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by lukeschlather 3mo ago
> Local ISP: “We’ll be happy to run fiber and new ethernet through your existing network conduits, trench to the curb, and help bodge in active poe ethernet repeaters for runs that are too long.” I live in a major metro with a half a doz
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by lukeschlather 4mo ago
Using (inter)national labels when discussing local politics is incoherent.
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by lukeschlather 4mo ago
They're looking at national politics, and on that score, yes, the ST is liberal. When it comes to local politics the Seattle Times is conservative. Your objection is a bit like people who object that the Democrats are conservatives, fr
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by lukeschlather 4mo ago
At the core this is a hardware problem. 1M tokens is simply not enough context to understand a codebase the way a human would understand it. Being able to selectively forget is potentially a very valuable power, but right now it's a su
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by lukeschlather 4mo ago
The Apple Vision Pro. I really wish Valve would release a $3500 Steam Frame with all the bells and whistles. Of course, with the price of RAM it might be $7000 so maybe I'll just have to wait until hopefully the market cools down a bit
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by lukeschlather 4mo ago
Fable happened to be released after I had been experimenting with Claude Code for roughly two weeks. I had been trying to use Sonnet, and when I switched to Opus it was night and day. My understanding of geometry was maybe not as good as
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by lukeschlather 4mo ago
what is the known-good thing? The whole point is that LLMs were not optimized at all, they got better results than older ML algorithms just because they are able to use all of the GPU, where older algorithms are designed for 10yo GPUs and c
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by lukeschlather 4mo ago
Really? Here are 3 examples, I'm not sure what you mean, Congress has extremely broad taxing authority. If what I suggest is unconstitutional (I'm curious to hear your justification for that) they could probably do it by putting t
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by lukeschlather 4mo ago
You asserted that we need the money PACER fees bring in - taxing businesses like LexisNexis seems like a way to get the same kind of money that wouldn't be regressive, if we really need to replace that revenue, and it comes from more o
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by lukeschlather 4mo ago
We know where all the money in this system is: it's in LexisNexis and Westlaw. Each of them has revenue over $3B, individually. Presumably they have some lesser-known competitors. PACER fees are $150M. What percentage of PACER fees are
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by lukeschlather 4mo ago
The hardware to match Opus costs at least $200k, and you have to maintain it, and it's still not going to be as good.
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by lukeschlather 4mo ago
What's a "basic machine learning system?" is this a question of the size of the model or the algorithm? Which algorithms are basic? If you've got an ensemble of models that includes multiple transformers not all of which
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by lukeschlather 4mo ago
The R&D expenditure seems reasonable, and the revenue numbers seem realistic. I have no trouble believing they can be profitable by 2030 or much sooner. What I don't get is how you get from $30B in revenue to a nearly $1T valuation
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by lukeschlather 4mo ago
The OS shouldn't be making many big changes that force me to reorient. When I'm moving between different UIs I often want to compare them; animations make it harder to compare state A to state B. I can detect very fine differences
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by lukeschlather 4mo ago
> Approximately nobody is throwing away phones because the OEM stopped providing security patches. This becomes a practical reason more quickly than you think. If a company only provides 4 years of security updates and they only provide
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by lukeschlather 4mo ago
I have mixed feelings about Kindle, but I mostly read books on my phone these days, and my Kindle library is always there. I also have a physical bookshelf, but if I'm not home I can't review it so in some ways it's often les
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by lukeschlather 5mo ago
I wonder how those who have experienced the pleasure of having 1000 children experience that compared to the first one.
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by lukeschlather 5mo ago
Binaries are source code outputs, they are copyrightable and patentable. Weights are not copyrightable so people can freely extract the weights and run them. If Google patents any of the novel algorithms here releasing it all freely isn&#x2
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by lukeschlather 5mo ago
The flicker/signin redirects are a regression introduced post-Github acquisition. Really just evidence of the product being abandoned, or possibly of general operational decline at Microsoft which is affecting all their products. Defin
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by lukeschlather 5mo ago
Coding is a pretty small slice of the markets in play. Google's models are driving cars right now. Using coding agents doesn't give much insight into performance in the broader world; I would assume assume Google is performing bet
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by lukeschlather 5mo ago
I wasn't using Claude Code, but I told an agent to add something like this to the AGENTS.md, it did it and then a few minutes later it attempted to grant itself permission to do something and managed to delete the VM it was running on
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by lukeschlather 5mo ago
Honestly it's all there, if you use the "feeds" view in the menu it cuts out all the random influencer garbage. The search, especially the event search, is not great, but honestly I hope they don't touch it because I&#
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by lukeschlather 5mo ago
> Have you used Facebook in the last 5 years? Its nothing like this at all. I use it all the time. Yesterday I was talking to a friend, and we were reminiscing about visiting another friend's house, and we looked up some old birthda
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by lukeschlather 5mo ago
I actually cancelled my Discord subscription because they've gradually been adding more intrusive ads and subscriptions don't protect you from ads.
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by lukeschlather 5mo ago
Signal is designed with the assumption that data is sensitive and you should err on the side of destroying it. Facebook is designed more as a shared scrapbook, with the assumption that data is precious and you want to share it with your com
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by lukeschlather 5mo ago
I skim a lot. I skimmed this article and appreciated the author documenting their process. I am indifferent to LLM or human writing for technical content. I suspect I skimmed most of the LLM parts, but judging writing quality was not why I
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by lukeschlather 5mo ago
I had a coworker at Amazon who always said "just do what I do, accept the meeting invite and then don't go." Linkedin tells me he's now a director at Google. Personally I make sure meetings are a good use of my time and
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by lukeschlather 5mo ago
What's the gap between a fancy bidet with all the bells and whistles and the robot that doesn't exist yet? Showering is obviously harder.
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by lukeschlather 5mo ago
At least twice a year, it is a big deal on July 4th. And that's not counting numerous forest fires that were started by fireworks. And I mean, the EV thing just seems like a manufactured concern anyway. Walking around I'm very hap
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by lukeschlather 5mo ago
Really the least risky thing right now would probably be if BO retooled their lander to fly on a Falcon Heavy. If asked, SpaceX could probably launch 4 Falcon Heavies to orbit before Blue Origin could launch as many New Glenns. I really don

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