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by munk-a 3mo ago
I am not certain what financials you were looking at but Twitter was unable to ever meet the debt servicing costs for the leveraged buyout alone. It also had overhead costs and other debts that were entirely out of scope for being covered.
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by munk-a 3mo ago
I'm not - then again I didn't launch a image generation model advertised as having a spicy mode so that might have something to do with the coincidence.
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Sorry about that confusion! Yeah, I was going off the example in the linked article which is specifically for note-taking during a physio appointment.
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Anyone handling PII needs to be trained in HIPAA compliance and authorized in the same manner as the doctor themselves. There is no explicitly separate HIPAA like law though if your handling of the information is limited to a particular su
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by munk-a 3mo ago
You absolutely could build such a tool and I have seen HIPAA authorized model sandboxes that do definitely exist. However, most off the shelf note-takers would not so qualify and it's a minefield to build one with out of domain third
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Secretaries are compelled by the same privacy and disclosure laws as doctors - AI notetaking apps may or may not be (it'll take examination of the product on a case by case basis) and the public is, at this point, used to AI companies
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by munk-a 3mo ago
This particular article concerns an AI notetaker being used in the context of healthcare - there is a well founded reason that health information is so stringently controlled which is to enable patient comfort at sharing potentially embarra
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Don't buy the BS about them being overwhelmed by AI code when they've also had terrible vibe-coded feature rollouts repeatedly break the site and are trying to rapidly increase their feature surface to kill off competing test runn
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by munk-a 3mo ago
They're forced to deliver it at a loss and then yelled at by congress when they fail to turn a profit. The system just works.
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by munk-a 3mo ago
That is fair - though at least they've well defined their standard. It'll be easier than trying to parse that data out of HTML with regexes at least.
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by munk-a 3mo ago
If you find yourself with an excess of books buy a bird house and set up a little library[1] somewhere in your neighborhood to outsource that storage and the knowledge contained in those books! I liberally loan books that I love out though
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by munk-a 3mo ago
I think by spelling out the process in this manner and then highlighting the absurdity of the first two steps your argument is defusing a lot of the bad faith responses that are likely to arise. It does feel cumbersome to execute the argume
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by munk-a 3mo ago
I think it's fair to object to the point above on the basis that users have very little knowledge of how quickly batteries will fail and thus the cost of that failure is hidden from the market. It takes years or decades for consumer u
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Rather than using the coloring of "protected from themselves" I prefer to view consumer protection boards as a collectivized bargaining unit for the consumers as a whole. Similar to unions the deals they strike won't be maxi
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by munk-a 3mo ago
You're missing the fact that the system is also divided into explicit signal blocks and those blocks do report train presence to a centralized system[1]. I am not certain if they want to share that information, but if someone got seri
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by munk-a 3mo ago
It's a rather useful tool... and it absolutely has been overhyped repeatedly and sold as a panacea. If you believe AI will 10x you're developers you've drunk the kool-aid, if you believe AI will have no impact on your develop
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by munk-a 3mo ago
It's important not to miss the fact that AI productivity was a useful excuse for companies looking to conduct layoffs. Did some companies buy the hype? Sure - but the biggest companies would have wanted that sweet stock price layoff
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by munk-a 3mo ago
I think it's rather rare to use different services for redundancy and in most cases if you want that redundancy (e.g. to support red-black or blue-green deployments or just to support better availability via failover) I'd usually
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Every extra straw you put on the back of your ops team, especially when you're a young company, adds weight. It's good to be choosey about which technologies actually justify that expenditure.
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Ventless temperature control units are extremely popular there so it's probably not an unwise investment but you're not really ahead of the curve. The construction of most European buildings[1] lends itself poorly to anything tha
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by munk-a 3mo ago
I have built and maintain a system that uses a very similar system - we register artifacts with UUIDs into S3 in a specifically write-once, never edit, never remove approach and then store those UUIDs in a postgres system. We simply juggle
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by munk-a 3mo ago
We've leveraged the atomicity of transactions with a fail-safe approach for external service interactions for client email sending. This could certainly be done with a formal queue though it'd operate very similarly and achieve t
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Yes you can - usually I think it's advisable to wrap postgres in a shim application to provide a consistently defined surface you can control but postgres can absolutely serve as the authority node on data correctness. As to which tech
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by munk-a 3mo ago
In fact - if you're building a very large distributed system the goal is usually to shrink that centralized component to the smallest and most robust surface you can. If the system is well designed it is amazing just how much consiste
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Usability-wise it's hard to make too general statements - for me the killer app on mobile is the ability to independently adjust app volumes which is unavailable on mainline Android/iOS (it is supported by a few vendor branches li
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by munk-a 3mo ago
It is possible and this in particular is a decision that I'm sure the US will pressure the government to reverse. However, it's misguided to see the entire world through the US political lens where reversing policy decisions is s
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by munk-a 3mo ago
It's expensive to home-grow your own solutions and if you try transitioning too many services at once the cost will be outrageous and you'll probably open other security holes. I am glad Spain is taking this step and I hope they
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by munk-a 3mo ago
I am in agreement that we should disallow trivial patents in general but I think there's an easy win here that patents directly attributed to AI can be clearly disregarded as trivial. It'd also be nice to see an overhaul of the p
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Ah, but does it have a copilot integration? I've heard users don't want tools without copilot integrations.
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by munk-a 3mo ago
If an invention was trivial enough to be invented by AI then why should we allow that action to be patented? The expenditure of labor to research that invention was minimal and definitionally not novel.

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