mindwok

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by mindwok 8d ago
That's true locally but not globally - it means the economy will increasingly shift to serve those who still have a reason to bargain with each other, which will be the owners of the AI and other useful capital.
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by mindwok 9d ago
The one that gave it away for me was “a request that arrives with no credentials gets 60 requests”. Nobody speaks like this, almost everyone would say “unauthenticated requests are limited to 60 per minute”, unless they’re writing a LinkedI
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by mindwok 9d ago
We prefer rocks and reef tours thank you.
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by mindwok 9d ago
As an Australian, I have noticed a shift personally in feeling like I identify more with "European" culture, compared to 10 years ago I felt like we were the 51st state and I felt very close with the US. This seems to be shared by
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by mindwok 10d ago
They would probably argue “European nation” is cultural and not geographic. Morocco is officially Muslim and not a full democracy, the EU isn’t ready for that I don’t think.
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by mindwok 14d ago
Oh I see so they’re reserved space regardless. That makes sense !
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by mindwok 15d ago
Typically I see admins create partitions as basically failure domains - if one fills up it doesn't explode things relying on the others. Wouldn't this be worse in that regard? If you end up accidentally filling up your entire disk
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by mindwok 15d ago
aren't you kinda doing the same thing, trying to control others by pointing out they shouldn't complain?
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by mindwok 15d ago
Kudos to the author for sharing a candid and vulnerable post. I think we're all grieving right now for the things we loved: programming itself, open source software and the community around it, high salaries and high status jobs with c
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by mindwok 15d ago
That doesn't matter though, what matters is that sources of freshwater (rain over land) stays roughly the same. We can't assume that changes just because we evaporate water in a data center
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by mindwok 15d ago
Why does this matter? It remains fresh when its evaporated until it falls into the ocean, and then gets evaporated from there back into fresh.
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by mindwok 27d ago
Nobody in history wanted to either. Unfortunately we don’t get a choice.
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by mindwok 28d ago
If we look at history, humanity has been through some pretty crazy shit and we haven't gone over the waterfall yet.
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by mindwok 1mo ago
He is definitely overly optimistic on timelines but pretty much all those things you mentioned are actually still happening, it's too early to say they haven't followed through.
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by mindwok 1mo ago
I think the biggest actual piece of evidence is how hard the major players are trying to stop it
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by mindwok 1mo ago
The attacks on Khan here personally irked me. I grew up in a small rural town where math teachers were rare and good ones were nonexistent. I still remember watching Sal Khan's videos on calculus after struggling to get any grip on it
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by mindwok 1mo ago
I think the conclusion is a little too strong but mostly agree, Codex feels like a chisel and Claude feels like a wrecking ball.
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by mindwok 1mo ago
Whether it's a bubble or not depends on how much the demand for compute and the type of workload keeps growing, though. If AI tends to be something used mainly in ideation and development, which is how a lot of people use it today, the
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by mindwok 1mo ago
I did this for my business' email about a year ago. A few weeks ago, I moved everything. Fastmail is awesome, but perhaps more important is how bad Gmail's web interface is. Fastmail is way more responsive and fluid and feels almo
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by mindwok 1mo ago
I'm a noob on this topic, but I think drug discovery is more amenable to this structurally than other problems. Simulating biology is what we were doing with protein folding before Alphafold, and the search space was far too large to f
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by mindwok 1mo ago
I genuinely think Dario is a well intentioned, intelligent dude, but I think him and Anthropic have a huge PR problem and are really out of touch with how they're perceived. Anthropic in particular has developed this almost Orwellian l
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by mindwok 1mo ago
I think it's more reasonable than it sounds on the surface. People's jobs, the bubble, etc are societal level problems and well beyond what Anthropic could even hope to influence on their own. Curing cancer sounds insane, but it&#
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by mindwok 1mo ago
Maybe that'd work, but I think it'd come across too mechanical. If it was going to refuse something it'd need to be congruent with its "personality" I think.
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by mindwok 1mo ago
Yep, agree, very succinct way of describing my issue with it.
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by mindwok 1mo ago
True, but fancy autocomplete keeps exceeding my expectations in what it can do, so why not this one!
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by mindwok 1mo ago
Something related I've been thinking about lately is that one of the biggest problem with LLMs is their seeming inability to say no. Not in the hallucination sense, as in "I don't know", but like to have a subjective rea
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by mindwok 1mo ago
Conversely I'm a solo-dev and I ship a lot of slop I don't even look at. Granted my work is just basic CRUD apps, and I focus my efforts on validating important consequences (like does this break accounting invariants or something
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by mindwok 1mo ago
Aren't you just taking the same dismissive attitude towards management and doing it to engineers?
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by mindwok 1mo ago
At least OpenAI seems to want to do that, but the US is now forcing them to go through approvals. Anthropic seems much more hesitant.
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by mindwok 2mo ago
It’s not just speed, it’s also the rich feature set. Trigram search, JSONB, transactions, GIN indexes, full text search - not many databases combine them all into a Swiss Army knife like Postgres does.

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