igor47

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by igor47 7mo ago
> If this how google chooses to go out, then their death cannot come fast enough. > Alphabet (Google) reported historic financial results for fiscal year 2025 (ending Dec 31, 2025), with annual revenue surpassing $400 billion for the
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by igor47 7mo ago
I'm not normally a fan of the NYT but this wasn't too bad. It passed the Gel-Mann test, and is clearly written by someone who knows the field well, even though the selection of quotes skews to towards outliers -- I think Yeggie fo
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by igor47 7mo ago
Yeah, I also highly value consistency in my projects, which forces me to keep an eye on the LLM and steer it often. This limits my overall velocity especially on larger features. But I'm still much faster with the agent. Recent examp
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by igor47 7mo ago
Agreed on the config. I just launch a Claude code in my vimrc directory now if I want to change anything about my setup or have any questions about how to do something. Also, I love running a tmux pane for vim, and then like 4 or 5 more --
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by igor47 7mo ago
I appreciate both your taking an ethical stance on openai, and the way you're engaging in this thread. The parent was probably flame bait as you say, but other people in the thread might be genuinely curious.
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by igor47 7mo ago
Dean Ball made this exact point on the Ezra Klein show a few days ago. I always thought laws would get more just with perfect enforcement -- the people passing mandatory sentencing laws for minor drug offenses would think twice if their own
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by igor47 7mo ago
More grift from the Trump admin, a Trump ally is on Ticketmaster board and they fired the DoJ antitrust chief last month to make this deal happen. Ticketmaster paying 3 days of revenue as a fine and getting a slap on the wrist. The terms in
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by igor47 7mo ago
I've tried. It's just not very good compared to either mentioned alternative.
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by igor47 7mo ago
Back in the day, I thought about this problem domain a lot! I even wrote and open-sourced a service discovery framework called SmartStack, an early precursor to later approaches like Envoy, described here: https://medium.com&#x2F
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by igor47 8mo ago
The problem with custom protocols and SDKs is vendor dependence. When you go out of business or pivot, what happens to my product? I was already burned once by Google cloud IoT...
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by igor47 8mo ago
Are you thinking of the Ring camera commercial or did I miss a flock one during the same Superbowl?
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by igor47 8mo ago
Man, I really emphasize with this, and that immediately raises my "motivated reasoning" hakles. There's a lot of people in America with deeply held views that I strongly disagree with, and I would be very worried if they bega
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by igor47 8mo ago
Well the claim was that AI makes you boring. The counter is that interesting people remain interesting, it's just that a flood of previously already boring people are pouring into tech. We could make some predictions that depend on h
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by igor47 8mo ago
Curious what the purpose of this is. Is it just to satisfy personal curiosity? Or is there an implicit claim about stocks that earn an A being a better trade? Do stocks with more free cash flow perform better historically? Do people on this
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by igor47 8mo ago
I actually love the beginning of Diaspora, and have recommended just that section to people. I found it beautiful and moving. It's starting to learn that people have to "get past" that section...
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by igor47 8mo ago
I really liked Upgrade as well, fun listen.
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by igor47 8mo ago
Can I rephrase this as "you can get experience without any experience"? Certainly, there's stuff you can learn that's adjacent to doing the thing; that's what happens when juniors graduate with CS degrees. But the l
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by igor47 8mo ago
This whole conversation is pretty much over my head, but I just wanted to give you props for the way you're engaging with challenges to your ideas!
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by igor47 8mo ago
I see your comments in all these threads, and I see that your take is generally, "these are the laws and laws should be enforced." I think there's a disconnect between this argument and what other people in these threads are
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by igor47 8mo ago
If it could happen to 100 people per month, it could happen to anyone. This is of course a way to weaponize the system against dissent. I am a naturalized US citizen. If I want to critique the administration, this is a message to me -- am I
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by igor47 8mo ago
Capable -- yes. Having to actually do it -- no. I would prefer to live in a world where I can depend on my fellow humans instead of living out a fantasy of self-sufficiency. The "all the entities are wildly rotten and corrupt" mem
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by igor47 8mo ago
> their life has changed and how they can't do all the things that those without kids do. This is true of people with pets, too. Everyone's struggles are equally their struggles. I too get a little miffed when someone invokes t
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by igor47 8mo ago
Man, I'm a huge fan of Anathem (and Stephenson in general) but this short excerpt really reminded me of https://xkcd.com/483/
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by igor47 8mo ago
Fascinating, if not surprising. I sometimes wonder whether China's firewall is a huge tactical advantage in distributed warfare like this. Open societies are vulnerable to this kind is manipulation, and I'm not sure what defenses
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by igor47 8mo ago
For Google photos immich works pretty well for me.
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by igor47 8mo ago
I'm very confused. You're saying that being concerned about AI impact on society makes me depressed? Really not sure what the "read the room" portion means. Did my comment somehow trigger you?
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by igor47 8mo ago
> Those who are at the forefront of AI’s economic boom should be willing to give away both their wealth and their power. We are so screwed
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by igor47 8mo ago
I'm not sure what the rhetorical gamble of "anyone with sense agrees with me" is called, but it's lazy. Maybe a no true Scotsman? I believe I have general intelligence and it's not at all obvious to me. Putting your
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by igor47 8mo ago
As someone who's run my own email for 25 years or so (I'm really getting old...) my biggest problem is not that I receive spam (spamassassin mostly takes care of it) but that my sent emails get marked as spam by big email provider
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by igor47 8mo ago
I agree with you but I still run my own mail server. If people like me stopped doing that, we would cede the entire email landscape to BigCorp. A sad fate to happen to one of the true decentralized protocols. It's like if we all just w

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