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by sho 7mo ago
Yes, because it can't be sourced. These are private companies. That doesn't mean that anyone's guess is as good as anyone else's. The CEO of Anthropic, for example, has publicly stated multiple times that if their indivi
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by sho 7mo ago
> Discover has admitted to me in writing, that they always rule in favor of the Merchant if that Merchant responds to the dispute -- regardless of what their response says What, always? Like, literally 100% of the time if the merchant re
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by sho 8mo ago
Call me cynical, but having been around the block a few times when I hear "need" and "require" my brain translates that to "want" and "it would be convenient if". I've done my share of forecastin
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by sho 8mo ago
Can we please stop with this irritatingly persistent myth? AI companies, at least the big ones, do not sell inference at a loss - far from it. This has been debunked and explained many times and yet it keeps being repeated. The numbers ar
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by sho 9mo ago
I am just as bullish as you on the potential. AI is going to change the world all right. Much bigger than the internet. I an far, far less bullish than you on the timeframe. The vast amount of work is not even optimised for computers withou
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by sho 9mo ago
I suspect that they lose control over the cheaper models CC can choose for you for eg. file summaries or web fetch. Indeed, they lose web fetch and whatever telemetry it gives them completely. It's not unreasonable to assume that witho
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by sho 10mo ago
> The kara comes from a country name and refers to a style of cooking My understanding is that the exact etymology is unknown. It's often written with the letter that references the tang dynasty, but the thing is there's no par
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by sho 10mo ago
Timely. In the age of AI, the command line is more relevant than ever..
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by sho 10mo ago
this? https://github.com/boredazfcuk/docker-icloudpd seems pretty high touch. A lot of hoop-jumping if you don't have a mac in the middle
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by sho 10mo ago
> It requires to have a full copy locally. yeah that's the thing. When my iPhotos library exceeded 1TB I lost the ability to store the full local copies. Since then, iCloud itself has been the sole source. Looks like there's so
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by sho 10mo ago
Wow. This is a cautionary tale. I don't think I'd be as devastated as this poor chap, but as it grew I realize I've allowed my iCloud photo library to become a single copy. How are people handling this these days? If i wanted
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by sho 10mo ago
> Figuring out "what to prompt" is not problem-solving in a true sense This just sounds like "no true scotsman" to me. You have a problem and a toolkit. If you successfully solve the problem, and the solution is good
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by sho 10mo ago
I lived in thailand for a few years and one of their words/phrases stood out to me in situations like this: Ow: want Mai ow: don't want These words are used eg. when ordering food or accepting/declining an offer at a checkout
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by sho 10mo ago
> and provide inference at a loss You say this like it's some sort of established fact. My understanding is the exact opposite and that inference is plenty profitable - the reason the companies are perpetually in the red is that the
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by sho 11mo ago
Came into this thread hoping for good news about GPUs and instead there's some surprisingly thoughtful management discussion! > What they should do is bump TC by 60-70% and simultaneously lay off 50% of the engineers. Tell me you&#x
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by sho 11mo ago
Of course I can't "prove" it, just like you can't "prove" yours, but I am involved in the field and no-one I know thinks we're even close to a "dead end". On the contrary, people are more bullish
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by sho 11mo ago
None of this is even close to true.
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by sho 11mo ago
It's not about which of your computers you run it on, it's about the relative capability of any system you're likely to own vs. what a cloud provider can do. The difference is hilarious - probably 100x. Knowing that, unless y
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by sho 11mo ago
Real-world workflows? I'm all for local LLM, tinker with it all the time, but for productive coding use no local LLM approaches cloud and it's not even close. There's no magic trick or combination of pieces, it just turns out
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by sho 11mo ago
5 hours in and I'm pretty disappointed in Anthropic's response to this. Looking at their status page you'd think everything was OK, the downtime was only 37 minutes, a fix is in place and they're "monitoring" -
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by sho 11mo ago
Same here. About 2 hours ago it started throwing errors about tool names, now completely down.
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by sho 1y ago
This just sounds like rationalization to me, just-so stories we tell ourselves to feel better about something we can't change anyway, so isn't it lucky that everything is perfect just the way it is! I think it's nonsense. Soc
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by sho 1y ago
Advice that you know, or should know, won't and indeed can't be followed isn't serious advice, it's just posturing. "Security engineer" or not, if you stood up in that kick-off meeting and with a straight face
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by sho 1y ago
> So will the military hopes of ever protecting Taiwan. I don't think there are too many military analysts who would claim that the USA could "protect" Taiwan if China was really determined. The USA still retains the abili
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by sho 1y ago
While I personally lean towards your interpretation, the language is ambiguous - perhaps intentionally so - and it is premature to read too much into it in either direction. We’ll just have to wait.
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by sho 1y ago
> start around $10 to $15M That sounds high to me. Maybe American banks? The smaller Swiss banks will start taking your calls at about $2m.
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by sho 1y ago
Ah, you put me on the spot! Here's what i can dig up in short order. Reed, Thomas C. At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War. Presidio Press/Ballantine Books, 2004 relevant quote (from 1992): > The Soviets were
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by sho 1y ago
> This is a bit of popular myth on sites like this but isn't supported by economists, historians or people in finance. The total volume of oil trade is small fraction of total global trade or capital flows. What's a popular myt
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by sho 1y ago
> the role of reserve currency today is larged hoisted by the rest of the world onto the USA > Unfortunately the USA is playing a necessary systemic role here that nobody else wants to do Well. I know what you're trying to say,
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by sho 1y ago
> the nuclear code required to activate the warheads never left Moscow It's an open question among people who research these things whether the weapons stored in Ukraine even had the PALs you're referring to (Permissive Action

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