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by senko 10mo ago
Very insightful! Here, I'll identify another: There is much pain and suffering in this world. Coming up with a solution is left as an excercise for the reader.
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by senko 10mo ago
heh, qed. thanks, edited the comment to remove the tracking param.
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by senko 10mo ago
Free service with strings attached does sound like a "some day - and that day may never come - I will call upon you"[0] type of bargain. [0] https://youtu.be/HTTxJRAs-uA?t=48
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by senko 10mo ago
As a comparison, in my banana country they spent €7.7m on a beat up old Greek ICE ferry that isn't even up to local safety standards[0]. Compared to that, €35m or so for a new modern vessel doesn't sound outrageous. [0] https:&#x
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by senko 10mo ago
This is a physiology research article published in a physiology journal, not a Tiktoken influencer peddling "get ripped fast" schemes. In an ironic twist, you then proceed to peddle your own. In a single paragraph you added more c
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by senko 10mo ago
Here's one: https://markshot.dev and a writeup at https://senkorasic.com/articles/mvp-vibe-code It's not commercially successful (it's a side project), but still represents a complete proje
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by senko 10mo ago
For those, like me, who haven't heard of it: Mockito is the "most popular mocking framework for Java".
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by senko 10mo ago
The date (2003) is incorrect. The article itself refers to events from 2009, is listed at the bottom of the page as having been last updated in 2014, with a copyright notice spanning 2018, and a minor correction in 2019.
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by senko 10mo ago
Post author here. Yeah, the reply to your comment echoes the exact "obvious truths" I'm railing against: > Even ignoring the higher cost to set up, are you sure your self-hosted solution will have better uptime? Are you su
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Developer convenience, infrastructure cost, and losing the open web(blog.senko.net)
3 points by senko 10mo ago|0 comments
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by senko 11mo ago
I can get on board with that if there's a protocol spec - at least a draft or something more tangible than "it's a tavern". I just see a bunch of undocumented C++ code here.
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by senko 11mo ago
> Do you hate a{sv}? If you propose JSON as alternative, Obviously, the components should talk using MCP.
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by senko 11mo ago
A gold standard behaviour for when you want to replace a disfunctional tool/system and will require buy-in from a wide community, is to behave like Charlie Marsh did with ruff and uv. He didn't barge in guns blazing proclaiming &q
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by senko 11mo ago
Business as usual: > Disney sent the notice on Wednesday, just one day before announcing a billion-dollar deal with OpenAI. I wonder how many artists would get a penny out of either the OpenAI or potential future Google settlement/d
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Vibe-Coding a Startup MVP(senkorasic.com)
3 points by senko 11mo ago|0 comments
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by senko 11mo ago
It sounds like you went in deep for a while, and then rebounded. Good for you (no sarcasm, I mean it). We should all find little joys in our life and avoid things that deaden us. If AI is that for you, I'd say you made a good decision.
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by senko 11mo ago
> I can't stand Gnome. [...] Nah, no thanks. Good thing there are many other Linux desktop environments to choose: you already mentioned XFCE, Mate and KDE! I personally like Gnome, I'm happy with out-of-the-box experience (zer
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by senko 1y ago
How do rights/contract work in case of anthologies? As I understand it, the "normal" workflow is, as the author you get an advance from a publisher, and when the book is published and revenue exceeds the advance, you get the
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by senko 1y ago
In the interest of clearly communicating: I used "fuel" in the meaning "to make people's ideas or feelings stronger, or to make a situation worse", not "a substance that is burned to provide heat or power"
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by senko 1y ago
I would not agree, as these sorts of things were frequent before the latest round of ZIRPs: * Uber IPOed in 2019, had a loss of $8.5b that year; interest rates were around 2% * YouTube was acquired by Google for $1.65B in 2006, it lost ~$35
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by senko 1y ago
For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. There are a number of other reasons that (might have) contributed to greater or lesser extent: * rush to capture users and get acquired (the buyer can worry abo
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by senko 1y ago
> Figuring it all out is part of the fun, Which is why it's done that way. Other text-based games where the focus is not on puzzling out what to do next (like roleplaying MUDs) have a more strict and easily discoverable vocabulary.
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by senko 1y ago
So what. Enough of us do that it just might be feasible. I've used Linux for a loong time before some business-critical software ran on it. I had to have a Windows VM for years for netbanking, or before that, dual-boot for gaming. If w
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by senko 1y ago
The thing is, achieving say, 99.99999% reliable AI would be spectacularly useful even if it's a dead end from the AGI perspective. People routinely conflate the "useful LLMs" and "AGI", likely because AGI has been s
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by senko 1y ago
Claude Glyph. Smallest, fastest model yet, ideally suited for Bash oneliners and online comments.
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by senko 1y ago
I've tried it on a test case for generating a simple SaaS web page (design + code). Usually I'm using GPT-5-mini for that task. Haiku 4.5 runs 3x faster with roughly comparable results (I slightly prefer the GPT-5-mini output bu
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by senko 1y ago
Are you at all familiar with Oracle's actual business?
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by senko 1y ago
20-year average P/E for US stock market as a whole is ~20 (current s&p500 forward estimate is 24). Historically they were a bit lower (eyeballing it at 15), and in the aftermath of the Great Depression they it was aroun 10. You wan
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by senko 1y ago
> You'll see Groq averaging 1,086tps What I don't understand is, Groq reporting 200tps for the same model: https://console.groq.com/docs/model/moonshotai/kimi-k2-instr... OpenRouter numbers look
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by senko 1y ago
It’s relevant to point out a regular nontech slowgrowing company like CocaCola has a PE of 20+, therefore the claim that a normal one is 5 is mistaken.

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