skybrian

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by skybrian 5mo ago
How about Costco?
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by skybrian 5mo ago
It seems like there should be a middle ground where you occasionally write a side project for fun, but not dozens of them just because you can? Also, if nobody uses them, they don't need to be maintained. You can shut them down with no
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by skybrian 5mo ago
If the wrong CA issued a certificate then wouldn’t that show up in the transparency logs? It seems like by monitoring them, you could see if a security bug is being exploited.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
It seems like if I were looking for software to do something specific, I might do a Google search, or ask an AI to do some searches for me. I wouldn't be interested in browsing this sort of website even if it had a lot more content. Ar
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by skybrian 5mo ago
One thing this page makes clear is that do-syntax could mean all kinds of things, which seems like a disadvantage for readability. Assuming you know the specialized syntax, elvis operators looking different from async code or a nested for l
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by skybrian 5mo ago
The logic of an arms race is that nobody controls the technology. For a literal example, Ukraine and Russia are locked in a drone arms race. Ukraine needs improve drones as fast as they can. There’s no getting off that train until the war i
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by skybrian 5mo ago
You could be less selective with a high-turnover pool of temporary workers, something like an internship program. But that doesn’t mean anyone gets to be an intern.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Did you know that a Substack's author can turn the annoying popup off? Go to dashboard -> settings, and then it's "Enable subscribe prompts on post page" under "Growth." It's the first thing I did. Reco
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by skybrian 5mo ago
No, I know that already. That's not a recommendation. Some storage layers have to be better than others on price, reliability, and so on? Think Wirecutter, not install guide.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I was going to say there's too much Cory Doctorow in this piece, but it's actually Cory Doctorow. Lots of outrage, no real ask.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Couldn't tell you much about node.js, but I like Deno. I avoid npm dependencies. Occasionally there's one I need.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Instead of "just use Litestream," I'd like to see a review of different object stores one could use and which ones work well with Litestream. Is there a nice object store I could run in another Linux VM? As a hobbyist, which
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Coding agents run well in a Linux VM and you can run Linux in a VM just about anywhere. A coding agent can be bundled with tools in a Docker file, or it can apt-get lots of useful tools if it needs to. They don’t need a desktop or desktop a
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Currently it seems to be funding frenzied investment in data centers.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
What do you mean? It's not a tax on commercial property. One effect might be that wealthy non-residents prefer to stay in a hotel when they visit New York? The amount of money being collected as property tax would pay for a very fancy
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I wouldn’t expect opinions to go into “unknown.” Maybe have an “it’s complicated” bucket.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
If an account claims to be a bot, I don't see much downside in assuming it's true?
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Sure, that's the competitive arms race aspect of it. But there's still some control over timing.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Anthropic and OpenAI don't own data centers. Since they're renting GPU's, that's not depreciation. Paying rent is an operating cost. Language models don't wear out the same way; upgrading is a choice.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
One advantage is that if it's labelled as AI, we don't need to have a conversation in the comments about whether it's AI or not.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
There's a good reason to look at it separately: if inference is profitable then they make money (or at least lose less money) when they get more customers, because any fixed costs are spread across more usage.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Aren't people working on both? I'm sure the AI labs are working on their end of it. People are building better agents. You can work on skills or tweaking your AGENTS.md. There no end to what you can do, but the question is how muc
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by skybrian 5mo ago
This isn't like returning Object. It's more like returning a String. After using a language with a common String type, who wants to go back to writing code to convert between between different kinds of strings? Having to choose am
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by skybrian 5mo ago
The problem with Java's checked exceptions is that it has too many kinds of exceptions to choose from and they're overly specific. Compare with Go, which has a single error interface and had it from the beginning, so it's use
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Storing configuration and “memory” outside the LLM in prompts and skills written in English and in tools written in ordinary programming languages makes them far easier to modify by ordinary programmers who aren’t AI experts, and we can use
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Cost of hardware. They’re running a local LLM.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I like JSX and I prefer Preact to React because it's smaller, but I haven't used React itself enough to know if I'm missing anything. Currently I'm using hono/jsx, mostly on the server, which seems like an even simp
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by skybrian 5mo ago
If you're willing to run stuff in a Linux VM in the cloud, I quite like exe.dev and the website is pretty mobile-friendly. Also, you can ask the AI to do stuff instead of typing it on the command line.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I imagine Google wants to distinguish between websites that want to be blocked by SafeSearch, versus websites that want to be blocked when parental controls are on? There's no reason to leave that ambiguous. Plenty of adults have SafeS
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Even if most are farmers, I imagine there are some urban dwellers who work in call centers.

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