ethbr1

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by ethbr1 6mo ago
TikTok was about capital realizing that feed algorithms are cheaper and more subtle to buy than advertising or a newspaper. Same reason Elon bought Twitter. Money is money, but convincing people is power.
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
At some point on William Gibson's now defunct micro blog*, he's about to embark on the book tour for Pattern Recognition (so circa 2003). I'll butcher his insightful phrasing, but he remarks to the effect of > I think I&
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
* Powered by in-house models they've tried to train and in-house M-series inference servers
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
Sharepoint has never not been terrible.
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
Mark Zuckerberg using his company to build things he's the primary user for?
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
Ah, so a familiar position for them, then!
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
Apples and limes. The context of this thread isn't consumer chips, but Apple's analog to an H/B200.
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
100% this. AI perversion to fluff human egos is rewarded. I had a PM-turned-vibe-coder tell me "Talking with you is the only bad part of my week" and realized in horror that the rest of his week is spent exclusively talking to syc
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
> They're helping close to the distance to realistic quality inference on phones and other smaller devices. If someone monopolized OS marketshare for mid- to low-priced devices, that does seem like it would be a useful research fo
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
I think most people expect more than semi-reliably setting a verbal timer in 2026.
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
The only features the F-35 doesn't have for a modern fight are IP ownership and range. The former was a military procurement mistake and the latter has been worked on for years [0] but never prioritized. Also, I'm kind of surprise
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
> A single F35 which could penetrate air defense and go into the country would be a real problem. The difference here is an F-35 + precision weaponry + intelligence to locate high value targets. It's always going to be cheaper &#x
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
It does stop Iran from being able to launch a huge number of drones and missiles. That they were able to launch >0 after losing air superiority is a testament to how much work is in the last mile.
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
I mean, we did that too. That's why there are only 19 operational B-2s (21 built).
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
> The legs would probably have to be too long, or pedals oddly placed, or handles strange, or wings with hands. In all seriousness, that's what makes it an interesting test: it's asking for something technically impossible, t
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
> No official statement and not even a tweet? Release notes and announcements are a well-known agentic anti-pattern. If you're doing them, you're doing agentic wrong. /s-ish-also-cry
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
That feels like too reductive of a distillation and conveniently excises the necessity of examining his supporters' grievances for legitimate ones. He was elected by a broad coalition of conservative-ish stakeholders, many of whom had
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
The most surprising thing about watching the Trump trainwreck has been in how spineless he is about any personal ideological conviction. He cares about perceptions of him. He cares about power and money. But past that it's literally...
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
'Anthropic is / isn't lying about Mytho's capabilities' is the less interesting conversation. The more interesting one is: 1. Assuming even incremental AI coding intelligence improvements 2. Assuming increas
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
$ Good idea! Let's add a Redis cache to that!
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
Taking this at face value: https://www.infostealers.com/article/breaking-vercel-breach-... Context.ai employee searches for Roblox exploits on web -> Context.ai support access breached by malware -> Ve
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
> the head of risk management told them to get lost That's why it's important to org-chart engineer for security, if a company is really serious.
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
> If something is "standard" nowadays does it mean it is the right way to go ? Next thing you'll be telling me that you have a problem piping internet hosted install scripts directly into shell!
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
That's the beginning of Googlification of feature evolution, via population statistics rather than quality. If it increases a KPI by 5% for 95% of users but torpedos the experience for 5%? Ship it.
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
I expect "model transparency" to become the new "SSO" enterprise feature differentiator. Enterprise use cases have to have it (or else pawn the YOLO off on their users), so it will be a key way to bucket customers into n
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
Aka 'We cared about misuse right up until it became apparent that was profit to be had' OpenAI sure speed ran the Google and Facebook 'Don't be evil' -> 'Optimize money' transition.
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numberOfProgrammersInTheWorld : numberOfPeopleInTheWorld
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> How is that achievable? The core ill is aggregated data, because that's what allows the mass in surveillance, data mining, etc. The collection actions are almost immaterial. Without persistence they must be re-performed for
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
I'd consider both of those well-funded.
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US cellular data plans? Where it's throttled after soft cap? Although I will say it's been nice to have them give more transparency around their actual soft cap numbers.

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