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by majormajor 2mo ago
A non-percentage-based one would be more interesting. The whole MCU phenomenon would likely increase the absolute number, but I doubt that it would be as dramatic. What the chart as-is fails to show is the specific loss of other types of
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by majormajor 2mo ago
> So which is it? Was Cobain a big deal in the mainstream, or was he countercultural? I don't think you can have it both ways. But why not? Result (huge sales, mainstream popularity) and process (not aiming at that goal, or even res
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by majormajor 2mo ago
I also generally think it's not that different today. There's no numbers there to show that disliking fame was bigger than compared to now. Billie Eilish has written big hits about not being happy as a result of fame or the downsi
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by majormajor 2mo ago
I haven't seen a way to get guarantees of upscaling operations under like 30 seconds (with Multi-AZ RDS) with well-supported RDS stuff (leaving out active-active setups with logical replication because that's a whole other can of
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by majormajor 2mo ago
Without knowing any specifics of your uses, my usual starting point on that sort of design is that "messages AND data" is it's own special little way of ending up with a hard-to-debug-and-operate system. ;) It's very har
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by majormajor 2mo ago
If you start here, with the "Postgres will take you wherever you need to go" meme, without thinking extremely deeply about your schema and how you expect to evolve it in the future, you can easily paint yourself into a very diffic
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by majormajor 2mo ago
> My nose for unintended consequences says manufacturers could start selling cars with worse tires to bring down the average. They won't want to do that because it'll hurt their advertised mileage/range. This is aimed at t
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by majormajor 2mo ago
Electrification and carbon capture are interesting and need more investment, but beyond those you're also showing your own preferences here just as much as the motorcycle proponents. >building homes next to jobs This is almost certa
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by majormajor 2mo ago
Moving from an adversarial each-party-has-lawyers-presenting-as-extreme-a-case-as-possibly-can-be-made-for-their-side system to something more like expert arbitrators and independent/court fact-finders would avoid the 'bury them i
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by majormajor 2mo ago
"The student is the customer" is a stupid metaphor that only caught on because a lot of people would rather just bring in dollars than worry about "are we actually teaching anything?"
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by majormajor 2mo ago
Adults don't have to prove things? As AI eats up the need for half-assed "I googled a few things and wrote something up and then slacked off for five hours" white-collar-paperwork jobs, it's gonna be pretty hard for peop
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by majormajor 2mo ago
Writing code doesn't have a notably higher (if at all higher, vs lower!) IQ requirement compared to some of the basic components of EE or MechE work. Programmer salaries have been driven up by the ability to write-once-sell-globally an
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by majormajor 2mo ago
"BYOC" deployment plans often require more than just k8s. "S3-compatible object store" is the most common one, IME. Or other sorts of scalable storage systems. ("Why does the vendor not just include that in the k8s
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by majormajor 2mo ago
You don't get to play the game before you pay for it. Do you want to have to go ask for refund after refund after noticing it's yet-another-AI-slop-cookie-cutter-lookalike several hours in?
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by majormajor 2mo ago
What's the functional difference between "I can't afford it" and "I can't get it due to a shortage"? (Other than a convenient-for-some/inconvenient-for-others "let the richest get the stuff first
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by majormajor 2mo ago
> This also assumes that the same application build by humans wouldn't become a "spaghetti mess". nah, it reflects on how applications built by humans usually do become spaghetti messes with all the resulting brittleness
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by majormajor 2mo ago
Usually signing bonuses are "pay back all or a pro-rated percentage if you leave before [date]"
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by majormajor 2mo ago
> (which won't consume much of my limits despite a great model and reasoning, so I may just as well keep it on Sol High) This equation significantly changes if you're paying API prices vs on a subscription. (Such as if you&#x27
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by majormajor 2mo ago
Well nobody is eminent domaining existing data centers, are they? Try to build as many new golf courses as there are new data centers going up and you might get a similar reaction...
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by majormajor 2mo ago
Casablanca is a famous example of this too. And LOTR, though in that case coming to it after reading Terry Pratchett was difficult for me (Pratchett didn't just copy its, or other, fantasy tropes, but send them up in an exceedingly
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by majormajor 2mo ago
IIRC early copies of BladeRunner in the digital era, like the original DVDs of this, really suffered from the lack of detail on red, specifically, from the 4:2:0 color space encoding ( https://spearsandmunsil.com/portfolio-i
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by majormajor 2mo ago
That was true early but OpenAI/Anthropic have done a ton of hiring over the past couple years at already-huge valuations, as much on the strength of big current base salary + equity, not just future increase speculation.
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by majormajor 2mo ago
Is it so unusual to just ... not ... load the file with a description of them all automatically, but have different files listing different ones for different situations, and manually point to them in prompts?
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by majormajor 2mo ago
> It's novel because previous rounds of automation were about automating specific tasks or well-scoped functions. There was always an implicit understanding that the white-collar worker would be freed to spend their time on more val
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by majormajor 2mo ago
> also as far as I care the btc community members who chose to go with one of the few hardware wallets that wasn't open source were not doing due their diligence. Seems like part of the issue here is that it was open source in a w
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by majormajor 2mo ago
I guess even when code is public nobody really reads the history very thoroughly. You'd think someone would've made stink about a company willing to show the world how they were fiddling with low-level random generation stuff with
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by majormajor 2mo ago
> Remember we’re talking about compensation time versus LLM turns in this thread. Even a 10 second incremental compile is orders of magnitude faster than an LLM turn. This entirely depends on (a) what a step/prompt/turn is tryi
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by majormajor 2mo ago
> hardly influential in the way of JRRT (nobody writes poor pastiches on Narnia the way innumerable derivatives have been done on Middle Earth) Harry Potter and its own spawn bears fairly distinct influences, less "direct plot copie
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by majormajor 2mo ago
> I don't see a clear demarcation of the things that only "reasoning" can accomplish and can't be approximated or imitated by other methods, and so I think the question is simply not meaningful or relevant. One person
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by majormajor 2mo ago
What if the shape of data in the dev db doesn't stay consistent with real life? Is the harness for the AI set up with any sort of instructions to generally prefer broadly-applicable first-principals query performance analysis over unin

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