jwlake

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by jwlake 2y ago
They just need to also make it illegal for Apple to take more than the credit card fee on in-app transactions and it might make some sort of economic sense to comply with this grab-bag of stuff in Europe.
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by jwlake 2y ago
Is there any reason it's not documented?
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by jwlake 2y ago
I love how people think managing 1M people and 100 people are different. In both cases it's all delegation. You can't oversee more than 10 people in any realistic sense.
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by jwlake 2y ago
The real key is to stop reporting those characteristics of the workforce.
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by jwlake 2y ago
I'm pretty sure this is a big enough mote to let insta and youtube kill it.
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by jwlake 2y ago
I 100% agree with that, but the way pricing works is generally not sufficiently granular. You either get underpriced government backed plans, or a plan that does not take into account your actual circumstances. Eventually sufficient big d
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by jwlake 2y ago
The bigger the town the easier it gets. Towns have roads and parking lots and cmu commercial buildings that are mostly non-flammable. They also have water supplies and logistics infrastructure. Centralized defense is very feasible. Moun
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by jwlake 2y ago
Firefighting makes the next fire worse. You need to have a theory that doesn't involve more expensive fire fighting every time someone builds a new house. This is general means defending towns and letting the mountainside burn.
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by jwlake 2y ago
No my point is stop overfunding firefighting. Over fund forest management.
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by jwlake 2y ago
Firefighting is only done to save property. People are completely beside the point. The problem is people don't know when they live in a town (defensible) and the countryside (you're on your own). In general the forest service
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by jwlake 2y ago
If they stopped funding that completely it would halt the problem. Fire is part of nature.
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by jwlake 3y ago
Cooking for yourself is cultural. If it's not in your culture you won't do it. Price controls won't fix food prices. Good luck having the government fix culture.
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by jwlake 3y ago
Massive fire suppression is uniquely human.
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by jwlake 3y ago
lol unless you're in the business of publishing I'm unclear how this applies to you.
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by jwlake 3y ago
It actually talks about Llama2 and how most chat versions are stupid but some aren't. Read past the first 200 words. :)
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by jwlake 3y ago
indeed. I hate projects that make changes for no reason. If it does everything its supposed to do and does it well, it's just done. Go work on something else.
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by jwlake 3y ago
A good modern microwave is a fairly magical device, most people don't know how to use it right though. It's definitely useful the more you read recipes that specifically use it. It's like not a top 10 device but its like #1
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by jwlake 3y ago
Yes the problem is NAT gateways are expensive, not free. AWS could easily run a "central" 6 to 4 in each region (not in your VPC), which the incremental cost of using would be near 0. Then you could use pure v6 (no IP charges).
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by jwlake 3y ago
I run quite a few small production aws accounts for clients and this is a big increase to their bill. If you use a lot of t4g.nano instances, the IPs are more than the machines. I think the large customers that are 99% of the revenue won&
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by jwlake 3y ago
Amazon really needs to put a ton of work into making v6 work for everyone on the server side or this is a very big price increase on the low end. If they had a compelling case to do the devops work and then everythings fine, I wouldn't
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by jwlake 3y ago
I'm always confused that ORMS don't standardize on a syntax where N+1 queries are literally illegal in all cases. With `forEach` and callbacks and everything you could easily have a syntax where you can't await until an `run
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by jwlake 3y ago
You can use google's text-bison to get a pretty decent LLM without RLHF.
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by jwlake 3y ago
Keep meaning to look into if you can get this through Stripe. :)
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by jwlake 3y ago
I mean a realistic version of that comment is that you can use GTP* to make a set of unit tests. Then iteratively write a new version in swift to be bug compliant with the old version using GPT*. Then profit? The question really is why is
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by jwlake 3y ago
Any sufficiently advanced statistical predictor is magic?
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by jwlake 3y ago
I think just tanker chargers and wires would be more effective, like in-flight refueling. Also way more sci fi.
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by jwlake 3y ago
Its not all the useful to think about volts, but about charges. An erased cell is uncharged, a written cell is charged. How the cell presents "voltage" has to do with exactly the wiring of the source and drain on the flash cell, n
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by jwlake 4y ago
The problem I see with this is people assume that web platforms are platforms like the windows API where Microsoft doesn't like breaking things. It's more like Xcode, where every point release breaks something. You need to design
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by jwlake 4y ago
Look at this cool house I designed on sand. It's odd to design a secure system and write a paper, when the security is based on something like TEE. There's tons of literature on breaking TEEs. I can't imagine anyone doing o
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by jwlake 4y ago
Wow, best change in years.

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