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by mbesto 2y ago
> All of us who produce, we also consume. Society and its markets form an ecosystem, which needs some inefficiency to evolve, be resilient and thrive. And all of us engineers get paid REALLY WELL because people sell software for us. Soft
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by mbesto 2y ago
Patching sheetrock is 10x easier than concrete and looks way nicer. Protruding conduit does not look good.
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by mbesto 2y ago
Aside from what others have mentioned - maintenance/upgradability. I own a home in Costa Rica, which is basically all concrete. Try upgrading your building with Cat6 ethernet when you have concrete (vs wood/sheetrock).
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by mbesto 2y ago
I also point out that Phoenix's "summer" last longer than Berlin's winter: https://weatherspark.com/y/75981/Average-Weather-in-Berlin-G... https://weatherspark.com/y/2460&#
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by mbesto 2y ago
> "a provider is trying to capture for themselves all the value their product creates for you". And what precisely is the problem? Obviously, we have incomplete information, but in efficient markets ALL providers all trying to
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by mbesto 2y ago
> Differential pricing is really pernicious because if the product happens to be super valuable to you, they're likely to find out and charge you even more A super valuable solution to your problem is pernicious because...checks not
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by mbesto 2y ago
> I doubt data protection is their priority. So you're basing your whole argument on nothing other than "I just don't feel like they do that". Does this look unserious to you? https://trust.openai.com/
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by mbesto 2y ago
> Yes I've had plenty of experiences with orgs that self host everything, I don't think it's a minority it's just a different cluster than the one most represented here. I've done 800+ tech diligence projects and
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by mbesto 2y ago
First, I didn't dismiss their "no AI policy" nor did I use snarky comments. I was asking a legitimate question - which is - most orgs have their code stored on another server out of their control, so what's the legitimat
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by mbesto 2y ago
Huh? No, i'm saying, what potential damage does an organization have? Not the individual who may leak data outside your network.
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by mbesto 2y ago
> proprietary code outside the network Thought exercise: what would seriously happen if you did let some of your proprietary code outside your network? Oddly enough, 75% of the people writing code on HN probably have their companies code
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by mbesto 2y ago
> so basically what you are saying here would be like if I took my iphone and put it in the oven and then complained that it doesn't work quite like it should... Not really. This is such an odd analogy. It has no context around the
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by mbesto 2y ago
Cellphones didn't previously run on gasoline.
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by mbesto 2y ago
> Not in my experience Anecdotal. Just do a few google searches and the data says 20~30%. Torque, weight, etc. all conclude this. Just go into a discount tire and the guys will tell you this is true. > Just because a car can accelerat
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by mbesto 2y ago
> Who is saying demand is so high? https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/03/cars/musk-tesla-cars-value-ev...
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by mbesto 2y ago
> Getting the cheapest product always means worse quality. Not true. New entrants to markets often will price to undercut markets (see Uber and Airbnb in their early days). Also loss leaders are a very much a thing. Over time markets do
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by mbesto 2y ago
> you have to control for (a) sports and (b) expensive cars. Fair. But the opposite is also true...Porsche 911 and 718 are both 9% and 17% depreciation values respectively, which bring the overall averages down too. Not to mention the Mo
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by mbesto 2y ago
> It does not go to 15kw It goes to whatever the software tells it to, which is based on the following factors: - What percentage the battery is at when it starts charging - Environmental conditions (cold/heat) - How many other cars
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by mbesto 2y ago
My friend said it best: "EVs are great second cars" I think we're finally hitting the saturation point of EVs as the market who adopted them is realizing their flaws as a primary vehicle: - Inadequate infrastructure (both loc
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by mbesto 2y ago
> 1. What does inherit limitations mean? One of many, but this is a simple one - LLMs are only limited to knowledge that is publicly available on the internet. This is "inherit" because thats how LLMs are essentially taught the
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by mbesto 2y ago
Not a coder here (although I can code). I use LLMs 15+ time a day.
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by mbesto 2y ago
> I strongly suspect people will not be so flippantly dismissive of the inherent limits of these technologies by this time next year. People are flippantly dismissive of the inherent limits because there ARE inherent limitations of the t
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by mbesto 2y ago
> 3 day turnaround process to get any resources provisioned Now imagine having to deal with procurement to purchase hardware for your needs. 6 months later you have a server. Oh you need a SAN for object storage? There goes another 6 mon
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by mbesto 2y ago
I'm desperately waiting for co-pilot to be implemented at my company for then productivity gains. For example, I assume I'll be able to do the following: - Select text in any report I create and say "rewrite this in a profess
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by mbesto 2y ago
> how far off the deep end the internet went over the last few days. Side note - the "internet" is very likely a mix of bots and real humans nowadays. What might seem initially like a real person saying "hunt the snitch do
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by mbesto 2y ago
Also, since on one has mentioned it yet, the go-to LED strips are from BTF-Lighting. I personally buy them from AliExpress since I dont care if they arrive in a week as opposed to 1-2 days from Amazon. https://btf-lighting.aliexp
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by mbesto 2y ago
Ruined precisely what?
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by mbesto 2y ago
> Most LLM users seem willing to change from Chat-GPT to Claude, for example There is some nuance to this. If you're building an application that embeds an LLM, then your "user" might be a prompt engineer, not necessarily
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by mbesto 2y ago
Except when you've been working with suppliers who have already been iterating on <insert widget> for years in a competitive environment. The amount of innovation in the automobile industry is staggering when you think of its h
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by mbesto 2y ago
Fair. I wasn't aware of that, for the same reason that if you search Titan vs Claude on HN, you'll find way more mentions of Claude: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... htt

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