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by jedberg 5mo ago
I think they get a lot of hate because they are doing something that a lot of people here don't like -- trying to run entire businesses without humans. And using a lot of resources to do it too.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
I agree, this was an hilarious read. The way they developed "personalities" was fascinating. Of course in reality these are basically just random paths through the training data that are getting multiplied by each decision, but t
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by jedberg 5mo ago
Pairing a disaster with Pitbull and Ke$ha is just chef's kiss .
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by jedberg 5mo ago
It's mirrored by Akamai, which is designed to repeatedly serve the same thing over and over. It won't really hurt anyone.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
We used Mercurial at reddit. We switched to it shortly after switching to Python as our main language, figuring it would be easier to use the one written in Python. We used Mercurial until the day we went open source. We actually preferre
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by jedberg 5mo ago
Not only that, but to legally be a charity, you have to spend at least 5% of your assets every year. So not only do they have to stay ahead of their own growth, they have to spend down 5% of quite a lot!
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by jedberg 5mo ago
I’ve seen them scale brick walls at my house.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
Vertical walls made of brick? Yes. I’ve seen it at my own house.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
Do they not have mice and rats there? This looks like a place those creatures would nest long before a bird got to it.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
> Jedberg... Wow an internet legend replied to me! Hey, I put on my pants the same way you do: by having my staff hold them up while I jump into them. > But, it seems like people don't really care about the fact that they are jus
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by jedberg 5mo ago
I'm much more worried about people who give full write access to their agents! But at least this solves that problem.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
Looks interesting, curious what your moat here is. What prevents Supabase/Neon from doing this? Actually don't they already do this? How does this differ from the branching Neon and Supabase already offer?
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by jedberg 5mo ago
> where Sergey Brin pretends to live as a tax dodge It's not just Brin who lives there. The median wealth of that town is at least 10x everywhere around it. It's the closest city in Nevada to the Bay Area. Back before Califo
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by jedberg 5mo ago
This isn't a problem that can be solved by a clever entrepreneur. This is what government is for. When you have a shared resource that everyone needs, government is the best option for making sure its distribution is fair. We already
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by jedberg 5mo ago
MacBooks aren't that unrepairable, you just have to go to someone who isn't Apple. Apple will tell you that you have to replace the entire logic board, and then you go to the independent repair shop and they can fix whatever it w
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by jedberg 5mo ago
I miss my GEM desktop and products. They were so ahead of their time. And Ventura publisher! I made some school projects using that. Brings back some good memories.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
Today I learned the Transbay Tube is the longest immersed tube in the world. Given that it opened in 1974, it presumably has held that record for 52 years!
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by jedberg 5mo ago
From what I've seen, on-chain transaction times are measured in seconds and minutes, not milliseconds. It's a lot easier when you have time to wait to process a queue.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
That's how we got 99.99% at Netflix. And it cost a lot of money. But a canary implies that something may go wrong and you have to roll back. The canary is still production traffic, so some transactions would fail, which isn't a
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by jedberg 5mo ago
I've seen that. I suspect the exchanges will never go for it for this exact reason -- they need downtime for maintenance. But if does go through, it will be a fun challenge to get 100% uptime! I've always said that with infinite
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by jedberg 5mo ago
This is a good talk. Really gets into the details of how things differ from the classical SaaS or consumer product. I've been doing reliability for most of my career, and have always been able to hide behind, "We're not a ba
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by jedberg 5mo ago
Oh, I never thought about that. In the UK, is it improper to call someone Sir who isn't a Knight?
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by jedberg 5mo ago
Obviously there is a huge trend of "rewrite X in Rust". I understand why, Rust is a huge improvement in safety and speed. My question is, to people even older than me (and I'm certainly not young), does anyone remember this
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by jedberg 5mo ago
As a user I actually like Gatekeeper. 95% of the time it's not a problem. the other 5% of the time I have to click a button in my settings to allow unsigned code. But at least it gives me pause to think about the source and if I rea
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by jedberg 5mo ago
The BBCs style guide amuses me. The princes must be referred to by their titles, as well as Sir David and anyone else with a knighthood. I understand it's pretty common in the UK, but as an American it's funny to see.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
You can't register a ch domain with fewer than 3 characters. It's showing as available because that thing that checks available only looks if it's registered, not if it's allowed.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
Detecting end of turn is a whole other issue. You can do the easy thing, which is just assign some number of milliseconds of silence as the end, or you can spend a lot of money asking the model to figure it out based on context. Humans act
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by jedberg 5mo ago
And that was the entire point of my comment. That your transport layer isn't your bottleneck. You can start processing before they finish speaking. Your bottleneck will always be what happens after that.
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by jedberg 5mo ago
I agree with everything you've said, I must have written it wrong. What I was saying is the same as you -- the user will tolerate a total delay of 500ms, and then happiness starts to fall off. We had some Alexa utterances at 500ms,
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by jedberg 5mo ago
We were doing multi-AZ and multi-region failover at Netflix all the way back in 2011: https://netflixtechblog.com/the-netflix-simian-army-16e57fba...

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