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by richardw 8mo ago
It’s a $90k engineer that sometimes acts like a vandal, who never has thoughts like “this seems to be a bad way to go. Let me ask the boss” or “you know, I was thinking. Shouldn’t we try to extract this code into a reusable component?” The
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by richardw 8mo ago
Great. There’s no reason why all countries don’t start preferring locally or regionally developed software. Of course interoperability is always a thing but there needs to be another option between “one company” and “everyone host your own
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by richardw 9mo ago
I’m sad about Grok going to them, because the market needs the competition. But ASIC inference seems to require a simpler design than training does, so it’s easier for multiple companies to enter. It seems inevitable that competition emerge
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by richardw 9mo ago
Debian. Linux. Http protocol.
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by richardw 9mo ago
It has no sense of truth or value. You need to check what it wrote and you need to tell it what’s important to a human. It’ll give you the average, but misses the insight.
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by richardw 9mo ago
I’ve recently created many Claude skills to do repeatable tasks (architecture review, performance, magic strings, privacy, SOLID review, documentation review etc). The pattern is: when I’ve prompted it into the right state and it’s done wha
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by richardw 10mo ago
This is smart as hell. I’ve long wondered how they’d combat ASIC’s without diluting their own benefits. This gives them a bit more time to figure out the moats, which is useful because Groq was going places. This juices Groq’s distribution,
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by richardw 10mo ago
Not terribly niche. All config that isn’t environment-specific and is used in inner loops or at startup. It’s even got a test for serialised values so can be used to speed your case up: https://github.com/sebastienros/c
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by richardw 10mo ago
Or phone number. My phone is linked to one in another country. I’ve been here for 3 years.
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by richardw 11mo ago
There is enough to read between the lines. Dilbert manager has bought into a barely competent app (that they think replaces humans) in a panic because costs. They’ll learn more lessons over the next year, if they survive. The author might b
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by richardw 11mo ago
They probably used Claude because that way they don’t get blocked as fast. Websites trust Claude more. And why not use the foreign tools against themselves at presumably discounted rates (see AI losses) rather than burn your own GPU’s and I
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by richardw 1y ago
I left a research org because it was basically a professional gatherer and spender of grants. People would make some proposal with a consortium, spend the money, write a paper or two, visit a conference in eg Japan to present it, rinse and
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by richardw 1y ago
It’s much harder dealing with all the complexities of different devices, screen sizes, OS versions. https://www.reddit.com/r/applesucks/comments/1k6m2fi/why_do_...
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by richardw 1y ago
It derives from a poem: First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists
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by richardw 1y ago
Suggest posting the original: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-tel...
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by richardw 1y ago
First AI came for the artists And I did not speak out Because I was not an artist
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by richardw 1y ago
Cubans benefited from the cars being older, simpler, and robust. Imagine freezing car tech now, with so many electronics, far more parts and built to be replaced relatively quickly!
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by richardw 1y ago
They also typically dilute human input with self-talk. You can steer them in a direction, but the internal conversation can convince itself otherwise. It’s not frequent but it’s very frustrating when it happens.
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by richardw 1y ago
In Australia here. I tend to go morning or 3pm. Crowds reduce, UV is lower, sun goes down 8pm in summer (so 3-8 is 5 hours). Anything near midday is silly.
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by richardw 1y ago
AI wakes up, takes one look around at humanity’s instincts and goals, shows us it’s all stupid and pointless and just a byproduct of evolution [1], so we voluntarily stop breeding and have one last good generation. The end. [1] Only creatur
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by richardw 1y ago
Which of our leaders do you hope their leaders are like?
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by richardw 1y ago
We didn’t use the DBA’s for this but my last few teams, we got good at DB’s, performance etc. DBA’s were too general and they kept the lights on, but for real performance you should get one or two people who know what they’re doing for your
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by richardw 1y ago
Temporarily. At some point all the allies need world class kit. They just can’t buy it from the US exclusively. But they have committed to higher defence spending. That problem solves itself over time, especially when the world’s researcher
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by richardw 1y ago
I’d like to see the percentage of the top 10 that were AI charted. There were a few times where you almost couldn’t see anything except AI. My intuition is that we moved through the hype cycle far faster than mainstream. When execs were sti
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by richardw 1y ago
Initially impressed. But Googling for that shows a lot of hits.
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by richardw 1y ago
That applies to all computers when you buy the fully specced versions on day 1. A maxxed out iPad isn’t throwaway, but framework represents a higher standard of upgradability.
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by richardw 1y ago
Isn’t this an issue with eg Cloudflare removing a portion of the web? I’m all for it from the perspective of people not having their content repackaged by an LLM, but it means that web search can’t check all sources.
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by richardw 1y ago
Got a killer original idea, got it built, learned a ton, is embarrassed about a few failures because he’s actually a solid professional. Well done, mate. If it didn’t cost you $100k, take down the network or lose you your job, you’re ahead
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by richardw 1y ago
If the system knew both sides were the same vendor or used the same algorithm, would it be better to stream the scene/instructions rather than the video? I suppose the issue would be media. Faster to load locally than push it out. Coul
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by richardw 1y ago
Never write your own multi-planetary date/time library in brainfuck.

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