roughly

5 ms·

61.
by roughly 2mo ago
A friend of mine does research on air pollution from cars - the TL;DR is you should not live within a third of a mile of a highway. The falloff is pretty sharp, but you don't want to be in that zone.
62.
by roughly 2mo ago
God, I was going to ask if this could be deployed in a standard existing datacenter, but I guess that answers that question.
63.
by roughly 2mo ago
Infra is a cost center right up until its absence begins to undercut your value proposition to customers, and then it becomes an investment. GitHub seems well on the wrong side of that equation right now.
64.
by roughly 2mo ago
There’s something in that about the nature of predators - you don’t actually get mad at the wolf for eating the chicken, it’s what the wolf does, just like eating the worm is what the chicken does and eating your garden fruit is what the de
65.
by roughly 2mo ago
To that point, we planted that tree a hundred years ago. Someone cut it down 50 years ago because they didn’t understand why it was there - so yes, the best time to plant the tree was 50 years ago, we should plant it today, and also let’s m
66.
by roughly 2mo ago
Yeah, I saw that, I wasn’t taking a shot at you.
67.
by roughly 2mo ago
I had the same thought. I’d love to know if anyone’s got the background on this choice, I’ve only ever seen the “you” framing as well, but I can see how the semantic pinning here might improve prompt adherence.
68.
by roughly 2mo ago
A fun fact about ChatGPT and its ilk is the final RL polishing of the responses was outsourced to Nigeria and other places with cheap labor, so the patterns you’re picking up in the article aren’t that the author sounds like ChatGPT, it’s t
69.
by roughly 2mo ago
Almost certainly a better problem to have.
70.
by roughly 2mo ago
Let’s take the rationalist approach, then: does the author of this blog post seem like someone who could contribute reasonably to humanity’s future? Does it seem like we might be doing ourselves a disservice by ignoring them, and those like
71.
by roughly 2mo ago
I mean, yeah, I'd presume, but you also describe these books in a way that bespeaks a deep familiarity with the western canon. I'm curious what you've got that's off that track? (Genuinely, I'm not pushing this as a
72.
by roughly 2mo ago
I'd suspect somewhere in the contract between Nine PBS and OSS there's some wording about what happens in the event of OSS discontinuing operations that doesn't include the words "silently fuck off into the woods without
73.
by roughly 2mo ago
This is a solid collection, one that shows real intellectual curiosity. Something that would be interesting to add would be something that falls entirely out of the canon of Western philosophy - you have what is by all measures a diverse sa
74.
by roughly 2mo ago
Calling out Nine PBS for not accounting for the fact that their vendor could effectively just decide to commit crimes to get out of their contract and their vendor’s vendor could just decide to compound the problem in the face of a court or
75.
by roughly 2mo ago
Delphi might still be decent, but Embarcadero is a fucking train wreck. That company's been Private-Equitied to hell and back. I was involved with them in a business capacity a bit back and it was an astonishingly poorly run company wi
76.
by roughly 2mo ago
The world ends not with a bang, but with a “you’re right, I shouldn’t have done that. It’s right there in my agents.md file.”
77.
by roughly 2mo ago
I mean, officially 225, but does anyone believe that? (Which is a bit over $15M at today’s spot prices, by the by)
78.
by roughly 2mo ago
The flesh was weak, we have transcended the flesh
79.
by roughly 2mo ago
But just think, when the climate collapses and we can’t go outside anymore for large portions of the year, we’re gonna be Really happy we’ve got all this AI slop to keep us entertained!
80.
by roughly 2mo ago
Worth a read: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-merchant/bloo...
81.
by roughly 2mo ago
What's interesting about this is that I as a user would find this useful, but I think the AI industry as a whole would find it an absolute goddamn disaster. Opus 5 is a very good tool, but it is not a human-replacement-level intelligen
82.
by roughly 2mo ago
How's that jive with the fact that they're introducing a new model every other week?
83.
by roughly 2mo ago
As a note on this, I just reread Neuromancer, and the bulk majority of it takes place in places that are not “high tech/low life” locales. People remember Chiba City, but that’s chapter one, there’s a whole rest of the book after that.
84.
by roughly 2mo ago
“This is a better example of film criticism” is a defensible statement, “more amazing” is an aesthetic opinion.
85.
by roughly 2mo ago
Yep, I see it now. Thank you.
86.
by roughly 2mo ago
Gotcha, ok - I’m misreading it. Thank you.
87.
by roughly 2mo ago
How are you still blaming this on “the government”? Is your thesis that the business world would be delivering high quality products and experiences if only those damned bureaucrats would get out of the way? What possible evidence do you ha
88.
by roughly 2mo ago
The evidence is the output - sure, they could’ve been throwing dice for every decision and landed at this spot out of pure luck, but that’s not a hypothesis that’s likely to hold up under scrutiny.
89.
by roughly 2mo ago
This feels like one of those articles that’s gonna come to mind again and again over the next couple decades.
90.
by roughly 2mo ago
Yeah, there’s a bunch of these. I really like finding these sorts of “ur-“ moments, the first time a way of doing things really crystallizes into something other practitioners can see. The Matrix is another one - that movie is the transitio

More ›