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by pphysch 1y ago
Those are all good points, but missing the most important one, the "Gospel of Scalability". Every other startup wants to be the next Google and therefore thinks they need to design service boundaries that can scale infinitely...
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by pphysch 1y ago
That's sadly the goal
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by pphysch 1y ago
HN users that actively engage with comments are probably 0.0001% of overall social media users
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by pphysch 1y ago
Not just the top comment, that whole top thread is basically glazing Apple. Deliciously ironic.
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by pphysch 1y ago
For now... Even if they keep coming despite immigration crackdowns, the outflows (soft brain-drain) are trending up.
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by pphysch 1y ago
> Improving your simple website's search function will take days or weeks, not hours. Full-text search, sure, but you can easily provide a better overall search experience by creating a custom wrapping algorithm that provides shortc
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by pphysch 1y ago
It could be seen as a big waste of time, but it sets a good precedent.
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by pphysch 1y ago
> which will lead to a crash No it won't. It could lead to a crash or some other nasty bug, but this is absolutely not a fact you can design around, because it's not always true.
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by pphysch 1y ago
I've been in this exact situation. Client provides their current workflow, implemented in a spreadsheet. The problem is they make significant concessions in their design to fit the tabular model of spreadsheets. It can be really warpin
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by pphysch 1y ago
That's a good analogy. OAuth libraries and integrations are like a highly-mapped California city. Just because you can drive a Waymo or coding agent there, doesn't mean you can drive it through the Rockies.
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by pphysch 1y ago
Reddit isn't the worst offender, but it's still one profit-motivated company that can unilaterally scrub posts, users, and entire subreddits, and its infested with guerilla advertising. And the whole "new.reddit.com" thi
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by pphysch 1y ago
Yes, a corpse killed by Facebook, Reddit, Discord and other closed platforms.
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by pphysch 1y ago
It really is a binary though. Either you need to think about and deal with deploying (system-wide) updates, or you don't. Even infrequent ~5y update lifecycles tend to be extremely painful unless there is substantial investment in trea
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by pphysch 1y ago
Is a mid-century paperback author, who published several books a year (100+ over their career) with the same plot, less of an "author" than someone who publishes a handful of original works over their career? Literary slop long pr
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by pphysch 1y ago
Final Fantasy was on release #11 by the time Steam was initially released in 2003.
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by pphysch 1y ago
How is VSCode a "gateway drug" into the MS ecosystem? It's good PR, for sure, but it has little to no conceptual/GUI overlap with, say, Windows. FWIW I use it via Linux .deb and integrate with a private GitLab.
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by pphysch 1y ago
xAI is a concrete example of this. During the initial LLM explosion, X locked down its previously public APIs and data sources. Simultaneously, xAI is investing massively in building its private data hoard and compute infrastructure. Probab
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by pphysch 1y ago
What am I "accusing Signal of doing"?
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by pphysch 1y ago
I was wondering why this wasn't expressed as a webcomponent, then saw it's a decade old. Nice.
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by pphysch 1y ago
"Our noble warriors, their savage terrorists. Our objective media, their insidious propaganda." Blah blah.
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by pphysch 1y ago
"Russia Today was for 10 years almost the only way to know what's really going on in my country". I'm only being half-sarcastic. RT will cover factual issues about Western countries that the state-endorsed media won&#x27
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by pphysch 1y ago
The highest military council in the country uses Signal to communicate. I think violating FOIA is probably part of the appeal. Or they use that modified Israeli client that stores messages to address those concerns.
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by pphysch 1y ago
I've done this exact approach and it worked well, it was on LAN so plenty of throughput. I would definitely try this before tearing apart the hardware.
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by pphysch 1y ago
Synthetic data ought to be viewed as an extension of the training process rather than proper new phenomena. It can definitely help smooth things out and reinforce wanted behavior, but it's still derivative of the real data.
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by pphysch 1y ago
Why would Big AI kill their golden goose like that?
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by pphysch 1y ago
Any webserver that wants to cache and reuse content cares about shared state, but usually has to outsource that to a shared in-memory database because the language can't support it.
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by pphysch 1y ago
But the bar to parallelizing code gets much lower, in theory. Your serial code got 5% slower but has a direct path to being 50% faster. And if there's a good free-threaded HTTP server implementation, the RPS of "Python code as a w
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by pphysch 1y ago
Yeah, isn't this just HPCaaS, with an emphasis on CI workloads?
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by pphysch 1y ago
AFAIK that was mostly due to a silly detail about MD5 hashing being restricted on FIPS compliant systems? Or something like that. I'm pretty sure there's an easy workaround(s).
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by pphysch 1y ago
> My theory is that its not meant to set direction, or describe a vision, or even goals – rather it converges towards something intended to impress and socially posture against other managers. Yes, it's self-preservation behavior. I

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