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by tootie 5mo ago
She says explicitly it's not an empirical hypothesis. It's just a label for how they function. Which hasn't really changed even as they've gotten more useful. I haven't followed the full drama but this post is her s
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by tootie 5mo ago
No? There's no model involved. It's all just probabilistic. LLMs understand what you're thinking as well as a mood ring.
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by tootie 5mo ago
Yeah they're argument is based on saying that sniffing a user agent string is illegal reverse engineering. If they get the right 100 year old judge they might even succeed but it feels like a thoroughly lame argument to me.
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by tootie 5mo ago
Meetings about meetings are frequently mandatory steps to navigate internal politics. Frame your questions, gather allies, hone your message. It's how you don't waste the time of very busy people that you need things from. Besides
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by tootie 5mo ago
The memo also says they're eliminating a lot of middle management tiers which has been a theme for a lot of companies recently. It's also been a theme historically. Really has nothing to do with AI. It's just the classic exec
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by tootie 5mo ago
I just did something exactly like this. I have a self-hosted personal dashboard and one of the APIs I'm reading gives slightly too verbose of an output. So I added a feature to summarize the text using Qwen 3.5 2B which happily runs on
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by tootie 5mo ago
Make me think of the infamous Unix scene in Jurassic Park.
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by tootie 5mo ago
This belies the fact that AWS is so far in the lead in cloud market share and even host so much of Anthropic's business. If you dabble, it's confusing. If you're an enterprise with a lot of expertise then it's indispensa
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by tootie 5mo ago
Or just manipulate our senses.
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by tootie 5mo ago
DOGE was absolute nonsense from top to bottom. I was convinced it was purely a scam, but some exit interviews seem to indicate they really believed their own hype. Musk saying they'd find $1-2T in savings just by looking at stuff with
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by tootie 5mo ago
Of course, everything is just something boring. The chances of us espying extraterrestrials in our atmosphere by chance are essentially nil. People looking for secret photos and buried evidence will absolutely positively never find it. Peop
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by tootie 5mo ago
In my experience, companies never value transparency. And it's doubly true for companies that boast about transparency. Obviously, it's within their authority to cut head count, but they've also obviously made some kind of ma
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by tootie 6mo ago
Progress has been incredibly rapid. Solar power in particular has gotten exponentially cheaper and more widely deployed. We are in an incredibly deep hole and are aiming at a rapidly moving target (energy demand is growing rapidly due to AI
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by tootie 6mo ago
That's not really relevant. Even if you look at countries like Norway that have gone all in on EVs and decarbonizing rapidly, they still export oil faster than ever. So long as no one interrupts the global trade of fossil fuels, they d
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by tootie 6mo ago
Getting rid of middle managers has been the game plan for every headcount reduction for the last 50 years. They always seem expendable until a few months later when senior managers get overwhelmed and staff get confused and they end up maki
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by tootie 6mo ago
How many player-coaches have their actually been in any major pro sport in the last 20 years? Zero give or take? The last one I recall is Pete Rose and that was like 1985.
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by tootie 6mo ago
I retired recently in my late 40s (FIRE). Work was occasionally fulfilling, but mostly just a drag and when I didn't need it anymore, I was more than happy to stop. I've been raising my kids which is stimulation enough, but they a
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by tootie 6mo ago
Last time I tried using real-time chat support for a technical issue, I spent 30 minutes explaining my problem to a human only to find out they were a sales rep whose only solution was to sell me more services. Once I said I didn't wan
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by tootie 6mo ago
I go to my gym alone and it seems to me 90% of people there are alone. Also all are wearing headphones.
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by tootie 6mo ago
Zed did. I know it has it's fans, but it doesn't seem to be generating a stampede of adoption despite what looks like a monumental effort to build a GUI system from the ground up.
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by tootie 6mo ago
I can only assume you're being deliberately obtuse since we can very plainly see that gerrymandering directly changes who gets elected. It doesn't even matter if you understand how, the results are blatantly obvious. They can carv
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by tootie 6mo ago
I've never been a Vercel customer and I know their offerings are not entirely comparable but that all seems way expensive compared to Cloudflare. Or Cloudflare plus any cloud service that can autoscale Docker containers and DBs. I&#x27
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by tootie 6mo ago
This isn't great but it also isn't a magic threshold. GDP is annual economic activity and debt is cumulative.
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by tootie 6mo ago
I'm very dubious. Primarily because this goes from landing pad to landing pad. You'll still need transportation from the pad to wherever you're going. A taxi goes door to door. And what's an extra 20 minutes if you'
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by tootie 6mo ago
Multiple trains. You can take LIRR to Jamaica and transfer to AirTrain. Or take the A subway line. LIRR is faster but still like 45 minutes to either Brooklyn or Manhattan.
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by tootie 6mo ago
They are supposedly quieter than helicopters and we already have a ton of helicopter noise.
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by tootie 6mo ago
There are Customer Success engineers. Any of the terms in this thread were full service teams comprised of engineers, product managers, business analysts and whatever else was needed (or could be sold).
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by tootie 6mo ago
I worked on this back in the 90s and there multiple data sets being used. We had one that was Mennonite family with like 5 living generations and 100ish individuals.
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by tootie 6mo ago
Yeah. I've also seen Customer Success.
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by tootie 6mo ago
I feel pretty vindicated saying this product had zero chance of success. AR headsets have very little utility beyond some tiny niches. It's never going to produce a consumer product. VR hasn't really gotten past gaming and arguabl

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