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by prpl 2mo ago
a few things are global (login service) to some extent, just as AWS places several such things in us-east-1
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by prpl 2mo ago
We’re talking about ~’94 here…
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by prpl 2mo ago
Not just gamma rays, cosmic rays too, although they filter the UV and are targeting nitrogen fluorescence and catch the cerenkov overlap. I’m sure there’s many people here who have worked on them. I worked on HiRes/Telescope Array in U
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by prpl 2mo ago
Not sure the thrust of your comment, but what is really going on is just novelty seeking to get a bit of a dopamine rush, which slides into creativity. It all comes down to dopamine at the end of the day.
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by prpl 3mo ago
A SOTA model at 10k will be materially different, even the model is 6 months old.
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by prpl 3mo ago
I have been working on a cross platform way of sandboxing without a VM: https://github.com/brianv0/formwork
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by prpl 3mo ago
sure it’s not tricky. But everybody does it different and OpenAI couldn’t even be bothered to do it right when benchmarking their models
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by prpl 3mo ago
For one, I’ve been working on a generic sandbox environment github.com/brianv0/formwork You should be easily able to hide/lock down files, network, and MCP tools from an agent and it shouldn’t be up to the agent.
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by prpl 3mo ago
It’s been a very long time, but I read Alas, Babylon in middle school. I remember aspects of their modern existence also being problematic (IIRC a house in florida with lots of windows doesn’t fare well without AC)
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by prpl 3mo ago
I’ve been formalizing behaviors to requirements and building more end to end tests to verify them. In reality, every requirement needs a verification element. Secondly, building traceability in your unit/integration tests helps “keep i
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by prpl 3mo ago
My impression is that many of the indian engineering schools are some form of trade school and it shows. A lot of people are very good at churning out things, but they vastly prefer to use well defined tools for their trade and do a lot of
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by prpl 4mo ago
Yeah you could go with just Number though, and then keep almost everything a BigInteger/BigDecimal under the covers (or dynamically choose the correct class)
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by prpl 4mo ago
Are you being serious or sarcastic?
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by prpl 4mo ago
I built a 40 (later 80) node cluster with clusterknoppix ~2006 to run a bunch of physics simulations off of old library computers after I replaced a bunch of PSU fans. Kept my cubicle toasty until we moved them into a random subterranean ro
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by prpl 4mo ago
Salesforce runs Salesforce on postgres with LSM: https://vldb.org/cidrdb/2026/a-multi-tenant-relational-oltp-...
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by prpl 5mo ago
you've had an account for four years, and _this_ is your comment?
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by prpl 5mo ago
SAT isn’t an IQ test, and probably all sorts of people took it before they had cultural awareness or a diagnosis that would have lead to different testing conditions had it been taken after diagnosis, let alone the fact that test scores are
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by prpl 5mo ago
there’s really no limit to how many times and ways you can review something with AI, except dollars.
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by prpl 5mo ago
They are not all filtered early nor are they necessarily missing from images. The data can be embargoed until orbits change effectively.
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by prpl 6mo ago
Right, people haven’t internalized that these are really just scripts in natural language.
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by prpl 6mo ago
Oracle is the hilarious version of this - 9i - "internet" 10g - "grid" 11g - "also grid" 12c - "cloud" 26ai - "ai" various other examples. One really annoying thing is this has also happened
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by prpl 6mo ago
"rely" is overly strong in these cases usually (more like "make use of")
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by prpl 6mo ago
> The real core of infrastructure monitoring isn’t dashboards. It’s the alerts. “it’s not X it’s Y” at this point when I see this pattern in writing I assume most if not all of it is AI generated - same with em-dashes. This is not to dis
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by prpl 7mo ago
Can you build most of this with Ray?
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by prpl 7mo ago
For files up to 100kB of size, this should effectively be really close to the same price as S3 when writing (didn't check reading so much, but the writes/PUT is always much more expensive than read/GET) Would be really useful
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by prpl 7mo ago
Adversarial software development is also when I do my best work
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by prpl 7mo ago
I have honestly not had that problem much. Being specific, concise, and strong with your prompts helps out a lot.
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by prpl 7mo ago
I find the people who end up with spaghetti code did so because they didn’t translate their normal processes over. Being completely methodical about development really helps. obra/superpowers, for example, gets close but I think it ove
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by prpl 7mo ago
It would be interesting to make that sort of thing generic. A law couldn’t legalize something without backporting the legalization.
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by prpl 7mo ago
I think people rarely reject even if it fails a slump test though

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