teaser. To make it ABUNDANTLY CLEAR, I was referring to celestial navigation. I guess we have to blame people who were
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by echelon 7mo ago
Nothing is stopping us. One life to experience the universe. Save up for a sabbatical. Find new engineering pastures. It's always rose colored looking back. Not everybody got to work on this. Some people were storming the beaches...
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by echelon 7mo ago
> they're killing the old Kindles as well Wait, what? What's the scope, and when does it happen?
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by echelon 7mo ago
Everything is a platform play. I think it's grossly unethical and negligent that our DOJ/FTC allowed them to acquire film studios, subsidize them with outside business unit profit, put ads across their own properties, then give it
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by echelon 7mo ago
> Unrelated tangent: saw HackerSmacker in your profile, plan to try it out, wish it supported iOS. I need this! I once tried building something like this but got busy. Manually curated lists with the addition of "information hygiene
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by echelon 7mo ago
AWS has always been a scam. It's worse than Oracle and they don't even use lawyery contracts. The technology itself is the tendrils.

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