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by erulabs 2y ago
VR and Sports together certainly brings out the cynicism! Seriously tho, as with all VR/AR, this is _extremely cool_, but the practical reality is that in order to enjoy this with a group of friends we'd need ~8k in clunky heavy h
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by erulabs 2y ago
It’s nice to see someone at least attempting the “zero opinions” angle.
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by erulabs 2y ago
Mental health is a real killer. It’s so sad when people who clearly have passion and (initially) wealth and apparently a stomach for risk and hard work just can’t bring themselves to be honest. The market wants triviality from us. It wants
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by erulabs 2y ago
Hrm I've been using a combo of Textract (for bounding boxes) AI for understanding the contents of the document. Textract is excellent at bounding boxes and exact-text capture, but LLMs are excellent at understanding when a messy/u
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by erulabs 2y ago
As with all engineering, it depends . If the code is bad, and they do complete the task, then good engineering. If the code isn't bad, and they don't... Armchair quarterbacking engineering decisions with little to no information
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by erulabs 2y ago
A month ago you would have argued that the computer systems backing our tax return filings were in a good shape? Fair enough, but color me shocked.
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by erulabs 2y ago
The article doesn't really give any good details. We don't know enough to say what the process is. We're just supposed to be upset that young bright engineers are working on the system that until a month ago everyone would ha
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by erulabs 2y ago
The "code that directs Social Security payments, tax returns and other payments owed to Americans" is "COBOL and ... it has been such a struggle to maintain it [because it was] developed for decades with very little documenta
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by erulabs 2y ago
There were no value judgements in either of my posts. Like the article, you’ve not presented any reasons for your opinion or attitude or derision. I value reinvestment, but now you’ve insulted a potential ally. What good does this do your
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by erulabs 2y ago
You have to come into the article believing a ton of things: 1. Tax credits are illegitimate 2. Accelerated depreciation is illegitimate 3. Ownership of productive companies is "hoarding wealth" 4. Journalism is in a battle with t
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by erulabs 2y ago
> "hoard wealth" > No mention of reinvestment > "Tesla was able to avoid paying ... taxes ... by claiming ... tax credits" (presented as bad somehow) > "We're not backing down" Where or where i
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by erulabs 2y ago
I'd love to see a more complete picture of ByteDance's TikTok infra. They released "KubeAdmiral" (1) so I'm assuming they're using eBPF via a Kubernetes CNI, and I see ByteDance listed on Cilium's github (
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by erulabs 2y ago
One thing I'd love to hear opinions on from someone with more free time to read these papers from DeepSeek is: am I right to feel like they're... publishing all their secret sauce? The paper for R1 (1) seems to be pretty clear how
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by erulabs 2y ago
For what it’s worth it’s not even remotely a factor of price/bandwidth. The capex of laying the fiber and doing the last-mile construction is huge and highly variable depending on existing fiber, construction costs, regulatory requirem
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by erulabs 2y ago
its interesting that two simultaneous and contradictory views are held by AI engineers: - Software is over - An impenetrable software moat protects Nvidia's market capitalization
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by erulabs 2y ago
My favorite youtube skeptic, LEMMiNO, has a great video (1) on this topic. To spoil the fun, it turns out a specific shaped lens on a specific type of camera can produce artifacts (2) incredibly similar to what is being reported here. These
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by erulabs 2y ago
Not ruling anything out is not a threat. Panama is not a NATO country. One is not a few. ‘Military options’ is not synonymous with invasion. “Invading” is a funny term for an area currently occupied by several US major military bases. The l
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by erulabs 2y ago
The question was “Greenland and Panama” and the answer was “I wouldn’t rule anything out”. It requires a pretty hard squint to convert that into a threat “to invade a few NATO allies”. This sort of intentional misunderstanding of an exagg
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by erulabs 2y ago
I think it's somewhat important to understand meta and its products are _not_ tech products. Outside of React and llama and the like, Meta is not building for or speaking to the tech community. If what they do or say sounds like populi
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by erulabs 2y ago
Your limit is how long it takes them to find somewhere safe for their family. I evacuated and got back online later that day. Several leaders reached out to me to ask if I needed anything or if I wanted to take time off. In response, I feel
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by erulabs 2y ago
I don’t take myself very seriously. I’d rather be happy than protected. If my conversations are used to build some future AI, good; I’d like to be immortalized somehow. I like the idea that my children’s children’s children might be able to
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by erulabs 2y ago
I really love Anthropic, I'm building a business around it, and chat with Claude almost every time I go out for a beer after a long day... But having a valuation equal to _Stripe_ seems a bit insane. Either they've got some secret
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by erulabs 2y ago
I think the system that orients us away from our passions and towards the mundane is a good thing actually. It hurts the soul but it nourishes the body. However we should all become patrons of the arts, so that we can also nourish the sou
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by erulabs 2y ago
Turns out the real alienation is the artists and athletes, not the workers producing luxury goods. Capitalism is great, it feeds billions, but it shouldn’t be lost on anyone that we can provide generational wealth to anyone who can produce
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by erulabs 2y ago
> Note: You may need 80GB GPU memory to run this script with deepseek-vl2-small and even larger for deepseek-vl2. Is this a typo? 80GB VRAM? I make great money, but there's no way I'm talking myself (or my wife) into spending 1
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by erulabs 2y ago
Extremely cool, but also terrifying. Anyone else read all the lore in the Horizon games? It was AI and nano-bot swarms that ended the world there, escaping from a research lab and consuming all organic matter on the surface of the earth. On
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by erulabs 2y ago
Counterpoint: humans word best in quieter environments. If we're saying "...what!? It's crazy loud where you are!", you can't really expect AI to be much better?
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by erulabs 2y ago
> These communities are the flowers growing between the cracks of the cement parking lot: a reminder that life survives, and often thrives, in the harshest environments, such as the modern world Lovely writing here. I am fascinated by th
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by erulabs 2y ago
You may be right about pgroll specifically, I haven't looked at it closely. However, you can't really say "just do db migrations in a safe way". The way your DBA staff would "apply migrations safely" would be t
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by erulabs 2y ago
What is good for the goose is not necessarily good for the gander. Obviously for startups, you're 100% right. Just announce a brief downtime and/or do migrations after-hours. Keep it simple, no one will care if their requests time

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