kristianc

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by kristianc 11mo ago
The existing cluster of data centres in West London pre-dates the current AI boom, and the UK's "IT corridor" is generally based between London and Reading and Oxford and Cambridge. There's an emerging tech hub in the No
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by kristianc 11mo ago
I'd imagine that a large part of the demand for data centres in the South is driven by the need for extreme low latency with the City of London and other financial centres like Frankfurt. It's all well to say there should be more
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by kristianc 11mo ago
It would work if old boys' networks were not the de facto pool that the establishment hired from. The one time where UK GOV did go out and hire the best of the best in the private sector regardless of what Uni they went to we got GDS a
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by kristianc 11mo ago
Part of this is a product of the UK's political culture where expenses for stuff like this are ruthlessly scrutinised from within and without. The idea of the site hosting such an important document running independently on WordPress,
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by kristianc 11mo ago
I'm not entirely sure who is buying a raw JavaScript and CSS course in 2025. You're probably limited to absolute beginners and hobbyists.
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by kristianc 11mo ago
Which is likely why they won't try. Trying to raise that much money from 20 large individual customers would be suicidal. At the scale they're talking about, you need billions of "customers". Trying to embed themsleves i
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by kristianc 11mo ago
The challenges to even get close seem insurmountable. At that speed, microscopic grains of dust hit like bullets. It's not like the nearest is much of a prize - we know that the Centauri system is likely inhospitable and that Tau Ceti
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by kristianc 11mo ago
“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together” I've often noticed that this is a favourite phrase of those whose preferred motion is narrating other people's work rather than doing it themselves. Teams do g
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by kristianc 1y ago
Dash’s entire identity is bound up with narrating technology by translating its cultural shifts into moral parables. His record at actually building things is, at best, spotty. Now the LLM takes that role by absorbing, it summarising, edito
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by kristianc 1y ago
He's a great talker. Delivery record more mixed.
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by kristianc 1y ago
For the kind of person being quoted, the stock in trade is not actually doing anything to fix it, it's in being the person quoted when something goes wrong.
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by kristianc 1y ago
> If robots can do your wife better and/or faster, they should be the ones doing the job. Skill issue.
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by kristianc 1y ago
There's a term for this - inventing a new primitive. A primitive is a foundational abstraction that reframes how people understand and operate within a domain. A primitive lets you create a shared language and ritual ("tweet"
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by kristianc 1y ago
Nokia Maps. There was a brief period in the early 2010s where Nokia had the best mapping product on the planet, and it was given away for free on Lumia phones at a time when TomTom and Garmin were still charging $60+ for navigation apps.
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by kristianc 1y ago
> The Replit incident in July 2025 crystallized the danger: > Jason Lemkin explicitly instructed the AI: "NO CHANGES without permission" > The AI encountered what looked like empty database queries > It "panicked&
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by kristianc 1y ago
Heh, this is the kind of "minor harm" regulation I'd typically associate with Britain rather than the US. Is the culture shifting, or is this just a California thing?
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by kristianc 1y ago
So does dynamic typing to be fair.
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by kristianc 1y ago
Sure, if someone’s first use case for AI is synthesising chlorine gas in their shed, that’s a separate issue. Most of us are talking about writing, coding, or analysis, not hazardous materials though.
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by kristianc 1y ago
It's an X-Drive now
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by kristianc 1y ago
The government official who insisted that commercial AWS/GCP/Azure couldn't possibly be trusted with keeping the information will be keeping their head low for a few days then... "The Interior Ministry explained that whi
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by kristianc 1y ago
I always think for pieces like these which claim atrophy, well yes , but what about the things that you would have never even tried without it. The barrier to many things isn't becoming lazy when you're already halfway proficient,
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by kristianc 1y ago
To be fair the book ends (by choice) at the precise point where the monarchy starts to evolve into something more like what we have today.
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by kristianc 1y ago
Soon a capable LLM will have enough training material to spit out LLMs are atrophying coding skills / LLM code is unmaintainable/ LLM code is closing down opportunities for juniors / LLMs do the fun bits of coding pieces on d
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by kristianc 1y ago
"Just one more bit of regulation will solve the problem" is how Britain became the most centralised country in Western Europe. The sad thing is that the majority of the population still buy it.
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by kristianc 1y ago
Right, and new ice cream shops keep opening up all the time, and people are switching to the new one almost as soon as it becomes available.
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by kristianc 1y ago
Whenever a new frontier model is released, 99% off the demand shifts immediately to that model. The price of the most demanded model has remained roughly constant even as prices for legacy models decay. https://ethanding.substack
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by kristianc 1y ago
Except that's not how humans work. No one is itching to try Gemini 2.5 Flash when Opus 4 is on the table. They will go to wherever they can get the best model, driving whoever is crazy enough to offer for them for 20/mo almost imm
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by kristianc 1y ago
Don't go giving Avi Loeb any ideas now...
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by kristianc 1y ago
Yeah, I see you're right. I had in my head it was around a $200 fee?
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by kristianc 1y ago
Buy Campfire instead? https://once.com/campfire

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